Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In our culturally and ethnically mixed society the degree of emancipation of women was uneven . |
| 5 | OK mate , guv , nah probs … yeh , awright , Ill come to the ticket office on the day like and get is sorted befor the match . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The guards and porters walked about , the bell was rung , the signal was given ad the train started off . |
| 8 | If she had not lent Mum the money none of this would have happened . |
| 9 | It was really frustrating when Kylie was over here and she used to ring me and say she 'd seen Prince the night before , or Madonna or someone else really great . |
| 10 | This change also made imperative the development of links with employers , Youth Training providers and the tertiary colleges so that the quality of transition for young people was as effective into the post-16 area as it had been throughout their school career . |
| 11 | Spenser at this stage is establishing his own claims to rational soundness by having Eudoxus , with his common sense English perspective , be seen marginalising the apocalyptic claims of Irenius . |
| 12 | There 's still plenty of hard work to be done keeping the Victorian rose garden in shape — it 's taken a battering by recent heavy rain , but will be in full bloom again soon . |
| 13 | ( Over the intervening years , technical advances and improved operator expertise have now made ultrasonagraphy the imaging technique of choice for gall stone detection . ) |
| 14 | In the built environment the exact nature of surrounding development is equally important , including the relative market level , proportion of private or local authority housing and its density , and whether high — or low-rise . |
| 15 | Where oxidisation films have absorbed dirt the film must be removed to effect cleaning either by use of an acid cleaner or abrasive . |
| 16 | 7.3 Single-mode homogeneously broadened laser The first laser , operated in 1960 by Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratory , was based on flashlamp-excited ruby . |
| 17 | Perhaps it would have been too easy : they 'd made love the first night they met , both involved with women who gave them pain . |
| 18 | This morning , as always when they had made love the previous night , she had been short and bad-tempered , complaining of a headache . |
| 19 | Ever since they had made love the night before she had wanted nothing more than to continue touching him . |
| 20 | This gulf is shown most dramatically in the surprise ending , which obliges us to re-evaluate our reading of the novel by revealing that the anonymous , timid and sensitive lad who has been narrating the story of his early life in the first person is none other than Jaguar , the aggressive bully we have seen ruling the roost in the school . |
| 21 | He was made sergeant the following year . |
| 22 | The degree and meaning of prostitution was an important issue in itself ( one estimate would have made prostitution the fourth largest female occupation ) but more important , given the double standard , was the reservoir of venereal disease especially syphilis , that it was perceived as constituting , a threat particularly to the efficiency of the armed services , and it was concern over this that led to the passing of the Contagious Diseases Acts ( in 1864 , 1866 , 1869 ) . |
| 23 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 24 | What then has made debt the single most pressing problem for CAB clients in the late 1980s ? |
| 25 | Though Bede says at one point that Oswiu also made tributary the Scots ( of Dál Riata ) ( HE II , 5 ) , there is no direct evidence for this . |
| 26 | However , a free-kick from Nevin nearly brought them a goal immediately before Pearce should have given Forest the lead . |
| 27 | I had bought her small gifts , I had kissed her hand whilst on May Day I 'd helped deck the house with green boughs and later took her to dance around a Maypole set up near Cattle Street . |
| 28 | We ate piroshky and bouillon and fragolli told us what sort of morning he had had negotiating the sale of girdles . |
| 29 | They walked , he directing her , to the small drawing-room where they had had tea the first afternoon . |
| 30 | Also now that we 've got UNISON the one union I think they can help but I do think that 's what needs to be done , because they 're doing the same with the hospital as , as now doing with the pits even after the closure campaign . |