Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the impetus had been given t the establishment — under the direction , for England , of A. H. Halsey — of five action research programmes , to be initiated in 1968 and completed within three years . |
| 2 | Relative peace has given loggers the security to operate , as well as producing something of a construction boom , creating an internal market for timber products . |
| 3 | Roger Alwen , the club 's joint owner , said : ‘ We have given Greenwich the opportunity to lead British football into the 21st century . |
| 4 | By policing the mental and the physical borders of the newly formed Germany the Völkisch ideologists wanted to create a new and pure German identity . |
| 5 | In relation to the community charge , we have given authorities the powers to attach a defaulter 's earnings or to ask the Department of Social Security to make deductions from income support payments . |
| 6 | Sophie had given Pascoe the bare details as they ran back from the restaurant ; now she told the rest . |
| 7 | Er Mr also commented om the er consideration of the er emerging alteration and increase in Selby District 's allocation from ten thousand to eleven and a half thousand dwellings erm and I would like to assure him now that we have completed out local plan studies , we are in the process of fine tuning them and and I 'm quite confident that we will be able to accommodate the eleven and a half thousand dwellings . |
| 8 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 9 | Parliament has given journalists the right to be present , even though the rest of the public is excluded , in the case of juvenile courts and domestic proceedings in magistrates ' courts . |
| 10 | Wright struck just 52 seconds after Kevin Campbell had given Arsenal the lead in a dismal match at Highfield Road . |
| 11 | When Diana first consulted Penny the princess revealed that she was interested in astrology , but knew very little about it . |
| 12 | Riveted and astonished , I can report that in a palace whose previous tenants have included Ivan the Terrible and Stalin , parliamentary democracy is flourishing . |
| 13 | That kind of attitude , putting the interests of others before her own , has earned Steffi the highest respect . |
| 14 | No , he had n't forgotten Simon the carpenter , one of his more errant parishioners , a florid-faced , thickset man with an evil temper and a long Welsh dagger . |
| 15 | The shareholders in non-profit institutions and publicly owned companies in both cases are more or less synonymous with the customers of the firm ; they provide no additional constraint apart from this , though in publicly owned companies the relevant government department will impose its own constraints ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 16 | In a suitably designed circuit the terminals will have a forcefield between them , similar to the potential difference on the plates of an electrical condensor . |
| 17 | Springflo is an embossed polypropylene tape , similar to parcel tape , but coated with calcium carbonate which it is claimed aids the development of bacteria . |
| 18 | It is this abrasive commitment to this duties which , in part , has won Skinner the Whitbread Player of the Month Award . |
| 19 | O'Hara reminded him that Jung had considered Liverpool the centre of the Universe . |
| 20 | It is only too evident that the scribes considered gentility the only status worth recording , and even in this they were not consistent ; civic dignity was almost invariably ignored . |
| 21 | Eos abducted ORION to be her lover , and later wed Astareus the Titan and bore the Four Winds , Boreas , Eurus , Notus and Zephyrus . |
| 22 | Harris then told the court that he had again approached Drew the following day . |
| 23 | The Caesar in question was the almost forgotten Flavius the Noseless . |
| 24 | In our culturally and ethnically mixed society the degree of emancipation of women was uneven . |
| 25 | We we 've dropped In the Bleak Midwinter , and we 've added Hark the Herald , yes ? |
| 26 | OK mate , guv , nah probs … yeh , awright , Ill come to the ticket office on the day like and get is sorted befor the match . |
| 27 | This is why in some countries with privately owned papers the ruling party , or even the government , has decided to launch its own . |
| 28 | The problem position , of course , is fly-half — the berth that has given Ireland the greatest of difficulties over the past few seasons . |
| 29 | If Whizzo had been any good Jazz could have transferred but Biddy , having given Whizzo the thumbs down , had found him a good home with a nervous lady in the suburbs and he was no longer available . |
| 30 | To be honest , he had hardly given rugby the time of day as he spent his Saturday afternoons on the soccer pitch , writes Graham Tait . |