Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst I was in Pembroke on this February visit , three separate people in positions to know volunteered the information that ‘ often as not ’ on the given dates , no firing or activity takes place . |
| 2 | Similarly in Reg. v. Wells Street Stipendiary Magistrate , Ex parte Deakin [ 1980 ] A.C. 479 , a case concerned with the law of criminal libel , both Lord Diplock and Lord Keith of Kinkel were concerned that the result to which they felt constrained to come entailed the risk of a failure to comply with our international obligations under article 10 . |
| 3 | FILMING of a sequel to smash hit The Commitments begins in New York this winter . |
| 4 | That all of you managed to come meant the world to Daddy . ’ |
| 5 | Alternatively , as in Dobson according to Parker LJ , the acceptance by the accused of the victim 's offer to sell constituted the appropriation . |
| 6 | The government programme to which the PSE-PSOE had been unable to agree envisaged the transfer to the region of responsibility for social security and local management of the national employment institute , as well as the creation of a Basque public bank . |
| 7 | Several people ended up with wet feet and all the cats vanished and even the kids who were trying to help got the odd clout for ‘ gettin' under our feet ’ . |
| 8 | Three days in Sorrento to unwind brought the holiday to a close , and then Merrill was home again , to be reminded of Rob 's wedding by the engraved invitation that had arrived during her absence . |
| 9 | Er , I mean , deregulation a bill er is not perhaps gon na affect the numbers of statutory instruments going through the house and I think that er the city would continue without the statutory instrument , er I think the country would continue , it would go on if we 'd had n't passed these regulations and in essence are these four new statutory instruments really going to help run the country more effectively er are we imposing duties on auditors er and regulators er with the securities er er tied up with the investment board , another quango , er do we need all this ? |
| 10 | to help spread the news , I enclose the material |
| 11 | No more so than in the 20th minute , when Steve Bruce rolled the ball back to him and from 25 yards he hit a low , left-foot shot through a crowd of players to give United the lead . |
| 12 | The goal looked good enough to give United the draw as well , but with just a minute to go they cracked . |
| 13 | Ca n't I got walkman yeah right , and listening to hardcore put the earphone up cos there 's a bit of hardcore on the What ? |
| 14 | In the same way , the ears , which we had been led to believe revealed the horse 's emotions , are not really good indicators of a horse 's feelings on their own . |
| 15 | A group of students from the school where Joanna used to teach thought the reward and publicity could give the murder inquiry new impetus . |
| 16 | FORMER Tour de France champion Stephen Roche last night revealed the agony behind his decision to retire admitted the pressure cycling exerted on his family life prompted his decision to retire the end of next season . |
| 17 | We 've got ta dig right down to the bottom of the to like put the the damp proof membrane . |
| 18 | Fortunately their late arrival did not seem to have aroused the usual hostile chorus of hushing , the majority of the audience consisting of French soldiers who were far from particular about such matters . |
| 19 | It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East . |
| 20 | He immediately announced a wide-ranging programme of social and political reforms , which appears to have aroused the wrath of the tribes . |
| 21 | In the years before 1980 , it was difficult for romance to develop given the strict socialist morality which stressed politics rather than personal relationships . |
| 22 | Thus the family , neighbourhood , or work-place groups of older and younger men and a sprinkling of women , which seem to have formed the basic unit of attendance between the wars and before , broke up . |
| 23 | The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance . |
| 24 | In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career . |
| 25 | By contrast , certain defences are provided for the person who is not proved to have formed the intent , but whose language or conduct is likely to give rise to racial hatred . |
| 26 | Such classes appear to have formed the bulk of the programme and little was offered which could be seen as particularly relevant to community action or the problems of social change . |
| 27 | In this connection it is perhaps significant that the boundary between the parish and Snodland was the old track or Ridgeway , now largely destroyed by chalk quarries , which , keeping to the highest and driest line over the downs is thought to have formed the main east-west route at this period , crossing the River Medway at Holborough as Mr Margery suggested . |
| 28 | Counsel for the SFO announced on Feb. 7 , 1992 , that charges against Seelig and David Mayhew ( a stockbroker ) which were to have formed the basis of a third trial had now been withdrawn . |
| 29 | Four Eritrean groupings opposed to the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) transitional government in Asmara were reported on Sept. 28 to have formed the Eritrean National Pact Alliance ( ENPA ) , accusing the Front of seeking to establish a dictatorship . |
| 30 | A second example involves an argument by means of which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahé claimed to have refuted the Copernican theory a few decades after the first publication of that theory . |