Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 2 | In many regions , industry is permitted to connect up to the domestic sewage system to discharge its toxic waste . |
| 3 | IBM Corp is still not ready with a full scale disk array for its mainframes , but next week , the company is expected to come out with the new 3390-9 disk drives , offering three times the capacity of the 3390-3 — could be as much as 60Gb on the As , 100Gb on the Bs ( CI No 2,046 ) — but they will be somewhat slower than the existing ones : a new 3990 controller that will be able to talk to disks that do not exist yet is expected to follow later , probably in the autumn . |
| 4 | Penguin has a brand new series of ready Readers , a mixture of classic and modern stories at three levels and designed to lead in to the same publisher 's Simply Stories series . |
| 5 | The detailed character of financial , administrative and legal restraints imposed by Whitehall may change but the general effect remains the same — local councillors are expected to fit in with the political priorities of the government of the day . |
| 6 | A second raffle is expected to notch up about the same total . |
| 7 | They were now expected to settle down with the very people with whom they had been fighting and who had been responsible for killing some of their comrades-in-arms . |
| 8 | Although it 's not yet certain exactly where the British armoured forces will be deployed , the four landing ships are expected to join up with the twelve-strong Royal Navy patrol in the Gulf of Amman . |
| 9 | After various consultations with interested parties , it was decided to carry on in the traditional manner . |
| 10 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 11 | And I am not longer prepared to put up with the various parasitical fringe groups , ranging from the self-importantly irrelevant to the downright obnoxious , who are an unchanging part of the demo scene . |
| 12 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 13 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 14 | Then , out of the blue , Simon and Moscato announced after a considered assessment they had decided to opt out of the French national squad 's World Cup preparations . |
| 15 | Absent fathers are being made to pay up by the new Child Support Agency to cut the government 's benefits bill . |
| 16 | There was coughing and shuffling and a lot of page-turning as the court prepared to move on to the next case , and Donaldson helped Mrs Balanchine down from the witness-box . |
| 17 | I am sad that the Government , in their dying months , have decided to cop out of the main stream in Europe . |
| 18 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 19 | This time bomb is ticking away , colleagues , and in about twenty years ' time , we 'll be back to where we were we 'll have a lot of people who 've got small pensions , based on their previous employment with a health authority or a local authority , British Gas or the electricity companies then they 've had to go out on the open market and they will be under-funded and have inadequate pension when they retire . |
| 20 | The FIVE NATIONS COMMITTEE has agreed to carry on with the successful recent experiment of having the referees ‘ wired ’ to the commentators ' headphones during games . |
| 21 | If you do n't do it , it 'll be two possibly threeish because you 're not too sure , you 've got to go back to the second appointment and he might do it but then again he may not . |
| 22 | And it more or less made it that we 'd got to go back for the ten and thruppence . |
| 23 | ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’ |
| 25 | I have n't got enough background information ’ ; ‘ I 've got to find out about the First World War , and I 'm not sure how to begin . ’ |
| 26 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've had to give out to the poor people in this town great quantities of bread and cheese today , and they 're still complaining . |
| 28 | ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’ |
| 29 | The political reporters on all stations have paid tribute to the outstanding contribution made by my right hon. Friend , and the way in which he trumped the sporting aphorisms of the Prime Minister , used in the orchestrated triumph that we have had to live through in the past few weeks from a Government rocked on their heels by the assault from the Opposition today . |
| 30 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |