Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 2 | ( c ) Agreed price It is necessary to find out the precise price negotiated between the parties . |
| 3 | While the public may be cynical about electoral promises , governments of whatever complexion customarily take pains to demonstrate that they have carried out the main proposals embodied in their manifesto , as well as other commitments or ‘ pledges ’ given at election time . |
| 4 | Inside , the surgeons , surrounded by dustbins filled with lopped-off limbs , did the best they could to patch up the ghastly wounds caused by the huge shell splinters . |
| 5 | His intention was to pick up the 18,000 troops assembled in the area behind Quiberon known as the Morbihan and transport them to Scotland , as the first stage of the great invasion plan . |
| 6 | Tuck empty scent bottles into your wardrobe and drawers , leaving the tops off so that your clothes can soak up the subtle aroma left in the bottles . |
| 7 | In parallel the three Managing Directors are starting to sort out the detailed issues connected with the new structure . |
| 8 | You add up the total marks given to your players , divide by x — then roll a dice that number of times and take the highest number rolled … |
| 9 | Knox 's account of the bond and its aftermath compellingly conjures up the new spirit released by that small group in December 1557 . |
| 10 | He was , for instance , punctilious about paying his models the agreed amount and would work out the precise sum owed to the last quarter of an hour . |
| 11 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 12 | Graham and Slater walked down the narrow alley formed by the seedy , decaying stonework and the painted wood ; Graham saw the grimy glass of cracked windows ; fading political posters flapped in a slight breeze . |
| 13 | You can draw down the full amount arranged for your loan all at once , or can take the money in stages . |
| 14 | The research will describe the nature of a selection of the strategy and policy initiatives ; set out the empirical evidence used in building the strategy ; assess this against other evidence which might have been used at the time and against current practices ; use this and other evidence to evaluate the effects of policy ; and comment on the main successes and failures of the strategy . |
| 15 | Dig out the extra soil needed for construction materials then proceed with installation |
| 16 | Pointing out the potential damage caused by jostling , breathing , perspiring crowds , Ms Rowell noted further that necessary protective devices destroy the visitor 's feeling of intimacy with the artwork . |
| 17 | Volunteers should be able to carry out the minimal work involved , though some dioceses seem curiously reluctant to accept offers of help of this kind . |
| 18 | CALL IN AN ELECTRICIAN if you are in any doubt at all about your ability to carry out the electrical jobs described here . |
| 19 | Mrs Howard said : ‘ Unless we are given a lot more resources we will not be able to carry out the weekly monitoring required . |
| 20 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 21 | In theory , some lateral trim should also be required when hovering in a wind , or flying forwards , to cancel out the additional lift produced by the forward travelling blade . |
| 22 | After the fourth and last bottle of raksi had been drunk , Śa kar got out the double-ended drum brought back from India by his grandfather many years ago . |
| 23 | In a more romantic mode , it is as though a thousand lone voices have suddenly and unexpectedly found common cause in one majestic chorus , which is now drowning out the discordant notes heard from beyond the main stage . |
| 24 | Where this occurs in hard corals without the formulation of dividing walls the colony can , eventually , take on the convoluted patterns characterised by brain coral colonies . |
| 25 | Fokine broke down the artificial practice created by earlier choreographers and his dancers acted as they danced . |
| 26 | And this week Sunday Life tracked down the Good Samaritans involved — Noel and Mary Redpath . |
| 27 | I had taken to finishing off the flat beer left in cans by the members of Norris 's itinerant card school after its frequent visits chez nous , and was seriously considering starting to steal from bookshops in an attempt to raise some cash . |
| 28 | Less objective devices are provided by such methods as generalised contours which are attempts to reconstruct the original contours by linking up the furthest points reached by each contour from the area of highest ground . |
| 29 | The counsellor should not therefore take up the first issue raised by the counsellees which seems satisfactorily to explain their situation . |
| 30 | Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things . |