Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artist 's intention is one of the criteria for the portrait posited by historians and theorists . |
| 2 | He half-closed his eyes and listened to plopping sounds in the water for the place swarmed with frogs , and the buzz of the bees as they hunted for honey amongst the flowers . |
| 3 | Several rucks at Elland Road confirmed Cantona 's previous billing as the enfant terrible , but French TV viewers saw him live up to his new label as Manchester United 's ‘ Gallic Gazza ’ after the striker burst into tears before an estimated 15 million audience . |
| 4 | Dispute about the safety of the operation led to dockers being asked to volunteer for the work of loading the ship . |
| 5 | About a third of the help came from advisers in Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 6 | The main criticism of the event came from dealers specialising in contemporary work : Waddington Graphics , in particular , noted that the balance of the fair was much in favour of Old Master dealers and that the juxtaposition of Old Master prints with contemporary prints did not work in their favour . |
| 7 | The rest of the Battalion arrived at intervals including some of the missing men of A company who had not been seen since Waterloo . |
| 8 | The judiciary committee 's preliminary examination of the affair led to accusations that members of the Bush administration had tampered with the pre-1990 export records concerning Iraq , and had impeded a federal investigation of a $4,000 million fraud at the Atlanta branch of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro ( BNL ) . |
| 9 | Article eight B two of the treaty related to elections to the European parliament which is the subject of the draft regulations presented here . |
| 10 | It was interpreted by most commentators as being indicative of the concern felt by members of the House ( all of whom faced re-election in November ) over the level of public anger arising from the enormous cost of the S&L rescue operation , currently estimated to have exceeded $88,000 million . |
| 11 | At the same time the severity of the recession led to demands for much greater state intervention in industry . |
| 12 | Then there had been nothing — nothing but bare rooms : now there was the semblance of a working facility , even though most of the equipment remained in cases , waiting to be unpacked . |
| 13 | At Sheriff Hutton , as at Middleham , the core of the affinity consisted of men whose own estates lay close to the castle and it is among these that continuity is likely to have been strongest . |
| 14 | At Sheriff Hutton , as at Middleham , the core of the affinity consisted of men whose own estates lay close to the castle and it is among these that continuity is likely to have been strongest . |
| 15 | A striking feature of the Abel material — and more than half of the sample came from members who had joined the Party before its ‘ take-off ’ in 1930 — is indeed that even among ‘ Old Fighters ’ of the Movement — according to Merkl 's ranking of ‘ main ideological theme ’ — only about one-eighth saw anti-Semitism as their most salient concern , while what he calls ‘ strong ideological antisemites ’ comprised only 8.5 per cent of the total sample . |
| 16 | Loyalty to the old King did nothing to establish Drummonds with his heir — and indeed the story has it that curbing the Prince 's spending on the orders of the King led to Drummonds being abandoned by the new monarch in favour of Coutts . |
| 17 | The air bombing of the North began on orders from President Johnson in February 1965 . |
| 18 | I also suggest that much of the bewilderment felt by teachers about the nature of the subject that they were teaching can be traced to both Brian Way 's and Dorothy Heathcote 's disclaimer that drama could be important in itself . |
| 19 | Four main conclusions were drawn : first , war was a senseless act , which could never be a rational tool of state policy ; secondly , the 1914–18 war had been the result of leaders becoming caught up in a set of processes that no one could control ; thirdly , the causes of the war lay in misunderstandings between leaders and in the lack of democratic accountability within the states involved ; and fourthly , the underlying tensions which had provided the rationale for the conflict could be removed by the spread of statehood and democracy . |
| 20 | Conscientious but ‘ experimental ’ introduction of Hungarian-style measures , with isolated centres of the economy turned into laboratories of reform ; a limited legalisation of the ‘ second economy ’ on the East European pattern , and greater support for the consumer and for private farmers . |
| 21 | Surrounded by apple orchards and huge cedar forests , the older parts of the town looked like parts of the Alps must have appeared sixty years ago . |
| 22 | She moved with a nunlike tranquillity from one sequence to the next , thinking nothing of being asked to drag a beast through a blizzard , and clearly suffering none of the discomfort felt by others . |
| 23 | The opening of the congress coincided with reports that Henri Emmanuelli , the president of the National Assembly ( lower house of parliament ) since January 1992 [ see p. 38736 ] and PS treasurer from July 1988 to January 1992 , was to be indicted on corruption charges . |
| 24 | But , in a film like The Life of Brian , the characters were not played , as one might expect , as superficially representative figures of the period turned into figures of fun by the odd verbal or gestural modernism . |
| 25 | In 1871 it burned down , 17,000 buildings were consumed , and a third of the city lay in ashes . |
| 26 | A weekend tour to Scotland ten days later leads in the County Championship season , all indicative of the care devoted by counties to finding , grooming and coaching talented young players . |
| 27 | Most of the snow vanished within seconds , going straight to its gaseous state , but some of the crystals were the hexagonal sweetness of honest-to-goodness iced water . |
| 28 | This century has seen the rise to prominence on the world-stage of the ecumenical movement , which grew out of the need felt by Christians engaged in foreign mission to overcome the divisions between churches and denominations which made less and less sense in the missionary context . |
| 29 | Sudbury gained a little breathing space at half-time thanks to a third penalty from Dyble , and the only try of the match came within seconds of the restart . |
| 30 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |