Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British government has delayed indefinitely the preparation of a register of contaminated land , much of it on inner-city sites with a history of industrial use , because of the effect it would have on land values . |
| 2 | Chris Robinson 's vocal has developed just the right pitch to keep you straining to hear his every word , the kind of kick-ass , hell-for-leather growl that sounds great and is heightened by the honey sweet gospelly chorus of backing singers Barbara Richardson and Taj . |
| 3 | As the technique has developed so the range of applications in clinical practice has expanded . |
| 4 | For hundreds of years this innocent diversion has fascinated even the most learned of men . |
| 5 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 6 | Erik Olin Wright , for example , has broken down the concept of ‘ determination ’ into six distinct relations : structural limitation , selection , reproduction/non-reproduction , limits of functional compatibility , transformation and mediation . |
| 7 | While parental choice embodied in the Educational Reform Act has broken down the traditional secondary-feeder primary school catchment areas , for the vast number of secondary schools their associated primaries are unchanged . |
| 8 | Nine days after the first spillage the government 's Marine Pollution Control Unit declared : " The stormy weather has broken down the oil and driven it out to sea . |
| 9 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 10 | The 1988 Education Reform Act and earlier legislation has altered entirely the political context in which history teaching operates . |
| 11 | Two special spending programmes , worth ¥23.9 trillion ( $114 billion ) , announced in the past year , have helped ward off full-blown recession , and the government has propped up the stockmarket by shovelling post-office savings money into it . |
| 12 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 13 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 14 | Over the years he has pieced together the plane 's last , dying moments from the second one of its engines caught fire . |
| 15 | Underlying all the problems is the urge to exploit , which has poisoned both the cultural ethos and the natural environment . |
| 16 | Using traditional measures of religiosity , he has pointed out the apparent failure of English catholic schools to produce better catholics and fewer ex-catholics than state or other schools , and has inferred the likelihood of the same for Irish schools . |
| 17 | Scriven has pointed out the distinction between formative and summative evaluation . |
| 18 | As J. K. Galbraith ( 1979 ) has pointed out the adman actually creates markets and implants ‘ needs ’ in people ; he is not merely responding to consumer demand . |
| 19 | Miller ( 1981 ) has pointed out the dangers of sloppy terminology here . |
| 20 | Often the policies of individual railway companies determined what happened As Professor Simmonds has pointed out the Great Western was mainly concerned with long distance traffic in its early years . |
| 21 | Nisbet ( 1979 ) has pointed out the irony that this new distrust may itself be a product of modern education , since a number of new approaches to teaching and learning encourage children to ‘ think for themselves ’ . |
| 22 | Bishop John Taylor , in his moving and perceptive book The Go Between God , has pointed out the importance of this link between the Spirit , with all his undifferentiated power , and the Word , with all its particularity of meaning . |
| 23 | As Prime Minister , Rajiv Gandhi of India has pointed out the real practical problem is that the rich will evade very high rates of tax . |
| 24 | Reviewing recent historiography of the Reformation , Christopher Haigh has pointed out the constantly shifting conflicts between factions which existed in the English court between 1527 and 1553 . |
| 25 | Lionel Sawkins has shown that men did , indeed , sing soprano parts at the French court , and Lois Rosow has pointed out the appearance of male sopranos in the chorus at the Paris Opéra . |
| 26 | In particular , it has lobbied both the British Parliament and the European institutions with demands to break up the brewing monopolies and to restore greater choice to pub users . |
| 27 | But first this lunchtime , the High Court in Glasgow has heard how the brother of murdered Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon had a flashback of the incident which helped him to identify one of the alleged attackers . |
| 28 | As the cost of technology has fallen so the factors have been able to offer clients links into their databases . |
| 29 | But after a visit to his home by a senior officer of Cleveland Police , he has painted out the symbols . |
| 30 | Hudson ( 1984,1987 ) has catalogued how the reforming penal language of the 1960s became replaced with that of justice and punishment during the 1970s . |