Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The park was formed to preserve forever the spectacular countryside , lakes and river systems created in the wake of the glacier . |
| 2 | It seems , however , that your leitmotiv is that no doctor could be expected to carry out the multifacetted role that doctors ‘ helping the police with their enquiries ’ have to perform , that they can not do so with their usual amount of skill , and that they can not carry out some of the more sensitive tasks without bias or being influenced by their paymasters — the police . |
| 3 | The recommendation was that 5,000 to 6,000 of these were suitable for inclusion in the lending section of any small or middle-sized library , and that the largest libraries would be expected to include almost the whole range of British books , amounting to about 17,000 titles . |
| 4 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 5 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 6 | The French Navy has begun an operation designed to clean up the toxic seaweed which is threatening marine life in the Mediterranean off the south coast [ see ED 53/54 ] . |
| 7 | The fact that this was the chosen approach of the Evil One in tempting Eve should give us a healthy respect for its subtlety and danger : ‘ Did God say … ? ’ he asked : His innocent-sounding questions about the facts of the case were designed to open up the deeper issue of God 's goodness . |
| 8 | D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles is hotly tipped to pick up the creative account for St Ivel 's Shape and Gold brands , currently handled by J Walter Thompson . |
| 9 | This may have been a late flowering of the ‘ badinage ’ that he used to partake in as a Young Conservative with Brixton locals , but so sensitive is Major about his background , that the public is permitted to hear only the Authorised Version . |
| 10 | Vogts is expected to field largely the same team at Ibrox which played against Uruguay . |
| 11 | Similar legislation had also been passed by the Senate , but , reluctant to approve similarly large pay increases for itself , the Senate had voted to reduce gradually the annual total of honoraria which its members could receive [ see also p. 37037 ] . |
| 12 | This argument , which Foucault derives from Deleuze , although at the same time he tellingly invokes Sartre 's theoretical formulation designed to solve exactly the same problem , provides a way of avoiding the incommensurability of the relation of the event to the concept by allowing ‘ the disjunctive affirmation of both ’ — thus solving the problem that the concept , as a part of the language of generality , will inevitably travesty the event 's singularity : |
| 13 | The creation of C&P , thinks Margetts , has led to a much wider appreciation of how its scientific and technological resources can be harnessed to develop both the overall business and its individual parts , each of which has an R&T representative on its business executive team . |
| 14 | The verses were added to explain why the early Church 's teaching was rejected by the Jews . |
| 15 | They are designed to cut out the reflective glare that can be potentially harmful to someone spending long hours working in front of a computer screen . |
| 16 | They are designed to cut out the reflective glare that can be potentially harmful to someone spending long hours working in front of a computer screen . |
| 17 | The two local favourites , Claire Waddell , who currently leads the Grand Prix , and Julie Nicol are expected to make up the semi-final line-up . |
| 18 | Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy . |
| 19 | And there was perhaps not so much to laugh at in that ; for by North 's trial , two and a half years after the breaking of the scandal , the overwhelming majority of Americans had come to feel much the same way . |
| 20 | Cooking in a special oven designed to bring out the true aroma and texture of the biscuits |
| 21 | I must now replace it with a more complex , but I hope still arresting , account designed to bring out the main difference between pragmatism and law as integrity . |
| 22 | Sir Oswald Mosley formed the British Union of Fascists in October 1932 as a vehicle for his program which was designed to bring about the economic renaissance of Britain . |
| 23 | In view of all this , one might characterize second language pedagogy as a set of activities designed to bring about the gradual shift of reliance from one systemic resource to another for the achievement of indexical purposes . |
| 24 | Networking out through the families and friends of Libyans he knew , talking to people in their homes , in coffee shops , in the markets and on the streets , Coleman met no one prepared to acknowledge even the smallest justification for the American action . |
| 25 | Almost all the ladies silently decided to go downtown the next morning and buy a copy of The Cheaper Sex . |
| 26 | It was decided to include mainly the fourth year pupils that each school defined as being below average in attainment in mathematics , that is , the lowest 50 per cent of pupils rounded up to a complete set . |
| 27 | And just as well : because , however persuasive the case for the public ownership of particular industries , experience since 1945 can hardly be said to bear out the general case , the proposition that public ownership is the necessary precursor to the realisation of the rights of man . |
| 28 | You 'd all decided to meet again the following week and she counted the days because she was longing to be with you again . |
| 29 | I hope that the Minister will listen carefully to the call from the Opposition and ensure that when privatisation takes place , the golden opportunity will not be missed to set up the Scottish bus passenger consultative committee , which , we hope , will examine customers ' complaints and safeguard their interests . |
| 30 | Having lost the campaign for the DLP presidential nomination to Kim Young Sam in controversial circumstances [ see pp. 38911 ] , Lee Jong Chan 's possible intervention as an independent had threatened to split further the centre-right vote which was already being sought by both the DLP and the UNP campaigns . |