Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | This massacre of the innocents I blame on The Silk Plant Company whose trees , plants and flowers are so lifelike , one can be forgiven for doubting the real thing . |
| 32 | There are modern history books which ostensibly focus on periods of great social change but the reader could be forgiven for reaching the conclusion that there have been no social changes which have involved/ affected women . |
| 33 | Our Bank Assistant members could have been forgiven for entering the Labour Court with some misgivings but with a good deal of hope . |
| 34 | Naturally the glorious weather was a talking point with the General : he might be forgiven for thinking the Micks were a bit blasé about the temperature and the change of scene from London ceremonial duties . |
| 35 | You could be forgiven for thinking the only ‘ grand challenge ’ IBM Corp faces is turning its profit and loss account around . |
| 36 | Nevertheless , a cynic could be forgiven for finding the penal crisis uncannily reminiscent of the supposed ‘ crisis of capitalism ’ , which some Marxists were once ever assuring us was real , severe , ever-worsening and likely to prove terminal in the near future . |
| 37 | Younger natives in the audience were made distinctly restless by an unadorned programme of traditional Indian dance , while even un-jaded oldies could be forgiven for finding the storybook tones of the play more testing than they should be . |
| 38 | Social workers may be forgiven for feeling the DoH is continually shifting the goal posts on community care implementation . |
| 39 | Walking down the light and airy aisles of this superstore , one could be forgiven for mistaking the piles of Novell Netware for so many boxes of Monopoly piled high on the shelves . |
| 40 | Appropriate methodology has been developed for examining the historical tracking performance of large-scale macroeconometric models which contain model-consistent expectations and this now enables attention to be focused upon historical counter-factual experiments , paying particular attention to the treatment of policy in such exercises . |
| 41 | As a result of this work on animals , methods were developed for assessing the health of the human foetus which were based on its breathing movements in the uterus . |
| 42 | Bufi met Pope John Paul II in the Vatican on July 4 , when Albania and the Holy See agreed to re-establish the diplomatic relations broken off following the communist takeover in Albania in 1946 . |
| 43 | Venetiaan also said that he wanted to renegotiate bilateral links with the Netherlands , which had suspended the disbursement of its aid , and to restore Surinam 's relations with Venezuela , broken off following the December 1990 military coup [ see pp. 37912-13 ] . |
| 44 | In the fourth century BC the Greek city of Cyzicus ( quite near the Bosporus ) made peculiarly archaic-looking coins of electrum , and these seem to have been intended for financing the corn trade between the Black Sea and Greece , as we can surmise from finds of them and from inscriptions . |
| 45 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |
| 46 | Easily Accessible : White Doves is ideally situated for exploring the very best of the 1,900-year-old city of York , with its Minster ( the largest Gothic church in England ) , the Yorvik Viking Centre , and the famous ‘ shambles ’ , an area of winding medieval streets . |
| 47 | Situated in Aldwark village on the banks of the River Ure , Aldwark Manor is just 15 miles from York and ideally situated for touring the Yorkshire Dales and moors . |
| 48 | It is well situated for touring the centre of Scotland . |
| 49 | Ideally situated for touring the North Wales beauty spots such as Snowdonia , Betws-y-Coed , Anglesey , Caernarfon , Porthmadog and the National Trust Bodnant Gardens , to name but a few , Colwyn Bay is also within easy access of the historical Cit of Chester . |
| 50 | The location is excellent for walking , and well situated for touring the abbeys and chateaux of the Bordeaux and Bergerac regions . |
| 51 | Ideally situated for visiting the many places of interest and outstanding natural beauty in Somerset . |
| 52 | Over the past two years the debate has veered between consolidating the remains as a war memorial and reconstructing the church ( see The Art Newspaper No. 9 , June 1991 , p.14 ) . |
| 53 | Curtis told the police when arrested : ‘ I 'd like to be recognized for making the planet a better place to live in . ’ |
| 54 | Where the plaintiff is under a disability , he can not accept a payment into court without approval under RSC Ord 80 , r11 or CCR Ord 10 , r10 which is likely to take place later than the time limited for accepting the payment in . |
| 55 | At one level , Nizan was reprimanded for confusing the reader , particularly in the concluding stages of the novel , with an excess of petty-bourgeois metaphysics . |
| 56 | Shankar Guha Niyogi had begun work in Bhilai in 1962 , but was dismissed for organising the workers against the AITUC . |
| 57 | He and a colleague were dismissed for using the drug during a visit to a holiday caravan park in Torquay . |
| 58 | However , in Chipata , in Eastern Province , there were reports of shopkeepers threatened with having their trading licenses withdrawn and public workers dismissed for supporting the MMD . |
| 59 | The most significant Cabinet change was in July 1991 when Rabuka rejoined the government [ see also below ] , and Public Utilities Minister Apisai Tora was dismissed for accepting the presidency of a newly created political party . |
| 60 | The reshuffle also involved the departure of Culture and Tourism Minister Aruru Matiabe who Namaliu said was being dismissed for leaving the PAP after losing the party leadership contest . |