Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily : |
| 2 | Iraq , which had been barred from exporting oil since its invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , was permitted to attend the sixth ministerial meeting . |
| 3 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |
| 4 | Whoever did the planning on this job could n't have expected to find a second person getting into the car . ’ |
| 5 | He realised , with a thrill of annoyance at himself , that in his haste — his weary haste — to get to the hearing that morning , he had omitted to set the second lock with its automatic alarm connection . |
| 6 | After months of national debate it was reported on Aug. 10 that Miyazawa had approved a proposed state visit to China by Emperor Akihito , in October , designed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic Sino-Japanese relations . |
| 7 | Factory Records created and organised The Festival Of The Tenth Summer , a series of 10 events designed to celebrate the tenth anniversary of punk . |
| 8 | Less flamboyant and more measured in person than in print , Budhoo speaks with disillusionment about the Fund : ‘ The IMF was never designed to help the Third World or end poverty . |
| 9 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 10 | The competitive nature with which most counties have come to contest the Second XI competition adds to the pressure . |
| 11 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 12 | I wondered if I was expected to buy the next round as well . |
| 13 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 14 | ‘ Next , ’ said Amaranth , who had let drop the first two scarves on to the heads of the assembled press men , ‘ we have Gerald Kaufman , all vinegar and no chips . ’ |
| 15 | The Tories say Labour can not be trusted to form the next Government . |
| 16 | In 1908 they were amalgamated to form The 4th Battalion ( TF ) . |
| 17 | In the country 's first multiparty elections in January 1991 [ see p. 37948 ] , the newly formed MPD defeated the PAICV and was expected to form the next government after the February presidential elections . |
| 18 | Ostensibly the visit was designed to mark the 20th anniversary of the normalization of relations between China and Japan . |
| 19 | " The problem was he omitted to divorce the first wife . |
| 20 | With the dam wall now standing at 57 metres , this year 's monsoon is expected to flood the first few villages . |
| 21 | Having kept an unusually low profile throughout the Dewan election campaign , it was now felt that the military might press hard for the election of their choice of Vice-President , while Gen. ( retd ) Suharto , 71 , was expected to seek a fifth consecutive term of office as President . |
| 22 | Hospital doctors , for example , are still expected to have the last word about their patients ' discharge dates , or about their transfer to other institutions , or to decide whether they should be offered facilities such as regular readmission to relieve carers . |
| 23 | So far , another two hundred and thirty had been taken to the nearest hospital , although few were expected to survive the next twenty-four hours . |
| 24 | Year II of the core subjects is designed to develop the first year taxonomy of skills at a problem-solving and decisional level and to provide an integrative view of the office environment . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I do n't think he 'll come back again , he 'll know we 're not going to be caught napping a second time . |
| 26 | ERS-1 is expected to return the first quantitive data on these processes at the poles . |
| 27 | The two finishing holes are designed to test the last reserves of the golfer 's confidence . |
| 28 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 29 | Last month it doubled the speed of its 486 chip and later this year the company is expected to introduce the next generation processor , the 586 . |
| 30 | Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month . |