Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently , there is more to our belief that the flipping caused the wipers to start to work than has so far been specified . |
| 2 | We need to add at least that if the flipping caused the wipers to start to work , then if the switch was flipped the wipers started to work . |
| 3 | Talk of the 17th prompted the comment in the 1913 suggestion book as to whether the 2nd hole might not become the 17th and the 3rd hole the 2nd , a not uncommon suggestion today . |
| 4 | William III , helped by the ‘ Protestant wind ’ that kept the English navy pinned in harbour while William 's Dutch fleet could choose a convenient place to land , was able to carry out a successful invasion with quite a substantial military force , so the events of the 1680s underlined the possibility that James II might be able to make a successful return from exile . |
| 5 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |
| 6 | Although the organized activists were not on the whole the very poor , the poorest joined the demonstration . |
| 7 | A punitive approach to the poorest survived the accumulation of indications that much even of the worst poverty was not self-inflicted , but derived from the inability of the market to provide sufficient homes , jobs or adequate incomes . |
| 8 | The Spanish opposed the introduction of majority voting in the Council of Ministers on environmental laws unless a special fund was set up to help poorer countries meet EC standards . |
| 9 | On the Spanish left the period between the November 1933 election and the end of 1935 became known as the bienio negro , the ‘ two black years ’ , during which the reforms of 1931–3 were reversed or flouted , socio-economic power reverted sharply to landlords and employers , the left itself experienced unprecedented repression and the seeds of civil war were decisively sown . |
| 10 | The Spanish expelled the Muslims from the island , but were not able to bring it under their full control , or defend its inhabitants from Muslim raiders , until nearly the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | In the summer of ‘ 86 there was something called the Harmonic Convergence , which was supposed to usher in the Age of Aquarius — people who were going on about it back in the 60s jumped the gun by about 20 years . |
| 12 | One of the eight described the importance of the school for the flow of information through the community . |
| 13 | On the allied left the course of battle had fluctuated throughout the day . |
| 14 | In the case of the first one to be founded after 1850 — Dundee in 1853 — a deaf person , Alexander Drysdale who was then headmaster of the Dundee School for the Deaf took the lead to establish an adult mission . |
| 15 | Since the insertion of the dielectric increased the surface charge density on the plates by a factor with the voltage remaining unchanged , we may conclude that the capacitance has also increased by the same factor , yielding |
| 16 | The 1560s marked the beginning of a period of economic dislocation and social upheaval which stunted the development of Muscovy 's fragile ‘ proto-bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 17 | The modernisation programme in the Thirties involved the introduction , not only of the single-deck railcoaches , but also some types uniquely suited to the seaside . |
| 18 | Neil McKendrick has said of his " consumer revolution " that the rich led the way in the 1760s and 1770s with an " orgy of spending " on their magnificent houses . |
| 19 | Similarly , the unemployed found the focus of their social circle also becoming centred on heroin . |
| 20 | The faithful elucidated the mysteries of Indirect Rule with the theological rapture of early Christians disclosing to themselves the nature of the Trinity . |
| 21 | The 1830s saw the foundation of hundreds of small banks like the Midland , many of which failed in the successive financial crises of the following decade . |
| 22 | Because the 1830s marked the translation of much of the rural population- and with it the problem of housing the poor-from the country into the cities , Dorothea 's second , more satisfactory marriage to Will Ladislaw seems symbolic : she turns her attention , one assumes , from rural to urban housing , as he does his from pictures to politics . |
| 23 | The English thought the 25-year-old had played out of his skin . |
| 24 | An alternative suggests that as the English made the return crossing , the bridge became overloaded , and as the barges sank many were drowned . |
| 25 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 26 | The English saw the coronation of Charles VII at Reims as a considerable threat to their authority . |
| 27 | In the following summer the English reoccupied the border counties and Dumfriesshire , and for the next ten years the principal concern of the Scots became the recovery of their king and their lost territory . |
| 28 | The English had the advantage of a dominating position and they subjected the Scots to a devastating hail of arrows as they struggled up the slope to engage the English forces . |
| 29 | On 8 May 1429 the English abandoned the siege ; France , through Joan , had won a great moral victory . |
| 30 | An Invective against France , probably written around 1347 , opened with these words : As Dr Barnie points out , such lampoons show how ancient and persistent are national stereotypes : the English accused the French of sexual promiscuity , while the French assiduously propagated the idea that the English were violent and gluttonous drunkards , and that they all had tails . |