Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But do n't you think Sunil might have been in danger had it been realised that he had the run of the Admiral 's computer ? ’ |
| 2 | He announced that over one-half of the force reduction promised by Gorbachev ( see above ) had been completed and he issued the most detailed breakdown on Soviet force levels that had thus far been provided . |
| 3 | It has always been considered that he viewed the walls of the town , even though they have still to be located with absolute certainty . |
| 4 | John Surtees ' record has not been threatened since he won the world drivers title in 1964 . |
| 5 | It has been said that he understood the psychology of an orchestra better than almost any other conductor . |
| 6 | Qi Can Huang speaks no English and has not been seen since he left the family home in Yarm Road , Darlington , on January 16 . |
| 7 | This mighty work has moved me as I have not been moved since I discovered the symphonies of Gustav Mahler some 35 years ago . |
| 8 | As a director of Hildale Farms Dairies , his offer of sponsorship had been accepted and they organised the purchase of the 3,000 kilos of prime English beef . |
| 9 | This burial in unconsecrated ground crap has n't been enforced since they stopped the death penalty , ’ Finn went on . |
| 10 | Their trial , on Health and Safety charges has been told that they knew the gantry was unsafe but did nothing about it . |
| 11 | Paisley stood against O'Neill in Bannside : the first time O'Neill had been challenged since he inherited the seat in 1946 . |
| 12 | Towards the end of the same century estufas ( heated chambers ) came into use to reproduce the improvements in the wine which had been noted when it crossed the equator in the holds of ships , the changes being caused by the heat and not by the motion of the ship . |
| 13 | Reverend thought oh yes he 'd be very very glad of you , so he said I 'd be prepared to visit the sick , I 'd do anything like that and he did in fact start doing some visiting , and among other people that he called upon was a person living in Road , not very far really from where I 'd been born and I knew the area well . |
| 14 | He immediately set off and arrived that night at Lesnes Abbey in Erith , with his household , and if we are to believe that he walked the whole way , it was a goodly walk for a bishop . |
| 15 | This had already been binned but I binned the offer as well , just in case I ever came close to considering it seriously . |
| 16 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |
| 17 | Another backbencher was told his place on a Foreign Office organised trip would be withdrawn if he defied the Government . |
| 18 | They seemed to be paralysed as they encountered the hard wall of his chest , and his lips covered hers and met no resistance at all . |
| 19 | She compromised on the kitchen garden with prayers , which seemed to be heard because they reached the stable unobserved . |
| 20 | When political considerations took primacy over whether qualifications it is not surprising that some of the appointments were given to candidates ill-suited to the duties they were called upon to perform , such as the Lanarkshire freeholder appointed macer of the Court of Session who , according to James Boswell , ‘ had a constant hoarseness , so that he could scarcely be heard when he called the causes and the lawyers , and was indeed as unfit for a crier of court as a man could be . |
| 21 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 22 | Indeed , he was just about to ask to be substituted when he collected the ball in the 38th minute on the edge of the area with his back to goal . |
| 23 | But the promises with work that we had when we went in the army , you j you 'd be looked after We got the worst damn place anybody could . |
| 24 | And then he 'd maybe see two small boys holding hands , and the Holy Spirit would be forgotten while he hauled the bewildered pair out in front of the rest of the class and subjected them to a blistering rain of sarcasm . |
| 25 | Former NZ captain Geoff Howarth informed the nation of his availability through the tabloid Sunday News , but there was n't much doubt that Lees would be reappointed if he wanted the job . |
| 26 | A central authority would only be accepted if it represented the Juntas ; backed by British agents , who thoroughly disliked the military consequences of federalism , the movement for the creation of a Central Junta triumphed over the jealousies of the important Juntas . |
| 27 | Each in her turn looked frequently towards the moor but realised that no sign of George would be seen until he reached the yard . |
| 28 | Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court . |
| 29 | Even so , they might all be shot as they crossed the moat with their explosives , or wounded before they could leave , having planted them . |
| 30 | It can be argued that he won the election not because of the Tory campaign but in spite of it . |