Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later the same day he met the Turkish Commander of Ground Forces , Gen. Muhittin Fisunoglu , in Islamabad . |
| 2 | Nicolo watched as Caroline spooned the last bit of tiramisu from her dessert plate . |
| 3 | Just lacked the normal sense of urgency … maybe this is a deliberatle ploy by Wilko too ? |
| 4 | As Alan had to enter the site as part of his job , he lacked the necessary degree of voluntariness necessary for the defence . |
| 5 | Maybe , Charles reflected , his son-in-law was the result of some cloning experiment , by which creatures from another planet had created something that looked like a human being , but lacked the essential circuitry of humanity . |
| 6 | His countrymen , who had predominated in the audience , lacked the musical appreciation of German and Italian peoples . |
| 7 | Another speaker at the Congress , the communist deputy V. I. Belov , argued that the Russian Republic was in fact in a position of some disadvantage compared with the other republics , since it alone lacked the full range of party , state and scientific institutions . |
| 8 | Samuel Barber 's Adagio for Strings was well enough played but lacked the last ounce of passion , and suffered badly from the aurally obtrusive air conditioning system , Randall Thompson 's Alleluya showed that the Festival Chorus on this occasion were equally as adept at unaccompanied singing as their counterparts had been last week . |
| 9 | Prior to the Party 's Annual Conference the National Executive once again disbanded the Labour League of Youth , which had given official support to Cripps ' memorandum . |
| 10 | In 1979 , the Conservative government reduced the standard rate of income tax from 33 per cent to 30 per cent but nearly doubled the standard rate of VAT . |
| 11 | Announcing the 1989-90 budget on June 30 , 1989 , the then Finance Minister , Hassan Gbassay Kanu , doubled the official price of petrol to Le110 a gallon , in line with International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank demands for the removal of fuel subsidies . |
| 12 | Dennis Conner , Peter Gilmour and Bernie Beilken have , in my view , lent the final air of respectability to the Grand Prix . |
| 13 | She flung the whole tangle of thought away from her and ran fast up the stairs as though in the room some delight or pleasure awaited her , not the hard task of painting . |
| 14 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 15 | With a tiny shudder he passed the hard knot of tension from him then looked up again , a faint smile at the corners of his mouth . |
| 16 | Some poor sap made the mistake of his career and applied the wrong brand of paint — the kind that would n't wash off . |
| 17 | In fact they encouraged us most warmly , and we shared the general mood of elation at the overall success of the 1974 submission . |
| 18 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
| 19 | She was a fine person and he knew they related to each other , shared the same sense of humour . |
| 20 | If Vanilla Ice spouted the same sort of shit they did he 'd be pilloried . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I wo n't cry over spilt milk , ’ Karen said as she finally recovered the last smithereen of dog . |
| 22 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 23 | The first meeting took place on the following Monday , 7th June , when the seven members present made the momentous choice of Hope as chairman . |
| 24 | An agreement signed on March 27 by Humberto Ortega on behalf of the Sandinista government and by Chamorro 's chief aide Antonio Lacayo had prohibited active members of the armed forces from holding positions in political parties , and made the peaceful handover of power and the subjection of the armed forces to civilian authority conditional on the disarming of the contra guerrillas by April 25 [ see below ] . |
| 25 | With that she marched off , and after we 'd got our breath , I made the usual cup of tea while Frankie went to fetch nails and hammer from Dad 's tool box so he could fix the door before Mum returned and explanations were necessary . |
| 26 | There was a time years ago when I made the odd item of clothing and I have started designing stuff again now . |
| 27 | The size of the holes , and the thickness of the surrounding bubbles of enriched galaxy formation , depend on the details of the perturbations fed in to the idealised model calculations , and this offers hope that better observations of these holes in the Universe may reveal information about the kinds of disturbances that made the big bang of creation develop irregularly . |
| 28 | Connie held that it was a simple matter to forgive your enemies because , if you had the sense you were born with , you did n't see much of them , whereas with the way society was constituted , you spent most of your time with your nearest and dearest , and the things they could do to annoy you made the whole concept of forgiveness extremely difficult to entertain . |
| 29 | The regular salaries attached to the more important posts in the customs and excise administration , for example , were in themselves attractive to many voters in Scottish constituencies , and were the objects of a great deal of political negotiation , for this kind of appointment was the normal currency of management for the politician able to procure it , and the links between parliamentary politics and the disposal of such offices made the nominal right of appointment possessed by the boards of commissioners in Edinburgh somewhat illusory . |
| 30 | Their cattle are finished : they made the last batch of bread with oxblood to save what 's left of the water , and they drink that mixed with wine , of which there is n't all that much , either . |