Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have just occupied Vienna ; a far-sighted man could have foreseen the possibility some considerable time ago . |
| 2 | A succession of economic crises had limited the money available for new social policies . |
| 3 | Michael Middleton might argue ‘ that Minton is aware of man , … in relation to nature , to his self-constructed civilisation , to the passing moment , ’ but his failure to establish for his figures a setting that is anything more than a backcloth , limited the humanism inherent in his work , as well as its social or political relevance . |
| 4 | One option for holders , of course , was to leave the dollars on deposit with a US bank but this was discouraged by US banking regulations which prevented interest from being paid on deposits of less than thirty days and limited the rate payable on longer deposits to less than that obtaining elsewhere . |
| 5 | Since then we have witnessed the development first of all of the Keynesian view of the importance of money , followed by the monetarist view which is at odds with the former and is closely associated with the original quantity theory . |
| 6 | I have travelled the region many times and always with enjoyment , but never with the eager anticipation of journeys in the north . |
| 7 | ‘ Once he was satisfied — and I feel sure that he must have consulted the lady concerned since she , after all , is the person who has to wear it — he ordered it . ’ |
| 8 | Palmerston then interrupted , saying that he ought to have consulted the House first . |
| 9 | He has now completed the marathon three times and this year achieved his best time of 3 hours 39 minutes , coming 8,348th out of 27,000 runners . |
| 10 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that some British companies have not received the compensation due to them from the Turkish authorities controlling northern Cyprus ? |
| 11 | Feminists active in the disability rights movement have criticized the way many women have used the fear of disability to argue for abortion rights , and ask us to reassess our relationship to genetic screening . |
| 12 | On July 31 , the Afghan government had criticized the ICO Foreign Ministers ' decision in Riyadh in March 1989 [ see p. 36537 ] to allocate " the Republic of Afghanistan seat … to the Afghan opposition based in Pakistan " . |
| 13 | Falls in the price of oil had provoked the government four years previously to impose an austerity programme . |
| 14 | In the upper page ( Master Level Index ) ‘ Module Management ’ is assigned the number 1 , Design Changes the number 2 and so on . |
| 15 | Such components have a value of zero : all other components have positive values , for example , section num would be assigned the value 6 in the heading of the sixth section of an act . |
| 16 | The Queen Mother has honoured the war dead at Westminster Abbey . |
| 17 | He might take the odd class in Geography at a pinch , but he had never given the subject any particular prominence in the school , and most boys gave it up after two years . |
| 18 | You must have given the driver some bribe , Edward , I do n't know how he managed to help me at all , he was terrified of being caught . ’ |
| 19 | In November 1558 they appeared to offer even more , when parliament agreed that the dauphin should be given the crown matrimonial . |
| 20 | Evolution rather than revolution is also imposed by the British system of government , which has given the country twenty-one Ministers of Defence since the Second World War . |
| 21 | Mr Dayton has given the Institute many of its finest oils , by Manet ( ‘ The Smoker ’ , 1866 ) , Matisse ( ‘ Pensées de Pascal ’ , 1924 ) , Nicolas Mignard ( ‘ Venus and Adonis ’ , circa 1650 ) and van Goyen ( a riverscape at Utrecht , 1648 ) , along with works by Kandinsky , Kirchner , Bonnard and Mondrian . |
| 22 | So er that was a telephone call to the divisional officer , who was available at the moment and who came down and discussed it with the employer and notwithstanding that , in the afternoon I had given the management one hour to resolve the problem otherwise there was going to be a major walkout . |
| 23 | Have the innovations introduced since 1976 given the Treasury greater control ? |
| 24 | He sat down on his bed while he threaded new laces into his boots , and then paused , one lace suspended in his hand , as he wondered suddenly why the wire service had not given the Advent any news about him . |
| 25 | I am attracted by Sher ‘ s classification in an article in Forum ( 5 ) of inherent and of circumstantial problems ; given the will both types can be eased . |
| 26 | Given the chance last Sunday , East Germans not only dished the communist would-be reformers who succeeded Erich Hon-ecker but the civil-rights campaigners who had brought his wretched regime down and the Social Democrats who hoped to replace them both . |
| 27 | I could n't really see why he was n't given the chance this season ( apart from the last mins vs Swindon ) , |
| 28 | He had given the boy all the evidence , dumped it in his lap without ceremony , and left him to examine all , and act as the prince he was . |
| 29 | An atenolol group of 2676 patients given the drug irrespective of whether they also received other hypotensive drugs provided 16 592 patient years of exposure to atenolol ( table II ) . |
| 30 | The playing of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Peter Eötrös , who had given the work several times before this 1991 Prom performance , seems immensely confident and assured , all the complexities mastered ; and the recording quality is so good ( and the audience so quiet ) I would have taken it for a ‘ state-of-theart ’ studio job . |