Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last 18 months Brighton Poets have invigorated the poetry scene by bringing well known guests to read with locally-based poets . |
| 2 | Having pondered the operating characteristics of the circuit , the next criterion in our list relates to the space available in the housing used to accommodate the finished board . |
| 3 | The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act 1959 ( the Landrum-Griffin Act ) imposed added restrictions on picketing , strikes and boycotts and limited the union leaders ' control over union funds and other administrative matters . |
| 4 | On most appliances ( except cookers which were exempt ) the high postwar level of purchase tax ( varying between 50 per cent and 100 per cent for much of this period ) , government restriction of credit facilities , and the limited adoption of modern design and mass production techniques severely limited the market size . |
| 5 | As in the previous demonstrations , a large number of those attending were middle class , some of whom had been involved in the demonstrations of 1973 ( which had effectively deposed the existing military dictatorship — see pp. 26209-10 ) and had also witnessed the army massacre of students at Thammasat University three years later [ see pp. 28102-03 ] . |
| 6 | This is good news to anyone who has witnessed the way art museums have come to regard paintings and other objects placed in their perpetual trust as a kind of stock portfolio that can be traded at will . |
| 7 | Here , we 've witnessed the splattercore frenzy of Daisy Chainsaw 's Katie Jane Garside , the earthy directness of North London crusty-grunger Lesley of Silverfish . |
| 8 | Oh look you always get these people we have just witnessed the top London club suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of . |
| 9 | Sir , — The person who wrote the letter headed ‘ Ugly anti-hunt shock tactics ’ should be directing their disgust towards those people who inflict these atrocities on defenceless foxes and call it ‘ sport ’ , and not those who seek to expose it ( people who , I might add , have witnessed the animal suffering ) . |
| 10 | He introduced his team , designer Chloe Obolensky ; Marius Constant , who , in distilling Debussy 's score , had realised the two-piano version with which for many years Debussy had entertained his friends ; representatives of Brook 's three casts , and three of four pianists . |
| 11 | However , it was realised the AI Mk 10 radar fitted in the rear cockpit could be housed in a pod beneath the engine , and of 328 NF.IIs planned only 37 were built , these being later converted back to Mk 1 standard . |
| 12 | Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify . |
| 13 | In Stanley Kubrick 's film Dr Strangelove , US Air Force General Jack Ripper sends his B52s to bomb the USSR because he fears the Russians have polluted the drinking water of the West . |
| 14 | It will be easier for my father to change his attitude now that Boz is known to have avenged the family honour . ’ |
| 15 | In its place , the Home Secretary would appoint a standing Advisory Council to report and make recommendations from time to time on such aspects of penal treatment as he might refer to it or as the Council itself , having consulted the Home Secretary , felt that it ought to consider . |
| 16 | If this resulted from a positive proposal to shut down the unit it could not lawfully have been brought about unless the district health authority had first consulted the community health council . |
| 17 | He said Durham and Darlington councils had not properly consulted the bus companies about speed restrictions and had failed to consider all the alternatives . |
| 18 | xviii ) , had already consulted the Ammon oracle . |
| 19 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 20 | Before asking his second question , the right hon. Gentleman might have consulted the shadow Chancellor , who said last week that — |
| 21 | Delegates complained that Mayor had not consulted the executive board , which was scheduled to meet in May to consider the proposals . |
| 22 | He had now completed the leprechaun shoemaker , whose hammer could be taken out and replaced at will . |
| 23 | Unfortunately I am unable to give you a firm price for the software as we have not yet completed the development stage , but it will be somewhere in the region of 65 . |
| 24 | When you have completed the circuit board check it to ensure that there are no dry joints or unwanted blobs of solder bridging tracks . |
| 25 | Most of them had done their basic training in one of the Guards regiments and most had completed the Commando course . |
| 26 | Once these sketches are completed the working space and technical file areas are saved . |
| 27 | When the processing requested by a form has been completed the request form will be returned to the lexicographers with the Completion Confirmed on Date filled in by the New OED Computer Group . |
| 28 | According to Rob Strachan , who has recently completed the field work for a Water Vole Survey of Britain , funded by the Vincent Wildlife Trust , only 30 per cent of the sites where water voles were found before 1939 still have them today . |
| 29 | In order to gain a Record of Achievement a student must have successfully completed the assessment schedule(s) of the single area(s) of study for which he/she is registered . |
| 30 | In order to gain a Record of Achievement a student must have successfully completed the assessment schedule(s) including the examination(s) for the single area(s) of study for which he/she is registered . |