Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One advantage of secondary sources is that they are often easy to understand ; but a problem which can arise is that they may have altered or distorted the original idea . |
| 2 | Following a day out by the river , the class were asked in pairs to make a picture or a model of something they had seen or done the previous day . |
| 3 | On the one hand lay those who had trained in or followed the European tradition of independence and free investigative journalism ; on the other lay a tradition that was also important and which has perhaps been the more lasting . |
| 4 | Kosa sees this charismatic character as peculiar to medicine and clergy , although he notes that some Protestant denominations have weakened or eliminated the charismatic authority of the clergyman . |
| 5 | A plaque and certificate was presented by our branches to thirteen local projects each judged to have successfully protected or enhanced the visual appearance of the countryside . |
| 6 | Now the woman came to the third cave , where lived the great bee . |
| 7 | Since the membership rapidly dwindled , there is a surreal possibility that the number of those planted by the police or the Communist party may have equalled or outnumbered the genuine British Nazis . |
| 8 | She sensed rather than heard the collective sigh of relief that went up as her acceptance rang round the studio just a moment before the signature tune flowed through the headphones , signalling the end of the programme . |
| 9 | Inner : once erected the inner is a free standing unit . |
| 10 | Once formed the stony surface , often termed desert armour , will tend to protect the surface , very much as the coarse material in a stream bed makes it often less erodible than the banks . |
| 11 | He knows we have always been of the view that given the limited resources that the best cost effective use of those resources would be to merge the administration . |
| 12 | THEY 'VE been making room for murder at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford this week , and proved that given the right stage , crime certainly does pay . |
| 13 | But Mr Kinnock stressed in his speech that given the inevitable and unprecedented ‘ mess ’ which would be left behind by Mrs Thatcher , a Labour government would have to set — and unflinchingly stick to — four basic priorities . |
| 14 | The support of the staff and their willingness to adjust their provision and their reaction , clearly demonstrates that given the proper approach teachers are in both principle and practice more willing to review their methods and sustain alternatives than is usually acknowledged . |
| 15 | This supports the view expressed , for example , by Professor McCloskey and derived from economic theory that given the constant labour demand of the war period , the poor-relief system could not have resulted both in falling wages and in falling amounts of labour . |
| 16 | John Finnis criticizes positivists for attributing to natural law thinking a wholly deductive methodology such that given the fundamental principle as major premise and a statement of fact as minor premise the one right answer pops out auto-matically . |
| 17 | I believe that given the potential field to whom we circulated details , over 65 UK companies alone , that this level of response is not unreasonable . |
| 18 | We presume that the behaviour depends on subcortical pathways involving the superior colliculus , although given the early abnormalities of these brains , anomalous projections to the hemisphere ipsilateral to the stimulus can not be excluded . |
| 19 | The race of the wild route that torn the Thresian bard in rodderpee , where wood and rocks had ears to rapture to the savage clamour drowned both harp and voice . |
| 20 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 21 | Gohlke tells a more subtle story than made the early headlines . |
| 22 | Moreover , fifty-five of the 137 reports in the Leicester Mercury related to Leicester itself , which suggests that there was a good deal more trouble at local level than reached the national press or the FA . |
| 23 | The Conservative Government has more than halved the top rate of tax . |
| 24 | Tony 's Cornish landscapes , in frames of plain gilt , looked well ; their rich browns , yellows and orange tones warmed the room and more than balanced the white walls . |
| 25 | In the land-train carburettor factory where they lived along with some ninety tech kin , an electrocandle flickered before a precious polychrome ikon in every dwelling cubicle along the gallery that overhung the greasy , acrid furniture of lathes and drills and grinders and the carpeting of swarf like dirty silver snow . |
| 26 | Little has changed here , although the upper galleries of the terraced cottages that overhung the narrow streets and were no hazard in the days of horses and carts have succumbed to the needs of larger traffic . |
| 27 | Although covered the radial shields are conspicuous , bar shaped nearly extending to the middle of the disk . |
| 28 | It is common ground that the concessionary fees more than covered the additional cost to the school of educating the taxpayers ' children . |
| 29 | Pemberton-Billing 's invention comprised an add-on governor mechanism which could be attached to a clockwork turntable to give this effect ( 49 ) , and a few dozen records were made which more than doubled the average playing-time . |
| 30 | Once established the new convent will serve the Kimberley diocese . |