Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course refineries can be modified or adjusted to produce the necessary product range given time , but the idea that this can be done to every refinery simultaneously and instantaneously is ludicrous . |
| 2 | And er I note that Selby has accepted or resolved to accept the increased allocation from ten thousand to eleven thousand five hundred , subject to the District Council satisfying itself that the level of growth envisaged can be achieved without compromising the established structure plan strategy or the environment of the district . |
| 3 | Some of the money went into the pockets of individuals but most went into the coffers of the local or central parties or helped finance the mysterious research institutes which seemed indispensable to Roman politics . |
| 4 | Although McMahon at first was an abrasive force in midfield , where United missed the steadying influence of the injured Robson , he began to lose possession — and control — in his first Manchester derby , and he was robbed of the ball by Sharpe and McClair . |
| 5 | A timely point and one which could be made into a test of this kind of narrative by which an author may be seen to have succeeded or failed to create the necessary suspension of disbelief . |
| 6 | With most gliders the attitude for the nose during the slip needs to be no higher than required to maintain the chosen approach speed . |
| 7 | Not to mention a rapid passing on of mortgage cuts to bedraggled flocks of existing homeowners ; who are less than thrilled to see the first helping of crumbs go in instant cheap deals to first-time buyers . |
| 8 | The eight were subsequently suspended from their duties and forbidden to leave the southern city of Sucre , the legal capital . |
| 9 | Mid-sole : the layer between the sole and insole of the boot , which is anatomically shaped and designed to give the correct amount of flex and support for the activity for which the boot is designed . |
| 10 | He jumped out of bed , contemplated his new seaside pyjamas with renewed pleasure , and prepared to enjoy the second week of his precious holiday . |
| 11 | There were many times in the past years when he had wondered why on earth he had involved himself with the Hochhauser Season , times when he was worried , exhausted , furious , and prepared to consign the whole company to hell . |
| 12 | I adjusted the chauffeur 's cap I 'd borrowed , hoisted a rudely lettered sign reading ‘ Mr & Mrs Stewart Hughes ’ ( the misspelling was a tad masterly , I thought ) , took a deep breath and prepared to face the glittering turmoil that my life would become . |
| 13 | Many nights she had cried with loneliness when he was fast asleep beside her and risen smiling the next morning to continue the battle . |
| 14 | Horrified by the obstructionism of his superiors and unable to make progress , Schiller leaked information to the press and helped fortify the outside criticism , though his superiors decided not to discipline him for this . |
| 15 | These popular films encapsulated the very appealing elements of adventure , travel , intrigue and discovery — and of course romance — and helped transform the dusty image of archaeology into a infinitely more attractive package . |
| 16 | To cut costs and save heat , the hot gases formed during combustion may be recycled and used to preheat the incoming effluent gases . |
| 17 | Not only that , it was brought up time and again by the media and used to undermine the serious work that he was trying so hard to do . |
| 18 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 19 | Of the remaining six vehicles , four will be converted from surplus Inter-City catering vehicles and used to provide the principal dining saloon and accommodation for the Royal Household and other staff . |
| 20 | Traditionally the damaged bone was either left to repair and replace itself as best it could or bone was harvested from elsewhere in the body and used to augment the lost bone . |
| 21 | Others , less fortunate , are caught as game and used to supply the necessary protein for family consumption . |
| 22 | I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event . |
| 23 | ssDNA from the phagemid pGEM-7Zf(+) was prepared following induction with KO7 helper phage [ 21 ] and sequenced using the universal primer [ 22 ] . |
| 24 | Employment law provides employees with a range of rights including the right not to be unfairly dismissed , the right not to be subject to discrimination on the grounds of race or sex , and the right for women to receive the same pay as men if employed to do the same work or if the work is considered to be of equal value . |
| 25 | He then went on to describe the very considerable commercial and economic disadvantages experienced by peripheral industrial countries compared with the enormous advantages enjoyed by the privileged centrally placed Golden Triangle countries and called to question the entire concept of a European budget which incredibly penalised the poorer peripheral countries instead of applying the penalty the other way round . |
| 26 | Her mother had tried to force feed her in the past as her doctor had said that Maria had to gain some weight but Maria had only cried and refused to swallow the solid food . |
| 27 | We may even have earnestly studied and attempted to evaluate the varying utterance from the sublime to the ridiculous which emanates from a number of sources for our education . |
| 28 | In the main , they are instilled with the pragmatic games of pursuit they play with the local petty thief ; and if asked to consider the wider nature of their role , they tend to fall back on protestations of political neutrality . |
| 29 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 30 | In addition to security , the author being cited receives public and peer group recognition , and the communion between citer and cited represents the sharing aspect of scientific research . |