Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mayberry ( 1978 : 33 ) points out : Today it is common practice to begin papers by setting the record straight , so to speak , sometimes with what strikes the reader as being an unusually strong position regarding inter-sign language comprehension given the current state of knowledge . ’ |
| 2 | The support given the previous day to German neo-Nazis in two regional elections there was the starting point for his attack on PR ; a first-past-the-post system and stringent policies on asylum and immigration were preventing an extreme-right emergence in Britain , so he argued . |
| 3 | As the Boeing 767 diverted to Bermuda after leaving Puerto Rico , the GP treated the 54-year-old heart attack victim on the floor of the holiday jet . |
| 4 | John Hampden 's Regiment of Foot guarded the inaugural meeting of the Hampden Society and made sure everyone paid their initial £5 subscription . |
| 5 | Yet what workforce is left is asked , no it 's told that one point five is a sufficient pay rise given the present economic climate , the catch being up to one point five , not one point five . |
| 6 | This is a necessity given the ambiguous and errorful nature of speech . |
| 7 | When considering whether the Revolution should be seen as a victory for Whig principles or not , historians have tended to take a constitutional frame of reference — the more a particular historian believes the Revolution settlement limited the constitutional powers of the Crown , then the more Whiggish the Revolution is said to be . |
| 8 | It was seen as the most ‘ natural ’ division given the separate roles of men and women in society . |
| 9 | Cigarettes , they argue , are a special case given the huge price gap between full-priced brands at over $1 a packet and discount smokes that cost as little as 69 cents . |
| 10 | In Meditatio the Christian monk committed the divine words of his Lectio to memory as he pondered their meaning and , as he did so , he recited them aloud . |
| 11 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 12 | He said that ministers had in addition addressed the internal situation in Iraq ; the problems of Afghanistan and Lebanon were also reportedly discussed . |
| 13 | They said the failure to give full reasons for the intended slaughter and the absence of any factual basis for the action justified the High Court in blocking the order . |
| 14 | On the other hand the British government declined to share information on its civil nuclear programme given the high ( though misplaced ) hopes which were then placed in its commercial potential . |
| 15 | Until these underlying images of individual and society are recognized , and their study given the explicit attention it deserves , the significance of geographical knowledge for social practice will not be realized , nor the constraints it currently imposes overcome . |
| 16 | Flows may well be exogenous as they are likely to be known with a reasonable degree of uncertainty given the contractual nature of many savings policies . |
| 17 | The idea that an economic imperative justified the large-scale demolition of people 's homes was not unknown elsewhere in Eastern Europe ( or the West ) . |
| 18 | By the same token , the public school choice would not be surprised to find that the Labour Party opposition regarded the official unemployment figures as underestimates The arguments that divided them are illustrated in Table 10–2 , which reproduces in a slightly amended form a table that appeared in The Sunday Times ( 6 November 1983 ) . |
| 19 | This anomaly could , however , be remedied if the courts were to embrace novel theories of what constitutes loss given the novel essence of insider dealing . |
| 20 | Troops loyal to President Gnassingbe Eyadema again disrupted the transition period [ see also p. 39041 ] when a 100-strong force occupied the National Assembly building on Oct. 22 and successfully demanded the unfreezing of the assets of the Rassemblement du peuple togolais ( RPT ) , formerly the sole legal party , led by Eyadema , which had been dissolved in August 1991 [ see p. 38379 ] . |
| 21 | we had , we had hammer drilled the blunt bit |
| 22 | Why have not the Opposition considered the serious point that I have made — that structural funds are doubling , yet we shall receive less ? |
| 23 | A river of molten rock overwhelmed the last of five big dykes , hurriedly built by villagers to protect their homes , and surrounded Signor Giuseppe Fichera 's farm cottage , only 150 yards from the nearest permanently inhabited house . |
| 24 | The Lords of the Congregation could rightly assert the duty and responsibility of the nobility to act for the good of the commonweal , and indeed experience of minorities over two centuries had in practice underwritten the theoretical position to an unusual extent . |
| 25 | A high wind disturbed the primal landscape , and the tree had gone . |
| 26 | If types of industry could be defined more sharply then it seems likely that although by 1970 British industry matched the international pattern , this had occurred as the result of some substantial relative shifts in employment in the UK over the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 27 | Of course , our entrance disturbed the domestic tableau around the fireplace . |
| 28 | The British Deaf and Dumb Association selected the British Red Cross Society to raise funds for , and raised enough to purchase and equip two mobile physiotherapy units . |
| 29 | At 31 December Year 51 , the partnership prepared the following Trial Balance : |
| 30 | It 's not as if they get much study done the last week or so anyway . ’ |