Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so Labour went into the election on a fudged policy designed more to placate Roy Hattersley than to win over voters . |
| 2 | The sale ring was packed far beyond its proper capacity and still hundreds crowded outside the doors . |
| 3 | By the end of December up to 4,000 people had been killed and about 20,000 wounded in the chaotic fighting in Mogadishu which had continued , with only occasional interruptions , since Nov. 16 . |
| 4 | Yesterday , the management threatened to issue dismissal notices to the 300 out of the 400 workforce , and about 200 demonstrated at the locked factory gates in an attempt to return to work . |
| 5 | In the immediate postwar period as the franchise was again extended , and as Labour emerged as the principal opposition , so Conservatives retrained their guns . |
| 6 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
| 7 | Cornwall was then truly the ‘ ultima thule ’ , the limits of civilisation — or beyond , and indeed many wrote of the Cornish as of a barbaric tribe and treated any elements of civilised behaviour with surprised condescension . |
| 8 | Momper 's " red-green " alliance had collapsed on Nov. 15 when the AL withdrew in protest at the violent eviction by 3,000 police of several hundred ( mainly west Berliner ) squatters from 13 apartment buildings in the Friedrichshain district of east Berlin the previous day ; 300 people were arrested and over 100 injured in the clashes . |
| 9 | Most teachers ( 85% ) used the library for borrowing books connected with their work but 58% looked for information on other subjects also , and over half came to the library to browse . |
| 10 | But much had to be done before any real progress could be made , and essentially this lay in the problem of land acquisition and assembly . |