Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms . |
| 2 | At a rather general level , the analysis has borne out the earlier lessons . |
| 3 | The sea has worn away the softer sands and clays between Ballard down and Peveril Point to form SWANAGE BAY . |
| 4 | Bennett has set out the supposed pros and cons in the annual report . |
| 5 | Day Two of the International Trials at Blenheim has brought in the big names … but has n't brought a change in the lead … |
| 6 | It has swept away the last remnants of the Stasi system , but in the process dirtied millions of Germans and the feelings their fellows have for them . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend has illustrated powerfully the double standards employed by the Government to deal with ordinary people and those in the City . |
| 8 | David has cast aside the false breasts , the clamp that pushed his genitals under his body , the waist constrictors , the make-up and the clothes . |
| 9 | In recent years , Cavagna in Milan has worked out the detailed mechanics of the process , using force plates and high-speed film to capture the instantaneous braking and acceleration of the lower limbs during a stride . |
| 10 | Thompson , l986 has discussed elsewhere the major inadequacies of standardised depression scales ; and those of OBS scales were very similar . |
| 11 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
| 12 | Once again , the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head . |
| 13 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 14 | She is modest , feeling she has taken only the first steps . |
| 15 | The Conservative party has never been the party of law and order , and during this Parliament it has thrown away the last vestiges of any claim to such a title . |
| 16 | There are clinics attached to all the university and large municipal hospitals , but the government has shut down the local clinics because they deny that there is any problem . |
| 17 | While it was the Today newspaper that focused national attention on the fact that the Princess did not have to travel half way round the world to find clean water , it is the aptly-named CoastGuard that has kept up the high standards of cleanliness for royalty and commoners alike . |
| 18 | On LP this never sounded particularly impressive but the transfer to CD on DG ‘ Galleria ’ ( ) has blown away the sonic cobwebs to reveal a blazing treasure and a worthy comparison for his incandescent Bruckner 4 with the same orchestra ( Decca ) . |
| 19 | And he 's got exactly the same clothes on in both pictures . |