Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not originally been intended to carry on the research after that date , but it was so successful that finding was obtained to set up a panel study . |
| 2 | ‘ It is a principle of construction of United Kingdom statutes , now too well established to call for citation of authority , that the words of a statute passed after the Treaty has been signed and dealing with the subject matter of the international obligation of the United Kingdom , are to be construed , if they are reasonably capable of bearing such a meaning , as intended to carry out the obligation , and not to be inconsistent with it . |
| 3 | Because analogue videophones have to squash video and audio down telephone lines developed to carry just the latter , compression techniques are used to reduce the amount of information needed to create a video picture . |
| 4 | If the South is redefined to include only the four regions of the South East , South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands , then the net movement of people from North to South can be seen to have risen from a low point of only around 10,000–20,000 a year in the early 1970s to a peak of nearly 70,000 by 1985–86 ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 5 | The directory will then be made available to students , trainees , and researchers who are better placed to carry out the studies . |
| 6 | The park was formed to preserve forever the spectacular countryside , lakes and river systems created in the wake of the glacier . |
| 7 | " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year . |
| 8 | This option requires the name of the package , the name of the LIFESPAN user to be designated to carry out the approval , and the date by which the approval decision is required . |
| 9 | These responses are then examined to see how the subjects perform on the production of certain given morphemes ( the progressive morpheme — ing , the plural morpheme , the past tense morpheme , etc. ) in linguistic contexts which would , in native speaker speech , require their obligatory occurrence . |
| 10 | Depreciation is calculated to write off the cost or valuation of tangible assets other than freehold land over their estimated useful lives . |
| 11 | In a number of legal systems there is a presumption that the property in identified goods is intended to pass on the making of the contract , in others , only on delivery . |
| 12 | Knocker suddenly stopped mopping down the bar and looked at Yanto . |
| 13 | So you 've named it systematically and then looked to see where the , the various groups were and put cis in front if you had that arrangement . |
| 14 | Gordon MacGregor , of Inverness , said he did not believe the unit would be re-opened to carry out the function conference wanted . |
| 15 | We term this the level of computer architecture , at which a set of logically integrated hardware functions are programmed to carry out the processing of data . |
| 16 | Each generation of legionnaires was expected to carry forward the traditions and ethics of the Legion , handing them down from one man to the next . |
| 17 | In smaller seasonal or residential hotels all the office work could be centralised in the reception office , and during the quiet period on the front desk the receptionist would be expected to carry out the task of maintaining accounting and other records . |
| 18 | It seems , however , that your leitmotiv is that no doctor could be expected to carry out the multifacetted role that doctors ‘ helping the police with their enquiries ’ have to perform , that they can not do so with their usual amount of skill , and that they can not carry out some of the more sensitive tasks without bias or being influenced by their paymasters — the police . |
| 19 | The recommendation was that 5,000 to 6,000 of these were suitable for inclusion in the lending section of any small or middle-sized library , and that the largest libraries would be expected to include almost the whole range of British books , amounting to about 17,000 titles . |
| 20 | After years of assuring everyone that China could be trusted to carry out the 1984 British-Chinese agreement on Hong Kong in good faith , the colonial administration found itself after Tiananmen Square presiding over a population which knew that China could not be trusted at all . |
| 21 | These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an election timetable . |
| 22 | It was , of course , by far a situation too good to last and in time , gazing down the glen , a solitary figure was spied struggling up the brae — without a kit-bag — the WAAFs identified their squadron officer ( known as Belladonna ) apparently about to make her first call on her troops in the wild , I was never able at first hand to witness this airmen 's paradise but it is a story that passed the rounds at Kinloss . |
| 23 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 24 | Both have been designed to meet fully the requirements a set out by the County Council and we 're quite happy , we can actually meet that requirement of being one kilometre from Flaxton , in fact we greatly exceed that distance , despite and that is a on the design of a larger new settlement than fourteen hundred dwellings . |
| 25 | When the recipient is not expected to write down the details , it is often the case that the speaker repeats them sometimes several times over . |
| 26 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 27 | I did n't intend to eavesdrop , I thought he 'd gone and forgotten to pull back the curtains . |
| 28 | Mr Hamilton will be approached to find out the format of this event . |
| 29 | Filters can be designed to extract either the background pattern or the pattern of local variation . |
| 30 | After a brief warm-up , participants dispersed to try out the various sports , and then the time came for the games , which involved the competitors in ( among other things ) rushing to get balls round traffic cones , and into baskets . |