Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Accidental failure of electricity or gas supply not caused by the deliberate act of the supply authority . |
2 | CULROSS Largely administered by the National Trust for Scotland , a town still essentially sixteenth- and seventeenth-century in building and layout , with cobbled streets for the poor , ‘ planestane ’ strips for the gentry , a dignified Town House , preserved ‘ Little Houses ’ , and a shipping merchant 's white-harled , pantiled mansion which he chose to designate a ‘ palace ’ . |
3 | For the adherents of a great tradition are largely unaware of their own premises , which lie deeply embedded in the unconscious foundations of practice " ( Polanyi 1964 : 76 ) . |
4 | Each Spring , as Cornwall prepares for its annual , generally welcome , English invasion , times seem far removed from the troubled Tudor days when hastily mustered Cornish armies invaded England in support of various causes , culminating in the Western Rebellion of 1549 , when a largely Cornish army besieged Exeter for five weeks . |
5 | WITH the latest appalling upsurge in violence , both loyalist and republican , thoughts of peace or even a breakthrough in the political stalemate seem far removed from the grim reality . |
6 | In practical terms this meant replacing processes of superego-formation in child-rearing and initiation ritual with mechanisms of state law-enforcement — parallel processes of superego-degradation and increasing state control which , as we shall see , seem well advanced in the modern world and which therefore constitute a similar danger . |
7 | One could sit here and admire the view , she thought ; or lie almost hidden by the tall golden grasses which , perhaps because the place was not easy of access , had been left to grow to their full height and now filled the air with their mingled scents . |
8 | Perhaps the almost doubled entrance prices coupled with the knowledge that big international games lie ahead contributed to the poor show . |
9 | You wo n't sink into this sort of flooring but it has a neat appearance and will pull together a disparate collection of furniture and styles and make a roomful of old things look firmly set in the twentieth century . |
10 | The disciplines involved in the primary care sector , the problems and services which are the subject of research and development , and the research methods and specialist resources required to support the primary care sector all vary significantly compared with the secondary sector . |
11 | ( pl. 39 ) Design usually based on the formal gardens of ancient Persia , with their abundance of flora separated by pathways and ornamental ponds . |
12 | Each week we have to listen to mystery hand drills and various bangs and hammerings as the Jamesons get increasingly excited about the whole thing . |
13 | ESs often run on the same computers that run programs written in FORTRAN or BASIC . |
14 | As ‘ Spirit Of Eden ’ was the last album under their contract for EMI , Talk Talk quickly signed with the smaller home-of-the-weird label , Verve , an operation Mark feels was tailor-made for his particular brand of uneasy listening . |
15 | Is he aware that my constituents remain strongly opposed to the proposed overhead power lines and are rightly concerned at their impact on the rural landscape ? |
16 | How , I wondered , had the woodlands become so neglected in the first place ? |
17 | Large groups of people become so fascinated with the internal workings of their own organization that they are continually tinkering with it . |
18 | Labour supply patterns have , however , become more complicated in the 1980s and are inevitably emerging as a key issue of the 1990s . |
19 | The growth of expectations and the greater willingness of government to intervene in areas previously considered inviolate was to be continued and become more marked in the twentieth century . |
20 | Those medical graduates who intend to practise in the UK become provisionally registered with the General Medical Council after graduation . |
21 | So often people become almost paralysed by the apparent enormity of the tasks to be undertaken , that the only way to give the necessary support is to help them to partialise the tasks . |
22 | But then material and environmental deficiencies become heavily associated in the public mind with other socially perceived problems . |
23 | Liberal Democrats remain steadfastly committed to the original aims of the NHS : to enable everyone to live free of the fear of illness , injury and disability ; to provide health care free at the point of delivery and regardless of ability to pay . |
24 | Can we be told please exactly what the er , balancing hand of carry forwards shown on the right estimates , the twenty three thousand consists of ? |
25 | Yeah , well I mean if you 've only got to the one machine you do n't need two boards necessarily do you ? |
26 | I 've only got to bloody si , I 've only got about the same . |
27 | about the Olympic champion , he 'll be in Rome , he 'll be ready for the World Championships , I think he 's had an easy summer so far , but we 've got the likes of Sergio Lopez who 's just taken my European record away , there 's two Americans ; Kirl Stattel and Mike Barryman who 've just gone under the old World Record , so there 's perhaps a dozen of us that are really shouting and trying to get up to number one position . |
28 | We 've just heard in the last few minutes that the application for that hotel to be listed has been turned down . |
29 | I 've just come from the Foreign Office , and you 're immediately on a new assignment . |
30 | Hello , it 's Mrs here , I 've just spoken to the other lady making a booking for three twin rooms . |