Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the family , neighbourhood , or work-place groups of older and younger men and a sprinkling of women , which seem to have formed the basic unit of attendance between the wars and before , broke up . |
| 2 | McCann 's speech , with its suggestion that the police lines ought to be charged , while refusing to actually call for such action , seems to have typified the confused militancy of the radicals , who were suddenly precipitated into a conflict for which they were quite unprepared . |
| 3 | An immediate option for Tottenham was to have stripped the big centre-half of the captaincy at Elland Road and hit him with a hefty fine . |
| 4 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 5 | His relatively strong showing in the election , coupled with that of the MSN , was judged to have broken the traditional grip of the PL and PSC on the country 's political system . |
| 6 | Deng Yingchao 's authority arose not only from her marriage to Zhou in 1925 , but also from her status as one of only around 50 women to have completed the Long March of 1934-35 . |
| 7 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
| 8 | There were no longer any grave differences of principle between him and the king , but there must have been many routine tasks after so long an absence , and these seem to have occupied the greater part of 1107 . |
| 9 | Though Hobbes had already made enemies of John Wallis and Seth Ward , two of its founder members , over his claim to have solved the geometrical problem of squaring the circle , it was at least partly due to his association in the popular mind with a materialistic atheism that he never became a Fellow . |
| 10 | Morocco was also said by various sources to have prevented the full deployment of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara ( Minurso ) personnel and the unloading of equipment for the mission in the port of Agadir . |
| 11 | Rosenberg 's poems from the front show him to have absorbed the great tradition of English pastoral poetry , but his tone is different : more impersonal , informal , ironic , and lacking the indignation characteristic of the work of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon [ qq.v . ] . |
| 12 | Thus the F.C.C. was held to have surmounted the first hurdle of entitlement to enter the inquiry , but fell at the second because it had misconstrued the meaning of successor in title . |
| 13 | will deliver the Converted Text of the Work to no later than 30 days after the execution of this contract and will be deemed to have accepted the Converted Text of the Work within 30 days after the date of delivery , unless is notified to the contrary . |
| 14 | Editor 's note : The writers seem to have missed the extensive coverage of the conference in our issue of 8 April . |
| 15 | ‘ In pursuing their war with Iraq the United States and its allies seem to have made the traditional error of interpreting Middle East politics with a map in hand . |
| 16 | New York private dealer Stephen Hahn is reported to have sold the priciest picture of the show — ‘ Bertele Chat Sauvage ’ , a rare , early oil by Jean Dubuffet . |
| 17 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 18 | Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do . |
| 19 | Livée played the spinet and was one of the few women in France to have mastered the analytical geometry of René Descartes . |
| 20 | Moreover , elements of the personality cult had attained far wider resonance and , as we have seen in earlier chapters , can be said to have affected the vast majority of the population , leaving completely untouched only sections still wholly anchored ideologically in left-wing philosophies of life , those totally alienated by the attacks on the Churches , and a few exceptional individuals among intellectuals and members of the upper bourgeoisie who despised the irrationality of the Führer cult , were entirely nauseated by the populist vulgarity of Nazism , and could see national disaster looming . |
| 21 | The full significance of the Danish vote seems to have escaped the immediate attention of most of the political leaders around Europe . |
| 22 | Few of us are lucky enough to have escaped the shattering sensation of pure terror generated by nightmares : the experience can haunt our every action for days afterwards . |
| 23 | There has been much more detailed study of the pre-revolutionary economy , of Russia 's claim to have entered the imperialist phase of capitalism . |
| 24 | Although the sentences were to run consecutively , the court was reported to have reduced the total period of imprisonment by two years as a gesture of goodwill . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Conservative party is proud to have reduced the basic rate of tax from 33p in the pound to 25p and the upper rate from 98p to 40p ? |
| 26 | Unlike some of his most distinguished contemporaries , the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is reputed to have found the whole process of recording totally congenial , offering the possibility to refine interpretations in a manner which was not always possible in the white-heat surroundings of the concert hall . |
| 27 | The General Theory appears to have assumed the dubious status of a ‘ classic ’ : a work to which everyone refers but which no one reads . |
| 28 | Subsequently he seems to have served the martyrial church of St Julian at Brioude , in the Auvergne . |
| 29 | To have involved the whole North of England in a continuing search for knowledge , with hypothesis and verification conducted in the best Popperian manner , would be a signal development in community maturity . |
| 30 | This could be ( and has been ) achieved not only by investigative journalism and television documentaries , which do appear to have influenced the general level of awareness amongst American citizens to such an extent that Spiro Agnew referred to it as the ‘ post-Watergate ’ morality . |