Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , this will show whether greater proximity has broken down some of the barriers which have traditionally existed between the two groups or , as some theorists have suggested , has led to a re-definition of their differences . |
| 2 | It could never have been designed but for a revolution that has shaken up one of the world 's oldest industries |
| 3 | FOUR months after the traumas of 3-4 June , Hong Kong has picked up most of the pieces . |
| 4 | Global competition has pushed out many of the weaker firms , has excluded most Europeans from profitable operations , and has transformed the part developing countries can play in its evolution . |
| 5 | Mr Lloyd Webber has built up one of the country 's finest collections of Pre-Raphaelites , which is split between his 10,000-acre country estate in Berkshire and his home in Eaton Square . |
| 6 | Mike Curb , who has built up one of the most successful privately-owned record companies and recently moved his head office to Nashville from Los Angeles , thinks country is well on its way to being a big part of mainstream pop — making a nonsense of the current radio-station categories that still set country apart . |
| 7 | Although research has mapped out many of the inter-active processes that cause acid rain , the details are complex and not yet fully understood . |
| 8 | During the post-war period Hayek has drawn out some of the assumptions underpinning his economic theorizing and developed them into a general theory of society . |
| 9 | WWF also hopes to control the amount of waste water flowing into the Danube ; pollution has wiped out 70 of the river 's 110 species of fish in the past 10 years and is threatening the ecosystem of the Black Sea . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend , in his inimitable style , has smoked out one of the hidden parts of the Opposition 's agenda . |
| 11 | Mr F.T.S. Houghton has worked out many of the salt ways of the West Midlands , and considers that the short stretch of Salt Way near Banbury was part of the route taken between Droitwich and Princes Risborough , by way of Stratford-upon-Avon and Aynho . |
| 12 | Ahsan claims that since coming to power the PPP has knocked out 12 of the 24 known heroin laboratories in Pakistan . |
| 13 | Whitehead Mann has taken on some of the highest salaried job searches in Britain , comparable with Russell Reynolds ' recruiting of Bob Bauman for Beecham ; an assignment on behalf of a major British company looking for a chief executive to run their operations in Australia earned the firm £333 000 , according to the popular press ( on the basis that the successful candidate was to be paid an annual salary approaching £1m . ) . |
| 14 | An industrial giant which has taken over one of the region 's biggest employers today assured workers there would be no major job losses . |
| 15 | The structure of the society , too , may vary from a large extended family system where care for all dependants — the young , the elderly , the mentally handicapped , the ill — is shared , to the small nuclear family , typical of the Western world , where often the state has taken over many of the traditional caring activities of the family , with their attendant safety aspects . |
| 16 | Among other things , this established the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England ( HBMC ) which has taken over many of the functions formerly carried out directly by the DoE . |
| 17 | Steve works in the engineering office and has taken over some of the er you know purchasing function as well , like enquiries and stuff . |
| 18 | We are proud to say that Jean Conway has achieved her Food Hygiene Diploma from the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland , and Jean has taken over most of the food hygienecourses running in Scotland . |
| 19 | All this leads me to the conclusion that the greater part of the passage of geological time has left over most of the earth no more than Shakespeare 's " gap in nature " . |
| 20 | A Darwinian process has weeded out some of the older voluntary organisations which have perhaps outlived their purpose . |
| 21 | Byrne reckons they 've been playing brill recently and are just waiting for a chance like this — but he was talking before they got turned over 0–3 by the makems last night . |
| 22 | Donna had been rummaging beneath the bed upstairs , where she 'd pulled out both of the metal cases . |
| 23 | ‘ A taxi would have come in handy at the end of the night — the fields were a bit mucky . ’ |
| 24 | The fans would have come in handy during the humid weather over the last few days . |
| 25 | It is quite possible that the expansion of the social services may have used up some of the labour that could have been absorbed by the manufacturing sector but there was no scarcity of labour as such in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 26 | Alternatively , he could always have chatted up one of the drivers of Middleton & Co. 's waggon , asking if there was a bit of spare room for an extra body when they left for the King 's Arms in Holborn on a Sunday evening or a Monday morning . |
| 27 | We find similar striking juxtapositions in the finale of the ‘ Jupiter Symphony , where the contrast between the signs helps set off two of the five main motives of the movement : the angular four-note motive with its downward leaps of a 5th and a 7th is marked throughout the movement by strokes , and the linear , stepwise ascending six-note motive is marked throughout by dots . |
| 28 | Iraq and the Mujahideen claim separately to have shot down one of the Iranian aircraft . |
| 29 | After the winged Soul Eater had gone from the low-ceilinged Workshops , its leathery wings beating on the night , the soul of the mutilated boy held in a merciless grip between its claws , the slaves had scuttled back to their tasks and the Robemaker had conjured up another of the thin , whiplike lights that had lashed out and thrown Nuadu to the floor . |
| 30 | Over 300 long distance backpacking routes wind their way around Britain and we 've picked out six of the best for you to try . |