Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the latter view which at first sight seems to challenge Tormey 's theory , for any ‘ expression ’ by the actor implies a subjective/objective relationship , the inner meanings of which remain hidden from the audience . |
| 2 | He knew that if he kept under the trees , he should be able to crest the Monument yet remain hidden from the mysterious workers . |
| 3 | It seemed somehow deeper , as if its roots lay hidden in the past . |
| 4 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 5 | A small white plastic bag containing various packets of waxed paper marked ‘ For Foodstuffs ’ lay propped against the gear-lever of the little Fiat . |
| 6 | A major lawsuit arose over part of the mineral area jointly owned by Bayly and by a lesser gentry family , whose entail devolved on the Revd Edward Hughes 's infant son ( later first Baron Dinorben ) . |
| 7 | The transactional desktop element allows networked personal computers running MS-DOS or Windows to run the client portions of Open/OLTP downloaded from the server . |
| 8 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 9 | Today , eighty women sit scattered on the brownish-grey stony ground . |
| 10 | The sleek half-fish-half-insect-looking machine with its low snout , long canopy , slim double-tapered fuselage , squat trailing-link undercarriage and 110-degree V-tail immediately recalled memories of the shiny blue mounts of la Patrouille — though the ends of its tanks remain un-dented by the games of ‘ tap-the-tip-tank ’ which those characters played on boring transits . |
| 11 | Opposite the Philadelphia was an almost perfect Roman amphitheatre ; other Roman ruins lay scattered on the hills , barely investigated by the experts . |
| 12 | Other columns lay scattered on the grass , and yet there was still such perfect grace and beauty to the place that Caroline felt her throat constrict . |
| 13 | The Government remain committed to the Anglo-Irish Agreement unless and until agreement can be reached on new and more broadly satisfactory arrangements . |
| 14 | Would he not join me in urging Sinn Fein to reconsider their position on this and would he also agree with me and confirm to this house that this government will never do what Mr Adams requests and that is become a persuader of the people of Northern Ireland to join a united Ireland and will he , will he recognise from me that many on these benches remain committed to the union of Northern Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 15 | Does he not therefore find it extraordinary that the Labour and Liberal parties remain committed to the abolition of grant maintained schools and that in local government they are waging a relentless campaign against G M schools , as typified by the behaviour of Essex County Council . |
| 16 | In both types of chromatography , portions of each component remain dissolved in the mobile phase . |
| 17 | By continuing to ask ‘ is it true ? ’ instead of analysing ‘ which truth ? ’ and ‘ whose truth ? ’ , antiracists often remain trapped within the paradox we identified at the beginning of this Introduction . |
| 18 | Strategy and reform remain trapped in the ideological confines of New Right political thought . ’ |
| 19 | The distinctive nature of the ends is reinforced by the fact that the occupants are often physically con fined to the particular area for the whole of the football match . |
| 20 | SWAP operated under the aegis of the Royal Society , giving it credibility in the eyes of the press and the collaborating Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . |
| 21 | So what we 're doing now is , and we 'll do again this year , when we publish the telephone directory again , is to send out to divisions any numbers that they want saved on the system . |
| 22 | In the Preface we suggested that , as a minimum level of activity , you go in with ( i ) some ideas about what you hope will happen , emphasizing pupil and teacher activities ( ii ) some questions that you want answered about the unit , and ( iii ) some paper to note what actually does happen in detail , and in general . |
| 23 | It lists the different elements of a database — data files ( in table form ) , queries ( Query-By-Example , so you fill in a data entry form with the criteria you want matched by the query ) , single-record forms , reports , label formats and applications . |
| 24 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 25 | But all Northern Ireland 's businessmen appear frustrated by the lack of interest from their mainland colleagues . |
| 26 | When an organization invites the Prince or Princess of Wales to make a speech on their behalf , it is customary for them to write a draft , incorporating any appropriate facts and figures or particular message that they want conveyed in the speech . |
| 27 | More specifically , they arc focused on the home , with self-provisioning ( DIY , gardening and so forth ) representing a sphere of autonomy where they can literally ‘ be themselves ’ . |
| 28 | Of particular local interest were a Bronze Age spearhead found near The Lea an fragments from a German bomb dropped on Oakley Mynd in 1940 . |
| 29 | Although Robert Teeter remained as the nominal head of the Bush campaign , it was generally acknowledged that Baker would use his new post to exercise overall and ultimate responsibility for the campaign and attempt to provide it with a greater degree of coherence . |
| 30 | When making maps you might start simply by asking the children to draw something on a sheet of paper that they want represented on the map — a house , a shop , the well , the woods … |