Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , the bar had closed and the staff had long since departed so the celebration pint of bitter had to be put on ice for another day . |
| 2 | Later the remarks of the sentencing judge perhaps indicated why the manslaughter charge was not originally accepted : |
| 3 | This one ( above ) not only switched on the movie camera but ate the rubber eyepiece ! |
| 4 | The theme of Stalingrad was becoming rapidly a major embarrassment to the propagandists , especially those on the Wehrmacht staff , who had prematurely whipped up the victory atmosphere in September . |
| 5 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |
| 6 | As Fisher ( 1990 ) has already pointed out the community care reforms are being designed as if everyone who is to receive services feels equally happy about that fact , and can express a reliable opinion about their own need for care , and the success of the service in meeting their needs . |
| 7 | We have already considered how the body clock , by lowering body temperature and increasing the sensation of fatigue , helps to promote and maintain sleep . |
| 8 | The tot , Britain 's most premature surviving child , had just come off the danger list after a three-month fight for life . |
| 9 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 10 | Tenants and their staff are not carried on the company payroll . |
| 11 | Thailand has not carried out the death penalty for several years . |
| 12 | This effect was no longer seen when the DNA denaturation step in the PCNA protocol was replaced by the Saponin digestion step . |
| 13 | She had not seen where the night light came from . |
| 14 | Lonrho had just bought out the brewing concern Heinrichs , which in 1964 had started another daily , called the Zambia Times , and a weekly , the Zambia News . |
| 15 | If this elective is not requested then the data range is divided into classes with an equal range . |
| 16 | Nigel Mansell showed today that he 's still out to win despite having already wrapped up the World Championship . |
| 17 | Nils had already opened up the engine compartment , which was directly below the deckhouse , and he and Iain were sitting on the floor with their legs dangling over the big diesel , going through a list of requirements he had produced . |
| 18 | At the time we had not understood why the team leader had refused this and had asked for referrals to be made directly to her . |
| 19 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
| 20 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |
| 21 | The instructor may have been wondering if the height was going to be sufficient for a normal approach even though the student had already cut out the base leg to make a 180° turn on to finals . |
| 22 | Panorama says a Commons defence committee report on the progress of Trident , leaked to the programme , warns that if the new Aldermaston complex is not finished soon the warhead project will be affected . |
| 23 | A spokesman for the county ambulance service has already stated how the weekend duty rota works , but CHC members decided further discussion is necessary if the problem is to be resolved . |
| 24 | A spokesman for the county ambulance service has already stated how the weekend duty rota works but CHC members decided further discussion is necessary if the problem is to be resolved . |
| 25 | The bank would give him facilities to purchase the business to the extent of seventy five thousand pounds if he agreed to sell his property at and from the proceeds of sale to repay the bridging facility in its entirety and they would provide a sixteen thousand pounds business loan and overdraught facilities to be reduced by five thousand pounds within a few days and if the six thousand pounds rent deposit was not required then the business loan would be reduced to ten thousand pounds . |
| 26 | If it is known that a group of books is little used then the borrowing record of items from that group is a nil predictor of future use … unfortunately the satisfying ritual of checking date labels gives the illusion that all is well and seems to be scientifically ennobled . |
| 27 | By 1942 Greenly was in ill health but still carried on the family model-engineering business . |
| 28 | Some economists calculate that only a small part ( perhaps a quarter ) of the appreciation of the exchange rate is attributable to oil but that the government deliberately pushed up the exchange rate ( which appreciated 40 per cent between 1979 and 1980 ) by raising domestic interest rates and thereby weakening industrial competitiveness . |
| 29 | Happily Herbert had eventually trotted off and to Amy 's distress had been seen no more , although his lead still hung on the caravan door , a limp reminder of her bereavement . |
| 30 | The few small cottages which had once made up the village community had been bulldozed into the ground and their occupants moved into the grey and faceless high-rise apartment blocks of the new urban development . |