Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In anthropology the world-wide connections of the British gave them a notable advantage . |
| 2 | This challenge to the state-centric outlook shared by Idealism and Realism ( and Behaviouralism ) was not a novel one , but the world of the 1970s gave it a new strength . |
| 3 | The large role of foreign banks in Brazilian development in the 1970s earned them a central role in the later adjustment period . |
| 4 | Robert Cecil evidently rebuffed Sir Arthur Gorges when the latter sent him a present in 1603 , for Gorges wrote in a hurt tone that he had only followed ‘ the common custom and usual compliment of the time ’ . |
| 5 | He also practised medicine and magic , and the latter brought him an unsavoury reputation . |
| 6 | Two birdies in his first three holes and another at the sixth gave him a flying start but it was not all so straightforward . |
| 7 | The first netted them a quantity of antique and model jewellery as well as silverware and oil paintings valued at over twenty thousand pounds . |
| 8 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 9 | Ted Owens was one of the stalwarts of Crystal Palace FC during the inter-war period , when his resolute performances at right-back during the latter half of the 1930s made him a firm favourite . |
| 10 | He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall . |
| 11 | Then the local centre for the handicapped lent them a wheelchair , so they were able to get out and about . |
| 12 | But the Sixties gave him a background to emerge from ; in fact , he wrote part of the script for the age and it never left him ; he did n't allow it to leave him . |
| 13 | The last read her a lecture , told her he would not disoblige her father by employing her , and turned her out in the street like an errant daughter . |
| 14 | But there was no denying Miss Higgins and a par five at the last gave her the trophy she had her heart set on . |
| 15 | A missed downhill three-footer at the 18th denied him a red round . |
| 16 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |