Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his attitude towards the French seemed to change somewhat before he died , Roosevelt had effectively delayed the French in their attempt to return to Indochina . |
| 2 | The materials which I designed myself as illustrative of a particular approach to teaching ( for example , Widdowson 1978 ; Allen and Widdowson 1973 ) , have been criticized on the grounds that they have not been subjected to evaluation and thereby given the seal of practical effectiveness ( Murphy 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Now that he was left alone with the two women , both of whom ( he imagined ) rather admired him , Rupert felt a sense of power , though there being two of them rather limited the scope of what he could do — cramped his style , he might almost have said . |
| 4 | She had duly registered the death of her father at the Council Offices that afternoon and the funeral had now speedily to be carried out in Buckinghamshire . |
| 5 | Whilst with JM Liz has successfully completed the Institute of Personnel Management examinations and is currently taking the Open University Effective Manager course . |
| 6 | But the heat and the darkness and the twisted magic had long since drained the heart from the land ; the dark sorcery had sucked out the goodness and turned it into a stunted , abandoned place . |
| 7 | It is a follow-up to the World Conservation Strategy of 1980 , which has since formed the basis for all or part of 50 national strategies in 50 . |
| 8 | Technological change has not only brought about a drastic decline in the number of farm workers , but has fundamentally altered the nature of the work which they now perform . |
| 9 | It was they who most resented the contempt of factory management , the humiliation of public examination for venereal diseases , the lack of privacy in the lavatories , the insecurity of their jobs , the degradation of their living quarters . |
| 10 | Wolfe Tone , the aristocratic eighteenth-century Irish nationalist , had secretly arranged the arrival of a French invasion fleet . |
| 11 | The US Supreme Court has effectively limited the power of the Endangered Species Act , by dismissing a case which sought to establish that federal bodies must comply with the Act when funding projects overseas . |
| 12 | And that exactly a century ago , the fifth Earl sold his splendid library to Mrs John Rylands , who gave it to Manchester ( though the university has since broken the spirit of the benefaction by selling part of it ) . |
| 13 | A crisis and wave of strikes had effectively paralysed the government for some weeks [ see p. 38583 ] . |
| 14 | The rehearsal had gone well , and it seemed as though he had successfully jumped the chasm between off- and on-Broadway . |
| 15 | She had successfully banished the photograph from her mind and was gazing outside , down at the sunlit seashore , her eyes searching for Emily , when Mrs Birkin appeared . |
| 16 | ‘ Well now that you 've single-handedly won the war on drugs , perhaps you can do something useful , like scrub the deck ? ’ |
| 17 | So far , we have mostly considered the use of fourth chords in situations where only one vertical chord is built of perfect fourths superimposed , each note remaining in the same register . |
| 18 | In other words we 've effectively rebuilt the island of information that we used to talk about five years ago and the key motivation behind enterprise client server is really to integrate the efforts of these two groups . |
| 19 | The term ‘ zoo ’ has long since shed the label of ‘ consumers ’ of wildlife and is now certainly one of the ‘ producers ’ of animals , or is it ? |
| 20 | FOR DECADES , professional and amateur politicians , encouraged by a vociferous band of scientists and engineers , have relentlessly pursued the reclamation of land for which the distant eye sees no use . |
| 21 | In Davis ( Clifford ) Management v WEA Records [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 61 Lord Denning MR expressly considered the adequacy of the consideration . |
| 22 | Led by Dimas Tigrillo ( " Wildcat " ) , the re-contras had on June 13 forcibly occupied the town of San José Bocay , 250 km north of Managua , to publicize their demands , among which were the restructuring and integration of contras into the predominantly Sandinista police force in the north , and the removal of Humberto Ortega from his post . |
| 23 | Into that stream of pure gothic fiction there was eventually added the element of crime or suspected crime , thus bringing into existence the romantic suspense novel . |
| 24 | The report has bitterly disappointed the mother of Tristan Watkins , who was found dead in a pool 11 days after being discharged . |
| 25 | Woolf J also found that the Authority had properly considered the interest of the ratepayers and that the financial duties were not overriding . |
| 26 | Available money had gone into large road improvement schemes which had rather overwhelmed the rest of the programme . |
| 27 | There is a difference , although an uncertain one , between some statements of the form If P then Q and others of the form If P , Q. ( W. A. Davis , 1983a ) Suppose that someone has unkindly disconnected the wiring between the switch and the wipers . |
| 28 | Another noteworthy aspect of his success has been that throughout his career he has rarely enjoyed the luxury of playing alongside another bowler of similar pace . |
| 29 | There were reports that international relief organizations had vastly over-estimated the number of refugees fleeing Kuwait and Iraq following the outbreak of hostilities on Jan. 16-17 . |
| 30 | Obviously , the more widely dispersed the loyalty of customers or suppliers , the less likely the employer will be able to succeed in claiming the speciality required . |