Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's time to remember the part each played in the fight against fascism . |
| 2 | Eileen Sessions , former head teacher at Smestow School , Stafford , whose introduction of Golf Foundation lessons to her school curriculum 1971 led to the establishment of a Staffordshire County Schools ' Association which now incorporates 60 schools , is the first winner of the Sir Henry Cotton Award for Meritorious Service to Junior Golf . |
| 3 | Timothy Gedge had met Mr Plant half undressed in the middle of the night . |
| 4 | This view of the structurally determined nature of thought and action , and the difficulty this posed for the representatives of the working class when using a formally neutral state to serve ends other than those of capitalism , was one of the major insights which underpinned Ralph Miliband 's seminal book of the 1960s , The State in Capitalist Society . |
| 5 | In some cases this happened by the direct emigration of European ideas and institutions . |
| 6 | Increases in CO 2 anticipated over the next 50 years are expected to produce such a change by cooling the lower stratosphere . |
| 7 | It is also possible that life developed , and if the rate of evolution was about twice as rapid as on the Earth then intelligent beings may have been among the organisms roasted to death as the Sun 's luminosity rose , the small oceans evaporated , and the CO 2 emerged from the rocks . |
| 8 | Reg. v. Philippou , 89 Cr.App.R. 290 disapproved of the decision in Reg. v. Roffel [ 1985 ] V.R. 511 , where a husband and wife ran a small clothing manufacturing business . |
| 9 | One seat each went to the hitherto ruling People 's Liberation Movement ( PLM ) , the National Development Party ( NDP ) led by Bertrand Osborne , and an independent , Ruby Wade-Bramble . |
| 10 | Each of these Ministries will , in turn , have separate branches each charged with the administration of a particular facet of the Ministry 's affairs . |
| 11 | While she was trying to restart her Mini Metro car another came round the bend from Darlington . |
| 12 | How much effect this had on the final outcome of the war is hard to say . |
| 13 | Many of the experimental perturbations involved rearranging or removing the parts of the early embryo and seeing what effect this had on the embryo 's development . |
| 14 | Weber saw capitalism as characterised by an emphasis on work and activity and highlighted the effect this had on the moral as well as the economic and political development of a society . |
| 15 | For its input resistance to equal the load resistance R L while the attenuation is Combining these last two equations shows that the values of R 1 and R 2 needed for the circuit to perform as required are |
| 16 | Unlike his fellow sovereigns , Napoleon III reigned by the Grace of God and the will of the people , to whom the Constitution made him directly responsible — a point which he himself stressed continually . |
| 17 | When Ivan III came to the throne the Kremlin hill was still covered with wooden buildings . |
| 18 | Finally , the distinctions between Chapter II and Chapter III extended into the category of Vacation courses . |
| 19 | Thame , Cardiff , Emanuel , and Wallington all flourished within the grammar-school tradition and 1959 is a good moment — before the critical voices drown the subtleties of that tradition — to try to define it , to place it in its historical and social context , and to prepare the scene for the massive reorganization of secondary schooling which marked the 1960s . |
| 20 | It was a long drop from the balcony of the games room ; the castle apothecary carried a line of lethal poisons and draughts ; there were ways out of the castle , a postern or two , and a narrow winding path through the fractured rocks and fallen masonry all tumbled round the castle 's plinthed base like scree , then a long cold walk into the snowy silence … |
| 21 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 22 | Today 's senior championship contenders all started in the junior motocross events . |
| 23 | The derivation of the no-arbitrage condition in Chapter 4 relied upon the payment of the capital gains or losses on the shares and futures contracts at delivery . |
| 24 | The exiled Prime Minister and Crown Prince of Kuwait , Shaikh Saad al Abdullah as Salim as Sabah , in an address on Jan. 17 spoke of the " legitimate struggle to liberate our dear homeland from the evil Iraqi regime 's occupation " . |
| 25 | So far as tomorrow 's game at Celtic Park is concerned , Rangers ' Goram , Gough and Steven all came through the midweek Champions League match without further mishap , and will play . |
| 26 | As a manager , initially player-manager , at Swansea , he leant heavily on former Liverpool club-mates : Tommy Smith , Ian Callaghan , Ray Kennedy , Phil Boersma , Alan Waddle and Colin Irwin all went to the Vetch Field . |
| 27 | When , shortly after Mehmed II came to the throne , he offered Molla Gurani a vezirlik , the latter is reported to have refused , saying : " Those servants and slaves who are in thy palace serve thee only that they may , in the end , obtain the office of vezir . |
| 28 | ( Reichelt had resigned on Jan. 9 after 17 years in office , and on Jan. 18 testified to the parliamentary committee investigating corruption and abuse of office . ) |
| 29 | President Mikhail Gorbachev on Jan. 11 went to the Soviet Baltic republic of Lithuania on a mission to seek solutions to a secessionist crisis created by the December 1989 decision of the Communist Party of Lithuania ( CPL ) to declare itself independent of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) [ see pp. 37128-29 ] . |
| 30 | The album is preceded by the single ‘ Rain ’ , with a demonic American preacher , a Gambian thunderstorm and the bells of Oxford 's Merton college all segued in the first 20 seconds . |