Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you 've pondered the crucial question of which is the bigger — Mount Everest or Blessed 's supremely affable ego , then the best course of action is simply to let the saltily ribald tidal wave of his enthusiasm for the Big Hill and its history wash over you . |
| 2 | A second example involves an argument by means of which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahé claimed to have refuted the Copernican theory a few decades after the first publication of that theory . |
| 3 | Dr. O'Gorman has succinctly pin-pointed the real flaw , i.e. playing bondholders were getting fewer relative to the membership in general , thus while 2:1 might be undemocratic in any event , it was especially so now . |
| 4 | The French , probably over-confident of victory , allowed themselves to be drawn into a cavalry advance , carried out under a hail of arrows , across recently ploughed ground made softer yet by the rain which had fallen the previous night . |
| 5 | Moreover , throughout the year the particular day of the week on which Innocents ' Day had fallen the previous year was also regarded as a black-letter day , and was also called Innocents ' Day . |
| 6 | ‘ As no one could have foreseen the sharp fall in the base rate after Black Wednesday , it would have been impossible to predict that variable rates and the cost of fixed rate mortgages would have fallen so far . ’ |
| 7 | At the trial of the action the plaintiff conceded that the defendants could not have foreseen the precise chain of events which led to the explosion . |
| 8 | It is less sure that anyone in 1975 could have foreseen the dramatic increase in the demand for places in the ten years to follow . |
| 9 | Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality . |
| 10 | This is a tiny fraction of order books and likely contracts of £2billion , although strikes at home lasting several days and the subsequent long stoppage at Boeing has limited the prospective gain above the £230million aerospace turnover achieved last year . |
| 11 | All this has no doubt limited the perceived usefulness of union membership to workers . |
| 12 | Scotch Whisky accounts for over a third of UK food and drinks exports , and its contribution limited the total food and drink ( F&D ) trade deficit to £4 bn in 1991 . |
| 13 | For instance , when the government sold British Telecom to private shareholders in 1984 , it set up the Office of Telecommunications as the regulatory agency and limited the permitted rise in telephone charges to 3 per cent below the rate of inflation . |
| 14 | In addition , HARPY limited the average number of competitors over a stretch of speech and also constrained their identity , thereby ensuring that the items were easily discriminable as measured by their acoustic match scores . |
| 15 | Yet the very factors which inhibited the politicization of Russia 's business classes also limited the political value of their support . |
| 16 | Even if the lobbyist is not entirely successful in putting across his point of view , he may have limited the potential damage of the new legislation . |
| 17 | The general subordination of the British state to the interests of civil society has limited the relative autonomy of state groups , although they have had a certain freedom to ‘ navigate ’ between the competing demands of different groups and classes , for example in the realm of industrial relations ( Edwards 1986 : 168–72 ) . |
| 18 | As a broad generalization , the half-century since the end of the Second World War , has witnessed the gradual retreat of state hierarchical coordination in favour of greater elements of market coordination . |
| 19 | The same trends are observable in both Zambia and in Tanzania where we have witnessed the gradual shift of power and responsibilities from a University organised Institute to a national one and from the Institute into the Ministry itself . |
| 20 | The humanist Renaissance of the late Middle Ages had already witnessed the gradual emergence of reasoning independent of the church . |
| 21 | That those eyes which have witnessed the Divine Motherhood should henceforward be for ever lowered in contemplation in an enclosed cloister seems to me entirely fitting . |
| 22 | Having witnessed the horrifying poverty and hunger in countries where there is just not enough food to feed the teeming masses , he feels depressed and worried about the future . |
| 23 | He had already witnessed the incredible speed of his lethal opponent , and also of his fellow oriental whom he had shot and killed in the Control Room . |
| 24 | In Scotland during the past year we have witnessed the distasteful spectacle of Dounreay scouring the planet and touting for business as the nuclear prostitute of the world , seeking to sign as many contracts as possible to dispose of other countries ' spent nuclear fuel while the clock ticks away towards the 1994 deadline set by the Government when funding for the 250 MW prototype fast reactor will cease . |
| 25 | She had witnessed the on-off charm for herself when he had thought himself alone in the Feathers ' coffee-room . |
| 26 | They warned him with veiled threats against mentioning anything that he had witnessed the previous night . |
| 27 | Alan thought of the little scene he had witnessed the previous night . |
| 28 | Writing in 1972 , McGregor suggested that : ‘ the last two decades have witnessed the cumulative removal of restraints both of custom and law upon behaviour , and upon their public portrayal in print or in the visual arts ’ . |
| 29 | We have witnessed the massive growth in unemployment , a huge increase in the number of part-time and home workers , many of them accepting a grotesquely low rate of pay . |
| 30 | Making reference to the emotive yet eccentric account compiled by the historian , Michelet , who had witnessed the French Revolution as a young boy , Kiefer has constructed twenty beds for the female martyrs and heroines of that great and terrible event . |