Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economy 's heavy reliance on trade combined with government responsibility for maintaining the value of sterling , made the balance of payments a central issue of the political economy of the period [ Beckerman , 1972 ; Dornbusch and Fisher , 1980 ] . |
| 2 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 3 | Mrs Ogata suspended the aid on grounds the warring parties were playing politics with people 's lives . |
| 4 | None the less , both Brian and I found the change in conditions a tonic . |
| 5 | She did her best to stimulate a constant flow of love letters , and found the collecting of admirers a very satisfying pastime . |
| 6 | Prout in nineteen ninety two a hundred and seventy patients and again found the number of tumours the most important feature . |
| 7 | And we had to help them to move and you know help them to move their things and really I saw the kind of difficulties the girls would be living under . |
| 8 | He finally took the advice of doctors a month later , and he went on a two-week holiday to Jamaica . |
| 9 | In the last chapter , I discussed the kinds of things the brain must be doing if it is to generate observed behaviour . |