Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 've visited both Cambodia itself and the camps , er first of all in the camps , the situation is appalling because there are very many people who do not want to be in those camps and are really in effect being held there against their will , and what has been extraordinary until this year , is that the people who 've been holding them there against their will have been the Phol Pot dominated so-called coalition government and on the basis of the people being in the camps , that , that , that regime has gone on to claim recognition at the United Nations ; an appalling situation . |
| 2 | The suppliers lost count of the ancient oaks , not to mention the chestnut and cherry trees , cut down to provide panelling for the two grand offices reserved for the couple , but also for hundreds of function rooms and apparatchiks ' offices . |
| 3 | By the 1940s , retirement had been written in to state support for the elderly and , as such , became part of a new institutionalized dependence . |
| 4 | Police had to be brought in to protect Laing from the outraged violence of some of his hearers . |
| 5 | The tape was cut by Ray and Debra Mason , petrol station section manager , allowing the first customers in to take advantage of the low priced JS petrol . |
| 6 | The abbey bells rang for vespers but Corbett waited till he heard the monks returning from the chapel , before going down to join Ranulf in the whitewashed refectory . |
| 7 | The houses remained until the early 1950s when they were knocked down to make way for the new church . |
| 8 | The church was closed for repair and restoration during the years 1887–8–9 , when the old ruinous south chapel was pulled down to make room for the present commodious aisles , the reason for this being the increase in population due to industrialisation in the village . |
| 9 | In May 1890 , the minutes state that ‘ the old Saloon Shed having been pulled down to make room for the new Paint Shop , a shed is required for the three shunt engines ’ . |
| 10 | Apparently the mill only had a short working life as a corn mill , having been turned over to saw milling by the 1920s . |
| 11 | John Gorman , his right hand man for the past two seasons has taken over to lead Swindon into the Premier League next season … |
| 12 | Seeing his opportunity , Khalil Ullah Khan rode up to Dara and advised him to dismount from his war elephant and ride over to take charge of the wavering left wing . |
| 13 | Even so they made it through to take part in the fast-moving challenge of wits with ‘ Mr Magic ’ himself . |
| 14 | The first five items here had to be held over to make space for the 1990 Social List in the March issue … |
| 15 | In the evening soldiers were detailed off to perform folk-dances in the primitive town theatre . |
| 16 | The male penguin might just have calculated that if you 're stuck in the Antarctic for years on end then the cleverest thing to do is stay at home minding the egg while you send the female off to catch fish in the freezing waters . |
| 17 | The cells of our skin are constantly dying and being replaced , the old ones have to be sloughed off to make space for the new . |
| 18 | A boat called Dodo 's Delight sailed out of Falmouth harbour this week … on board a crew of old boys from Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire … they 're off to make history as the first school group to sail around the world … they 'll be gone for twenty months … so we 're waving them goodbye in our Friday Feature |
| 19 | These approvals are the first to come forward under the transitional arrangements the Government set up to cover RECHAR in the 1992–93 financial year . |
| 20 | However , in response to demand , an initiative was set up to distribute data from the 1981 Census . |
| 21 | At the beginning of the Kyoto meeting a working party was set up to consider proposals from the southern African countries , which would differentiate between " critically endangered " and " endangered " species , and under which trade would be banned only if there were strong evidence that it was affecting the conservation of the species . |
| 22 | In particular , the technical panels set up to consider workplans for the administrative networks component of telematics are currently in suspension , but the Commission has urged that replies to the questionnaires should still be sent in since these will be worked on and evaluated in the meantime . |
| 23 | But Aherne , on his game , has the considerable virtues of gritty defence , stretching far beyond the normal demands on a scrum-half , so often turning up to save situations as the last line in the defensive fortifications . |
| 24 | But no new names have been signed up to take space in the 165,000 sq ft centre , despite market reports that both Etam and WH Smith were set to confirm lettings to them this week . |
| 25 | A star studded array of jockeys are lined up to take part in the first of seven races , The Classic FM Celebrity Riders Handicap Stakes at The Newmarket Countryside Race Day . |
| 26 | Doors and windows have been bricked up to prevent access to the empty properties , but arsonists have now started smashing the breeze-blocks . |
| 27 | Announcing that special committees had been set up to make recommendations to the next meeting in Oman in April , Mr Baghli added : ‘ We see that the American administration is serious in imposing the tax and the European countries are uniting their ranks to impose this tax to threaten our basic source of living . ’ |
| 28 | Once the pack is empty , another tap is turned on to send water to the rinsing nozzle inside the container . |
| 29 | Post-war Bob went on to fly Vampires in the Middle East , eventually becoming CO of a Royal Indian Air Force squadron . |
| 30 | Andrew Ball read music at Oxford and went on to study piano at the Royal College of Music . |