Example sentences of "[vb pp] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which strategy is favoured depends on the relative values of W and D : if W > D hawk is favoured ; if W < D , dove is favoured . |
| 2 | Erm but finally , I 'm a Liberal Democrat , I 'm proud to be one , I was in the Alliance before , an S D P member it turns out , I 'm a great admirer of the present leader , Paddy Ashdown , and I think he , and all of us , have done wonders since the dismal days in late eighty seven , when our opinion poll rating was Well single figures and not even necessarily that bigger single figure . |
| 3 | Every man in her vicinity had found himself putting his best foot forward , and she had done wonders for the sartorial standards of the notoriously uncaring C1 division . |
| 4 | ‘ The concept is , to produce consistently high quality beef from continental silage fed steers to the exact requirements of the country 's leading supermarkets ’ . |
| 5 | The living picture formed relies on the large barbs to catch the eye , and move it on to the smaller Tetras . |
| 6 | The buyer 's right to treat the contract as repudiated arises in the same circumstances as his right to reject the goods , i. e. if the seller commits a breach of condition or a breach of warranty which deprives the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract ( see paragraph 7–04 , above ) . |
| 7 | An injunction that his feast day is to be observed appears in the legal texts which Wulfstan drafted for him , and if the same clause in surviving copies of Æthelred 's laws is a later interpolation , as Patrick Wormald has contended , then Cnut 's interest in Edward , implied by his apparent gift of relics of this saint to Westminster Abbey , would be all the more striking . |