Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 2 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 3 | ‘ Did she resent being passed over for the post ? ’ |
| 4 | He did n't like being tied up to the women . |
| 5 | Third , how can this shift be played out in the portrayal of disabled people in relationship to their impairment so that they no longer see themselves as able-bodied people who are flawed . |
| 6 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 7 | How much money would be available , and how large would the capital grant be paid out from the fund to these eligible groups ? |
| 8 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 9 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 10 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 11 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 12 | Had the company decided to provide tax on the revaluation surplus , the provision would have been made out of the revaluation surplus , ie the tax would have followed the surplus ( SSAP 15 , para 39 ) . |
| 13 | PAUL MERSON may have been bombed out of the Arsenal team by George Graham for being overweight . |
| 14 | It is only too easy to forget that there was a time when the fragile flower of Glasgow culture might just as easily have been swept up by the great philistine scaffy man of indifference . |
| 15 | It could , because you could put and a sailing boat might have been pushed on by the tide . |
| 16 | Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up . |
| 17 | The universe as a whole would have continued expanding and cooling , but in regions that were slightly denser than average , the expansion would have been slowed down by the extra gravitational attraction . |
| 18 | • The object may have been choked up in the child 's mouth . |
| 19 | ‘ It must have been blasted off at the weak point of the stalk , ’ the Environments Officer continued . |
| 20 | Looking coldly at the figures and at the Plafond Limité de Classement ( PLC ) of 13,000 kilograms per hectare , it would seem that most of Champagne 's production in those two years should have been sent off to the distillery . |
| 21 | They would have been locked out in the street . |
| 22 | Only later , when we saw the photographs , did we appreciate that Donnelly must have been magicked out of the car at the precise millisecond when the car exploded on impact . |
| 23 | At the connecting tunnel it would have been led out of the entrance to the East Shaft top by wooden launder . |
| 24 | That said , the Vet scene has charged his zest for running which otherwise might have been swallowed up in the 40-something concentration on family , career and mortgage . |
| 25 | Leeds were forced to play that third game against German champions Stuttgart , when the Bundesliga outfit should have been kicked out of the competition for fielding an ineligible player . |
| 26 | The draft timetable will have been decided on at the sale strategy stage and will be to an extent a function of the marketing process chosen . |
| 27 | ‘ Those carvings in the museum must have been tossed out with the rubble when they dug this place , ’ she suggested to Benny . |
| 28 | Thus twenty tons of explosives could have been rained down on the Voie Sacrée each day , not to mention demoralising night attacks . |
| 29 | The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse . |
| 30 | On Dec. 31 , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi was reported to have said that the Boeing might have been blown up by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) in retaliation for Libya 's disclosures to the United Kingdom government of its former IRA links . |