Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even if the defence took militant forms , its boundaries were defined by extant relations of production . |
| 2 | Beldam LJ reviewed the authorities and stated that deciding whether the defence applied involved answering two questions . |
| 3 | Liley spent a season playing in the second team with just half a dozen first-team appearances before the opportunity came this season , and so far it has gone remarkably well . |
| 4 | The majority received 100 mg over a period of 3 hours . |
| 5 | That same Thursday the majority received another setback . |
| 6 | So the majority wore clerical collars and the ones who did not knew what they were doing . |
| 7 | The majority saw little future for college-based sandwich courses , let alone the assessment of the industrial part . |
| 8 | The majority contained inadequate amounts of alcohol and dried fruit and some had artificial flavourings or were cloyingly sweet . |
| 9 | The apprentice varied three years up to , some of them were five . |
| 10 | The stand contained 4,100 seats , installed at a cost of 2d each , and incorporated the latest in spectator comfort . |
| 11 | There was virtually no comfort even in the royal apartments ; none of the bathrooms had running water and everyone was forced to rely on servants whose sole duty it was to provide water for washing . |
| 12 | With ample historical evidence on their side , the expansionists replied that visibility was a tested means of swelling research budgets . |
| 13 | According to an IAEA spokesman , the experts found numerous leaks of oil , water and radioactive steam throughout the plant , as well as leakages in the water cooling system common to all four reactors . |
| 14 | The remainder comprised three patients with iron deficiency , one with carcinomatosis , two with oral amphthous ulceration , two normal subjects considered to have been incorrectly diagnosed with gluten sensitivity as children , one patient with mild microscopic colitis , one patient with giardiasis , and two seemingly normal relatives of patients with coeliac disease . |
| 15 | About half the remainder had firm reasons for preferring cash to credit at least in this instance — because it was cheaper , or because it would avoid a chain of later bills , for example . |
| 16 | The crowds burned one police car , destroyed five others , threw bottles at helmeted police , torched an overturned taxi , and ripped sod from the playing field at Tiger Stadium . |
| 17 | When Made in Heaven appeared at New York 's Sonnabend Gallery last year , the crowds broke all records for an exhibition in a commercial gallery . |
| 18 | Generally speaking , one could say that the ‘ sun shone on the righteous ’ as virtually all of the outings enjoyed good weather . |
| 19 | Last week the House of Commons select committee on the ombudsman heard another story of neglect in the NHS . |
| 20 | The Milanese took great pains over its reconstruction in order to properly reinstate the great courtyard that formed the heart of Il Filarete 's dream . |
| 21 | However , a letter which appeared in the NME illustrated another school of thought . |
| 22 | The seamen had good reason to suppose that the arguments on the employers ' side for resisting negotiations at national level were weakening . |
| 23 | Though announcement of the link allowed short-term interest rates to fall by a percentage point to 11.4% , and pushed Swedish share prices up 3.5% in a day , it caused chaos in the lucrative Stockholm business of ‘ basket arbitrage ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ The Prince did not care what promises had been made to the Englishman ; forcing Sharpe to dance would demonstrate to the Rifleman that the Prince commanded this headquarters . |
| 25 | The Prince had high hopes on that July day too . |
| 26 | The Duke had powerful artillery and trained soldiers ; the Prince had lesser firepower and undisciplined goodwill . |
| 27 | Rebecque spoke in English because the Prince preferred that language . |
| 28 | The Prince needed sound advice , particularly as he moved into more and more controversial areas . |
| 29 | The prince arrived 15 minutes late but during his hour-long visit to a 60th anniversary reception for the BBC , he made no reference to the news of his marriage split . |
| 30 | At the Japanese forum in November , the prince urged local companies to contribute towards making international business ‘ world friendly ’ , a message regarded by some commentators as a veiled attack on Japanese corporations ' environmental record . |