Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass . |
2 | Decision taking has been delegated down the management structure : sales and support staff have more responsibility and freedom to respond to customer needs . |
3 | A KPMG spokesman said : " The environment has been pushed down the agenda of many private companies by other factors such as the recession and exchange rates . |
4 | Primarily , the fact that nostalgia has been thrown out the window and crushed by the futuristic steamroller from hell . |
5 | By law she is not allowed to smack the children and I can not understand , sometimes how she manages to stop herself when brand new wallpaper has been pulled off the wall and a clean coat of paint has been drawn on . |
6 | This view shows the station still under construction and it will be seen that a temporary track has been laid up the ramp to Infirmary Road to enable materials to be offloaded . |
7 | Close inspection reveals that a strip of reverse grain timber has been laid down the centre in order to add strength — another old-fashioned idea and a good one , too . |
8 | The company 's next Sparc processor , the 100MHz Viper , has been put on the back burner pending Sun 's decision . |
9 | She scraped them carefully and put them in a steel pan , covering them with the bottled still water in which they would be boiled , thereby retaining the vitamin C which would otherwise have been poured down the sink . |
10 | The ragazza should never have been put down the well , that was the fault of her husband who did n't fully understand the house and was ignorant of its ways . |
11 | They must have been brought in the hope of some celebration to which the way had been lost . |
12 | In a discontinued action , the district judge has power , on taxation , to determine the scale of costs ( Ord 38 , r 4(7) ) and as to costs where an action is brought and tried in the High Court which could have been brought in the county court see s 19 . |
13 | A personal injury claim was commenced in the High Court when , in accordance with the High Court and County Court Jurisdiction Order 1990 , it should have been brought in the county court , a fact which the person bringing the case in the High Court knew or should have known . |
14 | He has started just two matches so far , having been pushed down the pecking order by the arrival of £2 million David Rocastle from Arsenal . |
15 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
16 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
17 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
18 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
19 | When our mam died — our dad had been killed down the pit long before — he took me in and brought me up . |
20 | Even now , however , no decisions had been taken on the speed of emancipation or the form it should take . |
21 | He said more precise figures would not be available until decisions had been taken on the form of restoration . |
22 | After three centuries of decline , the first steps had been taken on the path to restoration . |
23 | The US authorities claimed that the decision to evacuate Peace Corps workers had been taken on the basis of general intelligence concerning NPA intentions , and that Swanson 's abduction had only become known after the decision had been made . |
24 | The Pakistan skipper had been drawn down the pitch by Tufnell 's flight . |
25 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
26 | He did not explain why the CIA had waited until December 1990 , to draw this conclusion when the ‘ proof had been available for at least a year , nor did he explain why no advance warning based on this report , reliable or not , had been passed down the line to those responsible for airline security . |
27 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
28 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
29 | Madam Deputy Speaker I re read in the newspapers today that there has been s some criticism er that the matters such as this have been taken on the floor of the house . |
30 | As this representation is difficult for the draughtsman to interpret , mesh lines have been inserted down the front and side view axis ( to give Figure 6.23 ) . |