Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 2 | But things did n't quite go as expected during filming outside the Daily Mirror building in Holborn , London … |
| 3 | With no football to relieve his loss , Billy took it hard and , on Tuesday 26 July 1932 , the day after the team had reported for trailing for the new season , he was found dead in one of the dressing rooms . |
| 4 | An early decree ordered the destruction of heathen temples ; and the pressure of Westernisation was so relentless and meticulous that at one stage male Christians could be fined for urinating in the oriental , crouched position . |
| 5 | Ideas of comparison and ordering come from playing with the many toys with graded components , e.g. Russian nesting dolls , pyramid rings , stacking cubes and boxes . |
| 6 | Until the Public Records Act 1958 the care and preservation of public records were in the hands of the Master of the Rolls , an anachronistic responsibility for a senior judge who in his modern incarnation is fully occupied in presiding over the civil work of the Court of Appeal . |
| 7 | It had become obvious early on to paleontologists that the dinosaurs , living in a moist and warm environment , in a sparsely populated animal kingdom , had succeeded in evolving into the first vegetation-eaters with no competitors . |
| 8 | wean their foals abruptly and completely ( generally a foal is gradually discouraged from suckling as the next one is on the way , but wo n't leave its mother until it is two or three ) ; |
| 9 | While many British evacuees drifted back to the cities once the threat of an invasion had been lifted , refugee children were actively discouraged from returning to the urban life . |
| 10 | The idea that learners should be discouraged from attending to the formal properties of language is comparable to the idea , prevalent in a previous era , that learners should be denied all access to translation . |
| 11 | It was considered too onerous for a man to serve both as coroner and verderer , and verderers were often excused from serving in the former office . |
| 12 | He did this , presumably , to ensure that the solutions were thoroughly mixed before proceeding to the next dilution . |
| 13 | Joyce was committed to providing for the two daughters of his first marriage , to whom he was a conscientious father , as well as supporting his second wife . |
| 14 | We had a little chat with Unix System Labs president Roel Pieper last week and he did n't exactly rule out the possibility of USL making a takeover move on Santa Cruz Operation Inc ( UX No 396 ) : however , he said , it would n't be a good business value unless both firms were committed to going in the same direction . |
| 15 | This was not very difficult ; the Spanish still did not recognize other colonies in the Caribbean and the old rule of ‘ no peace beyond the line ’ went on , so that West Indian governments could still recruit on an official basis men who were committed to fighting against the Spanish whether the governments thought they were at war or not . |
| 16 | The names of taxa must be adhered to according to the international rules , but it is permissible to anglicise the endings , so that members of the superfamily Trichostrongyloidea in the example above may also be termed trichostrongyloids . |
| 17 | He banged down the rucksack and the basket he had been carrying and looked without liking at the unencumbered Beuno . |
| 18 | We created an attractive and useful patio area paved with wooden decking and surrounded by planting towards the lower end of the garden . |
| 19 | The analysis can be simplified by concentrating on the d.c. and fundamental components of voltage and current . |
| 20 | In fact , the individual migrants who participate in this urban migration manage to generate income which is more attractive to them than the income they would have earned by remaining in the rural areas . |
| 21 | This core can then be supplemented by relying on the open labour market to provide temporary or seasonal workers but also by increasing the share of orders given to subcontractors . |
| 22 | Tinbergen , for example , presented model bills of adult herring gulls ( Larus argentatus ) to the chicks of that species ; the chicks responded by pecking at the red spot at the top of the bill , which strongly suggests that the red spot is a signal , meaning ‘ start pecking ’ ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 23 | The down-problem is solved by adding to the optimal tableau of LPk and using the dual simplex method ( in its upper-bound form ) to restore optimality . |
| 24 | If they really mean to improve transport in Scotland , why are they frightened of agreeing to the new clause ? |
| 25 | Matthew , now in his 20s , was caned for bullying by the then headmaster , William Blackshaw . |
| 26 | The same sort of approaches were adopted for cycling for the same reasons . |
| 27 | Mr Husseini , the most senior supporter of the PLO in the occupied territories , has spent much of his time recently trying to prevent the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities . |
| 28 | Yassin had been sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1991 for ordering the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities [ see p. 38550 ] . |
| 29 | The State Department announced on Feb. 7 that Felix Bloch , a US diplomat suspected of spying for the Soviet Union , had been informed that he was being suspended without pay with immediate effect . |
| 30 | An Israeli military court in Gaza on Oct. 16 sentenced Sheikh Ahmed Yassin , the founder of Hamas , to life imprisonment plus 15 years for ordering the killing of Palestinians suspected of co-operating with the Israeli authorities . |