Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she allowed him to ‘ catch ’ her , the two of them rolled about on a pile of hessian rope , screeching and laughing , until David reminded Cissie that she was ‘ a young lady of certain years ’ and that Richard should remember how he had only been allowed to come to the docks on the understanding that he be on his ‘ best behaviour ’ . |
| 2 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 3 | In other words , money wages , interest rates and-tax payments have all been adjusted to allow for the 10 per cent rise in the average level of prices . |
| 4 | The great grandchildren of those who had been gulled by the infantile speculative ventures on offer during the manic South Sea Bubble phenomenon had obviously been conditioned to react in the same wild way . |
| 5 | It has been a fashion among Opposition Members — indeed , this was reported by the hon. Gentleman tonight — to suggest that the access funds alone are intended to compensate for the withdrawal of benefits generally and that the £25 million , which he correctly quoted , must , therefore , be inadequate . |
| 6 | The gangs had already been selected to work on the other three small coasters which had arrived over the past weekend . |
| 7 | With Severiano Ballesteros , Nick Faldo , Ian Woosnam and several leading Americans also in the field , Olazabal does not have the incentive of trying to gain a place in next week 's World Matchplay at Wentworth : he has already been invited to play in the event this year . |
| 8 | Students due to enter the school that year had already been asked to volunteer for the parallel track , so two cohorts existed — those who had expressed a preference for the new approach and those who had not . |
| 9 | Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence . |
| 10 | That case can thus be seen to proceed on the same basis as the colore officii cases . |
| 11 | It can thus be seen to stand as the architectural counterpart to the other key artistic expressions of the age , the panoramic canvases of John Martin , Edward John Poynter , and Lawrence Alma-Tadema , toweringly romantic and imaginative recreations of the temples , palaces , baths , and amphitheatres of the ancient world , and the novels of Walter Scott , Harrison Ainsworth , and Bulwer-Lytton which evoked a monumental and teeming past of medieval castles , Tudor mansions , and unbridled Gothic imagination . |
| 12 | An intersection can thus be established to exist between the cylinder of the pin and the surface of the block within the bounds of the intersection domain . |
| 13 | The magnitude of the overt CR will depend on the interaction of these two forms of learning and can thus be expected to diminish as the contribution of the latter increases . |
| 14 | On March 14 the Lithuanian Supreme Council passed a resolution saying that Lithuanians would no longer be required to serve in the Red Army and that conscripts who deserted would not be held criminally responsible . |
| 15 | He suggests the army could no longer be used to drain off the unemployable proletariat by conscription , nor could the newly independent colonies be used to dump the troublesome of society ( see also Hughes 1987 ) . |
| 16 | But from now on underwriters will be able to take on risks in any sector and brokers will no longer be forced to traipse around the market to place different strands of business with individual underwriters . |
| 17 | But from now on underwriters will be able to take on risks in any sector and brokers will no longer be forced to traipse around the market to place different strands of business with individual underwriters . |
| 18 | Now admirers like Major James Hewitt will no longer be forced to stay in the background . |
| 19 | And now the company is advertising in the local paper for windfall apples that would normally be left to rot on the ground . |
| 20 | Yet a disgruntled secretary , or one left unemployed by dismissal or the death or recall of his master , might easily be tempted to profit by the information he had acquired in his work . |
| 21 | Under section 15(2) ( a ) it is no defence that the bulk can easily be made to correspond with the sample . |
| 22 | He knew he was wealthy , set up for life , but he was already being made to pay for the taking of those lives : almost every night since , he had been troubled by dreams in which he found himself face to face once more with his victims . |
| 23 | It became an annual event and a major source of Army income , with the public soon being asked to share in the exercise . |
| 24 | Nothing I say hereafter is intended to relate to the second decision . |
| 25 | Pahaska meanwhile is determined to walk off the catwalks and rejoin her community by Christmas to help in its struggle . |
| 26 | Since the present seating at QP will only accommodate 366 people , those arriving early are asked to sit on the platform to leave the main body of the hall for WHAM . |
| 27 | We were told that even if inward migration was to stop for the next ten years , 45,000 new houses would still be needed to cater for the predicted natural growth of 49,000 people , plus the trend towards smaller households . |
| 28 | Although Chubb Security is now valued at £900m , with the shares at 320p against the 200p at which they floated last October , it may still be undervalued to judge from the latest 64 per cent rise in profits . |
| 29 | it is extremely doubtful that the overall system … can ever be made to work without the kind of total ideological commitment and radical transformation which underlie its operation in socialist Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |