Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.

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1 And the net result of all of these things together is that it narrowed the cost value differentials between U K and overseas holidays .
2 The reason why these had survived so long was because they required the most money spent on them — in the case of valley bottoms , to pay for initial drainage and then to maintain it — to make them yield their full potential of arable and pasture .
3 ‘ For the railway monopolies , it has always been that they wanted the data network modernised .
4 Has my right honourable friend had an opportunity to see the report from three I s , investors in industry , in which they have surveyed five hundred of the companies in which they invest and the confidence factor of those businesses is higher now than it 's ever been since they started the surveys in nineteen eighty eight .
5 In this case it would possibly be that they had the name of the subscriber but …
6 Secondly , he was a glaciologist and it may well be that he persuaded the pilot to swin' away to the east .
7 It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously .
8 Certainly the reputation of the outer office then was that it conspired the way other offices make tea .
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