Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 2 | I mean given the size of China I mean th there 'd be |
| 3 | But at last with your help I 've conquered the cut and sew , I could give you all a hug . |
| 4 | Rather , I would like to see developed a Code of Practice binding on doctors which would grow out of the views of all interested parties : doctors , patients , and the public . |
| 5 | ‘ I got given a crate of this , it 's Château Margaux , by the small , fat and lecherous owner of one third of Singapore . |
| 6 | I should 've painted the picture |
| 7 | You could 've heard a critic smile ! |
| 8 | All the money we spent on this stuff , ’ she indicated her drink , ’ could 've floated a battleship over the years . ’ |
| 9 | The evidence produced included a transcript in English of Price 's evidence before the City Court of Gôteborg ; and it was not disputed that this evidence was admissible under paragraph 12 of the Schedule 1 . |
| 10 | Maxie Carlo must 've cracked a joke . |
| 11 | Other measures announced included a reduction in the rate of income tax and a further immediate increase in the price of petrol . |
| 12 | I should think two years , you know , when the restrictions got lifted a bit , so it got better , yeah . |
| 13 | The Conservative government has emphasized the notion of self-help . |
| 14 | Recent social theory has emphasized the variety of interpretations to which texts may be subject , with linguistic texts , as usual , providing the dominant models . |
| 15 | Scudder ( 1964 ) , however , has emphasized the need to apply modern concepts of homology based on experimental studies of development ; such an approach , combined perhaps with the use of genetic markers for homologous segmental regions may eventually help to resolve some of the persistent difficulties in this field ( Sokoloff and Hoy , 1968 ; Fletcher , 1970 ) . |
| 16 | Every stage in the growing complexity of social life and in the enfranchisement of populations has emphasized the need to designate functions and grades by means of symbols . |
| 17 | Legislation in the field of child protection has emphasized the role of the local authorities . |
| 18 | The recent literature on macroeconomics has emphasized the effect of rationing on one market ( e.g. , labour ) on decisions in other markets . |
| 19 | It has emphasized an aspect of psychology that is particularly important for the discipline 's status and influence . |
| 20 | The Scotsman has learned that the National Art Collections Fund has stripped the university of a purchase grant worth several thousand pounds because of its disquiet at the proposed sale . |
| 21 | The scatty lady has left her passenger door fractionally open all night and the courtesy light has drained the battery , which takes Mark about two seconds to figure . |
| 22 | A bomb has wrecked a hotel in Ulster and damage neighbouring houses . |
| 23 | The tragedy has wrecked the family 's life . |
| 24 | The utter failure of the opinion polls to measure public opinion has plunged a stake through the heart of the market research industry — those people responsible for junk mail that is supposed to be perfectly targeted at your lifestyle and habits , and who gather their information in exactly the same way as opinion pollsters . |
| 25 | APROPOSED US ban on the most widely used fungicides has plunged the Ministry of Agriculture into another safety review . |
| 26 | However , the person who has relayed the information , the tipper , will fall foul of the provisions against counselling or procuring any other person to deal ( s.1(7) ) ( below ) . |
| 27 | As we have seen , C. S. Lewis , more clearly than most writers , has sensed the uniqueness of God-inspired desire and of having God as the object of desire . |
| 28 | Santa Clara , California-based Kubota Pacific Inc , the US subsidiary of Japan 's Kubota Computer Corp , has delayed the release of its plug-in graphics subsystem for the MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3000 RISC-based Titan 1.0 it sells , and the DEC Alpha-based Titan 2.0 machine which it is readying . |
| 29 | The crisis over aid to eastern Bosnia has delayed the peace negotiations taking place at the United Nations . |
| 30 | But he wrote of the then almost unthinkable independence of the Ukraine and Baltic countries , of the possibility of a Soviet commonwealth , and concluded that while ‘ Marxist doctrine has delayed the break-up of the Russian Empire it does not possess the power to prevent it . ’ |