Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other clear major factor was that a result of public consultation er and clearly this was an important consideration when members came to choose the route , that seventy percent of those consulted favoured the outer northern route , the blue route . |
| 2 | I mean given the size of China I mean th there 'd be |
| 3 | Would you watch fo women fo , I mean given the |
| 4 | But at last with your help I 've conquered the cut and sew , I could give you all a hug . |
| 5 | I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea . |
| 6 | He must 've broken the other arm because the next day he had both arms in plaster . |
| 7 | this geezer from Bedlam yeah got stopped the other day in this car yeah , he was pissed , he was tripping and he was speeding yeah , no M O T , no licence , no tax , no ruddy insurance yeah |
| 8 | I should 've painted the picture |
| 9 | You should 've heard the different birds . |
| 10 | There is no pretence of competition with commercial banks for private sector business , and there is some suggestion that the accounts are maintained in order for the Bank to keep in touch with banking practice , although the degree to which such experience accrues is likely to be limited given the small number of accounts relative to a commercial bank . |
| 11 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 12 | The fact that the building is listed limited the opportunities for external alterations , and internal layouts had to respect existing window locations ( Fig 60 ) . |
| 13 | This result might seem puzzling given the conventional characterisation of most Friends in the eighteenth century as quietist ‘ following their habit of attending religiously to their internal impressions ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ For a start , we got posted the very next day . |
| 15 | Reck'n ye could 've fried the eggs on the cylinder heads it 's so bright and clean and polished . |
| 16 | Eric Voegelin has emphasized the fundamental difference between what he calls the ‘ cosmological ’ civilizations , which presupposed the political symbolization of the cosmos typified by Babylonia with its epic of Marduk , and ‘ eschatological ’ civilizations such as the Hebrew — but first exemplified by the Iranian — based on the religion of Zarathustra . |
| 17 | The Conservative government has emphasized the notion of self-help . |
| 18 | Scudder ( 1964 ) , however , has emphasized the need to apply modern concepts of homology based on experimental studies of development ; such an approach , combined perhaps with the use of genetic markers for homologous segmental regions may eventually help to resolve some of the persistent difficulties in this field ( Sokoloff and Hoy , 1968 ; Fletcher , 1970 ) . |
| 19 | What is dysfunctional is expenditure in the form of social expenses on system maintenance , either through legitimation or coercion , although discussion has emphasized the former . |
| 20 | Recent social theory has emphasized the variety of interpretations to which texts may be subject , with linguistic texts , as usual , providing the dominant models . |
| 21 | Every stage in the growing complexity of social life and in the enfranchisement of populations has emphasized the need to designate functions and grades by means of symbols . |
| 22 | Legislation in the field of child protection has emphasized the role of the local authorities . |
| 23 | However , like Welsh national consciousness itself , the University has emphasized the cultural , linguistic and academic aspects of the country 's life at the expense of the vocational and technological . |
| 24 | The recent literature on macroeconomics has emphasized the effect of rationing on one market ( e.g. , labour ) on decisions in other markets . |
| 25 | The end-of-term jollity was illustrative of the relaxed atmosphere that has pervaded the final week of the Liberal Democrat election drive — a product not merely of the light-headedness of exhaustion but also of the undoubted success of what has been a well-judged campaign . |
| 26 | A growing European consciousness has pervaded the arts . |
| 27 | His is an angry , radical critique of the changes taking place , arguing that market ideology has pervaded the Scottish universities to the extent that their work has lost its breadth , its pace , its ability to question and its identity . |
| 28 | FINGS ai n't wot they used to be department : The recent ministerial reshuffle has stripped the rather snobby Home Office of three Old Etonians — Hurd , Renton and Hogg . |
| 29 | The Scotsman has learned that the National Art Collections Fund has stripped the university of a purchase grant worth several thousand pounds because of its disquiet at the proposed sale . |
| 30 | The scatty lady has left her passenger door fractionally open all night and the courtesy light has drained the battery , which takes Mark about two seconds to figure . |