Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the long run , such images become coins of exchange along with pickets , football riots , and urban disturbances ; they populate our consciousness and can be recalled intact by the sheer mention of a single word or by a brief news clip from the past . |
| 2 | For example , the placing of the head : a dynamic , powerful man should be made to fill the canvas , whereas children 's heads are better placed low on the canvas . |
| 3 | Scott had heard little of the Judge 's summing up or , indeed , of his comments after the life sentence had been passed . |
| 4 | So he and Mr Skinner started pointing at Tory MPs , appearing to be arguing about precisely how many of them had fallen asleep during the Health Secretary 's speech . |
| 5 | He must have fallen asleep during the Jane Russell film . |
| 6 | The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose . |
| 7 | Possibly his mother had fallen asleep at the wheel . |
| 8 | AN RAF man told a court yesterday how he had fallen asleep at the wheel of a Land-Rover before his friend died in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A1 . |
| 9 | He was shocked to think he had fallen asleep over the table . |
| 10 | Mr Levy claimed Andy Linighan was drunk and had fallen asleep in the back of the taxi . |
| 11 | The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall . |
| 12 | The man had fallen asleep in the lounge when he woke to find a fire at the front door of his terraced home . |
| 13 | The production of up-to-date Class Lists has been delayed due to the tardy response of teachers to requests for current details . |
| 14 | Although there was an attempt to introduce some competition for BT , this has been limited due to the natural monopoly position of parts of the telecommunications industry . |
| 15 | While there is no regulation that specifically excludes due diligence work on a listed company , in practice it is rarely undertaken due to the rules on equality of information to be given not only to all shareholders but also to offerors or bona fide potential offerors . |
| 16 | Gas prices in the Netherlands are linked to the price of heating oil and have fallen due to the generally over-supplied nature of the oil products market . |
| 17 | In the past 25 years the population has trebled due to the building program . |
| 18 | The tenant should resist a provision that interest should be deemed to be rent due to the landlord as this will have the effect of making available the remedy of distress as well as that of forfeiture without the necessity to serve a s 146 notice . |
| 19 | You trust the judgement of a man whos been proven right over the last 5 years . |
| 20 | Where visitors have contributed to the injuries they have sustained due to the defendant 's breach of duty under the OLA 1957 , then the damages to which they are entitled may be reduced . |
| 21 | She was ready to be lulled asleep by the monotonous chant when they all stood up and repeated , ‘ God the Father , God the Son , and God the Holy Ghost . ’ |
| 22 | Therefore , it can be calculated that of the 1,135 opioid users known to our five main indicator agencies in 1984–5 , 227 would have ‘ come off ’ opioids by the following year . |
| 23 | Briefly she wondered whether he 'd already drunk himself into oblivion and was lying in a paralytic stupor on the hearthrug while saucepans boiled dry on the stove and vegetables burned to a crisp . |
| 24 | These so-called ‘ pellet ’ dosages are described in Chronic Diseases p151 as ‘ the finest , of the size of poppy-seeds , of which about 200 ( more or less ) weigh a grain ’ and just one of these tiny granules , given dry on the tongue , remained Hahnemann 's standard solid dose right up to 1837 . |
| 25 | Back to Dan again , ‘ I checked on Charlie on the way home and his bleeding had stopped due to the extreme cold at high altitude . |
| 26 | He said that in his opinion the lift had stopped due to the lift buttons being pressed rapidly and randomly , or through a mechanical fault . |
| 27 | Athelstan particularly examined each of the screens showing the four last things ; Death , Judgement , Heaven and Hell . |
| 28 | The new Milanese opera , Lucio Silla ( another opera seria ) had been partly written during the summer in Salzburg , but Mozart could not complete it until he had heard each of the principal soloists , and was able to adjust his arias and recitatives to suit individual voices . |
| 29 | They were withdrawn due to the fact that there was a lack of demand and a poor quality of supply . |
| 30 | They were withdrawn due to the fact that there was a lack of demand and a poor quality of supply . |