Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [det] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their arrival at ‘ La Felicità ’ she seemed to have forgotten all the social life she was missing in England and devoted her energies to the narcissistic process of going brown , measuring each day the contrast between her exposed wrist and the satisfying white band left beneath her watch-strap . |
| 2 | Comprehensivization , he muttered to himself , seemed to have had much the same effect on the middle-middle class in England as racial integration in schools had had on similar people in the States . |
| 3 | Such plots are unlikely to have provided all the necessary food for their inhabitants , so not surprisingly traces of fields have been identified which predate the late cemetery in the Northover suburb . |
| 4 | On overturning a Tory majority last time of 2,639 , he appeared to have taken all the Labour gain from the Liberal Democrats . |
| 5 | However , this is unlikely to occur given that the whole concept of the buying and selling of the right to pollute is unacceptable to most environmentalists . |