Example sentences of "appeared [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 22 March an armada of 45 US Navy warships , Operation Prairie Fire , complete with aircraft carriers , 200 aircraft , and nuclear submarines , appeared off the Libyan coast in the Gulf of Sidra and deliberately trailed their coats until the Libyans reacted by firing two SA-5 missiles at the American aircraft . |
| 2 | ‘ Figures appeared between the wrecked cottages ahead , their hands high . |
| 3 | Despite the introduction of a liaison committee in 1950 , little common ground appeared between the two sides . |
| 4 | The road suddenly appeared through the thinning trees and Jenna had to scramble down a bank , cross a ditch and she was standing on the firm tarmac of the main highway . |
| 5 | At precisely the same time as circumcision and the blood of circumcision was receiving this new casting and additional dimension , legislation about female blood — i.e. the blood of menstruation and childbirth — appeared for the first time on the scene . |
| 6 | Of these , three items , ‘ A Visit to Newgate ’ , ‘ The Black Veil ’ , and ‘ The Great Winglebury Duel ’ appeared for the first time in this collection . |
| 7 | Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume . |
| 8 | Similarly a small black hoverfly , Cheilosia bergenstammi , whose larvae feed on ragwort , was captured in 1972 , 1973 and 1974 ( N= 19 ) and has not been seen since , whereas C. vernalis , whose food plant is unknown , appeared for the first time in 1978 and has since become frequent ( N=118 ) . |
| 9 | So far as more academic scholarship was concerned , the Nag Hammadi Scrolls appeared for the first time in English translation in 1977 , and within two years had inspired Elaine Pagels ' best-seller The Gnostic Gospels . |
| 10 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 11 | It introduced greater facilities for synthesis , and the Areas Table appeared for the first time . |
| 12 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
| 13 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 14 | His coaching duties with the Scotland sevens squad concluded for the day , he duly appeared for the second half of the semi-final against the relatively fresh-faced youths of White Hart Marauders — inspired by England internationalists , Dewi Morris and Jeremy Guscott , and B caps , Damian Hopley and Justyn Cassell . |
| 15 | Mr Speaker Weatherill , who opened the exhibition , appeared for the last time before retirement in the distinctive tail-coat , knee-breeches and white bands of his office . |
| 16 | The Legal Services Committee continued in 1992 where it left off in 1991 and in January 1992 representatives of the committee appeared for the third time before the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct . |
| 17 | Once again at Maastricht , Britain appeared as the odd man out . |
| 18 | Never one to opt out , Minton starred at the boat 's fancy-dress ball when he appeared as the Mysterious Guest in female dress . |
| 19 | In terms of the dominant concepts of the age , feudalism appeared as the natural order of things . |
| 20 | Hammond and Hawes appeared as the permanent heads of the offices to be rehoused , and of the remaining witnesses eight were architects . |
| 21 | Most volumes appeared during the two decades leading up to World War 1 . |
| 22 | Gold appeared during the prehistoric period in Japan but never made a deep impression on the consciousness of the Japanese . |
| 23 | The press is far older in Africa than is generally supposed , the first newspapers probably being those that appeared during the Napoleonic occupation of Egypt in 1797 . |
| 24 | Aegean civilization , as this appeared during the first half of the second millennium B.C. , was sufficiently sure of its own identity to engage in traffic with the older ones of south-west Asia and the Nile Valley . |
| 25 | Both the expansion of the market economy and the imposition of colonial institutions took place in the context of long-established and complex cultures which shaped the form of the new social arrangements that appeared during the colonial period . |
| 26 | The best documented examples come from Brazil , where the patriarchal family appeared after the Portuguese colonisation with the agrarian families . |
| 27 | Mr Ridley appeared against the surreal backdrop of a vast headless , legless belly floating over his shoulder from the bench behind . |
| 28 | Leonora appeared behind the Spanish butler , Fernandez , who opened the nail-studded front door . |
| 29 | A young soldier appeared beneath the arched gateway , flanked by two men-at-arms , wielding pikes . |
| 30 | Unfortunately no biographical details concerning the author appeared with the original article , I understand from Francis Treuherz of The Society of Homœopaths that Dr. Schore edited a journal entitled Homœotherapy which began in 1982 and ran to 8 volumes . |