Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ICL has filled out the top end of its DRS 6000 range with new multiprocessing models 780 and 782 in the 700 series . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms . |
| 5 | Garin Jenkins has sorted out the front row and the Webster-Reynolds-Stuart Davies back row can live with any in the leagues . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Performances last for over three hours , no smoking or drinking is allowed , and each one has sold out the 700-seater Hackney Empire . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At a rather general level , the analysis has borne out the earlier lessons . |
| 14 | Bowie , whose admiration is tinged with honest caution , has summed up the Lacanian system in these words : |
| 15 | To counteract that Murphy has set up the Edinburgh-based PR Centre . |
| 16 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 17 | Bennett has set out the supposed pros and cons in the annual report . |
| 18 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 19 | X/Open Co Ltd has wheeled out the latest release of its XPG portability guide — version 4 — with president , Geoff Morris , claiming that end users have now procured some $7bn of systems and software based upon its open systems standards , and that over 500 branded products are now on offer from 50 or more suppliers . |
| 20 | The ACPO in Scotland , as also in England and Wales , has made a policy decision about sponsored events which has brought about the above situation . |
| 21 | Changing that attitude has brought about the biggest improvement in the team . ’ |
| 22 | Day Two of the International Trials at Blenheim has brought in the big names … but has n't brought a change in the lead … |
| 23 | TOG O' WAR ace Steve Churchill has pulled off the greatest prize — a world championship . |
| 24 | Frederica Freer has cut out the messy business by photographing the endpapers of 18th- and 19th-century books from the collection in her Gloucestershire house and turning the prints into postcards . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh , actor , director and entrepreneur , has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 27 | Injury has ruled out the current incumbent at No 10 , Llanelli 's Colin Stephens , leaving his two biggest rivals the chance to impress selectors . |
| 28 | She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Major has worked out the best way to do this is to read out lists . |
| 30 | 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 . |