Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A.M. Rosenthal , in the New York Times , felt that too many people had taken part in the investigation for the truth to remain hidden for ever . |
| 2 | In other words , the bulk of its plutonium is likely to remain stashed in potentially vulnerable stockpiles for at least a decade . |
| 3 | Intramural physician monitors adjusted the cyclosporin doses to maintain cyclosporin trough levels between 80 and 120 ng/ml thus allowing the investigators to remain blinded to the study treatment . |
| 4 | The correct approach here is to cut down the obligation to perform undertaken under the contract , rather than attempt to impose an exemption clause covering the liability for a breach committed . |
| 5 | The NME established itself quickly , even if the musical world it reflected was to remain dominated by Geraldo , Humphrey Lyttleton , Johnny Dankworth , differing varieties of big band jazz , and the showbiz gossip direct from ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ ( Denmark St ) , where the paper had its offices ) as reported by a variety of wackily pseudonymous hacks such as ‘ The Slider ’ and ‘ The Alleycat ’ . |
| 6 | Fingers that longed to cling curled into her fists as she made to push herself away . |
| 7 | Indeed General de Gaulle , the French leader after 1958 , insisted that the policy must be introduced if France was to remain committed to the Community . |
| 8 | Despite the imminent withdrawal of American nuclear weapons from South Korea , which fulfils the principal North Korean demand for the unobstructed inspection of its facilities , North Korea appears to remain committed to developing a weapon of its own . |
| 9 | One thing I would like to see added to the A2 would be a second pair of outputs to send a DI signal straight to the front of house mixer while the main outputs were feeding the guitarist 's own rig . |
| 10 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 11 | How nice it would be , he thought , to sit collapsed like this forever . |
| 12 | As indicated above , the Cuban revolution induced Soviet leaders to modify the view ( hitherto almost as firmly believed in the Kremlin as in the White House ) that the Latin American nations were destined to remain trapped in a position of subservience to the United States . |
| 13 | The last pitch was a real sting in the tail , but the perplexing moves up a short crack in a wall soon succumbed to brute force and determination and I swung exultantly over a final bulge on the monstrous , weathered holds to sit satiated on the plateau , soaking up the sun until Alec pulled over , grinning with triumph . |
| 14 | Her parents were told that Dawn had evidently suffered a stroke , and would probably recover to remain confined to a wheelchair . |
| 15 | The tie of the white gown she had been given to wear caught in her hair and pulled it . |
| 16 | If the heads are restricted to general terms they are a useful means of outlining the transaction and identifying the main areas the parties want to see included in the sale agreement . |
| 17 | Without time to think , the only alternative would be to stand paralysed by shock , unaware of what is happening to me , or be aware of the danger but too confused to know how to escape in the instant available . |
| 18 | The Labour Left was to centre around the Socialist League , a successor to SSIP formed in October 1932 . |
| 19 | Those three weeks had thrown up a heartening variety of political allegiances in the tree-lined avenue but all happy agreements to differ evaporated in the wake of John Major 's sinister victory . |
| 20 | Mann was also followed in Raviraj ( 1987 ) 85 Cr.App.R. 93 , where the unsuccessful contention on appeal was that the admission of an interview containing some answers and some refusals to comment amounted to a breach of the right to silence . |
| 21 | He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up . |
| 22 | On June 18 Shamir continued his efforts to appear committed to the peace process , proposing in an interview with the Egyptian magazine Mayyu to invite President Hafez al-Assad of Syria to visit Jerusalem for peace talks , and declaring his willingness to talk to any " elected Arab representative " from the West Bank or Gaza ( but not Jerusalem ) . |
| 23 | Liz Headleand stared at the scene with a marked lack of dismay , as Kate Armstrong knelt down and started to dust the earth off Giles , looking up to ask anyone who might be interested about the little blobs of white polystyrene that always seem to come mixed with bulb fibre : ‘ What is this stuff ? ’ asked Kate , ‘ I 've often wondered , ’ as she proceeded to re-pot a hyacinth with one hand while stroking Giles 's shoulder with the other . |
| 24 | The term was originally used by Hader and Lindeman to refer to work done in industrial consultation committees where some members of the committee were trained to observe in detail what happened at meetings and were then questioned afterwards by research workers — rather like an intelligence officer might question the crew of an aircraft after a raid . |
| 25 | Visiting friends can be a great help for this , and you can ask them to come prepared with items to read to the patient , or ideas to discuss . |
| 26 | In your shoes I 'd have expected him to come prepared with a big stick . ’ |
| 27 | Evaluating the options will involve you in doing some of the calculations that you would normally expect to find done for you in a respectable feasibility study . |
| 28 | The colt races in the colours of Chris 's wife Shirley , and they 're due a bit of luck — a horse they bought over from Ireland for Henrietta Knight to train died of colic not long ago . |
| 29 | In my earliest years at Magdalen I inhabited a world where hardly anything I wanted to know needed to be found out by my own unaided efforts . |
| 30 | Even the least of these would give us vastly more sediment than we normally seem to find preserved for us in our stratigraphical record . |