Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cover-design is presumably intended to encapsulate the Labour Party 's interpretation of citizenship . |
| 2 | He had long since stopped noticing the foul smell inside the little concrete box , or the damp grittiness of the floor against his cheek , and he heard only distantly the rolling crash of thunder . |
| 3 | Over half the issues of British public libraries can be ascribed to recreational reading , although — as will be seen — public libraries are rarely arranged to suit the recreational approach . |
| 4 | Rowan Martin , who had worked for 20 years with the department , had been widely tipped to get the new post of deputy director of the department , until his arrest in mid-1992 on corruption charges , on which he was later exonerated . |
| 5 | In 1964 , although widely expected to reach the higher echelons of the Army , Winchester retired at his own request and settled in Kenya , where he kept dairy cattle on a farm outside Nairobi . |
| 6 | Sotheby 's will sell another Picasso on 15 November — Au Lapin Agile , from the Pink period — which is widely expected to break the previous price records . |
| 7 | Political sources said that Mitterrand loyalists were already in touch with Gaullist Edouard Balladur , 63 , widely expected to head the next government , to discuss the handover from the present prime minister , Pierre Beregovoy . |
| 8 | He then twice conspired to overthrow the junta , and is unofficially considered to head the paramilitary death squad , the White Warrior Union . |
| 9 | Time after time Nizan hammered out his basic message : the internal logic of fascism is rearmament leading to war ; the only way to prevent the catastrophe of a world-wide conflict is the creation of a potent counterbalancing force expressly designed to curb the expansionist tendencies of fascist nation states ; peace will be possible only if it is guaranteed by an effective network of alliances forged between civilised , peace-loving nations such as France , Great Britain and , above all , the USSR . |
| 10 | This even applies to listed buildings : there is still a worryingly widespread general belief that listing only covers the facade , or perhaps just the exterior , whereas it is of course expressly designed to protect the whole building . |
| 11 | In the promotion of rapid industrialization , the Japanese state fostered the growth of large organizations which would be better placed to resist the intense competition of Western companies . |
| 12 | The fact that the South East contains a disproportionately high number of professional and managerial inhabitants , that transportation is generally quicker and easier because of the flatter terrain , and that industry and population from London have been relocated to surrounding satellite towns have all conspired to spread the ex-urban population far out into the metropolitan hinterland . |
| 13 | The most stupefying performance , however , came from Cecilia Gasdia , a voice of evidently limited power ( the second part , made up of arias , showed her physical limitations , notably in ‘ D'amor al dolce impero ’ from Tancredi ) , but her dash , her sinewy vocalization , her miraculous phrasing , the skill with which she marshalled the resources of her voice , all conspired to make the first half ( La Separazione , Mi lagnerò tacendo , Bolero above all ) a miraculous experience . |
| 14 | The move was apparently intended to deflect the current wave of protests , increasingly directed at Ratsiraka personally as the 16-party opposition Comité de forces vives coalition pressed for his resignation . |
| 15 | Confronted with data of the following sort , an extract from a private diary only intended to remind the elderly writer of how she passed a day in January 1982 , the discourse analyst may not be able to proceed very far in his analysis . |
| 16 | Notice that the language discussed here is only intended to describe the individual states and the goal of the task , and the conditions for applying operators . |
| 17 | YOP was only intended to help the unemployed and those who had difficulty in finding jobs — the disadvantaged . |
| 18 | A true mystical experience is not only intended to make the adept less egotistic but it should also make him more alert and help him to function better . |
| 19 | All the methods in the booklet are only intended to supplement the chemical analysis of water and sediments . |
| 20 | All this of course took up a great deal of time and delayed the completion of Robyn 's thesis on the nineteenth-century industrial novel , which had to be constantly revised to take the new theories into account . |
| 21 | Walden talked about the way in which Britain 's role had been artificially inflated by the cold war : ‘ What could be better calculated to raise the national spirits than a government holding the flag high in the face of the evils of communism , the murderous follies of buffoonish Argentinian generals , and the intrigues of the perfidious French ? ’ |
| 22 | I can not think of a more patsy , unquestioning system better designed to produce the cosy relationship about which the hon. Gentleman so frequently speaks . |
| 23 | UEFA is unlikely to reduce a punishment apparently designed to make the Dutch authorities , civil as well as sporting , take hooliganism as seriously as the British have been obliged to . |
| 24 | Our range of sleeping beauties have all been especially designed to meet the two highest standards there are : you and your child 's . |
| 25 | By 1855 , as we have seen , he was sufficiently trusted to dismiss the Crimean commander on his father 's behalf . |
| 26 | The country 's opposition National Party , hitherto committed to repeal the anti-nuclear legislation , on March 8 reversed this position and declared itself in favour of the government 's stance . |
| 27 | But this is not because she has suddenly decided to espouse the hereditary principle . |
| 28 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 29 | Yesterday , at the railway embankment , he and a group of friends all reckoned to know the two youths who abducted two-year-old James . |
| 30 | For example , the decline in numbers of young people could be a chance to improve educational standards , thus making Britain better prepared to enter the next century and to manage the demands of an ageing population . |