Example sentences of "of [det] [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Article 8 of each Convention had the same text , which survives with only minor drafting changes , in the text of the most recent Hague Convention on the topic , that on the Taking of Evidence Abroad of 1970 . |
| 2 | The leader of each group collected the food and was responsible for distributing it among his ‘ team ’ . |
| 3 | 14 members of each section attended the first night . |
| 4 | Six and seven of that Act increased the limits for unfair dismissal from twenty six weeks to two years . |
| 5 | Part of that collusion took the form of a reaction against ‘ psycho-analysts like Freud , lest they awaken people to the realisation that the focus of power might be within one 's self rather than ‘ up there ’ . |
| 6 | This concept , brilliantly and amusingly elucidated in book of that name published the previous year by Professor C. Northcote Parkinson , stated : ‘ Work expands to fill the time available for its completion . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , higher inflation in the early years of that government prevented the ratio falling . |
| 8 | The economic recession and the sharp rise in unemployment of that year forced the Conservative government to change its policies before they had got off the ground . |
| 9 | July of that year saw the retirement of Miss Joan Thornely , who had first joined the staff in 1941 , when there were only two Junior Forms ( J.A . |
| 10 | The closure of Jaeger 's Hawick factory in October of that year pushed the job losses in the local industry above the 1,000-mark . |
| 11 | The Commission considered that a broad interpretation of that provision covered the type of restriction at issue in this case . |
| 12 | Out of that realisation came the explosive mixture of a massive emigration from East Germany and an overwhelming popular challenge to the party inside it . |
| 13 | Yet later , after Mubarak 's death , Genet discovers that he did not sleep with women or men ; all of his sexuality was social : ‘ the warmth of that voice had the shy yet imperious sureness of an erect penis stroking a beloved cheek . |
| 14 | Records of that time mentioned the discovery of a fossil fish bed but the exact site was unknown . |
| 15 | The sound of that cheer stopped the Dutch band cold . |
| 16 | At the end of that avenue rose the coaly tiers of the palace itself : a great glooming glass-petalled ziggurat with telescoping spires from which vast vitrodur umbrellas unfolded , interlocking . |
| 17 | A training officer of that era described the college not as " an educational seminary , but a spiritual power house " . |
| 18 | The prospect of another delay prompted the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , to write to Mr Lang expressing his disappointment at the postponement . |
| 19 | The speed at which the lava began travelling and its overrunning of another dyke caused the government to declare a state of emergency for Zafferana . |
| 20 | A phone call to the DES about the funding of some research received the surprising response that ‘ We do n't have a department dealing with children ’ . |
| 21 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 22 | A major part of this enterprise stressed the importance of female sexuality and women 's valid right to sexual pleasure that is , in relationships with men . |
| 23 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 24 | The discovery of this memo brought the scandal to a head . |
| 25 | Most of this exercise took the form of a team of planners working closely with community groups in the run up to , and during , the Public Inquiry into the Draft Plan . |
| 26 | Names were written by the figures in the wall-paintings , as often on the black ground of the vases ; another example of the hesitancy with which the creators of this revolution approached the idea of the illusion of depth . |
| 27 | Using union figures , allowances being paid at the start of this year exceeded the number originally intended by more than 3,000 . |
| 28 | It was not long before the ravishing of this scene attracted the lament of the poets . |
| 29 | ( A publication which appeared after the preparation of this manuscript reported the normal range of arterial oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry at 1610 m altitude in Denver . |
| 30 | THE FIRST THIRTY years of this century saw the emergence of three theories that radically altered man 's view of physics and of reality itself . |