Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean given the size of China I mean th there 'd be |
| 2 | But at last with your help I 've conquered the cut and sew , I could give you all a hug . |
| 3 | I should 've painted the picture |
| 4 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 5 | The fact that the building is listed limited the opportunities for external alterations , and internal layouts had to respect existing window locations ( Fig 60 ) . |
| 6 | Reck'n ye could 've fried the eggs on the cylinder heads it 's so bright and clean and polished . |
| 7 | The Conservative government has emphasized the notion of self-help . |
| 8 | Recent social theory has emphasized the variety of interpretations to which texts may be subject , with linguistic texts , as usual , providing the dominant models . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Legislation in the field of child protection has emphasized the role of the local authorities . |
| 12 | The recent literature on macroeconomics has emphasized the effect of rationing on one market ( e.g. , labour ) on decisions in other markets . |
| 13 | A growing European consciousness has pervaded the arts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A fire attack has wrecked the Newham Grange Park pavilion . |
| 17 | The tragedy has wrecked the family 's life . |
| 18 | APROPOSED US ban on the most widely used fungicides has plunged the Ministry of Agriculture into another safety review . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He becomes aware that ‘ the god of this age ( i.e. the devil ) has blinded the minds of those who do not believe , lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ , who is the image of God , should shine on them ’ . |
| 22 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 23 | Well the problem is , you see , the devil has blinded their eyes , he had blinded the eyes of men and women so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what has actual happened , Paul tells us , i i in , in Corinthians in the first er , in Two Corinthians in chapter four , and verse four , he says , the God of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of God . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The crisis over aid to eastern Bosnia has delayed the peace negotiations taking place at the United Nations . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | The strike — a protest against alleged falling standards because of increasing time pressures — has delayed the opening in Spain of Jurassic Park and The Last Action Hero . |
| 28 | Parish council chairman Gillian Woodcraft said : Although the new school is still planned , lack of funding has delayed the start yet again and the county council wish to include the island site , between Rake Road and Mill Road , in the sale of the land occupied by the existing school to maximise resources . ’ |
| 29 | British Steel had intended to transfer to roads from the end of March but after public pressure has delayed the move until September . |
| 30 | He has received the rebuke and not rebelled and left the group . |