Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mayberry ( 1978 : 33 ) points out : Today it is common practice to begin papers by setting the record straight , so to speak , sometimes with what strikes the reader as being an unusually strong position regarding inter-sign language comprehension given the current state of knowledge . ’ |
| 2 | The support given the previous day to German neo-Nazis in two regional elections there was the starting point for his attack on PR ; a first-past-the-post system and stringent policies on asylum and immigration were preventing an extreme-right emergence in Britain , so he argued . |
| 3 | Soviet authorities persecuted the Lithuanian Catholic Church more harshly than those in the other Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia — which the Pope is also visiting — because it had become a rallying point against the communist government . |
| 4 | As the Boeing 767 diverted to Bermuda after leaving Puerto Rico , the GP treated the 54-year-old heart attack victim on the floor of the holiday jet . |
| 5 | If we look back to Chapter 1 , we can see that the constitutional authorities regarded the British constitution as properly providing for representative government of a liberal-democratic kind . |
| 6 | John Hampden 's Regiment of Foot guarded the inaugural meeting of the Hampden Society and made sure everyone paid their initial £5 subscription . |
| 7 | Yet what workforce is left is asked , no it 's told that one point five is a sufficient pay rise given the present economic climate , the catch being up to one point five , not one point five . |
| 8 | This is a necessity given the ambiguous and errorful nature of speech . |
| 9 | John , who had many times heard the distant rioting of armies of drunken , brawling navvies on a payday randy , recognized it at once . |
| 10 | When considering whether the Revolution should be seen as a victory for Whig principles or not , historians have tended to take a constitutional frame of reference — the more a particular historian believes the Revolution settlement limited the constitutional powers of the Crown , then the more Whiggish the Revolution is said to be . |
| 11 | It was seen as the most ‘ natural ’ division given the separate roles of men and women in society . |
| 12 | A keen sportsman , he has several times completed the Great North Run . |
| 13 | Cigarettes , they argue , are a special case given the huge price gap between full-priced brands at over $1 a packet and discount smokes that cost as little as 69 cents . |
| 14 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 15 | In Meditatio the Christian monk committed the divine words of his Lectio to memory as he pondered their meaning and , as he did so , he recited them aloud . |
| 16 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 17 | He said that ministers had in addition addressed the internal situation in Iraq ; the problems of Afghanistan and Lebanon were also reportedly discussed . |
| 18 | The source of the effect seen in subjects given the S1-S2 treatment is accordingly difficult to interpret . |
| 19 | They said the failure to give full reasons for the intended slaughter and the absence of any factual basis for the action justified the High Court in blocking the order . |
| 20 | On the other hand the British government declined to share information on its civil nuclear programme given the high ( though misplaced ) hopes which were then placed in its commercial potential . |
| 21 | The cumulative number of words assigned the correct ranks for these texts are shown in diagrammatic form in fig 4.9a and 4.9b . |
| 22 | The probability of each of the possible tag combinations is then found from the transition matrices and the words assigned the relevant grammatical scores . |
| 23 | I have pointed out that the early structuralists treated the discursive elements in their analysis as ‘ natural ’ , as empirically given . |
| 24 | Until these underlying images of individual and society are recognized , and their study given the explicit attention it deserves , the significance of geographical knowledge for social practice will not be realized , nor the constraints it currently imposes overcome . |
| 25 | Flows may well be exogenous as they are likely to be known with a reasonable degree of uncertainty given the contractual nature of many savings policies . |
| 26 | A spokesman for the Assembly stated that it was hoped to hold elections by the end of 1992 , but that they might have to be postponed for a few months given the parlous state of the country . |
| 27 | The idea that an economic imperative justified the large-scale demolition of people 's homes was not unknown elsewhere in Eastern Europe ( or the West ) . |
| 28 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 29 | For simplicity , these authors treated the high-finesse case in which the dominant dynamic instabilities arise due to excitation of adjacent longitudinal modes , which are also cavity-resonant . |
| 30 | Commuting became fashionable again in the 1980s , and BR responded with new suburban electrification schemes , over a thousand new electric passenger vehicles and ( when replacement finance was not available ) 1950s units given the asbestos-removal treatment and a mid-life facelift . |