Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local authority 's mortgage was duly registered in the charges register . |
| 2 | After 36 month 's weathering , the bones of the skull were found to be little altered beyond the condition described above . |
| 3 | Critics have since commented on the paradox offered by a Secretary of State sharply defining two categories of higher education — the one more theoretical and academic than the other — in the same year as he was energetically destroying similar categories in secondary education . |
| 4 | In this case the group attributes declared for the definition of the hole are wholly contained with the attributes declared for the definition of the block . |
| 5 | We have all heard of the addiction caused by long-term taking of tranquillisers but did you realise that the effect of sleeping pills can last well into the following day and many antihistamines ( commonly taken to relieve colds or allergies ) can make you so drowsy that you should not drive for some hours after taking them ? |
| 6 | So there I was at the Whirl-Y-Gig , which is a New Age club much favoured by the Haight-Ashbury set . |
| 7 | Lucy stepped into her warmest black and white trousers and high-necked top , and when the appetising aroma of sizzling bacon and eggs drew her towards breakfast she found the dining-room to be nicely heated by the logs blazing in the large open fireplace . |
| 8 | Of course much depended upon the temper imparted by the smith . |
| 9 | The components of e are evaluated , the results are then all assigned to the locations represented by x , and the process then terminates . |
| 10 | Kalm was very impressed by the stoves at Chelsea , ‘ all arranged in the way discribed in Dictionary ’ , and he learned from Miller that two orangeries in England had been burnt by tan overheating ( the fermenting bark of the oak and a by-product from the tanning industry ) . |
| 11 | A bomb apparently intended for the Paris-Madrid express , which , however , was running late , damaged the railway line between France and Spain on June 30 . |
| 12 | Vocabulary and structures are constantly revised throughout the course to reinforce the language learning process and to ensure that children who join the class late do not find themselves struggling . |
| 13 | While everyone else had been trying to solve this problem by heating … to millions of degrees , we had apparently stumbled on the solution involving low temperatures instead . ’ |
| 14 | Roger Sanderson wants the Forest of Dean Commoners Association … a grouping of sheep farmers … to keep better control of their animals so they do n't stray onto the industrial estate and roads.The right to graze the Forest of Dean dates back thousands of years , and it 's jealously guarded by the commoners.They say its up to the businessmen to fence the sheep out if they 're proving troublesome : |
| 15 | The brick shell of this element could then accommodate an entrance lobby , study , cloakroom , sewing-room and stair hall , giving access to the main first-floor living room , also entirely located in the engine-house outshot ( Fig 55 ) . |
| 16 | Several new pieces of furniture have been introduced , all designed by the architects to match simple 18th century fittings and made by Richard Dowling , a furniture maker with a workshop in nearby Llangynog . |
| 17 | Contrary to the old view that monks and nuns were brutally discarded into the roads to swell a growing army of miserable vagrants , most of them did remarkably well , with posts in the new Church of England or pensions . |
| 18 | PEARL HARBOR saw a power too long underrated by the world lash out and inflict a crippling blow on a huge country . |
| 19 | Many of the specimens that had found their way back to England only added to the myths circulating in the popular imagination about the fauna of the southern hemisphere . |
| 20 | However , a few managers , probably because of the pressure of work , had only looked at the business plan the night before . ’ |
| 21 | Imagine that you are the public relations executive for a soap powder company when their new product is suddenly claimed by the newspapers to have caused 300 babies to be sick . |
| 22 | It was also notable that large areas of the BBC 's activities were not apparently included in the efforts to defend Mr Birt . |
| 23 | Radial expansion , however , is not necessarily related to the volume infused because of the multidirectional expansion of the volume . |
| 24 | What a long way we have suddenly moved from the point argued in Chapter Five , that in dramatic playing the participant is adopting a function . |
| 25 | The visits ( referred to as index visits ) of 177 drug users negative for HIV-1 and 112 drug users positive for HIV-1 were randomly selected from the cohort to serve as controls . |
| 26 | A second study suggests that commercially-important species , including herring , shrimp , mussels , clams and rockfish have all suffered from the oil spill , presenting a " risk that they may not respond to conventional management actions for decades " . |
| 27 | In fact , it is basically seen as the professionals banding together to protect their own — especially so when set against the various Royal College of Surgeons ' statements that testing of patients after operative accidents is reasonable whether or not the patient agrees . |
| 28 | I understand all your Lordships to agree that Anderton v. Wish … was rightly decided for the reasons given . ’ |
| 29 | The committee agreed to inform the county council it had no objections to the proposal as long as the weighbridge was only used by landfill traffic and the pit only operated in the hours specified in the application . |
| 30 | They was all bombed in the May blitz . ’ |