Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the lecture was over , groups were formed to try out some of the techniques Luke had discussed . |
| 2 | It is expected to rule out many of the recommendations of the trade and industry select committee . |
| 3 | It is clear , for example , that there are still striking regional variations in the use of custodial remands , in spite of the Bail Act 's attempt to structure the decision-making process , which might have been expected to iron out some of the more extreme disparities . |
| 4 | We only caught her because she 'd forgotten to take off one of the tags . ’ |
| 5 | Japan , especially , is likely to be pressured to take on more of the burden sharing . |
| 6 | Now Dr Kaz Fuks , of Romford , Essex , has decided to carry out 10 of the 20-minute ops every day . |
| 7 | However , because some aspects of United Kingdom law were somewhat vague and ill-defined ( for example , the meaning of fair-dealing ) it was decided to tighten up some of the exceptions to copyright infringement , the necessary changes to the 1988 Act being made by the Copyright ( Computer Programs ) Regulations 1992 . |
| 8 | TNCs from the United States were said to control over three-quarters of the total volume of transborder data flows , including transmission , storage and processing in the early 1980s ( see Mowlana , 1985 , ch.5 ) . |
| 9 | Recently a major new canal has been made to cut off some of the tributary rivers . |
| 10 | Foolishly , I had not bothered to carry out any of the psychic protective techniques I had been taught as a ‘ probationer healer ’ at a school of esoteric studies . |
| 11 | In passing our studies have helped to clear up some of the outstanding biological problems that underlie the reproductive biology of Bufo bufo , such as why it is that the males so greatly outnumber the females , and why they are smaller . |
| 12 | After many years of male dominance in the dance music industry , you have finally helped to break down one of the biggest barriers and prejudices . |
| 13 | Any or all of the three minor pentatonics can be used to improvise over any of the chords in the same key . |
| 14 | Such as Agnes and Flora , two " unknowns " who sent her a postcard because they had seen her on " telly " and were sorry to hear she was poorly ; eighty-year-old Phoebe who kept them awake one night when she was in a distressed state ; the flower lover who treated the ward as a potting shed taking clippings from the various plants ; the " blether " of women she was invited to join round one of the beds when she was fit enough to take a short walk . |
| 15 | The psychic reasons for this solidarity I have tried to give in this essay , just as I have attempted to spell out some of the political consequences , but it is to Dahrendorf that we owe the making of the connections between solidarity and economic consequences . |
| 16 | After the shooting of a UNICEF worker on Jan. 5 and of a third Red Cross worker on Jan. 15 , decisions were taken to pull out 15 of the 40 or so aid workers reported to be left in the city . |
| 17 | The bicycle was accused of enlarging the scope for theft , and we were encouraged to linger over some of the more squalid details of profiteering and corruption which had accompanied the boom in the cycling industry . |
| 18 | The Commission had taken seriously its constitutional role of initiating proposals , and seemed poised to take over some of the work load allotted by the treaty to the Council of Ministers . |
| 19 | It was as if , in some unfathomable way , out of an inscrutable symmetry , these three called each other up , between the lake and the fells , and were determined to bring about one of the essential public scandals of Romantic times . |
| 20 | The 32-strong Skills Audit Team , recruited to find out all about the skills and work experience of the people living in the eastern district of the town , met for the last time yesterday at the end of a ten-week project . |
| 21 | A lever was sent for , and Harry himself was required to open up one of the barrels filled some days before . |
| 22 | And I 've managed to do up two of the buttons at the back , but I ca n't reach the top two . |