Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] the [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This part of the course is intended to enable the student to spend enough time on one current and developing model of grammar to be at ease with its fundamental concepts and to understand in some detail the application of these to the solution of actual problems in English . |
| 2 | Mrs Chalker echoed Mr Brady 's comments when she told the bank 's board yesterday : ‘ It is not clear to me that new facilities are needed to enable the bank to address this problem [ of defence conversion ] . |
| 3 | Supplementary materials should then be supplied to enable the student to overcome these difficulties . |
| 4 | Manager : We sat with the clinicians and said , look we 've got to identify the capital to do this properly and we drew up a clinic scheme and then we had to compromise on what they wanted and John at one stage said , " I 'm sorry , that is what you 're getting . |
| 5 | In wartime food had got to be produced , and all the young men were off the land , somebody 'd got to grow the food to feed this country and it was getting a bit desperate , because , old Hitler , he was no fool . |
| 6 | Most general practitioners accepted that the service delivered was what you got and I have often had to persuade the patient to accept that . |
| 7 | Further investment is needed to allow the consortium to open another coalface to speed up production . |
| 8 | Perhaps he could be persuaded to commission the muralist to cover some of the acres of bare wall which Matthew had described . |
| 9 | Once stretched the linen was sized to stop the canvas absorbing any of the ground . |
| 10 | The rules of grammar are intended to analyse the structure underlying this discursive order . |
| 11 | William Langdon , a 45-year-old fireproofer , was asked to use the truck to collect some material from the stores on the SLP Engineering yard in Vulcan Street , Middlesbrough , because the regular driver was late for work . |
| 12 | Major international telecommunications service providers are teaming under the auspices of the Network Management Forum to agree purchasing specifications for an open , standardised computing environment to support their network , service and business management needs — and with annual spending of $20,000m a year on computer systems , the parties involved have the muscle to impose any standard they set . |
| 13 | All contact lenses must be very carefully fitted to allow the cornea to receive enough oxygen . |
| 14 | In this section , I am not referring to those blocks in the memory which the subconscious mind has created to prevent the subject remembering some deeply traumatic incident in his or her past . |
| 15 | Much of Western psychotherapy draws , in various forms , on the catharsis model , whereby it is held as necessary for emotional health to come to terms with the repressed anger that is assumed to be inside the individual , and techniques are developed to make the individual confront these in a dramatic form . |
| 16 | Later I improved and graduated to two fingers , and eventually learnt to play the tune using all my fingers . |
| 17 | ‘ You and I — and quite a few of the nightclub staff — will be required to help the police put all the pieces of the jigsaw together , ’ said Adam . |
| 18 | Indeed the European parliamentary resolution is specific on that point and I believe the boundary commission has failed to take the opportunity to exercise that requirement . |
| 19 | Instructors are advised to ask the trainees to determine each step before using ‘ what happened ’ as an example . |
| 20 | The talented speaker even managed to make the crowd appreciate all the recreational areas within the city . |