Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It described as exaggerated the FMLN 's claim that it controlled 5,000 sq km of territory — a quarter of the country . |
| 2 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 3 | It is nevertheless likely that more middle class women accepted than resisted the experts ' view of their physiology and psychology , though they may also have passed those views through their own filter . |
| 4 | Hence a depressed person may well remember their childhood as considerably less happy than they would have done if asked the same questions before the onset of their current depressive symptoms . |
| 5 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 6 | The visit had been far from successful , for Adam had sulked when offered the four-ten , the so-called ‘ lady 's gun ’ . |
| 7 | The agreement , subject to negotiation of final terms and conditions , provides that $8m , which was due on March 1 , will be due for repayment on December 31 1993 , and the other $8m on March 1 , 1994 ; Commodore and Prudential also agreed in principle to extend a March 1 $5m senior note repayment to December 31 , and the company said it paid as scheduled the remaining $12.5m senior note maturities due to Prudential and to another of its lenders . |
| 8 | Er yes if you know if knocked the table any time they fall over , liable to set fire you see with the paraffin and that . |
| 9 | But if loving parents freely admit that they would have chosen to let the child die if given the choice , it is clear that the vast majority of parents would take this view if given an option by the doctor concerned . |
| 10 | POLICE gave warning yesterday that a scientific instrument in a car stolen in Lanarkshire , could blind if handled the wrong way . |
| 11 | Alice felt as thought the words were stones , rolling out of her mouth , bruising the air around them . |
| 12 | The cleft structure quite reasonably presents as given the assumption that the book is trying to depict something ( all books do ) . |
| 13 | A common lawyer would almost certainly refer , much more simply , to ‘ the trial ’ , taking as granted the distinction between the trial itself and ‘ pre-trial proceedings ’ , between the ‘ day in court ’ and the preparatory work done on behalf of the parties . |
| 14 | Though it was willing to assist if required the government emphasized that it would play no part in the proceedings of the Convention . |
| 15 | Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree . |
| 16 | They have taken as read the scientific conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that global warming is a real threat . |
| 17 | 6 ) My baby at about 3 to 4 months was fully breastfed when he started a feeding for a couple of minutes and then screaming still obviously hungry but still screaming if offered the breast again . |
| 18 | Once employers and educationalists take as given the need to look beyond themselves and their own internal interests , there will be the possibility of a braver and newer world , that is more humanitarian and more caring . |
| 19 | Perhaps more fundamentally , we take as given the basic framework of political institutions . |
| 20 | Dr Howells and Dr Unsworth said when asked the inevitable MPs ' question about the price , that for £500 million spent between now and the end of the century we could reduce toxic emissions , by half , at the cost of increasing the price of electricity by 15 per cent . |
| 21 | But the relation of labourism to the working class was passive ; it accepted as given the position of the class and its organisations in an historically-evolved bourgeois society . |
| 22 | He rejects as mistaken the notion that the study of other religions might undermine or weaken a believer 's faith in his own religion . |
| 23 | On his arrival he immediately set about strengthening his Manors at Halling and Trottescliffe and also erected as mentioned the high walls around the Palace . |
| 24 | The progressive forces of the seventeenth century came to see as mistaken the preoccupation of mediaeval natural philosophers with the works of the ancients , especially Aristotle , and also with the Bible , as the sources of scientific knowledge . |
| 25 | Ask each one of the family to make a list of how they spend their time and what changes they would like to make if given the chance . |
| 26 | I think Wilko would accept if offerred the job . |