Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [adj] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often this was reflected in the village church , where the old sat in the best seats and the young at the back . |
| 2 | Some composers use series which may contain more or fewer notes than the twelve contained in the total-chromatic , but this is uncommon , and the usage can be ignored . |
| 3 | The report stated that some 703,000 people relied on food aid , a much higher figure than the 429,000 cited by the government at a donor conference in New York in April . |
| 4 | Although the irksome trod over the mountain ways had earlier prompted the Höchstetters to suggest building smelting facilities at Coniston , nothing was implemented . |
| 5 | Until the Japanese arrived in the 1980s , American and British suppliers had to meet lower standards than the Japanese demand . |
| 6 | If the worst came to the worst he could cook it himself . |
| 7 | I had thought that , if the worst came to the worst , I could always follow the hillside and make my way down to the bottom . |
| 8 | If the worst came to the worst , she could fire it with both hands . |
| 9 | On the one hand Europe favoured détente , but on the other , they also needed US protection and were concerned that , if the worst came to the worst , Carter would not be prepared to go to war to save Europe . |
| 10 | If the worst came to the worst he would cut his numbers , take the orchestra straight over Karl 's sections and leave him standing . |
| 11 | So we 've er we felt that was we only had to cope with if the worst came to the worst . |
| 12 | ‘ If the worst came to the worst — no , do n't get worked up again , she is quite elderly , after all — you 'd still have Martin . |
| 13 | If the worst came to the worst and we did get another president , I would do it , but I 'd rather have a break for a little while . |
| 14 | No longer the prop of an unjust social order , the God of the Magnificat was to be found on the side of the poor while the mighty trembled at the prospect of being toppled from their insecure thrones . |
| 15 | In 1326 Scotland and France had concluded a new alliance , the Treaty of Corbeil , under which the French , while not being required to take military action on behalf of the Scots in any future conflict with England , agreed to give them diplomatic support , while the French obtained from the Scots an agreement to attack England in the event of war between the French and the English . |
| 16 | All the same , when Wycliffe arrived , there were three vehicles parked on the opposite side of the square from the police station ; two were blue vans carrying the badge of the area police force , while the third belonged to the telephone engineers . |
| 17 | ‘ I was on my way down the stairs when the second came through the roof . |
| 18 | In 1870 he followed Stroudley , with whom he had developed a close friendship , when the latter moved to the London , Brighton and South Coast Railway as locomotive and carriage superintendent and became locomotive and carriage works manager of that railway . |
| 19 | The Non-Proliferation Treaty , however , was the last occasion when the British sat at the top table to discuss nuclear questions with the superpowers . |
| 20 | Reiff retaliated by trying to push the favourite back on to Aboyeur , and as the two went past the post Craganour was a head up , with Louvois just behind in third and Great Sport fourth . |
| 21 | Part of this was a hang over from the days of live Television , but even as the Fifties turned into the Sixties , and prerecording came into the limelight , the cost and cumbersome nature of videotape ruled out all but the most rudimentary of editing . |