Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband , although not a ‘ representative ’ , was expected to join her later in the day . |
| 2 | In the end , it turned out to be the Newtonian theory of gravity that had to be modified to make it compatible with the invariance properties of the Maxwell theory . |
| 3 | In the case of religious education the right of withdrawal is statutory and governors are recommended to make themselves familiar with the special status which is accorded to this subject in the national curriculum . |
| 4 | Lewis , whose whistle-stop tour of the UK is designed to bring him closer to the public , sceptics and supporters alike , was born in London 's East End in 1965 but emigrated to Canada with his mother , Violet , who accompanied him yesterday , at the age of 12 . |
| 5 | You actually make up a structure like this tetraneedle carbon we did have another one but er , obviously there 's some students have erm decided to do something different with the er things that 's all that 's left ! |
| 6 | World Cup winning captain Nick Farr-Jones as finally decided to make himself available for the Wallabies ’ domestic Test matches against Scotland and the New Zealand All Blacks . |
| 7 | We would have preferred to choose them all as the German Rose of Tralee , ’ |
| 8 | They have had to learn to live with one another , to adjust , to get used to each other 's habits , hobbies , friends and relations — the most crucial and critical period for every newly married couple — but they have had to do it all under the full glare of the media . |
| 9 | 'Cos I 've been told , I 've got to get you ready for the photographer . |
| 10 | That 's helped to make it one of the most profitable independent companies . |
| 11 | The concept of DRGS was developed in the USA and some British clinicians have been critical of the appropriateness , and at least believing that more work is needed to make them usable in the NHS . |
| 12 | Taking a leaf out of her newest role model Joan Collins ’ book , Kylie never again emerged through a customs hall before spending as long as was needed to make herself ready for the waiting world . |
| 13 | Although you will be writing a story in which a murder , or more than one murder , is the key happening , you have got to make it compatible with the humour with which you intend to infuse the whole . |
| 14 | It is a sad reflection on the present state of constitutional monarchy in this country that one so driven to do his best for the good of mankind , as he sees it , should think , indeed know , that he can not do so as king . |
| 15 | But he 'll go on applying the skills learnt on those days in the Nottingham library to a wider cricketing canvas , and using that cast accumulated knowledge to enlighten others — not least the thousands of schoolchildren who visit Trent Bridge in parties each year : ‘ Last season we had several hundred children through on the day when Derek Randall needed one run to complete his 20,000 for the county — and I made certain they all knew about the landmark . |
| 16 | And , to Sven Hjerson 's concealed annoyance , Miss Arabella Buckley had contrived to make herself one of the group , her ample form straining the faded green canvas of a chair firmly set among the others . |
| 17 | The previous one had never been clean before the next one arrived ; they had had dummies shoved in their mouths to keep them quiet until they were four or five ; and they crawled , ran and fell around the place — filthy , whining and hungry — until Onyx was forced to give them some of the attention they needed . |
| 18 | In many areas , Whigs clearly continued to hold their own amongst the squirearchy . |
| 19 | We have tried to make it clear in the law that what we are establishing is a parallel procedure and not an exclusive procedure , so that the other law as it existed , whatever it is , still does exist today , but that here is a prescribed procedure which terminally ill patients may choose to use should they wish to do so . |
| 20 | I was determined to render myself generic by the time I left university . |
| 21 | ( The language of the extract has been modernized to render it accessible to the general reader . |
| 22 | She wondered if she 'd walk out into a scene , or whether Ace had managed to extricate himself unscathed from the encounter as she left the relative comfort of the ladies ' room . |
| 23 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 24 | Solicitors in respect of their first three practising certificates are exempt from all contributions to the Fund ( whether or not they have held clients ' money ) , and in respect of their next three renewals are only required to pay one half of the full amount . |
| 25 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |