Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | explicitly made the question of agency the critical point of the case . |
| 2 | Lord Mountbatten 's orders from the Prime Minister made the invasion of Europe the main objective with ‘ a programme of raids in ever-increasing intensity ’ . |
| 3 | Hence , the following historical and comparative analysis will seek to identify those features that made the bill of lading the fair and certain negotiable document of title it was until the advent of containerization . |
| 4 | Governments round the world made the control of inflation the number one short-term macroeconomic objective . |
| 5 | Since both Greek and Turkish Cypriot political leaders accepted that a new Cyprus republic would have a federal and bizonal character , the essence of the pre-conference negotiations concerned the proportion of territory the Turkish authorities in occupied Cyprus were willing to cede to what would effectively become the Greek area in a federal republic ( early indications being that they were prepared to concede no more than 9 per cent of the occupied area ) , and precisely how many refugees could return , out of some 180,000 Greeks Cypriots who fled following the Turkish invasion . |
| 6 | The customer sold the car to X. The finance company rejected the offers . |
| 7 | If they did not reach the very poorest , they went further down the scale than most model buildings , and provided the sort of accommodation the poor were used to , despite the introduction of a guardian and a gate to keep the transients at bay and the tenants up to scratch . |
| 8 | Mrs Ogata suspended the aid on grounds the warring parties were playing politics with people 's lives . |
| 9 | As we entered the Sound of Islay the gale renewed its fury , whipping the strong tides of the Sound into white water and the picturesque shoreline disappeared into low cloud scud and rain , only appearing intermittently as shadow all the way to Oban . |
| 10 | Prout in nineteen ninety two a hundred and seventy patients and again found the number of tumours the most important feature . |
| 11 | According to Mr Reenan , he taped the call on January the 4th , 4 days after the conversation apparently took place . |
| 12 | According to Mr Reenan , he taped the call on January the 4th , 4 days after the conversation apparently took place . |
| 13 | The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose . |
| 14 | Back on the main road , Robert caught a glimpse of Aziz the janitor . |
| 15 | Musetti built a bed of boxes the other side to break his fall . |
| 16 | Instead , Mr Gummer told the House of Commons the list drawn up by the manufacturers themselves contained new instructions which would make all the machines ‘ perfectly safe in use . ’ |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Eastwood ( Mr. Stewart ) cheerfully told the nation on radio the other day , ’ Of course , there will not be a register , but there will have to be a list . ’ |
| 18 | He deplored the loss of work the machine looms were causing in the small lake towns and consequently ‘ the production of individual misery . ’ |
| 19 | Iain Reekie confesses to entertaining an ambition to stage it ever since his days at college when he played the part of Creon the king , and perhaps this background makes him hostile to any interpretation which would see in Creon a proto-Nazi . |
| 20 | Smith and his colleagues accordingly inoculated some rabbits with the recombinant and measured the amount of antibody the animals produced . |
| 21 | The customer called him Francis : a first name , a last name , a man 's , a woman 's ; it allowed the kind of vagueness the supplier liked . |
| 22 | Lansdowne enjoyed territorial advantage in the third quarter without threatening the home line but Ballymena gradually regained the ascendancy with McAleese the speedy Bell and Nicky Rainey spearheading a number of promising attacks . |
| 23 | After that we never got started , as soon as we got a bit of momentum the sunderland players wasted time by falling over and claiming injury . |
| 24 | The visit to Seaworld was a favourite with many children who shrieked with delight as they got a soaking from Shamu the killer whale . |
| 25 | The Green Man in Kilburn , an area of London popular with the Irish , featured and impressive painting of an Irish tinker over the door which indicated the kind of custom the place enjoyed . |
| 26 | It was the unauthorised playing of ‘ Die Stem ’ at Johannesburg in July , before the Test against the All Blacks , that caused controversy and threatened the Test against Australia the following week . |
| 27 | When parliament heard the news of Crécy the commons ‘ thanked God for the great victory He had given their king and they said that all their money had been well spent ’ . |
| 28 | When day dawned the home of Simon the Trapper was no longer on a peninsula but on an island and stood just clear of the water . |
| 29 | Katherine sat back in the train 's cushioned seats and as it pulled away from the platform , she breathed a sigh of relief The first part of her plan had been safely accomplished . |
| 30 | He confesses that he killed a man on board the space ship and so would have been tried on his return to Earth . |