Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the answer that he has given on paying the guaranteed minimum pension to the Maxwell pensioners is wholly inadequate ? |
| 2 | Henry James was followed by the Benson brothers , E. F. Benson the novelist and A. C , for years Master of Oxford 's Magdalen College — I wonder if anyone has succeeded in editing the twenty-six volumes of autobiography he left . |
| 3 | In the event , minor engineering work to the existing twin-catalyst 6.7-litre pushrod V8 has succeeded in achieving the desired results . |
| 4 | Since it began using the gas phase process in 1979 , ICI has been at the forefront of process control and development and has succeeded in covering the whole product range with this new technology . |
| 5 | Can Sandra Bernhard ( FACE 48 ) seriously believe that , because it is she who is stripping for Playboy and not some ‘ subservient bimbo ’ , she has succeeded in subverting the soft-porn medium ? |
| 6 | Although so far no one has succeeded in interpreting the Etruscan language we can fully appreciate their sculpture , painting and craftsmanship . |
| 7 | The government has responded by increasing the military presence in the area , while the " Mindanao Defenders " , an irregular civilian paramilitary force of a type common in the Philippines , is beginning to intimidate the protestors . |
| 8 | Mutation has to work by modifying the existing processes of embryonic development . |
| 9 | Much of the data on the health effects of radiation has come from studying the surviving victims of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs , where the Japanese people 's exposure to radiation was of an extremely large dose in a matter of seconds . |
| 10 | These employ close to two-thirds of IBM 's 300,000 strong workforce : remember that Dell Computer Corp 's success has come from engineering the best , lowest-cost distribution strategy , not to a better product . |
| 11 | Even Roxburgh had to admit that over the last year , during which Ferguson has flirted with letting the latter trait get the better of the former , has brought the player an ‘ awareness of the tough , competitive business he is in . ’ |
| 12 | He is succeeded by Russell Planitzer , the company 's chairman and the leader of the buyout group that has struggled since acquiring the former parent , Prime Computer Inc in 1989 . |
| 13 | President , I would take this opportunity on behalf of the region to condra sorry , congratulate Nigel on the excellent work that he has done since becoming the National Health and Safety Officer . |
| 14 | To ask the Attorney-General what progress he has made in identifying the total cost of the ’ Spycatcher ’ litigation . |
| 15 | These can be designed to deal with taking the initial instructions , recording the requirements of the client and recording matters as the case progresses . |
| 16 | Whitlow coming in on that near post the goalkeeper was very decisive then and er has benefited by getting the free kick Tommy Wright . |
| 17 | Much research in computational linguistics has concentrated on treating the individual phenomena of natural language rather than on how these treatments can be made to work together . |
| 18 | At the same time , considerable effort has gone into promoting the economic development of the city 's disadvantaged areas . |
| 19 | It has gone in repaying the overseas debt that we inherited from the last Labour Government . |
| 20 | The leaders promised to co-operate in ending the civil wars and the conflicts between states which were hindering the continent 's development , in particular the border conflict between Mauritania and Senegal , the subject of an OAU commission report presented during the summit , and the civil war in Liberia [ see pp. 37601-02 ] . |
| 21 | Shared surfaces are thus tiny islands in a sea of ‘ normal ’ driver behaviour , which is thus expected to change on entering the shared space , not on entering the residential area as a whole . |
| 22 | The Pope 's Vicar of Rome , Cardinal Ugo Poletti , has taken to scolding the Christian Democrats for their divisions which may bring victory for the secular parties and the Communists in city elections on 29 October . |
| 23 | Raskolnikov has admitted to visiting the old woman on the first occasion but of course not on the second . |
| 24 | Benefit can not be claimed to assist with paying the remaining 20% . |
| 25 | Pravda had commented late in 1931 : In England , as elsewhere , the task of the " Lefts " consists in hindering the workers who are becoming revolutionised from abandoning the Labour Party and going over to the revolutionary fight , to Communism . |
| 26 | The real problem is , as the Carnegie Foundation has realized since establishing the Ageing Society Project of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1982 ( Pifer and Bronte , 1986 ) , that we know surprisingly little about what happens to a society and its economy when its age structure changes significantly . |
| 27 | The capital has failed to achieved the real in earnings and dividends . |
| 28 | Far from being the ‘ safe ’ appointment as most people imagined — an impression enhanced when he resigned from the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland after refusing to apologise for attending the Catholic funeral mass of a colleague — he has turned out to be a sweeping , radical reformer . |
| 29 | Ta Mok , one of Pol Pot 's lieutenants who was known as " the butcher " during Khmer Rouge rule in 1975-78 , has warned that anyone found contravening environmental directives in the area under his jurisdiction will be sentenced to labour on building the reserve fence . |
| 30 | Further proposals , statements and communications were submitted on Nov. 20-24 by Brazil , Peru , Indonesia , Malaysia and Japan , while on Dec. 18 a draft document was adopted aimed at fulfilling the mid-term review mandate and designed to permit negotiations to take place for the completion of all parts of the multilateral framework relating to services and to its entry into force by the end of the Uruguay Round . |