Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 2 | During the Second World War she worked indefatigably for charities such as the Red Cross , which packed parcels for prisoners of war , made medical dressings for the wounded and provided canteens for the serving men and women . |
| 3 | Former Stanley stalwarts include Harry Potts , who managed Burnley 's 1960 championship side ; inside forward Geoff Strong who starred for Arsenal and Liverpool but in 33 swansong games for Coventry never scored a goal ; Tommy Cummings who played 434 times for Burnley and thrice for England B ; Gordon Pallister , now 75 , who had 210 matches at Barnsley and Jack Howarth , a bairn at 47 , whose travels embraced 421 games for the late and lamented Aldershot . |
| 4 | But Meh'Lindi neither gestured for the hypodermic nor did she abandon Grimm . |
| 5 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 6 | But intelligence could not possibly be reserved for the washed and moneyed classes . |
| 7 | Trudie 's efforts have won her community a bus service for the handicapped and won Trudie herself national recognition . |
| 8 | In 1981 they adopted an action plan for the Caribbean and pledged $1.2 million to a trust fund to finance environmental projects . |
| 9 | When solving the up- or down-problem at node k in preceding sections , we first modified the original tableau of LPk to allow for the new or changed , upper or lower bound . |
| 10 | The idea is to re-create the building as a 12-bed extension for the neighbouring and packed Stockton mission for the single homeless without losing its historical railway look . |
| 11 | ‘ The Women 's Group provided a special lunch for the elderly and established a club for the elderly and the unemployed in the church hall . ’ |
| 12 | No one is now demanding justice for the dead and disappeared ( during Marcos 's rule ) , today the clamour is for justice for one dead man . |
| 13 | Darwin 's theories have been used to support the view that homo sapiens is the pre-eminent of species , and have fuelled beliefs in the morality of the survival of the fittest , whilst also lending support to positions , reminiscent of Albert Schweitzer 's , which emphasise universal kinship and the duty to care for the lowly and enfeebled . |
| 14 | Florence Nightingale considered lack of sleep to be an unnecessary additional discomfort for the sick and stressed the importance of environmental factors — some within and others outside the control of the nurse . |
| 15 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 16 | Although she had come to dislike Dr McNab , believing him to have been indirectly responsible for her father 's death , she remained constantly at his side , helping him to care for the sick and wounded . |
| 17 | Another concept implied rights of access to miraculous healing for the sick and crippled . |
| 18 | But he had longings at the same time for the Mediterranean and travelled there . |
| 19 | AD 360 when Constantius II took his vengeance against the followers of Magnentius , who had challenged the Emperor for the purple and caused Constans to be murdered . |
| 20 | He had seen pride and admiration in her eyes , and love — and that protectiveness of the young for the old that came with love . |
| 21 | For the widowed or divorced there was no difference between those with and without children nor any significant trend with the number of children . |
| 22 | There are many groups , much literature , and a great deal of help available for the widowed or divorced — so much that to go into the subject in detail would require another book . |
| 23 | How are the invoices for the loaded and off-loaded goods filed ? |
| 24 | Matthew Marsh is entirely convincing as the easygoing but dogged Chris , and Amanda Boxer , with her sardonic , off-centre delivery , provides desperately needed comic relief . |
| 25 | The surrounding countryside is largely unspoilt and is dotted with picturesque villages ( such as the thatched and timbered Brampton Bryan , and Eardisley , with its 30-ft wide oak ) and cider orchards . |
| 26 | At each age level , those items which discriminated between the normal and speech-delayed subjects were regarded as being valid measures of articulation . |
| 27 | The excellent agreement between the predicted and observed orbital decay rates has a double significance . |
| 28 | The solar term clearly improves the agreement between the modelled and observed series ( Fig. 2c-f ) ; in particular , the marked warming around 1930 and the stable temperatures during the 1950s are better represented . |
| 29 | To make the model more realistic it is assumed that the trains do not always arrive on time , and that the frequency distribution of the differences between the actual and timetabled arrivals of the trains follows a normal ( Gaussian ) distribution with a mean of zero ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 30 | At this point it is sufficient to mention that it is accepted that there were differences between the real and reported rates , but that for some crimes over certain periods of time the difference was fairly constant . |