Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He joined the Scholars ' Movement in 1907 , was arrested , and some say imprisoned on the notorious island of Pulo Condor , where political prisoners were exiled . |
| 2 | By way of postscript to these observations , some have discerned in the latest Soviet systems a greater introduction of new technology than is normally the pattern : a reflection , perhaps , of greater design confidence , but just as possibly the expression of worry about the pace of technological change in the present decade . |
| 3 | Something like twenty-five of these have appeared in the last two years and more are on the way . |
| 4 | These have led to the same stereotyping of characters as happens in classical ballet . |
| 5 | They are perhaps owe something to the tabloid newspapers and colour supplements , as these have emerged in the post-war years , with their high illustrative content and minimal text . |
| 6 | This project aims to understand the variety of ways in which bus companies manage their undertakings in the context of declining patronage , with particular emphasis on the range of strategic responses made and how these have impacted upon the organisational cultures of selected bus operators . |
| 7 | These have ranged from the emotional , continent-wide vision of Kwame Nkrumah ( ‘ Africa must unite ’ ) , to Julius Nyerere 's target of ‘ socialism in one country ’ , to the hard boiled ‘ Africa needs Europe ’ school of Houphouet Boigny and Kenyatta . |
| 8 | This chapter examines the broader economic circumstances of non-institutionalized elderly people , and the way these have changed over the last eighty years , to see how far and in what areas they may challenge the assertions of the ‘ structured dependency ’ school of authors . |
| 9 | It will examine the main determinants of international production and foreign direct investment and how these have changed over the last 50 years ; the way in which decisions are taken within multi-national enterprises ; the changing forms of international involvement , and the impact of the activities of MNEs on the home and host economies in which they operate . |
| 10 | I need to know his home address , his occupation , and his business address , and if any of these have changed in the last five years . |
| 11 | These have resulted in the better definition of defect dependent growth , morphological control by physical and chemical means and the influence of structure in both the surface and the dispersed phase on the growth process . |
| 12 | The Sproati all get interned by the British immigration authorities ; thanks to a false reading on a spectrograph when they were planning the operation they 've all taken too many tannin pills and they 're almost black . |
| 13 | But we all get changed in the same room when we 're at concerts . |
| 14 | We all feel touched by the greatest gift our ancestors have handed down to us . |
| 15 | It is the most addictive drug ever — many become addicted from the first time they use it . |
| 16 | All these examples are speculative , but all have surfaced in the recent debate on higher education . |
| 17 | And if if a certain family gets stuck in with another family and they 're both trouble causers and they both get moved to the same area it 's gon na cause trouble in that area so they ought to say , Right fifty there , fifty there , |
| 18 | Both have contributed to the higher resale values for diesels , tilting the operating-cost equation in favour of the oil-burners . |
| 19 | Both have figured in the last major exhibitions devoted to these painters . |