Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the long run , such images become coins of exchange along with pickets , football riots , and urban disturbances ; they populate our consciousness and can be recalled intact by the sheer mention of a single word or by a brief news clip from the past .
2 The production of up-to-date Class Lists has been delayed due to the tardy response of teachers to requests for current details .
3 Although there was an attempt to introduce some competition for BT , this has been limited due to the natural monopoly position of parts of the telecommunications industry .
4 She was ready to be lulled asleep by the monotonous chant when they all stood up and repeated , ‘ God the Father , God the Son , and God the Holy Ghost . ’
5 Back to Dan again , ‘ I checked on Charlie on the way home and his bleeding had stopped due to the extreme cold at high altitude .
6 But what is of greater Baldwin significance is the clear indication that at this stage he had developed little of the pervading antipathy to wards Lloyd George which was to be the making of his own career .
7 The hit squad blew her vehicle off the road , and she was lucky to have jumped clear before the main explosion .
8 ‘ You have already received some of the precious germ-plasm of our blessed Patriarch to kindle you as a true Imperial Fist … ’
9 The Pakistani parents in Rochdale were very anxious to bring up their children in an Islamic culture and regarded this as the key issue in decisions as to whether or not to stay in Britain .
10 Also , under current regulations 75% was the minimum grant to Responsible Bodies ; although in practice the Ministry had treated this as the standard proportion , not to be exceeded , it was worrying that the Ashby Report gave 75% as the maximum .
11 A late and rather unreliable source also explained some of the northern discontent in 1469 as the result of the demands of the Hospital of St Leonard at York for payments of sheaves from the northern counties ( 13 , p.121 ; 40 , p.218 ) .
12 Given some of the appalling crud that gets sent to rss ( cf Denise ) , I could n't believe you were getting serious grief for it .
13 By 1953 his war record was forgotten ; though the British had misgivings , Zahedi was deemed preferable to the dangerous Mossadeq .
14 Fifty-four members had been returned to local councils while in certain local authorities , notably the Rhondda Urban District , the Communist vote had approached that of the Labour Party .
15 Among the reasons for these large numbers are that there is no right of appeal from the Immigration Appeal Tribunal to the courts ; that from many decisions by immigration officers adverse to immigrants , an appeal can be made only from outside the United Kingdom ; and that from some decisions ( such as some exclusions deemed conducive to the public good by the Secretary of State ) there are no rights of appeal at all .
16 Due to the increased complexity arising from multiple word candidates in the input and the requirement that the system provide a wide coverage of English the use of an ATN-based grammar was considered unsuitable for the current application .
17 Nevertheless it does believe it is appropriate that the strategic thrust of the policy should be based on the premise that development proposals likely to be consid considered acceptable in the open countryside will in a sense represent the exception rather than the rule .
18 Clearance and redevelopment took their toll in a planning system which decreed that the densities deemed acceptable by the Victorian house builders were not appropriate for the late twentieth century .
19 Although it bid less than TSW , the latter 's business plan was deemed unviable by the Independent Television Commission with a £16.1m bid .
20 If I have addressed this to the wrong department I 'd be grateful if you would pass my letter on to the appropriate person .
21 New conditions which are necessary in order to implement a revised offer will , however , be permitted subject to the prior consent of the Panel ( see para 13.3.17 below ) .
22 This alternative was also deemed impossible in the limited time available .
23 However , funding such an acquisition , which would cost upwards of £1bn , is deemed impossible in the current climate .
24 Well erm this anxiety neurosis erm dominated much of the printed material in women 's magazines .
25 From a position where individual advertising was considered inconsistent with the professional image of solicitors and where there were rules determining the size and style even of the name of the practice on its premises , The Law Society moved speedily to a virtually deregulated advertising regime .
26 Specifically , a stricture in ulcerative colitis is more likely to be malignant ( 1 ) if it occurs after 20 years of duration of the disease , ( 2 ) if it is located proximal to the splenic flexure , and ( 3 ) if it presents with obstructive symptoms .
27 Strangely , when Tir Na Nog prizewinners were announced this week , no book was deemed worthy of the English language prize .
28 Each case was also evaluated and graded for 23 individual histological features ( Table IV ) , mostly those considered useful in the differential diagnosis of ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease , but including others that were added in the search for histological features that might distinguish RP from controls .
29 The ASW was asked which of these were considered applicable to the assessed individual .
30 ROLLERSKATE SKINNY sound like hyperactive urchins who 've had one bottle of Strongbow too many and been let loose in the local guitar shop .
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