Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before speaking to her he has pondered the question of committing suicide to absolve himself from the responsibility of avenging his father ; and Ophelia 's behaviour only emphasises the apparent pointlessness of trying to oppose Claudius , who could easily destroy him . |
| 2 | The watchful French gunners behind Bois Bourrus soon pin-pointed the train by the tell-tale smoke from its engine , and it was forced to retire , a little ignominiously . |
| 3 | To my brother and me had fallen the task of disentangling our parents ' possessions from the original contents of the house . |
| 4 | The Cotswold-stone shop sells bears vintage ( £2,500 ) and everyday ( £10 ) , and owner Ian Pout has trawled the world for the top teddies . |
| 5 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 6 | Negotiations on free trade were also initiated with Yugoslavia , even though the 1983 EFTA-Yugoslavia joint declaration had not specifically foreseen the possibility of a free trade area . |
| 7 | It was held that the defendants were liable because they ought to have foreseen the possibility of the chemical coming into contact with water and they had not warned the buyers of this danger . |
| 8 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 9 | ‘ Like all provincial towns , it will lose its individuality , ’ said Hardy when presented with the Freedom of the Borough in 1910 , but he could not have foreseen the demise of the small local shops so intrinsic to the town 's character , or the threat of a huge new shopping centre . |
| 10 | It should be said that the forecast figures have probably turned out to be slightly high , particularly for 1991 , since it seems unlikely that the US Department of Commerce would have foreseen the downturn in the global economy which is now biting so hard in all industries . |
| 11 | All these were heresies from a Marxist standpoint but then Marx had not foreseen the coming of nuclear war . |
| 12 | Though she had foreseen the need for such a private moment Louisa would certainly not have chosen it to occur so quickly . |
| 13 | Although at the time of his discovery Priestley could not have foreseen the use of oxygen in aeronautics as Vital Air for the aeronauts to breathe when the atmosphere became too thin , such use was suggested as early as 1784 . |
| 14 | None had foreseen the assumption of absolute power by one of their own number . |
| 15 | Lord Diplock went on to say that the principle applies even though there is reason to think that if Parliament had foreseen the situation before the court it would have modified the words it used . |
| 16 | However local and limited the awareness to which the words testify , I have identified a spontaneous reaction to which , since it is provisionally approved by ‘ Be aware ’ , it is rational to seek means as an end good in itself ; if you disagree , the burden of proof has shifted to you , to make me aware of something overlooked which will redirect my response . |
| 17 | As the labour market tightened , faster product wage growth limited the expansion of the backward sector , and thereby ensured an elastic labour supply for the dynamic modern sectors . |
| 18 | This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council . |
| 19 | In household pets whose exercise is limited the presence of the tracheal nodules is well tolerated , and animals can survive for long periods with little distress . |
| 20 | Yet in a time of " unprecedented inflation , unprecedented wage demands and an unprecedented number of strikes " ' , most groups can be considered as having limited the fall in real earnings rather than as having maintained , let alone increased them . |
| 21 | The return to the gold standard , which implied maintaining the £/; $ parity , severely limited the range of options for dealing with unemployment because significant monetary expansion would have undermined the balance of payments and would therefore be inconsistent with the fixed parity . |
| 22 | He had severely limited the scope of his autobiography : ‘ I depict not what I was but what I see when I look back ’ , he told Eleanor Farjeon . |
| 23 | Blackpool had been experimenting with extensive rebuilding of the Marton and Motherwell cars , but the confines of Blundell Street Depot limited the scope of such activities . |
| 24 | The symbiotic relationship between State and nobility limited the scope of state power and conditioned government policy . |
| 25 | The fact that Stock Exchange rules limited the scope of member firms to increase their capital meant that resources for technological innovation were limited . |
| 26 | Now that he was left alone with the two women , both of whom ( he imagined ) rather admired him , Rupert felt a sense of power , though there being two of them rather limited the scope of what he could do — cramped his style , he might almost have said . |
| 27 | The slump in profits has limited the scope for corporation tax offsets but economic recovery should help ease the problem . |
| 28 | He has expanded police powers , limited the formation of new parties , marginalised the old opposition and criminalised some types of political dissent . |
| 29 | The growth in the number and complexity of bills further limited the influence of the individual MP . |
| 30 | Those who formulated the rules for admission to the College , who were afraid they might deter men from coming forward to train for membership of a still infant profession , limited the requirement for admission to an ability to read and write well — quite a severe restriction at the time — plus personal recommendation . |