Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [noun prp] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , the Government declared the apple spray , Alar , safe but failed to study the evidence which led the US authorities to ban it . |
| 2 | After missing in a flat calm against the French , it was typical of Hastings that he succeeded in a gale which made the Murrayfield goal-posts moan like a didgeridoo . |
| 3 | He scored twice in the closing eight minutes to force a 4-4 draw , a result which helped the Paisley men increase their lead at the top of the table to two points . |
| 4 | It was a series of financial penalties imposed by Washington for manifold breaches of the 1977 Clean Air Act which forced the LA authorities to formulate such an epic approach in the first place . |
| 5 | The narrow emphasis on economy and efficiency which characterised the Thatcher years has broadened into a search for effectiveness and excellence as the current enthusiasm for quality in health care demonstrates . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Norman Stone 's confident his reputation wo n't be dented like that of Lord Dacre , the Oxford historian who helped the Sunday Times serialise what he thought were the Hitler diaries but soon turned out to be a hoax . |
| 7 | The 27-hole overnight leader was Brian Davis ( East Herts ) who won the Hertfordshire boys title at Nevill last Friday when he recorded a course record 65 . |
| 8 | Beyond him rode the Lombard brothers grinning broadly and enjoying themselves . |
| 9 | He said the US authorities planned to allocate 50,000 places to refugees from the Soviet Union in the next 12 months . |
| 10 | He said the EC guidelines included looking at design and layout of offices , eyesight tests , rest facilities for pregnant women and separate rest areas for smokers and non-smokers . |
| 11 | In spite of his plans , as late as January 1938 Hitler told Colonel Beck that he considered the Danzig arrangements binding , that he thought it possible to accommodate Poland and that he had no territorial claims to make . |