Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina heard Robert Leyton 's angry murmur : ‘ That 's the first I 've bloody heard about expanding the resorts ! ’ |
| 2 | I I think you were all here listening to the erm pensioners before you were they were talking about their ideas which were also our ideas in our er report on the designated ownership of , of the pension funds and in particular they had a couple of ideas which you may have heard about having the word pension in the in the names , just technical points , er pension in the names of er of the funds and and people who were er giving advice on behalf of them . |
| 3 | Ralph Nader 's Study Group on Air Pollution estimated that the implementation phase would not be completed until well into the 1980s and the Air Quality Act was criticized for providing the Department of Health , Education and Welfare with only very limited powers to press the states into faster action . |
| 4 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) had been criticized for risking the lives of six astronauts , merely to launch a satellite which could have been put into orbit more cheaply by an unmanned rocket . |
| 5 | Part of the problem may be that the Labour government of 1974–79 was unduly protecting jobs in northern nationalized industries , but Labour was then criticized for halting the growth of public-sector services . |
| 6 | The reshuffle , which included the addition of two new Cabinet posts , was criticized for enlarging the Cabinet at a time of economic hardship . |
| 7 | The decision in December 1989 to transform Noriega 's infamous Panamanian Defence Force ( FDP ) into a lightly armed Panamanian Public Force ( FPP ) under civilian control [ see also p. 37181 ] had been heavily criticized for leaving the government open to such paramilitary attacks and making it more dependent on the USA than before . |
| 8 | The United States and Japan were criticized for leaving the bulk of contributions to the European members of G-24 . |
| 9 | Consequently , sociological positivism can be criticized for giving the impression of setting out to demonstrate scientifically the truth of an approach which seemed already to have been assumed in the way the terms were defined . |
| 10 | However , it was criticized for continuing the country 's economic expansion programme — risking further damage to the environment and an increase in the gap between rich and poor — and for not offering concrete solutions or even new policy initiatives to tackle the country 's economic and social problems . |
| 11 | Morgenthau 's approach was also criticized for ignoring the domestic environment of states , for failing to specify whether human nature was the determining or merely one potential cause of political action , and for being unable to account for mistakes ( if human nature is based on objective laws , then how can individuals make mistakes ? ) . |
| 12 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , this view can be criticized for over-stressing the importance of local social relations , and for a rather restricted view of how these relations are translated into policy . |
| 13 | The role of the US embassy was also heavily criticized for withholding the evidence of at least one US military advisor who claimed to have had prior knowledge of the plan to kill the priests . |
| 14 | It is evident that the expertise and contacts Grampian companies have developed through supplying the North Sea oil industry stands them in good stead to take advantage of oil related opportunities in the Middle East . |
| 15 | If a procedure is prescribed for making the rule it must be followed , unless the procedure is directory rather than mandatory . |
| 16 | He was punished for publishing The Light and Dark Sides of God ( 1650 ) , copies of which were ordered to be burned , although George Thomason [ q.v. ] was still able to acquire a copy in November of the same year . |
| 17 | I am not aware of anyone being punished for speaking the Doric . |
| 18 | He had decreed everyone should wear tartan shoes and since no-one had any , or could get any being stuck on the island , every pupil he met was punished for breaking the law . |
| 19 | Bernadette had been sacked for cheeking the nurse . |
| 20 | She added that Miss Owen had been sacked for asking the elderly residents their views about another member of staff . |
| 21 | Langbaurgh Council was honoured for revitalising the Spencerbeck Estate , near Eston , Middlesbrough . |
| 22 | I thought everything was arranged for using the Mission Hall ? ’ |
| 23 | I agree with the reasons given for allowing the appeal . |
| 24 | Guidance is given for recognising the existence of such circumstances , including of course a member 's breach of the LCH regulations . |
| 25 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
| 26 | Instructions were given for easing the routines in homes and institutions for the elderly . |
| 27 | His Majesty being made acquainted with it by the Bishop of London , Order was given for calling the Printers into the High-Commission , where upon Evidence of the Fact , the whole Impression was called in , and the Printers deeply fined , as they justly merited . |
| 28 | Even now , the only substantial reason I have been given for stopping the work , is that BW themselves propose to upgrade the towpath along the whole length . |
| 29 | On-screen guidelines are given for changing the ink cartridge , which does 60 pages at a cost of around 2.5 pence each . |
| 30 | The Meeting Stent themselves with fifteen shillings sterling being the estimate given for Painting the Church yeard Gate of Kilarow and putting up the Globes on the Pillars of the Gate … |