Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Robinson 's vocal has developed just the right pitch to keep you straining to hear his every word , the kind of kick-ass , hell-for-leather growl that sounds great and is heightened by the honey sweet gospelly chorus of backing singers Barbara Richardson and Taj . |
| 2 | The 1988 Education Reform Act and earlier legislation has altered entirely the political context in which history teaching operates . |
| 3 | Underlying all the problems is the urge to exploit , which has poisoned both the cultural ethos and the natural environment . |
| 4 | Using traditional measures of religiosity , he has pointed out the apparent failure of English catholic schools to produce better catholics and fewer ex-catholics than state or other schools , and has inferred the likelihood of the same for Irish schools . |
| 5 | In particular , it has lobbied both the British Parliament and the European institutions with demands to break up the brewing monopolies and to restore greater choice to pub users . |
| 6 | ICL has filled out the top end of its DRS 6000 range with new multiprocessing models 780 and 782 in the 700 series . |
| 7 | Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags . |
| 8 | Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms . |
| 9 | Garin Jenkins has sorted out the front row and the Webster-Reynolds-Stuart Davies back row can live with any in the leagues . |
| 10 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
| 11 | A good deal of language teaching has followed a bottom-up approach , in that it has considered only the formal language system , often in isolated sentences , without demonstrating or developing the way that system operates in context . |
| 12 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 13 | Yet the capricious nature of golf has seen even the mighty Ballesteros humbled in the Championship . |
| 14 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 15 | He has turned away the glorious light of his countenance — or maybe the traffic fumes have got in the way , or maybe he 's turned off the telly because of the charismatics . ’ |
| 16 | Now that the Commission has turned down the unanimous decision of the Catering Sub-Committee to invite the London food commission to give advice on how healthy and nutritious the food in the Members ' and Strangers ' Cafeterias is , what will the Leader of the House do to improve the situation ? |
| 17 | However , the actual reproduction or modernist form over the last century and a half has revealed exactly the opposite tendency , since objects formed entirely on the basis of utility have proved singularly unattractive ( which accounts for their general absence from commercial marketing ) . |
| 18 | As the sells his beers to the free trade and to national brewers ' pubs he has noticed both the swingeing price increases imposed by the brewing giants and the reaction among their tenants . |
| 19 | Experience in the past two and a half years has shown both the general effectiveness of such schemes and the need for a much wider extension of them . |
| 20 | It has practical significance , because much of the work within the programme has shown how the total curriculum experience — of which teaching methods are a part — affects the strategies which students adopt . |
| 21 | Clare O'Halloran ( 1986 ) has shown how the social reality of Northern Ireland remained a continuing blind spot for Southern Irish nationalists particularly from the founding of the state to 1949 . |
| 22 | In Hampstead : Building a Borough , 1650–1964 ( 1974 ) Professor F. M. L. Thompson has shown how the old settlement preserved its isolated character well into the nineteenth century because it lay off the main lines of communication out of the capital . |
| 23 | One of his more lasting memorials is the Hattersley domestic loom , which since he introduced it into the islands in 1920 has produced almost the entire output of Harris tweed . |
| 24 | Bush stated that the USA had assumed the " burden of leadership " in confronting the aggression of Iraq , because " among the nations of the world , only the United States of America has had both the moral standing and the means to back it up " . |
| 25 | This arises where the tenant has closed the premises prior to the end of the term and has used up the full entitlement to rating relief . |
| 26 | Performances last for over three hours , no smoking or drinking is allowed , and each one has sold out the 700-seater Hackney Empire . |
| 27 | Captain of Detectives Barton MacLane has called out the National Guard to assist in the search for private detective Richard Quick , who is still at liberty . |
| 28 | The leisurely bath has reached just the right temperature and the birthday bath salts are bubbling away beautifully . |
| 29 | Mr Fitzwater added that Mr Bush has invited both the Polish President , Wojciech Jaruzelski , and Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiescki , to meet him in Washington . |
| 30 | Bowie , whose admiration is tinged with honest caution , has summed up the Lacanian system in these words : |