Example sentences of "the [noun] [adj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also possible that life developed , and if the rate of evolution was about twice as rapid as on the Earth then intelligent beings may have been among the organisms roasted to death as the Sun 's luminosity rose , the small oceans evaporated , and the CO 2 emerged from the rocks . |
| 2 | The XP–59A first took to the air on October 1 , 1942 . |
| 3 | The Ostrich first came to fame through the nefarious exploits of its one-time landlord , Jarman . |
| 4 | When the case first came before the Court of Appeal , the court , finding no assistance in the text of the Convention itself , held in effect that the proceedings had to be regarded as in a ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ both under the law of the requesting country , which must necessarily be the starting-point , and that of England , the courts of which had to be satisfied that the request did fall within the terms of the Act . |
| 5 | Garda James McElroy said that when the case first came before the court , on February 25 , it was found that there were no summonses to proceed with , although they had been served . |
| 6 | ‘ The herren all came in barrels . |
| 7 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 8 | Allegations that bribes had been paid by Bofors officials to senior Indian officials to secure the contract first surfaced in April 1987 [ see p. 35382 ] . |
| 9 | Finally , as a preliminary issue , it is important to establish that actual or constructive knowledge of the relevant conditions occurred before the contract concerned came into existence . |
| 10 | This view of the structurally determined nature of thought and action , and the difficulty this posed for the representatives of the working class when using a formally neutral state to serve ends other than those of capitalism , was one of the major insights which underpinned Ralph Miliband 's seminal book of the 1960s , The State in Capitalist Society . |
| 11 | FOLLOWING the report on the Beech 18 entered in next year 's Round the World Air Race by Len Perry in last month 's News pages , Len has informed us that the Beech will not now be entered in the race due to modifications needed to meet the specification for the race detracting from the overall authenticity of the aircraft . |
| 12 | The play first went on stage at Nottingham and Agatha Christie was there . |
| 13 | And there 's time to remember the part each played in the fight against fascism . |
| 14 | Determining the role and scope of managers within the industry is an exercise which the Association first undertook in the 1970s . |
| 15 | The term first appeared in the nonsense works of Edward Lear , but where it came from no one knows . |
| 16 | PLOs are a variation of PKOs ( price-keeping operations ) , the term first coined by brokers to describe the government 's stockmarket-support exercise late last year . |
| 17 | one of the two flashy men-about-town , professing intimate acquaintance with all sorts of illustrious personages ( ‘ even the Blood Royal ran in the muddy channel of their personal recollections ’ ) , whom Tigg introduces to Jonas Chuzzlewit to impress the latter with the power and glory of the fraudulent insurance company he is seeking to involve Jonas in . |
| 18 | However , one complaint already made by the travel agents is the impossibility of existing on the lower commissions implied by holidays of £25 and the like that came into existence at the end of 1985 . |
| 19 | At Great Casterton I had suddenly discovered that this process held a hidden danger and that in the future this had to be avoided at all costs . |
| 20 | Amazingly , she slipped into a gap between the tracks and lay flat as the Intercity 125 rumbled over her . |
| 21 | He told her of Christie 's reaction when the Mousetrap first went on stage . |
| 22 | The fighting first erupted on July 16 when Hezbollah fighters captured the Amal-held village of Jarju in the Iqlim al-Tuffah hills south of Sidon . |
| 23 | The programme first ran in 1986 and current sponsoring organisations include many multinationals , each with their own distinctive features and corporate identity In addition , managers have the opportunity to become part of an international network linked through computer conferencing and meeting at selected workshops . |
| 24 | The programme first went on the air 28 years ago when the Beatles ' I Want To Hold Your Hand was number one . |
| 25 | The programme first went on the air 28 years ago and its DJs have included Jimmy Savile , Tony Blackburn and Kenny Everett . |
| 26 | Real have won the championship in each of the last four seasons , so that is almost taken for granted ; his job is to win the European Cup , which the club last lifted in 1966 . |
| 27 | If they 're half as good as the parties Conscious did at Lady Flo 's , it 's going to be a blinder . |
| 28 | Mary had lost both parents , her husband and two children within the space of ten years , and had not had the opportunity to acknowledge any of the effect this had on her . |
| 29 | You can imagine the effect this had on me . |
| 30 | One can imagine the effect this had on an elderly mother . |