Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This follows the realisation that if the hunters succeeded in wiping out the goats the vegetation might swiftly regenerate , making it impossible to see the wary pigs . |
| 2 | It 's a result of the Constitution of France , which was drawn up in nineteen fifty-eight , when General de Gaulle came to power , and the Constitution was very concerned to produce a separation between the legislative , that 's the law-making , part of the government , and the executive , that 's the part which was seen as carrying out the laws . |
| 3 | Many residents were reduced to eating a crude bread made from grinding down the cores of corn cobs , mixed with buds from tree branches and berries from which tea was brewed . |
| 4 | A local builder obliged by knocking down the remains in exchange for the materials he could salvage , and the place had been known as the Half House by local people ever since . |
| 5 | I meet these guys who are six years younger than me and they 're going , ‘ You got ta check out The Doors , man ’ . |
| 6 | I 've got ta fill up the tapes . |
| 7 | It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause . |
| 8 | We in the North owe him a considerable debt for the enthusiasm and perception he has shown in building up the schools ' collection of works of art now owned by the County Council . |
| 9 | Tunnels will also be popular with many of the species and some , like the Ancistrus , will use them for breeding homes ( they may be sexed by checking out the bristles — the male will sport the longest ) . |
| 10 | During both April and July 1981 vigorous exchanges took place in the press and in Parliament about the role that deteriorating social conditions and unemployment may have played in bringing about the riots . |
| 11 | Human brains can be relied upon to fill in the gaps when they reconstruct the image on the television screen in their visual cortexes . |
| 12 | Even if you can not reach any gardens or nurseries to see roses in action and have to rely on catalogues and lists , there is a great deal of enjoyment to be derived from weighing up the pros and cons and in the anticipation of the pleasures to come , just like choosing a holiday from the glossy brochures . |
| 13 | The probability of going from A to B is found by adding up the waves for all the paths . |
| 14 | The probability that the particle , say , passes through some particular point is found by adding up the waves associated with every possible history that passes through that point . |
| 15 | This mode is attained by shutting down the eyelids . |
| 16 | There is another strand to the Economic theory of regulation , which is that once the agency has an objective , those charged with carrying out the policies do so to the best of their ability . |
| 17 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman that every conceivable thing that can be done should be done to ensure that the applicant — the hon. Gentleman was right to say that he may be old and slightly confused — is assisted in filling out the forms . |
| 18 | The White Paper goes on to emphasize : ‘ It is the loss of liberty involved in carrying out the terms of the order rather than the activities carried out during the order which is the punishment ’ ( p. 18 , para. 4.4 ) . |
| 19 | Woodward did n't tell Duncan that he had fought against giving out the names . |
| 20 | As each component was later to be assembled into the complete working mechanism , care was taken in laying out the details in order to reduce the manipulation that is necessary at a later stage . |
| 21 | This is because he is not legally entitled to recover the cost incurred by carrying out the repairs necessary to remedy the defect that the surveyor failed to spot . |
| 22 | Shock is dissipated by drawing back the hands . |
| 23 | Shock is dissipated by drawing back the hands . |
| 24 | These included : — unrest in Sunderland against a colony of Mormons whose church was attacked with ‘ volleys of stones ’ — an exciting river rescue in South Park , Darlington , where an old man almost drowned — worries in Middlesbrough about dogs running loose and unmuzzled which were referred to in the Commons — the Guardians in Tynemouth were engaged in clearing out the workhouses , putting children in institutions or ‘ scattered homes ’ — a picture hall in Consett was fined for overcrowding ; — the oldest inhabitant of Coundon , Ralph Goundry , had died aged 97 . |
| 25 | Whilst the class were actively engaged in carrying out the transactions the students went from pair to pair and helped out . |
| 26 | Whether a single lift costing little more than half the balance lift is advisable or not can only be determined on working out the details of the site where it is required to be constructed and the conditions under which it would have to be worked . |
| 27 | If n is a goal node , exit successfully with the solution obtained by tracing back the pointers from n to s . |
| 28 | The probability of the particle traveling from A to B is given by adding up the numbers associated with all the paths that take the particle from A to B. For most paths , the number associated with the path will nearly cancel out the numbers from paths that are close by . |
| 29 | Many straight edges can be joined by picking up the edges , right sides together , on to the needlebed . |
| 30 | Spymaster Stella Rimington will lead a 2,000-strong secret army dedicated to hunting down the terrorists . ’ |