Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 3 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy . |
| 11 | Cooking in a special oven designed to bring out the true aroma and texture of the biscuits |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 18 | B U choose the Merry Widow because their last show White Horse was so successful the B U Musical Society have decided to take on the ambitious task of tackling the Merry Widow for their next production . |
| 19 | Attempts were made to push out the burning fuel with scaffolding poles . |
| 20 | Although advocates of the main parties are allowed to cross-examine other parties ' witnesses and the advocates are frequently barristers or solicitors , hearings are not as formal as a court of law and great effort is generally made to bring out the real substance of the layman 's arguments . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , to forestall the wreck , the party secretariat prepared to wind up the secret Supply and Transport Committee before the Labour Party uncovered its strike-breaking organisation . |
| 22 | The decree was intended to wipe out the illegal cash holdings of black-marketeers , and to drain from the economy up to 20 per cent of the money supply , which had become bloated by the printing of new money to cover budget deficits in recent years . |
| 23 | The design we are going to talk about is a DIY design in that , apart from a 555 timer and 4001 NOR gate chip , discretes are used to carry out the various circuit operations and the system is capable of being modified for those who like a starting point and then like to experiment . |
| 24 | We have the staff needed to carry out the required training . |
| 25 | Right now so the tap is to control the speed at which the acid goes in and if there is any gas that 's in there it ca n't escape out of that pipe again it 's got to go down the other pipe . |
| 26 | E two , now you 've got to work out the average speed , right try and think roughly what the answer would be , because if you thought of that , then you would know that 's a silly answer , cos look , how far is the journey ? |
| 27 | There seemed to be a veritable army of helpers needed to open up the big downstairs rooms , and wherever she went there seemed yet another one poised to ask her a question she was unable to answer . |
| 28 | Of course , once children give up their single-level assumption , they accept the fact that terms at different levels such as dog and animal or bear and toy may be used to pick out the same object . |
| 29 | Here short-pile fabric is used to pick out the main pattern shapes , providing a relief pattern that highlights the design . |
| 30 | But there are numerous instances which come to my mind of research in which all the problems of analysis were left until the survey had been done and then anything up to , or even over , a year was needed to sort out the tangled mass of answers to vague questions . |