Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a change of name — from the Windscale that had witnessed the 1957 fire to the brave new world of Sellafield — has failed to expunge public hostility . |
| 2 | I had never realised the Ten Commandments are followed by a library of supplementary instructions of thuggish brutality . |
| 3 | He had obviously travelled the ten miles from Harwell overnight . |
| 4 | The South Korean conglomerate Hyundai plans to fell 300,000 hectares of forest in the Bikin river area and has not consulted the 2,000 Udege , who hunt and fish in the forest , Survival International reports . |
| 5 | Having completed the 18 month trainee manager scheme , 129 people are now studying , through distance learning , for the degree in Retail Marketing sponsored by Sainsbury 's at Manchester Metropolitan University . |
| 6 | But this has not stopped the two companies , conscious of their high public profile , from starting to sell the deal to the viewers as well as the money men . |
| 7 | It looks as though there lies behind D a chronicle which received additions in Christ Church Canterbury , and at least one of those additions , on Æthelnoth 's journey to Rome , was possibly present in a version which reached St Augustine 's , where it was copied in a slightly modified form into the predecessor of E. St Augustine 's may also have received the 1023 entry in D , but abbreviated it to the single sentence which E now contains . |
| 8 | Rev Tiit Salumäe , Director of the Information Department with the Church of Estonia , has received the 1991 information award of the Church of Finland . |
| 9 | The Radio Production Centre ( CEPRA ) in Cochabamba , Bolivia , has received the 1992 Silver Condor award from the Communication Commission of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference and the Bolivian Radio Education organisation in recognition of its outstanding work in the service of the Bolivian people . |
| 10 | The papal legate in England in 1213 , Nicholas de Romanis , reported that he had not received the 1000 marks left to the pope ( nor the 500 left to the cardinals ) by the archbishop of York , Geoffrey Plantagenet . |
| 11 | Scottish stalwart Ann Packard has received the 1993 Chairman 's Award for services to BAIE . |
| 12 | Somewhere amongst the ochrous jumble of mountains to the south Moses had received the Ten Commandments . |
| 13 | Commentators noted that the collapse of communist power in the Soviet Union , following the August coup attempt there [ see pp. 38368-73 ] , had hastened the two countries ' moves towards normalization . |
| 14 | A Saudi official , Nasser Othman al-Saleh , general manager of the Saudi Fisheries Company , has strongly criticized the six member countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) for neglecting pollution in the Gulf region . |
| 15 | Some too have criticized the Ten Commandments for being negative . |
| 16 | I must explain here that , as neither Nigel nor I had religion , I had arranged the two speakers and then planned to say a few words myself , to thank everyone , in and out of sight . |
| 17 | By mid-February opponents of the government 's privatization law , narrowly approved by Congress with Colorado support in late September 1991 , had successfully gathered the 12,000 signatures constitutionally required to continue their campaign for a referendum on privatization . |
| 18 | South Africa should be given the 1995 World Cup without batting an eyelid . |
| 19 | For the purposes of this chapter I have given the four schools fictitious names . |
| 20 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 21 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 22 | This was obviously taken , given the six soloists present , after a performance of the St Matthew Passion , not Messiah as stated . |
| 23 | The evidence showed , according to Mr Craven , that wherever individual party members were given the one member , one vote opportunity to voice their views , they rejected the hard left . |
| 24 | Wycliffe and Kersey were given the two chairs while Mark Garland perched on the edge of the couch . |
| 25 | Given the two sources of evidence outlined above , it would not seem unreasonable to conclude that the discharges from the pontine brainstem are causing the dreams . |
| 26 | What choice have you given the million people who 're on the waiting list for National Health Service ? |
| 27 | Manchester has strong support , including that of Prime Minister John Major , but Sydney , Australia , remains favourite to be given the 2000 Games . |
| 28 | Manchester has strong support , including that of Prime Minister John Major , but Sydney , Australia , remains favourite to be given the 2000 Games . |
| 29 | For the 16 valve GTi , Rover has given the 1.4 litre K-series engine multi-point fuel injection and , despite the addition of a standard catalyst , it delivers 104 bhp and 94lb of torque at 5,000 rpm . |
| 30 | Given the 74 years of Communist dictatorship and the long period of Tsarist dictatorship before that , is it not essential to provide aid and assistance so that at long last Russia and the countries associated with the former Soviet Union can become stable democracies ? |