Example sentences of "we [vb base] [vb pp] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet they see nothing inconsistent with objecting to a well-engineered nuclear waste disposal plant which is clearly necessary to dispose safely of irradiated material already created ; or to properly regulated high-combustion chemical waste disposal plants that are the only alternative ( unless we get rid of the chemical industry ) to toxic wastes being dumped surreptitiously in some field or on some beach . |
2 | A further advantage of using ( as I mentioned several times before ) is that we get rid of the vectorial nature of the problem . |
3 | I must say Professor Hoskin I was rather struck by pictures in the papers today , yesterday of Boris Yeltsin standing over a boar he 'd shot , it was strongly reminiscent of pictures we 've seen of the former president of Romania , Ceauşescu . |
4 | The Bitter Cry was a vitriolic , moving and widely publicized polemic against the ‘ pestilential human rookeries … where tens of thousands are crowded together amidst horrors which call to mind what we have heard of the middle passage of the slave-ship ’ . |
5 | ( 4 ) So far , in the characterization of postmodern as postauratic art we have spoken of the cultural text , of its reception and production , in terms of auratic and nonauratic . |