Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a brief warm-up , participants dispersed to try out the various sports , and then the time came for the games , which involved the competitors in ( among other things ) rushing to get balls round traffic cones , and into baskets . |
| 2 | Thus we may write , where t is a random , serially independent variable designed to pick up the random movements in the risk premium . |
| 3 | West ( 1975 ) develops a taxonomy designed to separate out the different strands in the ‘ great public debt debate ’ . |
| 4 | When the event resumed in September 1989 it was expected to finish off the closing submissions which had already started and then gently fade away into history . |
| 5 | The sub-arterial road was to be an intermediate class of road designed to link up the main arterials to the local roads . |
| 6 | It was installed to step down the 33,000 volts supply received at Hindhead from the national grid , to 11,000 for local distribution . |
| 7 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be stated , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 8 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be states , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 9 | The choice will depend on the sale strategy ; however , if it is decided to set out the detailed procedures in the covering letter it is normal to include brief details in the information memorandum such as dates , KPMG contact staff , and a statement that direct contact should not be made with the management or staff of the business . |
| 10 | Patients were instructed to fill in the two diaries for 14 days , but were not told that the computer automatically records date of data entry , nor were they given instructions of what to do should they have forgotten to make the daily entry . |
| 11 | You are requested to set out the different theories of the purposes of criminal punishment ( general and particular deterrence , incapacitation , reformation , ethical retribution ) and to consider whether any of these theories can be used to support the conviction in R . |
| 12 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 13 | The herd tends to flee together and the stripes are thought to jumble up the individual shapes and make the fleeing herd look like one great mass of black and white patterning . |
| 14 | He was persuaded to buy up the remaining freeholds of the Monico block in order to promote an acceptable redevelopment scheme ; this took shape as a podium , a tall block and a large advertisement panel . |
| 15 | I must congratulate Michael Calvin on his article ( Daily Telegraph , March 31 ) in which he highlighted my son being told to cover up the Olympic Rings on his Great Britain uniform , which he otherwise wore so proudly . |
| 16 | Discussion of the number of guesses recorded can be used to point out the different kinds of letter order in words . |
| 17 | There were tracks in the cooled fat where chunks of bread had been used to mop up the tasty juices of the meal . |
| 18 | The action research of the Brunel school can be used to draw out the key advantages of the controlled authority . |
| 19 | Used to bleach out the red tones . |
| 20 | He helped by doing much of the specialist machining work and designing many of the one-off items needed to marry up the different parts . |
| 21 | The 16 tonne lorry depositing a load is one of the 7,500 that are needed to make up the specified contours . |
| 22 | Incongruously , however , the reader is invited to seek out the visual components of the arguments by oblique referrals to P.A. Lemoisne 's Degas et son oeuvre , Paris of — wait for it — 1946–9 ! |
| 23 | This especially applies to the old bucks , which have been known to kill off the younger bucks , their main rivals , for obvious reasons . |
| 24 | Hurrying to make up time , Manville had cut himself shaving , and the cluttered bathroom medicine cabinet had stubbornly refused to yield up the secret whereabouts of the styptic pencil . |
| 25 | Libya 's response , presented to the Security Council by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Feb. 12 , refused to hand over the two men , offering instead to try them in Libya . |
| 26 | Subjects were then asked to carry out the following manoeuvres : ( 1 ) maximum voluntary contraction of the sphincter for 20 seconds ; ( 2 ) strain as if to defecate for at least five seconds ; and ( 3 ) increase intra-abdominal pressure by forcibly expiring against a resistance ( blowing up a party baloon ) . |
| 27 | But like many articulate and intelligent people , even those trained to search out the hidden structures of literature , even those who have been moved by great art or fascinated by the most remote biographical details from the lives of writers ( such as the information that Ibsen on occasion wrote with a scorpion in a jar on his desk ) , he nonetheless had little or no access to the springs of his own emotions . |
| 28 | Under the Brady deal , the banks that made these swaps were asked to tear up the old loans and choose among three new deals in their place . |
| 29 | Simon Grant , branch manager at Retail Cleaning in Bristol was recently asked to help out the annual Children in Need appeal by one of his customers , the manager at the East Gate Centre in Gloucester . |
| 30 | Nor , says Mr Imai , should they be allowed to write off the exorbitant sums they spend on promoting group-wide harmony . |