Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unravelling this startling turn of events it transpired that due to the vagaries of the recording mechanism of answering machines my original message had sounded like ‘ died ’ not ‘ resigned ’ . |
| 2 | Subsequently McAdam and Whitaker ( 1971 ) demonstrated that prior to the production of various test words summed negative wave potentials were of greater magnitude over the left than the right hemisphere . |
| 3 | Alan Watkins of the Observer had spent August and September as a guest in Great Houses ; Michael Jones of The Sunday Times had spent six weeks in Tuscany avoiding , whenever he could , the Gilmours , Jenkinses and Mortimers ; Peter Riddell of The Times , Hugo Young , Julia Langdon , Simon Heffer , Sir Robin Day-they were all in Brighton on expenses , refreshed and ready for the fray . |
| 4 | They were new shoes but already scuffed and dusty from the amount of walking he had done in the past few days . |
| 5 | Some earlier research in 1972 had led him to believe that very high pressures could be attained , and also that the hydrogen ions behaved as free in the palladium crystal lattice , moving around and probably bumping into one another . |
| 6 | On May 8 the government announced that prior to the " joint peace forum " to be held in London , the Ethiopian government would implement the Shengo ( parliament ) resolution by setting up a peace commission to negotiate with " all opposition and pro-unity forces " . |
| 7 | The magazine carried an article which announced that due to the high cost of electricity , there was a large growth in membership of specialist goldfish societies , as fishkeepers deserted their tropical tanks , in a bid to cut down their electricity bills . |
| 8 | Laser Raman spectroscopy revealed that near to the rector cores , the bitumen is less graphite and pyrolysis GC-MS showed that the aromatics are less condensed here too . |
| 9 | I made that clear in the advertisement , I hope . |
| 10 | Barthes is here influenced , no doubt , by the founder of deconstruction , Jacques Derrida , who argued that contrary to the traditional view that speech is the exemplary case of language in use , and writing an artificial substitute for speech , writing ought to be privileged because it exposes the fallacious metaphysics of presence , of the autonomy of the subject , which speech encourages . |
| 11 | It is , however , recognised that prior to the introduction of any new Religious Education course into a Catholic School approval must be sought and obtained from the Bishops ' Conference , and , subsequently , from the Diocesan Religious Education Advisorate . |
| 12 | The central authorities , late as usual , grasped this detail of local life by 1924 , when Krupskaia at the Thirteenth Party Congress noted that due to the tightening of the economic ‘ scissors ’ , the higher bread prices could no longer be afforded by starving village-teachers . |
| 13 | Red , lumpy and raw in the middle , and smudged and furry round the orifices . |
| 14 | ‘ Halziel and Lingary , ’ he says , staring at me , and he looks really concerned , worried and harried and tired for the first time ; yes , it 's all change here in Paddington Green . |
| 15 | Joyce had made her a mauve embroidered organza frock salvaged as usual from the poor box . |
| 16 | JIM BOLGER 'S Derby hope St Jovite flopped when odds-on for the Gladness Stakes at The Curragh on Saturday , but the trainer and owner Mrs Virginia Kraft Payson still left the track in a happy frame of mind . |
| 17 | For Jesus to perform an act long prophesied and expected of the rightful Messiah certainly reflects no diffidence on his part . |
| 18 | Bulky shapes hatted and scarved against the cool night . |
| 19 | We should not be quite so narrow-minded , blinkered and xenophobic about the rest of the world . |
| 20 | We elected to use a static rather than a dynamic method to evaluate transit because our previous studies with dynamic scintigraphy showed that emptying of the unprepared rat ileum into the caecum occurred very infrequently . |
| 21 | They were old-fashioned in cut , waisted and full-skirted as the coat of a Regency buck , and with crested metal buttons fastening high to the side of the throat . |
| 22 | At every step they fall back , foxed and flummoxed by the snow , tripping over buried buckets , breaking their shins on hidden cobbles . |
| 23 | After he 'd taken out the bread , I took him back for lunch and he rested as usual in the afternoon , lying on his bed and listening to the radio . |
| 24 | A great bed with a dark carved headboard like an ecclesiastical panel reaching half-way up the wall , a chest of drawers supporting a mirror between brass pillars , a desk dropped open exposing drawers and pigeon holes stuffed with papers : these high-polished , sombre items , out of keeping with the rest of the house , subsided within the airtight hush of the room curtained and shuttered against the light . |
| 25 | He had lost much blood , his helm was notably dinted , and the head inside it already dazed and misty as the dusk coming down on the hills . |
| 26 | It had probably been the only one aired and ready for the unexpected guest this morning . |
| 27 | Diana was flattered , flustered and bewildered by the passion she had aroused in a man twelve years her senior . |
| 28 | The March 4 meeting at The Coachman Hotel started as usual with the club business and the regular draw for a cash prize of £100 . |
| 29 | He thought that preferable to the child 's being in an institution or with foster parents . |
| 30 | All the same the effect was n't quite right , and so she undid the Alice-band at the nape of her neck and let her hair fall to her shoulders , tousled and damp at the edges . |