Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several people ended up with wet feet and all the cats vanished and even the kids who were trying to help got the odd clout for ‘ gettin' under our feet ’ . |
| 2 | Fortunately their late arrival did not seem to have aroused the usual hostile chorus of hushing , the majority of the audience consisting of French soldiers who were far from particular about such matters . |
| 3 | It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East . |
| 4 | In the years before 1980 , it was difficult for romance to develop given the strict socialist morality which stressed politics rather than personal relationships . |
| 5 | Four Eritrean groupings opposed to the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) transitional government in Asmara were reported on Sept. 28 to have formed the Eritrean National Pact Alliance ( ENPA ) , accusing the Front of seeking to establish a dictatorship . |
| 6 | In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career . |
| 7 | Thus the family , neighbourhood , or work-place groups of older and younger men and a sprinkling of women , which seem to have formed the basic unit of attendance between the wars and before , broke up . |
| 8 | In this connection it is perhaps significant that the boundary between the parish and Snodland was the old track or Ridgeway , now largely destroyed by chalk quarries , which , keeping to the highest and driest line over the downs is thought to have formed the main east-west route at this period , crossing the River Medway at Holborough as Mr Margery suggested . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But he is unlikely to have foreseen the next blow . |
| 11 | Owner Lachie Stewart aims to have re-built the 16th-century fortress he bought two years ago by December 1999 . |
| 12 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 13 | La Compania Aquas de Sabadell SA , Sabadell , Barcelona , and Telecom Valles SA , Terassa , Barcelona , claim to have developed the first system in Europe for reading water meters over the telephone . |
| 14 | Heath 's example is a hypothetical software firm 's development team , which claims to have developed the latest all singing , all dancing application , which of course is portable . |
| 15 | Heath 's example is a hypothetical software firm 's development team , which claims to have developed the latest all singing , all dancing application , which of course is portable . |
| 16 | His uncertainty is comprehensible , but he appears to have jumped the wrong way . |
| 17 | McCann 's speech , with its suggestion that the police lines ought to be charged , while refusing to actually call for such action , seems to have typified the confused militancy of the radicals , who were suddenly precipitated into a conflict for which they were quite unprepared . |
| 18 | ‘ The Slav idea , indirect Austrian control over Serbia or even German domination of the Straits do not , in the light of cold reason , ’ concludes a recent review of Russia 's options , ‘ seem to have justified the appalling risks Russia faced in entering a European war . ’ |
| 19 | An immediate option for Tottenham was to have stripped the big centre-half of the captaincy at Elland Road and hit him with a hefty fine . |
| 20 | Bazin 's inauguration on June 19 was boycotted by local diplomats but was attended by the papal nuncio ( the Vatican being the only state to have recognized the army-backed regime ) . |
| 21 | Bloomsbury was five years old in 1991 , and might have been expected to have outgrown the cash-hungry habits of the start-up . |
| 22 | They also found that this same Robert Gravier was reported to have chartered the ill-fated Falcon Jet N888AR from Hansa Jet to take him from LaGuardia Airport , New York , to Acapulco . |
| 23 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 24 | Why , then , was John Titford a member of this glorified Home Guard when , at the age of 23 , we might have expected him to have joined the regular army or to have found his way somehow into the militia ? |
| 25 | Brooke appears to have joined the Alien Office around 1796 , and he was clerk from about 1798 to 1813 . |
| 26 | Erm me , myself and Steve are currently working on er , health and safety for contractors coming on site purpose to work etcetera and one of reasons why well he than ever before on this , visi visitor 's information when they 're on site on the back of cars it would , it would have been a nice thing to do would have been to have joined the whole lot together . |
| 27 | What should have happened , perhaps , was for all the actors in this particular drama to have realised the rival groups ' strengths and weaknesses and for senior management to have developed control procedures that divided up responsibilities for the production process in an equitable way . |
| 28 | We do not appear to have received the signed documents back from you yet . |
| 29 | The removal of many thousands of large whales , especially the krill-feeding rorquals , from the Southern Ocean within a few decades is thought by some ecologists to have favoured the many other species , including fish , birds and seals , that feed on krill . |
| 30 | His relatively strong showing in the election , coupled with that of the MSN , was judged to have broken the traditional grip of the PL and PSC on the country 's political system . |