Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |
| 2 | Self 's victory was bitterly resented by the engineers and , on his return , Pask tried ( unsuccessfully ) to overturn it . |
| 3 | They said they had not been properly consulted about the venue and formed a rival organisation , the Professional Chess Association , to manage the championship . |
| 4 | They are mostly limited to the accident and emergency department , the coronary care unit , and the intensive care unit ; results from general wards are depressingly poor . |
| 5 | Detectives say the young woman was left badly shaken after the assault and have warned that the incident might have become more serious if it had gone on any longer . |
| 6 | Both of the men were quite badly shaken by the incident and understandably do n't want their names to be released . ’ |
| 7 | Such a system was effectively harnessed by the energy and skill of Thomas Cromwell ; but deprived of his control after 1540 it became corrupt , inefficient , and unpopular . |
| 8 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 9 | It was alleged that Khashoggi , who had been extradited from Switzerland in April 1989 , had purchased four Manhattan properties secretly owned by the Marcoses and had backdated the sale documents to evade a New York court order which had frozen the assets of the former dictator and his wife . |
| 10 | Harry walked on , his face like thunder , his fists still clenched , his self-esteem badly bruised from the catcalls and laughter of the village . |
| 11 | The rest of the interior had been very much altered over the years and little original work of consequence remained visible . |
| 12 | The police had been long withdrawn from the district and army patrols ventured into it only occasionally . |
| 13 | As always , much depended upon the ability and enthusiasm of the Master , and in this respect the School seems generally to have been fortunate . |
| 14 | These individuals may be frightened by and greatly distanced from the power and authority of the state , but in an important sense they also need the state ; its appeal to a higher authority as well as its power and resources . |
| 15 | These texts have been warmly received by the Commission and the work of the Group Consultatif has enhanced the reputation of actuaries in the Community . |
| 16 | My master deepened my unease with a story about the stark , square building 's previous owners , the Templars ; the monks of war who , two centuries previously , had been brutally crushed by the papacy and the French crown because of their alleged involvement in witchcraft , dabbling in the Black Arts as well as such unnatural vices as sodomy and the worship of a huge black cat . |
| 17 | Quakers had long distinguished between the policeman and the soldier , and the suppression of disorder among heathens was seen as legitimate in a way that prosecuting war between civilized Christian peoples could never be . |
| 18 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 19 | All of the multifarious social duties in which he was now involved constantly encroached upon the time and energy which he wished to devote to his own writing . |
| 20 | But before long , a correspondent of the STC was pointing out that " 60 to 70 per cent of the fair intruders are being sedulously drilled into the p's and q's of the art by members of our own society ! " |
| 21 | According to Snodgrass they occur in all winged insects but are much modified in the Ephemeroptera and Odonata , presumably because these insects do not flex the wings over the abdomen at rest . |
| 22 | DoH attempts to secrecy only added to the mystique and it was n't long before the Support Force and Butler collected an array of nicknames with the £hit-squad ’ being the most polite . |
| 23 | This was inadvertently omitted from the report and accounts . |
| 24 | The girls both stare at him , obviously impressed by the scale and force of his concern . |
| 25 | These have been especially designed for the work and it helps to make every effort to obtain them . |
| 26 | What the ad does n't mention , either , is that cells which contains traces of blood are naturally excreted in the faeces and in some babies the amount of cells that are shed increases if they are fed cow 's milk — but still not enough to worry about . |
| 27 | Provision for legislation for Marine Nature Reserves was only included in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1987 at the last minute , after much pressure was brought to bear on Peers and MP 's by conservation bodies such as WWF and the Marine Conservation Society . |
| 28 | Er no I think it wa I think it was our , our mistake er , there was there were sixteen of us there and seven of us had sort of clubbed together looked at the menu and it 's it 's fifteen ninety five , to , the rich main course banquet |
| 29 | Younger was in a very exposed position , for he was Chairman of the National Union Executive responsible for carrying out its decisions , as well as Party Chairman and so committed to the leader and the coalition . |
| 30 | Mungo had been so unnerved by the feather and the peculiar note that it had taken him several moments to decide on the next move ; not the next major move in his life , but literally the act of moving an arm or a leg . |