Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates . |
| 2 | This booklet is designed to point you in the right direction if you have a problem or complaint and explain when you might be entitled to compensation . |
| 3 | The Code of Practice is designed to point you in the right direction if you have a problem or complaint and explains when you might be entitled to compensation . |
| 4 | Only those who have shown the resolve to defend the freedom of the West can be trusted to safeguard it in the challenging , turbulent and unpredictable times that lie ahead . ’ |
| 5 | Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else . |
| 6 | Being an unabashed admirer of the Guardian 's Notes & Queries column , I have decided to flatter it in the sincerest way possible . |
| 7 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 8 | It changed policy again after leading members of the Save the Narmada Movement had threatened to drown themselves in the rising waters of the Narmada river . |
| 9 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've got to do something in the close season when there 's no jumping , ’ Elsworth joked , making light of a triumph that clearly thrilled him enormously . |
| 11 | This feedback will be used to guide us in the possible uses of the tape when we come to launching the 4th edition in early 1990 , which will be the published version of the tape . |
| 12 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 13 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 14 | Oh I 've got to take you in the Chinese shop . |
| 15 | Oh , I 've got to take you in the Chinese shop |
| 16 | Yeah I 'm not I 'm not disputing that , all I 'm saying is the question is , whether we 're using the monies we 're being given to fund it in the right way . |
| 17 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 18 | There was , they believed , no reason ‘ why competent knowledge and critical skill , if encouraged to exercise themselves in the disinterested pursuit of truth , should be less fruitful in religious than in social and physical ideas ’ . |
| 19 | If we were to use the word ‘ God ’ to mean something subject to change we would have ceased to use it in the Jewish-Christian-Islamic sense to refer to the mystery of Creation . |
| 20 | and if you wan na do something slightly different then do it in a role play scenario with a manager or a senior adviser and er get their feedback accordingly but I 'd be te I would n't be tempted to do it in the real world . |
| 21 | The Profumo affair was merely the focus and catalyst for the coming to a head of that revolution in the mood and character of English life which had begun to show itself in the late summer of 1955 . |
| 22 | Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta . |
| 23 | The food to which Agnes Diggory led her had been welcome , however , and she had chosen to consume it in the friendly housekeeper 's little pantry next to the kitchen , rather than risk encountering Miss Merchiston once again tonight . |
| 24 | Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place ! |
| 25 | So even if the associate has , has er , obtained the cheque but has n't managed to get it in the next day , and he dies in an accident . |