Example sentences of "past [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 2 | The second group contains elements that could overlap with other familiar schemas ; for example , " Mars ' is a lexical realisation of a real object in our world knowledge , " human colony " is close to past imperialist notions on Earth , and " Envoy " could also plausibly be the name of an Earth-bound ship . |
| 3 | To attempt to resurrect — or , more likely in her view , invent — the old national groups was entirely reactionary , to turn the clock back to a past economic system , and to attempt by this means to frustrate the proletarian revolution . |
| 4 | In part , the absence of a clear definition of services can be traced to the treatment that services received in past economic literature . |
| 5 | On the basis of such measurements on rocks from Europe , Runcorn and his colleagues demonstrated an apparent movement of the magnetic pole over the past 500 Ma . |
| 6 | There are , however , good reasons to believe that the Earth 's radius has not increased significantly during the past 500 Ma or so . |
| 7 | Mass killings of indigenous peoples may have reduced in scale over the past 500 years , but they have never stopped . |
| 8 | Indeed , it is hard to explain some of the oddities even of modern Greece by the history of the past 500 years . |
| 9 | The artist and author , Alfonso Santoni , traces the history of the past 500 years from the point of view of the indigenous and black populations of Latin America . |
| 10 | The artist and author , Alfonso Santoni , traces the history of the past 500 years from the point of view of the indigenous and black populations of Latin America . |
| 11 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International , released to coincide with the anniversary and cataloguing a history of discrimination , violence and injustice , stated that " the mass killings of indigenous peoples may have reduced over the past 500 years but they have never stopped " . |
| 12 | Honours in Economic History focuses on economic change and offers students a strong foundation in economics alongside the maximum opportunity to study a wide range of aspects of world economic development over the past 500 years . |
| 13 | ‘ The past 32 years at Dounreay have been wonderful . |
| 14 | Now aged seventy-four I have lived the past fifty years within hailing distance of Earl Grey 's monument : he of the 1832 Reform Act . |
| 15 | Having doubled in the past fifty years to five billion , the world 's population is expected to increase by a further one billion in the 1990s alone . |
| 16 | Over the past fifty years there has been a massive expansion in the extent and importance of fraud . |
| 17 | This is another of those modern Western diseases that seems to have mushroomed up from nowhere over the past fifty years . |
| 18 | [ T ] he most significant legal development of the past fifty years is the almost complete absorption of administrative law into the fold of the common law . |
| 19 | Furthermore , for the past fifty years there has been a more or less perpetual state of international crisis , with America constantly involved as a leading player . |
| 20 | The same may happen on the Acropolis , where the marble of the Erechtheum and the Parthenon is under attack from acid rain caused by air pollution , as well as the growth of a black fungus within the marble encouraged by hotter , drier weather over the past fifty years . |
| 21 | Dividing the strata into two broad bands — the male non-manual and the male manual workers — Table 2.2 demonstrates the degree to which the distribution of earnings between them has remained relatively constant over the past fifty years . |
| 22 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 23 | To understand the significance of these most recent changes , it is first necessary to review the main trends in social mobility in Britain over the past fifty years , before considering those developments that have become more marked since the mid-1970s . |
| 24 | The spectacular pieces found during the past fifty years off the east coast have often contained prehistoric dragonflies , trapped thousands of years ago by the oozing liquid as it flowed from the tree trunk . |
| 25 | But its chief glory is a superb collection of works of art , purchased by the Trustees over the past fifty years on advice from the Director . |
| 26 | However , since the growth of biblical criticism in the last two centuries , and the revolt against authoritarianism in the past fifty years , there has been a marked tendency to seek the Holy Spirit in other quarters . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is at exactly this stage of Picasso 's evolution that one senses behind his art the presence of this great ‘ primitive ’ who in his naiveté had unconsciously succeeded in ignoring the forces which had influenced French painting for the past fifty years , the forces against which Picasso and his friends were most immediately reacting . |
| 28 | And they were reacting not only against the art of the past fifty years but also against the techniques and traditions of vision that had shaped Western painting since the scientific discoveries of the early Renaissance . |
| 29 | It is partly because of this distinction that , for the past fifty years , the physical anthropologists , who have by now become laboratory scientists par excellence , have barely been in communication with the various kinds of socio-cultural anthropologists . |
| 30 | The New Criticism began , as 1 said , with the work of Richards and Eliot ; more exactly one can say that it began with the publication in 1924 of Richards 's Principles of Literary Criticism , a radical , polemical programme for the study of literature that has had an enormous impact on British criticism and scholarship in the past fifty years . |