Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 18 months training with AA in Chicago , Mr Shiratori returned to Tokyo to help set up the new office . |
| 2 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 3 | It is one of Marx 's greatest contributions to philosophy and the social sciences to have pointed out the systematic relationship between knowledge and historical and social processes . |
| 4 | Second , simply in what Scruton classifies as perversions — masturbation , bestiality , necrophilia , paedophilia , sado-masochism , homosexuality , incest , fetishism — he shows himself to have accepted uncritically the sexological/Freudian classification of perversions as developed in the nineteenth century . ’ |
| 5 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 6 | Governor Bill Clinton appears to have sewn up the presidential nomination by winning a plurality in New York on Tuesday , but only after suffering further humiliation . |
| 7 | But his failure represents a great lost opportunity to have avoided both the damaging interlude of the SDP and the antics of the loony left which kept Labour out of the office for a decade . |
| 8 | She 's sure to have got out the best china and baked a meat pie or something . |
| 9 | ‘ I seem to have got entirely the wrong end of the stick this afternoon , ’ she said sadly . |
| 10 | This means that the initial state of the universe would have to have had exactly the same temperature everywhere in order to account for the fact that the microwave background has the same temperature in every direction we look . |
| 11 | The tablets did n't seem to have had even the slightest effect . |
| 12 | The employment opportunities for working-class girls — whether in factory work or in domestic service — would not appear to have excited either the same sympathy or alarm . |
| 13 | As against this , Pye seems to have worked hard , or got others to do so , in preparing the revenue and expenditure balances and averages of 1635 ( covering the years from 1631 ) and of 1636–9 ; and he appears to have set about the same process for the reconstructed administration of 1641 . |
| 14 | But no artist seems to have taken over the comic strip format whole until Art Spiegelman came along . |
| 15 | It will always be the case that it would have been better for one of the counterparties not to have taken out the forward contract but to have waited and transacted in the spot or cash market at the time called for delivery . |
| 16 | He would have been wiser to have published only the first part of this book . |