Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ancient city which has plunged right into the midst of the twentieth century , Bangkok is a fascinating mixture of ancient and modern values — noisy markets right next to the high walls of turreted royal palaces , serene gardens overlooked by modern hotels and the notorious Phatphong Road for discos , massage parlours and outrageous floorshows . |
| 2 | Science , as it has developed right across the board since the end of the sixteenth century , has operated with the axiomatic assumption that events in the material world , out there , external to human minds , are governed by regularities which are so coherent and consistent that they can be treated as " natural laws " . |
| 3 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 4 | He has guarded fiercely against the band 's tapes being made public but listening to them years on , it is difficult to understand his uneasiness and it seems a loss to fans . |
| 5 | With this is mind our Eastern European specialist , Ernest Lee , has travelled extensively throughout the year identifying those area where LCCIEB can contribute to the development of a well qualified workforce . |
| 6 | The author , an American journalist , has travelled widely in the Balkans , and has lived in Greece . |
| 7 | For Charlie is one of Scotland 's best known pipers and has travelled all over the world with the Black Watch to play at social and diplomatic functions . |
| 8 | The Inland Revenue has commented further on the tax treatment of ex gratia payments made on the termination of an office or employment , as set out in Statement of Practice SP 13/91 . |
| 9 | During 1912 , when numbers had reached 172 , it was decided that entry would have to be restricted for the next year , as " the Board of Education has commented adversely on the size of several of our classes and has refused to countenance it " . |
| 10 | Pierre has taught all over the world — next month he 's running a course here at the Lygon Arms Hotel in Broadway . |
| 11 | But it is Damon , fourth from the top , who has vaulted ahead of the others , thanks to the cutting-edge characters he developed for Keenan 's show : an angry circus clown , a flamboyant film reviewer , and , riskiest of all , Handiman , ah , uh , differently abled super-hero . |
| 12 | A LITTLE boy has flown halfway round the world to learn to walk . |
| 13 | In fact , there seems to be some feeling here that China has fallen right behind the rest of the world in matters of language study and language teaching methodology , so I found myself , on one day , giving a résumé of Linguistics in the west over the past 50 years ! |
| 14 | Right Chairman , yes , the report 's for information , there are a few things to update , occupancy remains healthy , erm , the working total has fallen slightly over the Christmas recess , but erm , really by ten there . |
| 15 | IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago . |
| 16 | Similarly , GDFCF has fallen substantially in the recession years of the late 198()s and early 1990s . |
| 17 | According to Miles Barber of Barbers Estate Agents ( 071–381 0112 ) , the level of enquiries about French property remains relatively high , although the number of transactions has fallen sharply since the peak of 1989 . |
| 18 | Here I must think Wordsworth is deeper than Milton , though I think it has depended more upon the general and gregarious advance of intellect , than individual greatness of Mind From the Paradise Lost and the other Works of Milton , I hope it is not too presuming , even between ourselves to say , that his Philosophy , human and divine , may be tolerably understood by one not much advanced in years … |
| 19 | They 're referring , of course , to his brother Edgar , with whom he has collaborated often in the past . |
| 20 | A group of academics and intellectuals has gathered together under the title Charter 88 to campaign for a written constitution to rectify the ‘ implausibility ’ of the country 's current protection of liberty and freedom . |
| 21 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 22 | The rum market in Venezuela is undergoing a difficult period of transition , but Pampero 's performance has responded well to the relaunch . |
| 23 | The Scottish economy has responded vigorously to the policies we have introduced to liberate enterprise , and many more people are now saving , investing and owning their homes . |
| 24 | The secretary-general of Génération Ecologie , François Donzel , has resigned ahead of the party 's first congress planned for November . |
| 25 | One result has been that the price of dumping rubbish has varied widely around the country . |
| 26 | The relationship between fertility rates and mortality rates has created a population structure which has varied substantially during the period in question . |
| 27 | Both Blumler , examining coverage by 31 BBC and ITV regional stations , and Hetherington bring out the extensive nature of these programmes , although performance has varied considerably between the regions , with stations in Scotland , Wales and the North appearing to pay more attention to Parliament than stations in the South or the Midlands . |
| 28 | John Biffen did not sign the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion , but he has voted consistently against the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 29 | Today many of these lie submerged by the sea , for the land is flat and the sea has encroached all round the coast . |
| 30 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |