Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bacon 's books , Sprat says , ‘ are every where scattered the best arguments , that can be produced for the defence of Experimental Philosophy ; and the best directions , that are needful to promote it ’ , while according to Glanvill ‘ all the main heads of natural history have received aids and increase from the famous Bacon , who led the way to substantial wisdom , and hath given most excellent directions for the method of such an history of nature ’ . |
| 2 | Now the woman came to the third cave , where lived the great bee . |
| 3 | Bernice felt rather than heard the two explosions , like a double heartbeat , and then the corridor was filled with flames . |
| 4 | She sensed rather than heard the collective sigh of relief that went up as her acceptance rang round the studio just a moment before the signature tune flowed through the headphones , signalling the end of the programme . |
| 5 | Inner : once erected the inner is a free standing unit . |
| 6 | Once formed the stony surface , often termed desert armour , will tend to protect the surface , very much as the coarse material in a stream bed makes it often less erodible than the banks . |
| 7 | We presume that the behaviour depends on subcortical pathways involving the superior colliculus , although given the early abnormalities of these brains , anomalous projections to the hemisphere ipsilateral to the stimulus can not be excluded . |
| 8 | This number more than met the 1,119 houses that were needed in 1951 to eradicate undesirable overcrowding and subtenancy . |
| 9 | Gohlke tells a more subtle story than made the early headlines . |
| 10 | Moreover , fifty-five of the 137 reports in the Leicester Mercury related to Leicester itself , which suggests that there was a good deal more trouble at local level than reached the national press or the FA . |
| 11 | The Conservative Government has more than halved the top rate of tax . |
| 12 | Tony 's Cornish landscapes , in frames of plain gilt , looked well ; their rich browns , yellows and orange tones warmed the room and more than balanced the white walls . |
| 13 | Although covered the radial shields are conspicuous , bar shaped nearly extending to the middle of the disk . |
| 14 | It is common ground that the concessionary fees more than covered the additional cost to the school of educating the taxpayers ' children . |
| 15 | Pemberton-Billing 's invention comprised an add-on governor mechanism which could be attached to a clockwork turntable to give this effect ( 49 ) , and a few dozen records were made which more than doubled the average playing-time . |
| 16 | Once established the new convent will serve the Kimberley diocese . |
| 17 | The Biro is a wily beast , which , if given the least opportunity to make good its escape , will do so . |
| 18 | What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes . |
| 19 | We can infer from these studies that horses reared with other horses in a free and enriched environment ( like a large paddock which offers variety and interest ) , if given the extra stimulation of owners who continually expand their mental horizons , will be more intelligent than a horse that never leaves its paddock or continually lives in a stable or yard . |
| 20 | Any living individual , if made the identifiable subject of a defamatory attack , may take legal action . |
| 21 | As he grabbed , his hand stuck to the statue and he remained imprisoned there until found the following morning . |
| 22 | Hence a depressed person may well remember their childhood as considerably less happy than they would have done if asked the same questions before the onset of their current depressive symptoms . |
| 23 | POLICE gave warning yesterday that a scientific instrument in a car stolen in Lanarkshire , could blind if handled the wrong way . |
| 24 | He argued however that women would actually be more expensive than men if paid the same wages . |
| 25 | On Aug. 24 the Sejm elected as Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki of Solidarity , and on Sept. 12 it endorsed his proposals for a new coalition Council of Ministers dominated by Solidarity but including members of the ZSL ( since renamed the Polish Peasants ' Party — PSL ) , SD and PUWP . |
| 26 | It was not long — and far quicker than he knew — before she became aware of his scrutiny and soon after sensed the unusual and possibly intimidating intensity of it . |
| 27 | Strategic air power had all but won the Second World War . |
| 28 | While composers such as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen condemned all manifestations of the museum culture , and Boulez suggested that opera houses should be burned down , the slender supply of new operas was left either to an older , impervious generation or to composers whose attitude to tradition was either complexly ambivalent ( Henze ) or had all but bypassed the modernist lineage ( Britten and Tippett ) . |
| 29 | New wards and accommodation blocks , laboratories and car-parks have all but masked the original building , whilst within it spacious airy wards , huge staircase halls and corridors have been extensively partitioned and bear no resemblance to their original plan . |
| 30 | For Doumen 's six-year-old had already won most of France 's top chasing honours including the big one , the Grand Steeplechase de Paris , and had all but beaten the best of the British at Cheltenham back in March 1991 when only the nose of Garrison Savannah denied him in the Gold Cup . |