Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both types of survey show a far higher figure for crimes committed than do the official statistics produced by the police . |
| 2 | Sympathetic typifications of Catholics do little to lessen the obvious problem of being attacked while walking the beat . |
| 3 | They ran out of money , and they 've had to be supplemented since to get the job finished . |
| 4 | Dundee himself was fatally wounded while leading the final victorious charge , thereby becoming a legend , one of 600 casualties among the Jacobites . |
| 5 | More than 20 journalists were killed or wounded while covering the horrific conflict between the Serbian and Croatian republics , according to the 1991 World Press Freedom Review . |
| 6 | These foods are strictly forbidden whilst following the diet . |
| 7 | Charlemagne 's baggage train is attacked whilst crossing the Alps on one of his campaigns . |
| 8 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 9 | However , the chairwoman of the Scottish Labour Party , Johann Lamont , ruled out support for a Scottish parliamentary council and was heckled when criticising the SNP 's action in voting with the Government last week . |
| 10 | In response to the coup the Prime Minster , Alfonso de los Heros Perez Alba , immediately resigned as did the Attorney General , Pedro Méndez Jurado , who was replaced by Hugo Ernesto Denegri Cornejo . |
| 11 | The particular business can be briefly summarized as filling the vacant patriarchate of Constantinople , hearing the primatial claims of the archbishop of Toledo and dealing with the heresy in the lands of the count of Toulouse . |
| 12 | The mother is reported as believing the separation is in Matthew 's best interests . |
| 13 | The referendum result was reported as approving the proposal by a margin of 62 per cent to 33 per cent ( 5 per cent spoiled votes ) , and the proposal was carried in 14 of the 16 states . |
| 14 | Thatcher was reported as wanting the CSCE to set out the conditions for free elections , provide observers to monitor their observance , define the rule of law and human rights , set out the essential principles for sound legal systems and help to resolve minority rights issues . |
| 15 | Lancashire was reported as asking the ministry to ‘ prescribe it under the Weeds Act 1959 ’ . |
| 16 | The Treasury Chief Secretary , Michael Portillo , is reported as saying the Government has a ‘ presentational problem ’ . |
| 17 | The choices noted in Sections 11.3 and 11.4 , which must be resolved when implementing the B & B scheme for ILPs are also relevant when using SOSs . |
| 18 | Obviously entrepreneurs will seek to pay the cheapest possible rent in order to minimize costs ; moreover , they will seek to establish a fixed rent for the duration of the lease , so that the money paid in rent can easily be forecast when planning the business . |
| 19 | By changing the amount of clay included when firing the graphite , pencils could be graded according to softness . |
| 20 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 21 | Lastly , they point out that although transactions costs are taken into account when unit trusts returns are calculated , they are omitted when estimating the returns on the market portfolio . |
| 22 | In fact , Abbey National was voted as offering the Best First- time Buyers ' Product on the basis of the good value of this good facility . |
| 23 | A number of factors have to be considered when determining the overall efficiency of a process and expected yield is only one of them . |
| 24 | Direct effects of increasing CO 2 on plants must be considered when modelling the global carbon cycle and effects of climate change on vegetation . |
| 25 | The Module Development Group would welcome any comment or suggestions which will be considered when reviewing the module descriptors . |
| 26 | Another matter to be considered when formulating the offer letter is that of fees . |
| 27 | Two aspects to be considered when assessing the risks of giving credit are how much and how long . |
| 28 | Consequently only short range variations and perturbations in the field need be considered when studying the behaviour of a particle . |
| 29 | As a rule of thumb , this element in the main system model can be considered as monitoring the performance of the system as a whole ( for example , ensuring that residents are happily domiciled and day clients receive appropriate support ) , and setting , then maintaining , the standards of each sub-system ( Fig 11.8 ) . |
| 30 | When the Ernst function ( 13.3 ) is considered as containing the metric functions , it leads to the Nutku-Halil solution described above . |