Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few visible signs of such domestic industries remain , but the fine octagonal market house on the village green at Harrold is where work was distributed among the lace-makers , and where they brought the finished lace to be paid for by the employers . |
| 2 | It is a measure of the fundamental instincts of Citrine and his colleagues that , where they had the greater power to centralise , it was centralisation , and not devolved responsibility , which was their watchword . |
| 3 | The Honours were presented at sessions of the Parliament , where they symbolised the royal presence , particularly when an infant sovereign could not be present . |
| 4 | The Remingtons emigrated to America in the 18th century , where they founded the great engineering company which bears their name . |
| 5 | The two right hand and two left hand glazing bars , where they joined the curved members were cut with mortice joints , then loose tenons glued into the top of glazing bars at right angles to housing to remove problem of short grain on tenons . |
| 6 | A Tribunal of Commissioners echoes these sentiments in R(S)4182 , where they described the judicial process in tribunals as ‘ fair play in action ’ . |
| 7 | The Liberal radicals and " Progressives " were eventually brought together by Sir Richard Acland into the Commonwealth Party in 1942 , where they provided the only effective electoral opposition to the wartime government . |
| 8 | He was quickly surrounded by police and taken to a neighbour 's house where they broke the tragic news that his four children — Sharon , aged five , and her brothers , Francis , four , Martin three , and Stefan , one — were dead . |
| 9 | Although they eschewed the large houses and endowments of the monks , they frequently attracted considerable wealth because of lay support for their fiery preaching and their concentration on the towns . |
| 10 | In the free industrial zones , trade unions were unofficially banned and the government refused to recognize the unions that were formed , although they fulfilled the legal requirements . |
| 11 | Although they founded the major revolutionary parties of the twentieth century , they were soon outnumbered within them . |
| 12 | Although they lost the Australian wing Ian Williams with a shoulder injury early on , their back division was outstanding , especially Mullin and the Canadian full-back Gareth Rees . |
| 13 | Laura Ashley bought substantial amounts of tweed from Cambrian Mill and although they paid the regular price , the company drew upon its charity budget to subsidize this at the rate of a pound per metre . |
| 14 | The critics seemed to approve of the poetry , although they emphasized the theatrical and " dated " aspects of the play . |
| 15 | No sooner had they sat down than they heard the distant ring of the telephone . |
| 16 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 17 | Again , since the adoption of the 1.68 ball , European golfers have , perforce , worked the ball much more than they did the 1.62 . |
| 18 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 19 | ‘ The bosses went bankrupt , so they sold the whole place , auctioned it off , and threw in the apprentices as well . |
| 20 | For as they left England so they left the English language behind . |
| 21 | Proprietors of the Marquee Club from its original late '50s berth beneath the Academy Cinema on Oxford Street until 19887 , apart from anything else the Pendletons thought it would be nice to gather their musician friends together for a weekend garden party , and so they staged the National Jazz Festival at Richmond Athletic Ground on August 26/27 , 1961 . |
| 22 | Only a small minority had claimed unemployment benefit before and so they found the complex procedures bewildering and confusing . |
| 23 | ‘ The Dragon first ! ’ shouted Melanie , so they joined the long line snaking round the barriers . |
| 24 | ‘ I … asked if they meant the famous Thelwall , ’ Walsh reported . |
| 25 | Borrowers of £100,000 can pay up to £1,000 a year over the odds if they chose the wrong lender five years ago . |
| 26 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
| 27 | And remember , Roger , the thread had been removed , the fuse destroys itself , and people coming in and out of the room , once the bed was on fire , would scarcely think it suspicious even if they saw the odd burn mark on the floor . |
| 28 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 29 | Twenty in each university were to be taught modern history and languages and , if they reached the required standard , given suitable employment at home or abroad . |
| 30 | Besides , she had said , perhaps they would take more time repairing the heating system if they knew the two of them were able to keep warm without it . |