Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen , ’ he hissed as the porter walked on oblivious to what was happening behind him . |
| 2 | Though the demand from industry and society at large was for better school education , the response came at first not from schools but from Youth Training Schemes for school-leavers , organized by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 3 | ‘ Among Catholics the response ranged from mild support to disinterest . |
| 4 | It does not restore the immunities enjoyed before 1979 , but it confirms the right to strike and gives strikers protection against dismissal . |
| 5 | The park lay in sodden neglect , sprawling over its rank acreage as if it had passed out . |
| 6 | Nine out of ten of the users known to each agency lived with one or more adults , and the majority lived with one or more children . |
| 7 | As it was , the chantry duties of the guilds had been in steady decline since the early fifteenth century , so that by 1547 the majority had for many years been looked upon as burial societies . |
| 8 | Report from Mr N McLeod re the vandalism perpetrated by local youngsters who congregate at a memorial seat outside the Primary School Annexe . |
| 9 | This seems to be the logical approach , as the surplus giving rise to the refund arose from excess contributions in past years on which tax relief was claimed . |
| 10 | The red warning lights of The Sandhopper glowed like boiling blood in the blackness . |
| 11 | In the United States , fear of European embroilment and the pro-Nationalist zeal of many American Catholics effectively cancelled out the sympathy felt in liberal circles towards the Republic . |
| 12 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 13 | Despite this , only 50% of cancers in this group were actually detected by faecal occult blood testing , the remainder arose as symptomatic cancers in the period between screenings . |
| 14 | Two served for the county as a whole , the remainder came from eleven boroughs . |
| 15 | Over half did not go beyond 10 miles , and more than half of the remainder stayed within 20 . |
| 16 | After 10min on ice , 32 P labelled probes were added and the incubation continued for 30 min at room temperature . |
| 17 | The stairway went up ten stairs to a landing with a large window , then up another ten to the first floor . |
| 18 | The trembling turned to slight fear as he saw her colour rise . |
| 19 | He itemised the steps by which East European Governments gained access to the free markets of West Europe , while denying the same freedom of access to West European manufacturers , and revealed how reciprocal trade deals negotiated with the multi-nationals resulted in unsuspecting third party EEC Governments being saddled with the import bill . |
| 20 | The strips ran in both directions , creating a number of crosses . |
| 21 | The Hungarians acceded to the throne of Croatia in 1102. and the link remained through many vicissitudes until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918 . |
| 22 | The funding amounted to some US$60,000,000 annually , of which about half was intended for weapons acquisition . |
| 23 | The prince spoke for 15 minutes about caring for the terminally ill , then extended his visit to a London conference to talk privately with health service staff . |
| 24 | The CO sat in another rain-washed tent to receive Charles 's fairly smart salute and ask him if he 'd had a good day . |
| 25 | The CO chuckled with unashamed glee at the little joke he was about to make at Charles 's expense . |
| 26 | The bluetits provided the normal grubs and caterpillars , which the blackbird supplemented with juicy worms . |
| 27 | The change came with parliamentary reform in the nineteenth century and the emergence of large disciplined political parties in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 28 | No purely internal linguistic explanation can account for the fact that the change happened in this way in some dialects and in different ways in others . |
| 29 | The rainstorm had to some extent penetrated the tree-cover . |
| 30 | So the struggle became to some extent a contest between the German bishops and the pope , and the position of the German bishops in extending the conflict can only be understood if we understand their relationships with the political parties and the rival claimants . |