Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 500 candidates have completed the course so far and all have visited Lyles . |
| 2 | They have painted the building twice inside and outside . |
| 3 | Parish council chairman Gillian Woodcraft said : Although the new school is still planned , lack of funding has delayed the start yet again and the county council wish to include the island site , between Rake Road and Mill Road , in the sale of the land occupied by the existing school to maximise resources . ’ |
| 4 | Whilst understanding the reasons for change as part of AEAs evolution , he was unclear as to why the announcement had been made now but appreciated being given the information so explicitly and comprehensively . |
| 5 | Bruce Cumings has examined the evidence as fairly as is feasible and has discounted the more grandiose claims , such as Kim 's participation in the battle for Stalingrad . |
| 6 | The new industry of salmon-farming has filled the gap as far as the scavenging gulls are concerned : the rearing cages are placed in the sheltered bays and ‘ sounds ’ between the islands and are fed on high-protein , manufactured food in pellet form , which are ferried out in sacks by small boats . |
| 7 | Police treated the letters very seriously and concluded they came from a ‘ disturbed clergyman , ’ she said . |
| 8 | They seem to have treated the lifters as brainlessly as they did a student with a night job in Bournemouth when he could n't give a sample despite an hour of trying on a roasting day in London . |
| 9 | In the third century AD Afilas recorded in a Greek inscription how , among other conquests , he had subdued the tribes as far as the Egyptian frontier . |
| 10 | Jane for two years she 's enjoyed the course so far but she thinks |
| 11 | There was very little inconvenience in leaving out the butter and salad cream , and I have enjoyed the diet even more whilst watching the inches disappear , and enjoying being complimented on how much slimmer I look . |
| 12 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 13 | A CBS television program had revealed the link as early as April 1987 . |
| 14 | The sooner Sizewell C is built the better as far as we 're concerned . |
| 15 | The removal of the public interest defence from the Official Secrets Act has made the position worse rather than better . |
| 16 | The special circumstances of territorial displacement and the withdrawal of adult supervision , which appear to have been more pronounced in Britain than in other parts of western Europe where the family is stronger as a recreational unit , have made the problem worse here than elsewhere ; this has led to the formation of the ‘ ends ’ which in turn has tended to attract a small fascist and psychotic fringe . |
| 17 | She said this last doubtfully because she had seen the School as recently as Jarvis had and could not imagine any ‘ civilized people ’ renting it . |
| 18 | Well I 've seen the toothbrush somewhere recently but I 'm buggered if I can remember where . |
| 19 | The case where the complainant had seen the assailant only once or on a few occasions before might well be treated as that of identification rather than recognition . |
| 20 | When Glenn thinks about what would have happened if he had needed the transplant now rather than two-and-a-half years ago he says he gets cold shivers . |
| 21 | After Aberdeen last week , we should have offered the fans much better than that . ’ |
| 22 | They have played the roles so often that the women must be part of their lives . |
| 23 | Davis has noted the unease as late as the mid-1820s of some members of the committee of the Anti-Slavery Society over Cropper 's desire to see public meetings addressed by travelling agents because of the association of such methods with other , divisive reform causes . |
| 24 | Crocker had damaged the Midland so badly that in 1986 the Bank of England sent in Sir Kit McMahon , its deputy governor , as chairman and chief executive to sort things out . |
| 25 | The market is less active , people are less likely to take risks with things they know nothing of in the hope of growth so perhaps the recession has affected the USM more severely than people have given credit for . |
| 26 | Nothing would be pleasanter than not having to make people redundant , not having to close a factory , but your job is to take the decisions when you have assessed the evidence as carefully as you can and not to shirk them . |
| 27 | Jim may have known the assailant or he may have entered the house either quietly or under a pretence |
| 28 | Having taken account of the patients ' needs , has management distributed the workload as evenly as possible across the 24 hours for each patient area ? |
| 29 | They had woken the Trees only so that they could ask for their help , of course . |
| 30 | ‘ These are probably worth a bomb , ’ she told Sendei , who had spent the night as sleeplessly as her . |