Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , thirty-six ( or about two-thirds ) of the families that were resident in Willingham in 1575 had either moved or died out in the male line during the course of a century and a half . |
| 2 | Whether GRIDS themselves are used or another comparable scheme of self-review , choices slowly emerge about what should be strengthened , retained or phased out over the next four years . |
| 3 | Students of our naval past may treasure those small books bound in wood salvaged from the Mary Rose , which heeled over and sank off Portsmouth in 1545 ; or brought up from the Royal George which , a tarnished monument to the neglect of the Admiralty , went down at Spithead in 1772 with nearly a thousand souls . |
| 4 | Whatever has to be copied is typed or handwritten on to the exposed surface of the special paper creating a reverse image in carbon on the back of the paper . |
| 5 | The expectation was that the losses sustained by the low cover price would be more than made up by the larger circulation and by advertising . |
| 6 | What is interesting to note about both the theory of public choice and Chicago School economic analysis of law is that their analyses , although wrapped up in the analytical apparatus of modern economics , reach more or less identical conclusions to Hayek . |
| 7 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 8 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
| 9 | The vast majority of these were hastily-assembled hack jobs , pieced together from published sources and fleshed out with the dubious reminiscences of alleged veterans . |
| 10 | The government maintains that dipping is safe if carried out with the recommended protective clothing and other precautions . |
| 11 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 12 | The work reported in this thesis was sponsored by General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation plc and carried out at the Medical Research Council 's Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge and I thank Alan Baddeley and all at the unit for making the work possible . |
| 13 | Some of these other forms of treatment — even some that are advised and carried out by the medical profession — are the clinical equivalent of the extraordinarily inhuman ( and ineffective ) previous " treatment " of cancer patients by pulling out all their teeth . |
| 14 | The coroner 's jury had even brought in a sensational verdict , that ‘ the murder was organised and carried out by the Royal Irish Constabulary , officially directed by the British Government , and we return a verdict of wilful murder against David Lloyd George , Prime Minister of England … . ’ |
| 15 | Furthermore , there is a general permission for any development in connection with coal industry activities ( as defined in section 63 of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 ) and carried out in the immediate vicinity of a pithead . |
| 16 | Our goal is solely to establish whether , in a practical ensemble torn apart by antagonism ( whether there are multiple conflicts or whether they are reduced to one ) the breaks themselves are totalizing and carried along by the totalizing movement of the ensemble . |
| 17 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 18 | ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ lay a quarter of a mile up-river , and dated back to the early seventeenth century , a long , low , white-painted house on a terrace cunningly clear of the flood level of the Comer , and with ideal fishing water for some hundreds of yards on either side of it . |
| 19 | Its daring conception , ideal in the highest sense of the word , is based on the purest truth , and wrought out with the concentrated knowledge of a life , its colour is almost perfect , not one false or morbid hue in any part or line , and so modulated that every square inch of canvas is a perfect composition ; its drawing is as accurate as fearless ; the ship buoyant , bending , and full of motion ; its tones as true as they are wonderful ; and the whole picture dedicated to the most sublime of subjects and impressions … the power , majesty and deathfulness of the open , deep , illimitable sea . |
| 20 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 21 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 22 | ‘ If you are feeling bored and fed up with the daily routine , give the WI a try . |
| 23 | These were quickly taken up and written about in the British context ( e.g. Thomas et al. , |
| 24 | They had doubled back and got out of the single-leaf door of the car . |
| 25 | When the explosions eased off a bit , I bade farewell to Pat and got out of the big house as quickly as possible . |
| 26 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 27 | Sick with longing for his wife , Diana , and worn out with the public issues of doctoring that had apparently lost her to him , he had agreed . |
| 28 | He was sick of the sound of keys and worn down by the slicing pain . |
| 29 | I am preparing a big adhortatio for everyone who has not yet been utterly suffocated and swallowed up by the present age . " |
| 30 | Spooning the garlic and ginger paste into the snapper and over their skin , he dropped the first three fish on to the grill and called down to the other Latinos to bring plates and cutlery from the galley . |