Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Treasury Bench has heard what the hon. Gentleman said . |
| 2 | The Queen has been told that she is not to summon anybody to form a Government until she has heard who the new Leader is . |
| 3 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 4 | An anonymous businessman has given them the remaining amount . |
| 5 | A FRENCHWOMAN has given herself the ultimate facelift in an attempt to create the perfect features . |
| 6 | I only wonder why nobody has given us the small print of the Social Chapter that Labour and the Liberal Democrats want so badly . |
| 7 | TELEVISION has given us the dramatised documentary Last week The Sunday Telegraph , in its report ‘ Cambridge blues as Oxford bags title ’ , gave us the dramatised book review . |
| 8 | God has given us the Holy Spirit so that He can work in His world . |
| 9 | Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage . |
| 10 | The frequent manifestation of a melancholy figure at Covent Garden Underground Station has earned it the unwanted title of the most haunted station on the London Transport system . |
| 11 | Mr Heseltine can reasonably say that he has done what the political reality required of him . |
| 12 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |
| 13 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 14 | A lifetime 's devotion to ants has made him the principal authority on the subject . |
| 15 | This has been the practice in many countries internationally , but our sudden realisation of its effectiveness in creating bilingualism has made it the major discovery in language acquisition . |
| 16 | Flashman has made us the laughing stock of football . |
| 17 | Eliot told me that if he misses his tea he is no good for anything until he has had it the following day . ’ |
| 18 | A freelance musician has found himself the perfect practice room … an empty theatre which he has all to himself . |
| 19 | The RSPB campaign launched this week has set itself the ambitious target of trying to reverse the Common Agricultural Policy , or CAP , which encourages intensive farming . |
| 20 | And next year she has set herself the personal goal of raising £500,000 . |
| 21 | ‘ It amazes me he should now want to kill the goose that has laid him the golden egg . |
| 22 | The parties have to accept the expert 's decision , unless he has asked himself the wrong question of law : Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 . |
| 23 | Whichever way a point of law is resolved , including without lawyers being consulted , a decision on a point of law will stand unless the expert has asked himself the wrong question of law . |
| 24 | However , this line of challenge has been closed down by Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 , which allows challenges only if the expert has asked himself the wrong question , including a question of law . |
| 25 | A party who wishes to appeal from a decision of an expert will be able to do so only : ( 1 ) if the expert has decided the wrong issue ; or ( 2 ) if the expert has asked himself the wrong question : see 13.6.8 . |
| 26 | David Lloyd clubs , all 7 of them — and more to come — are building their reputation on quality of service , something which has allowed him the entrepreneurial satisfaction of seeing his company expand , when others around him are failing , victims of all the British recession . |
| 27 | I am sure that he has recorded what the hon. Gentleman said . |
| 28 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 29 | Heading up Wood Group engineering 's activities in Dubai and Abu Dhabi is Bill Reid who has sent us the following report : . |
| 30 | In this case , cerebral development has denied it the automatic response while defective social development has denied it the opportunity of learning the skill it lacks . |