Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain said , exasperated , that each route led to the same point and that meant back to the Tunisian . |
| 2 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 3 | In other words , the real cost of employing labour rose at the same rate as productivity — over 3 per cent a year ( figure 8.3 ) . |
| 4 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 5 | It is interesting to note how even euphemisms , symbolizing but not presenting marked terms , can be the more amusing for the conspiracy between scriptwriter , actors and audience in recognizing the term signified at the same time as superficially recognizing that its use is a taboo not to be broken . |
| 6 | In fact , the fusion experimental programme was sporadic until 1988 : the main experimental fusion programme began in the latter part of that year . |
| 7 | " A fresh action started on the same grounds as one struck out for failure to obey an " " unless " " order may be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court " ( see Bailey v Bailey [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1129 at 1133 ) . |
| 8 | The monastic continuator of the Croyland Chronicle wrote of the same events in hysterical terms ; the northern army moved south like a swarm of locusts , ravaging all that lay in its path . |
| 9 | The industry remained in the same place even though the conditions had changed . |
| 10 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 11 | Ironically , the award came in the same week that an article in Time Out magazine revealed an ongoing private dispute between Sellafield and the Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) about the efficiency and safety of reprocessing . |
| 12 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 13 | His Test debut came in the same match as Gordon Greenidge against India in 1973–4 , Greenidge totalling 200 runs and Richards 7 ; in the next game he made 192 not out and was under way . |
| 14 | The earliest mention of a ferry at Seacombe dates back to 1515 but its advancement came in the latter part of the last century when the ferry rights were taken over by the Wallasey local board . |
| 15 | As early as 1952 ( the first British atomic test occurred in the same year ) the defence planners produced a new and detailed analysis — the " Global Strategy Paper " . |
| 16 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 17 | Beside him , the girl walked at the same pace , just out of step with him . |
| 18 | Work started on the former gunnery school in April 1991 . |
| 19 | . That boy went to the same primary school as |
| 20 | On the twenty fifth of May , nineteen eighty one , the Hundredth Bomb Group Memorial Air Museum located in the former control tower , which is er now completely renovated , was dedicated by Major Horace United States Air Force , retired . |
| 21 | The staircase gleamed , and the banisters and railings all around the gallery gave off the same sheen . |
| 22 | General Giap had about the same number of soldiers , but these were reinforced by para-military elements . |
| 23 | Buchanan stood up , putting on his coat as Warden stood at the same time . |
| 24 | Although visiting grandparents was the basis of many significant memories and relationships , it is surprising that in the first set of interviews there are even more significant mentions of grandparents who at some point lived in the same house as their children . |
| 25 | In the context of the May 1990 preliminary talks between the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the government [ see p. 37440 ] , two other notable encounters between the nationalist movement and the white establishment occurred in the same month : ( i ) on May 23 the ANC met liberal representatives of the business community in Johannesburg , during which ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela , in what was seen as an attempt to reassure investors , declared that the ANC did not have a blueprint for nationalization ; at the conclusion of the conference , with the former chairman of the company Anglo American , Gavin Relly , he emphasized the need to abolish institutionalized inequalities and to redistribute resources equally ; and ( ii ) on May 24 fighters from the ANC 's armed wing and members of the ANC national executive committee ( NEC ) met with retired and serving officers of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , military conscripts and , among others , members of the End Conscription Campaign at a conference in Lusaka , the Zambian capital ; these discussions included the structure and role of a post-apartheid defence force . |
| 26 | It is ironic that this prohibition occurred at the same time as several well-designed research studies were clearly demonstrating the efficacy of ECT . |
| 27 | The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub . |
| 28 | A third balloon inflation and deflation resulted in the same events . |
| 29 | In New Zealand , it formerly applied only where husband and wife lived in the same residence at the time of the rape . |
| 30 | Using mercury-poisoned human skin fibroblasts ( fibrous tissue cells ) in culture , the Boiron workers obtained protective effects with some potencies of Mercurius corrosivus as compared with water potentized to the same level . |