Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] the [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 2 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 3 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 4 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 5 | As the technique has developed so the range of applications in clinical practice has expanded . |
| 6 | We 've pieced together the fragments of leaks and rumours concerning the latest version of the 10-year-old operating system , due to release at the end of March . |
| 7 | ‘ You have n't filled in the bit about union membership , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Runcorn ( 1964 ) , another sizeable township of 28,000 population , followed for Merseyside and in the same year Washington largely filled in the gap between South Tyneside and Sunderland . |
| 9 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 10 | Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules . |
| 11 | Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore . |
| 12 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've just come off the Isle of Man boat . ’ |
| 14 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 15 | Poshekhonov said that he had found the way to laugh , he had picked up the spear of ridicule . |
| 16 | Timber which has been properly kiln-seasoned ( which needs expensive kilns and close supervision ) is in no way worse than ‘ naturally ’ seasoned timber and indeed is rather less likely to have picked up the infections of rot during the seasoning process . |
| 17 | Maxim had picked up the story from friends in the Intelligence Corps . |
| 18 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 19 | The dead cetaceans , predators at the very top of the maritime food chain , would have picked up the toxins from shellfish and smaller animals which accumulate pollutants , Lenghaus said . |
| 20 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive in a hotel . |
| 21 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive at a hotel . |
| 22 | Some market men said they believed Smith was trying to support the price because the firm was already heavily exposed to Ferranti , having picked up the bulk of shares placed at 81p in July by Jim Guerin , International Signal and Control 's former chairman . |
| 23 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 24 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 25 | And we have speeded up the benefits of revaluation for those businesses who gain from it . |
| 26 | The reforms have speeded up the pace of resource management ( now being rolled out to all acute units ) , made medical audit compulsory and strengthened managers ' formal powers over clinicians . |
| 27 | This has speeded up the flow of information on companies to the regions . |
| 28 | The vote on Mr Craxi has speeded up the disintegration of Italy 's scandal-tainted parties . |
| 29 | The Libyan attack occupied both the minds of Reagan and the public around the world , although from very different viewpoints as to the morality of the action . |
| 30 | Young children may well appreciate this before they have sorted out the relation between connective , mode , and temporal order . |