Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the next European Council these draft texts should be finalized according to the guidelines worked out there and in keeping with the European Council 's conclusions of Oct. 27-28 , 1990 , recalling the UK reserve attached thereto [ when the Eleven agreed on January 1994 as the starting date for " stage two " of EMU — see p. 37783 ] . |
| 2 | In all , eight out of the eleven listed by Theophrastus had experienced long use by gem-cutters . |
| 3 | When the Spanish arrived in Mindoro in 1570 , they discovered coastal settlements paying tribute to the Sultan of Brunei . |
| 4 | The smaller landlords who could not find cash or credit to equip themselves as sugar planters quickly sold out ; land prices in the 1640s rose to heights which showed that the profits of sugar were being anticipated and capitalized generously . |
| 5 | At the end of the summer , passenger revenue over the main line was up , but a recent journey eastwards on a Wednesday on the 13:10 started from Aberystwyth with only six passengers . |
| 6 | The unemployed stood at street corners , dejected . |
| 7 | Although Clinton now appeared certain to win the nomination — he had amassed 947 delegates compared with the 129 won by Brown — many senior Democrats believed that his candidacy could be beset , and possibly destroyed , by further personal scandals . |
| 8 | The Labour Government outlined its ‘ New Deal ’ for transport in 1966 ; its 1967 development plans aimed to retain some 11,000 route miles of the 13,500 left in existence against Beeching 's original plan for an eventual reduction to some 8,000 miles . |
| 9 | ( Did you know that whenever the English went to war with France , our soldiers immediately hanged any of these Scottish mercenaries they captured ? |
| 10 | By the time the express clattered into Zabajjkal'sk , on the Russian side of the border , the attentions of the conductress coupled with her own resolve had prepared the woman for the formalities . |
| 11 | The British came to Cannes with some pomp and ceremony and , for a disintegrating industry , made a bigger splash than might have been expected . |
| 12 | When the British came to India they , too , fell under the spell of the mystical tiger , believing it to be an inveterate man-hunter . |
| 13 | The British came to Hong Kong in a far different fashion . |
| 14 | A further step towards closer ties with the British came in August 1941 , when Churchill and Roosevelt met on the battleship Prince of Wales in Placentia Bay , Newfoundland . |
| 15 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 16 | Leaving behind wounded legend Lester Piggott , the British retreated with heads hung low after the 7–0 hammering by the Americans at the $10 million Breeders ' Cup world championships . |
| 17 | The British complained of arrogance and aggressive self-seeking . |
| 18 | And when the Orcadian came to Stronsay , the paper , the a man used to read he used to get the Orcadian and read the news on the pier . |
| 19 | It was , moreover , a hope which the French encouraged from time to time although what was achieved seemed always to be less than what was promised . |
| 20 | Shortly before midnight , the French retreated in disarray , leaving the field to the English . |
| 21 | Thanks to the recent statistical work of demographic historians we now have quite detailed information on with whom the old lived in England from early modern times onwards . |
| 22 | In January 1966 the Six agreed in Luxembourg to the retention , in practice if not in theory , of unanimity in the Council of Ministers , as well as informally accepting that Commission activism should be limited . |
| 23 | Eighteen schools are participating in the three performances , and invention from the six gathered in St Edmundsbury Cathedral on Tuesday ranged from dialogue with the odd splash of singing and recorder-music to fully composed masques using all available resources . |
| 24 | In mid-1955 the foreign ministers of the Six met at Messina in Italy to launch ‘ a fresh advance towards the building of Europe ’ and to create a market ‘ free from all customs duties and all quantitative restrictions ’ . |
| 25 | The six condemned to death , with another six who were sentenced to life imprisonment , went to the Supreme Court , whose five judges unanimously dismissed their appeals . |
| 26 | In the wake of the crisis summit meetings between the Six lessened in frequency . |
| 27 | Bombay police said that some of the six fled to Dubai shortly before and others shortly after 13 bombs devastated the Bombay stock exchange , the Air India headquarters and other targets . |
| 28 | It brings him into joint second place with Jackie Stewart in the league table of grand prix victories , but there is still some way to go before Senna matches the 44 won by Alain Prost , the man the media love Senna to hate . |
| 29 | The Japanese came to Britain partly for low wage-costs and a welcoming government , but mostly because it is in Europe . |
| 30 | Baika , which was still at the drawing board stage when the Japanese surrendered on September 2 , 1945 was to have been powered by a Maru athoyd ( pulse-jet ) which was expected to give the aircraft a top speed of 366mph in level flight , depending on warhead size ( between 220lb and 550lb ) . |