Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that direction there came the sound of small-arms fire , carried distinctly on the slight breeze . |
| 2 | By the year 1931 , the population of Great Britain had reached 44.9 million persons , but that figure now included the people in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | That defeat effectively extinguished the independence of the Bohemian kingdom which did not find expression again until 1918 in the new state of Czechoslovakia . |
| 4 | The messenger moved so fast that Huy barely saw the club as it swung through the air at his throat . |
| 5 | Each side repeatedly accused the other of ceasefire violations . |
| 6 | On Germany , Bush said that he was not sure whether differences over the terms for German unification had been narrowed , although each side now understood the other 's concerns better . |
| 7 | If each side correctly perceived the other 's preferences , the game of Figure 1 would result . |
| 8 | Furthermore neither side fully grasped the priorities , the political problems and the policy-making processes of the other . |
| 9 | This finding naturally gave the RTO some confidence in dealing with the arguments of the Claybury and Friern districts that they needed very large increases in revenue to fund community replacement services . |
| 10 | Suppose , for example , that there was some fundamental change in the circumstances that had been the basis for the grant of the right to the third party , and that this change radically transformed the extent of the obligations of the parties . |
| 11 | Continental involvement of this kind immediately brought the Plantagenet king-dukes of Aquitaine into contact with the Capetian monarchy of France . |
| 12 | Within the BEA , the need for collusion with Whitehall on matters of this kind immeasurably strengthened the instincts of centralisation and secrecy with which the top management were imbued . |
| 13 | With this story too came the added responsibility of co-directorship , Christopher Barry sharing his task with ex-Theatre Director Richard Martin who was scheduled to shoot three of the seven episodes . |
| 14 | This case also established the important principle that issues |
| 15 | The artist as critic in this case deliberately avoided the historical context of the pictures she was discussing . |
| 16 | The turquoise dress she wore was of the kind of stretch cotton which showed up any figure fault and which in this instance merely demonstrated the perfection of her body . |
| 17 | The pretreatment with a platelet activating factor blocker in this study also prevented the development of morphologic changes in the pancreatic tissue and the increment in plasma amylase concentration . |
| 18 | The manometry tracings of spontaneous ileal motility seen in this study closely resembled the in vivo patterns of small bowel motility described by other authors . |
| 19 | This study deliberately examined the impact of the projects under normal classroom conditions . |
| 20 | When , worn down at last , he mentioned a man who lived as far away as Prudhoe , the polite picked up a young fellow known as Billy the Badger , which apparently had nothing to do with his poaching activities , but was given him because he always wore a white muffler , the ends tucked into his trouser tops , and on Sundays , when he wore his best , which was a black coat and trousers , his pointed face above this ensemble roughly depicted the night creature of the woods . |
| 21 | This research successfully established the major stages of vegetational change but also necessarily included the influence of human activity , which was effective through modification of the biogeographic systems . |
| 22 | The British Government , seeing that this practice clearly violated the spirit of the agreement on fishing quotas which gave some protection to the British fishing industry , passed the Merchant Shipping Act of 1988 restricting British registration of fishing vessels to British individuals and companies . |
| 23 | While in the longer run this practice perhaps strengthened the High Authority in its relations with the member governments , the caution it induced in the High Authority , along with the ambiguity of the treaty , made for some slow progress . |
| 24 | This typology further developed the fourfold classification of the characteristics of changing communities in the rural-urban fringe , outlined in Pahl 's ( 1965 ) classic text Urbs in Rure namely : |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , I am , ’ replied the old gentleman , ‘ but I 'm not sure that this boy actually took the handkerchief . |
| 26 | This Act also included the notorious Clause 28 , which prevented councils from supporting the activities of gay rights ( including in many instances AIDS hotlines and counselling services ) by outlawing any financial support for activities that were defined by the Act as promoting homosexuality . |
| 27 | This receipt also restated the description of the goods and the terms and conditions of carriage . |
| 28 | Another constable now joined the first and the chairman was getting fidgety . |
| 29 | However , this discovery greatly strengthened the hypothesis that there were alpha and beta receptors , and the idea at least became widely accepted . |
| 30 | and this bloke nearly had the sense , he said he 's coming up on the Friday ? |