Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you set about making your plans for next year let me leave you with this thought from Eglantine Jebb If children of any country are physically or morally abandoned the whole world loses by it and the whole world gains if children grow up healthy , capable and ready to work for the good of their neighbours . |
| 2 | This is conceptually similar but not identical to the phenomena described by Matza ( 1964 : 33–68 ) as the subculture of delinquency : both consist of ‘ precepts and customs that are delicately balanced between convention and crime ’ ; both ‘ posit objectives that may be attained through ( crime ) but also other means ’ ; both ‘ allow ( crime ) but it is not demanded or necessarily considered the preferred path ’ ; and both consist of ‘ norms and sentiments ’ which are ‘ beliefs that function as the extenuating conditions under which ( crime ) is permissible ’ . |
| 3 | For example , in the various stages of pre-trial procedure the party who is ultimately successful may have caused undue delay or not followed the proper procedure and been penalised at that time by the award of costs against him or her in respect of a particular hearing . |
| 4 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 5 | It blessed the religious communities and thereby committed the Anglican Communion to an official acceptance of monks and nuns in a way which was so far unique to the Churches which came out of the Reformation . |
| 6 | This followed the Romanian government 's suspension in January of the 1948 decrees which eliminated five of the seven Roman Catholic dioceses in the country and forcibly incorporated the Eastern Rite Catholics ( Uniates ) into the Romanian Orthodox Church . |
| 7 | The disease had recurred at a previous ileocolonic anastomosis in seven patients and predominantly affected the small bowel , the large bowel and both small and large intestine in nine , nine , and eight patients respectively . |
| 8 | He told me she 'd lost an ear , carbonized the top of her skull and badly damaged the right side of her face . |
| 9 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 10 | The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount . |
| 11 | The police suspected that it was an inside job and promptly arrested the dismissed worker , for no reason other than that she might have borne a grudge against her erstwhile employer . |
| 12 | from this then I think that in fact the they would be more and more involved the more sort of radical they 're going |
| 13 | Nasser must not be turned into a hero and gratuitously accorded the leading role in the Middle East . |
| 14 | Her objective was to acquire Transylvania , and she now at once invaded that country and quickly occupied the greater part of it . |
| 15 | In 1898 , on the Torres Straits expedition , he performed some of the first experiments in cross-cultural psychology and also developed the genealogical method as a key to the study of social organization . |
| 16 | During the many years it was to remain at Scampton R5868 was maintained and also given the occasional coat of paint . |
| 17 | While in that capacity he devised an ingenious method of casting railway chairs , and also designed the wrought-iron roof of the New Street Station in Birmingham , which with a span of 211 feet was the largest iron roof at the time of its completion . |
| 18 | They were used for a full ferreting season and instantly replaced the multiple-dig system . |
| 19 | The father found him a ready substitute for his own dead infant son , Philip , and often called the young writer ‘ Phil ’ . |
| 20 | And well done the major prize-winner , Mr. S. Davies of John Broom & Co. , a keen rugby supporter who is now set to have a rather special honeymoon following his wedding next month — off with his bride to New Zealand ! |
| 21 | He acquitted two men and then placed the black cap on his head and sentenced the other two to death . |
| 22 | The coachwork by the famous firm of Thrupp and Maberly matched the dark green and black livery . |
| 23 | However , the organisers decided not to award him the individual trophy since he already had a team trophy and instead awarded the individual trophy to the person with the lowest score . |
| 24 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 25 | Thus the NADP became synonymous with three General Management Development Schemes ( GMTS ) and never deployed the full range of intended options , especially the use of ‘ designated ‘ posts ’ . |
| 26 | Another triumph as well for organiser Lyn David , the lock keeper and recently awarded the British Empire Medal . |
| 27 | Karita Mattila started on the flat side , but eventually developed the right glow and intensity . |
| 28 | And we 've , but only found the middle part |
| 29 | It had ensheathed , but not invaded the carotid artery . |
| 30 | The former suggests that retirement spread through unfettered consumer desire for more leisure , that industrialization progressively excluded older workers but also created the national wealth and political will ( through the establishment of mass democracy ) to support them on state pension schemes , and that increasing personal prosperity led to the individual 's growing ability to save through a private pension . |