Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
| 2 | A member with a holding of a similar size will be quite unable to present a credible challenge to the board because in any contested vote the bulk of shareholders who bother to participate can be relied on to support the incumbent management team . |
| 3 | A great remedy in croup for sensitive children who have been exposed to cold air or dry cold winds and have come down with croup the following morning ( see also Aconite and Spongia particularly ) ; worse ( < ) morning and evening . |
| 4 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 5 | A somewhat distant claimant to the Lusignan inheritance — the great comtés of La Marche and Angoulême — he was nevertheless bought out by Philip the Fair for 1000 1 . |
| 6 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 7 | Civilians could be brought in to staff the front counter at Darlington police station in order to release three officers for beat duty . |
| 8 | CIVILIANS could be brought in to staff the front counter at Darlington police station , the town 's top officer has revealed . |
| 9 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 10 | The Seehandlung organisation , set up by Frederick the Great in 1772 to promote trade along the Prussian reaches of the Vistula , was expanded and reorganised to seek outlets for Prussian goods in Silesia , India , the West Indies , South America , China and the Balkans . |
| 11 | During the winter months the tubers of tropical waterlilies can be stored in damp sand well away from frost and can be brought back into growth the following year — but it does pay to check them at regular intervals . |
| 12 | McFarlane , having spelled out with caution the Israeli arguments and the Iranian blandishments , admitted that ‘ the concept raises a number of imponderable questions ’ , including ‘ where this might lead in terms of our being asked to up the ante on more and more arms and where that could conceivably lead … |
| 13 | The 1900 Guide to the Great Siberian Railway marked out for travellers the important stations in these new trading networks . |
| 14 | ’ ‘ You go along that Blo Norton road and you 'll never see the black cat unless Alby [ we 'll call him that , though that was n't his proper name ] if Alby had disappeared out of sight the black cat was there . |
| 15 | They reduced the number of questions , leaving more room for follow up — this despite the fact that some groups had apparently run out of questions the previous week . |
| 16 | Joe should have gone back to school the previous week but it was being used as an evacuation centre . |
| 17 | The army trucks had passed through in convoy the previous evening , and any new fact or assumption about the happenings of the clinic 's ruins were now conversational gold-dust . |
| 18 | There were reports of opposition supporters having been fired on in Tbilisi the following day . |