Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the child would n't go into the sea , she had her taught to swim in the local baths . |
| 2 | Firstly pictures of their lead singer , Ben Volpierre Pierrot , have stopped appearing in the front sections of Sunday newspaper supplements captioned by bad puns on his name , and secondly the single from this album is all about leaving messages on an answering machine . |
| 3 | How could Ezpeleta , a soldier-administrator well on in his seventies and now Captain General in Barcelona , be expected to appeal to the unemployed dockers , artisans , and cotton operatives , called by the French commander l'immense canaille de Barcelone , against an overwhelmingly superior French garrison ? |
| 4 | Of course this does n't mean that any woman found drinking it will turn to stone but it is designed to appeal to the real men of the nation . |
| 5 | The agreement involved a delicate balance between concessions to the demands for greater autonomy by much of the French-speaking majority of Quebec and by representatives of the native Indian and Inuit population , and wider constitutional reforms designed to appeal to the western provinces , particularly the creation of an elected Senate where all 10 of the country 's provinces would be equally represented [ see p. 39000 ] . |
| 6 | A major source of opposition to the return of Rawlings to power was expected to come from the Nkrumahist parties . |
| 7 | Here are some words which are commonly used in essay and exam questions , grouped according to the basic types of writing which they might be asking you to do . |
| 8 | ‘ And you 've come to listen to the sean nós ? ’ |
| 9 | The objectives should therefore be modified according to the individual requirements of a student . |
| 10 | As in World War I , deaf persons were not permitted to serve in the armed forces , yet there were thousands of able-bodied deaf men and women who could be used to serve their country in a civilian capacity . |
| 11 | While no deaf person in Britain has been awarded any armed services medal — for the simple reason that no deaf person is permitted to serve in the armed services — or any government sponsored civilian award , or police award , deaf people have been given awards from such bodies as the Carnegie Fund , the Royal Humane Society , and the Society for Protection of Life from Fire . |
| 12 | Just as the civic buildings in Moscow expressed the confident power of the Communist regime , so the new housing blocks were designed to conform to the new ideals of social life . |
| 13 | More than 200 others were reported injured among the 327 passengers and 13 crew . |
| 14 | The content varied according to the imagined circumstances but it invariably contained the information that he was a magistrate , an exponent of the martial arts , or someone who had recently been diagnosed as HIV positive and would have no hesitation in biting if attacked . |
| 15 | It has been a day which commenced so stunningly with the horse and carriage procession , swept forward with the harmonious , soaring , musical arrangements at the wedding ceremony , and has culminated in the utter perfection of the gourmet dinner , all in keeping with what we have come to expect from the organizational abilities of one of the world 's paragons . |
| 16 | This " information cycle " of selecting , processing and communicating information is designed to fit into the nine steps outlined in Information skills in the secondary curriculum and builds upon previous information skills work done in the curriculum . |
| 17 | Union members are expected to vote on the new rules in the near future . |
| 18 | Further provisions ( which are discussed in detail in Chapter 8 ) will be included to deal with the financial consequences of a partner 's death in such a way as to quantify the deceased 's share in the business and also provide for its payment without the need for any forced sale of partnership property . |
| 19 | The Law Commission is also expected to deal with the legal issues surrounding computer viruses . |
| 20 | The feint attacks towards Scotland and Ireland , designed to draw off the British warships from the Channel , were also frustrated by the patrolling frigates , ready to summon heavier support from Portsmouth and Plymouth . |
| 21 | The engineer will be expected to contribute to the technical aspects of the specification and to those points associated with the running and timing of the project . |
| 22 | It is important to look behind the aggregate figures of local sourcing to try to identify where linkage effects could realistically be expected to result from the transnational practices of established and potential TNCs , and what the host authorities could realistically hope to do about it in terms of their transnational practices . |
| 23 | The Padre was unable to find any word at all ; his eyes had come to rest on the golden letters " Holy Bible " on the back of Fleury 's razor blade . |
| 24 | Madness can not be considered to exist outside the historical conditions of its production — and could never therefore be ‘ restored … to its original language ’ as Foucault hopes . |
| 25 | Basic and unsophisticated , the resorts are clearly designed to blend with the natural surroundings and feature little in the way of nightly entertainment ; watching the evocative sunsets or taking romantic walks along the beach at twilight are more in keeping with this slice of unadulterated paradise . |
| 26 | If you have the answer as eighteen , you 've probably forgotten to add in the additional boxes at each stage . |
| 27 | As autumn comes into it 's own , the number of visitors is expected to double as the pale leaves of summer change colour . |
| 28 | In the first month of the new junta , 131 workers were reported killed as the military hardliners in government sought to clamp down op the unions . |
| 29 | Although some of these sites were reported destroyed in the early stages of the air campaign , the mobile facilities in particular proved difficult to detect . |
| 30 | He had forgotten to take off the white coveralls . |