Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is evident that in many of our residential areas no such balance any longer exists , for the street has been given over entirely to the car , with other functions now expected to be subordinate to it . |
| 2 | Any thoughtful linguist must wonder from time to time if such a legacy can have been shaken off completely in the relatively short time during which scientific linguistics has existed . |
| 3 | In the rest of the UK , these functions are carried out separately by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) and a variety of awarding bodies . |
| 4 | In a smaller agency many of these tasks are carried out either by the managing director , the finance department or a general manager , with help where necessary from other members of other departments . |
| 5 | In contrast to this , all inputs to a process are carried out automatically by the IPC type expert system without consulting a human operator . |
| 6 | It is perhaps interesting to note that Baines in his History of Lancashire tells us that there are no mines at work in this Parish , nor any minerals found , except some fine specimens of copper ore which are picked up occasionally near the brooks in Rusland ! |
| 7 | No investigation is known to have been carried out either by the Indian or Sri Lankan authorities . |
| 8 | Drilling and circulation experiments have been carried out there by the Camborne School of Mines . |
| 9 | Her picture and her silk quilt had been carried down below in the chaos of last night and she did not have the energy to seek them out . |
| 10 | And this weakened commitment may in turn be a by-product of the intensity of the subject commitments that have been built up elsewhere in the school curriculum . |
| 11 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 12 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
| 13 | That 's the real reason ye 're holed up here in the mountains … ’ |
| 14 | The bodies of two young boys have been stitched back together in the mortuary of this place . |
| 15 | The coffee table had taken flight to one side of the room , and two chairs had been drawn up close to the fireplace with their backs to the chesterfield . |
| 16 | The buildings themselves are no longer self-contained or fully circumscribed forms but are opened up completely into the space around them to form a composition of interpenetrating , shifting planes , suggesting an extremely complicated transparent sculpture in low relief . |
| 17 | These stones , contrasting in shape and colour and radiating light , are shown off admirably by the severe but wearable linear design . |
| 18 | Duane 's artistic bent has been shown off frequently in the group 's Invasion of The Wedding Present fanzine . |
| 19 | The long , slender pelvic fins are drawn up flush with the underside of the body , while the pectoral fins lie flat against the sides . |
| 20 | The page numbers of relevant sections should have been noted down together with the names of other potentially useful books and articles which the author has written . |
| 21 | We moved back to the strip of shingle and sat on a large baulk of timber that had been dragged up away from the water . |
| 22 | These are shared out equally between the tenants so that the " fit " may feel they are having to support the " unfit " . |
| 23 | A controversial issue was the future ownership of the assets of the PUWP ; a parliamentary commission had been set up shortly before the conference to investigate the extent to which such assets , valued by the party at some US$70,000,000 , should be forfeited as illegally acquired from the state . |
| 24 | The command verb , LIFESPAN_PMR , should have been set up previously by the System Manager . |
| 25 | The Global Environmental Facility has been set up jointly by the World Bank , and the UN Environment and Development Programmes . |
| 26 | Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive . |
| 27 | As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University . |
| 28 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 29 | It meant he 'd been laid off again at the stocking factory . |
| 30 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |