Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More positively , we discover how problems that result from the shrinking of family ties to what we call the ‘ nuclear family ’ are alleviated or avoided in the more flexible kinship arrangements of many tribal peoples . |
| 2 | So , starting with the driver as pilot , a car was designed and built around the most important component . |
| 3 | He also told reporters : ‘ It was completed on time and is a first class facility , designed and engineered to the very highest standards . |
| 4 | The human conscience should be respected and revered as the most precious and effective thing that the human race , in its struggle to civilise itself , has available , and it can be used only by giving it the utmost priority in child training . |
| 5 | With the growth in numbers in asylums , however , and the take-over by medical men rather than educators , the early conviction that education could lead to improvement and a return to the community was eroded and replaced by the more pessimistic approach reflected in the oppressive institutions of this century . |
| 6 | The possible implications of this development are best considered when looking at the more general direction which the control on discretion is , and should be , taking . |
| 7 | The dramatic shake-ups during those periods do not suddenly appear out of nowhere but should be seen as resulting from the more gradual and less fundamental changes that had been occurring within the old structure 's context over previous decades . |
| 8 | ( When Ms Arrowsmith returned to her pacifist work , she was again arrested , but this time prosecuted and convicted under the more severe Incitement to Disaffection Act 1934 . |
| 9 | However , this volume , which appeared in 1916 , can remind us how techniques of archaeology have changed over this century , since the volume included hardly any of the small and often illegible coins which have been found and published in the more recent ( 1981 ) volume of Sardis finds . |
| 10 | Like all good selectors , they had not been swayed or influenced by the most recent of events and clearly stuck to a game plan which may well have been devised before the 1992–93 season even commenced . |
| 11 | … the complete Union of the two countries is stamped and sealed in the most satisfactory and solid manner for it is not only a union of the two governments — the two sovereigns — it is that of the two nations ! |
| 12 | I 've just travelled on a train that has had its inside scraped and engraved with the upside-down , sideways , capitals language of fanatics of the football game . |
| 13 | The partnership — already tried and tested at the highly successful Meadowhall retail development in Sheffield — will invest DM900 million to develop the scheme on derelict land in the heart of Oberhausen , in Germany 's Ruhr Valley . |
| 14 | There have been occasions when the security forces have over-reacted and strayed from the strictly enforced doctrine of ‘ minimum force ’ . |
| 15 | During the third week of rehearsal , Gene Hackman was fired and replaced by the extremely different Murray Hamilton . |
| 16 | For too long education has been a state within a state , with its own corporatist culture of welfare dependency , and levelling dogma and practice — practice for years endorsed and encouraged by the supposedly independent inspectorate of schools . |
| 17 | Yet it is all ordered and organized in the most exquisite manner . |
| 18 | It did , however , make clear the extent to which the Soviet approach to international affairs had changed as compared with the relatively simple priorities of the Brezhnev era . |
| 19 | It may be supposed that Cole 's comments refer only to the production of goods for retail in the Consumers , Movement 's own stores , and are not to be read as relating to the more general development of the industrial co-operative sector . |