Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goal looked good enough to give United the draw as well , but with just a minute to go they cracked . |
| 2 | Although the mechanism of accumulation of the humbled bones presents a puzzle , the discoveries of the latest in a long series of excavations by Spanish workers , reported on page 534 of this issue , seem not only to have settled the question of the affinities of the Atapeuerca hominids , but also promise to clarify our understanding of the evolution of humans in Europe . |
| 3 | Some field men have been in the job long enough to have seen the protection of the environment become a matter of considerable public concern . |
| 4 | Frankie Albright was nineteen and just young enough to have missed the war ; he had tried to sign up when he was sixteen , only to be informed upon by his mother , who had followed him down to the recruiting office . |
| 5 | The end result is an extremely well-written , amusing narrative which I commend to everyone fortunate enough to have known the Club and particularly to those who will know it in the future . |
| 6 | Had it been broad enough to have included the purpose of the great organised movement its contribution could have been of historical value . |
| 7 | Many of the controversies about the new institutions which serve these purposes can be seen , on analysis , to be arguments about different forms of patronage — encouragement or intervention within and beyond the market — but also , and crucially , about distinctions between the social relations of patronage ( where the public body is held merely to have replaced the court or the household or the individual patron ) and the alternative social relations of a now publicly instituted art . |
| 8 | Though he claimed merely to have followed the Protector 's orders , he was put out of the commission of the peace . |
| 9 | The beauty and novelty of the scenery , the luxuriance of the shrubs and above all the originality of the Natives has astonished them beyond description , and so raised their enthusiasm that they seem scarcely to have felt the labour and fatigue of ascending high mountains or traversing deep glens and ravines , in fact so many wonders in the shape of animal creation have sprung up , as it were before them , that their imaginations have been kept in one continued state of delighted excitement . |
| 10 | That trial seems finally to have convinced the DPP of the unwisdom of using obscenity laws against books with any claim to literary or sociological merit . |
| 11 | The temple at Edfu , which we reached on the morning of the third day , was dedicated to Horus , for this was the spot where he was said to have vanquished Seth , and thus to have established the ascendancy of good over evil , This is never a , convincing concept , and the reliefs display the struggle and its happy outcome with an adamancy that seems to betray doubt . |
| 12 | After a year his wife still appeared not to have noticed the smell of another woman on her husband 's face . |
| 13 | Some schools and LEAs have already begun to construct multicultural and anti-racist policies ; it is up to the majority of institutions that appear not to have grasped the urgency of the issues to follow their lead . |
| 14 | And to have failed to realise this would be not to have understood the use of ‘ I hope ’ . |
| 15 | Grigoriev was watching avidly , and Rostov pretended not to have understood the remark . |
| 16 | ‘ Me lord Buckingham ? ’ enquired Forest — but the constable seemed not to have heard the question . |
| 17 | And Gower is bitterly disappointed not to have made the tour squad after virtually apologising to the Indian Cricket Board for alleging their bowlers scuffed the ball in the final Test at the Oval two summers ago . |
| 18 | If we had been aware of the remarks , I suppose it might have been better not to have made the appointment . ’ |
| 19 | She was glad not to have seen the place . |
| 20 | It was typical of Glyn Morgan not to have disturbed the scene . |
| 21 | She was a fool not to have foreseen the outcome . |
| 22 | She rewrote their homework in respectable English but appeared , at that time , not to have inherited the family teaching compulsion , and was unable to explain the principle by which she was altering their grammar and syntax . |
| 23 | ‘ The officers were found not to have told the defendant of his rights under that section . |
| 24 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 25 | But not to have mentioned the subject at all , to leave a void which demanded to be filled — that , it seemed to me , would have been Hamlet without the prince ( or , more accurately , Queen Mother ) . |
| 26 | ‘ But , sadly , this may take the pressure off the ICC and the TCCB and many of their officials who seem embarrassed — as though they would have preferred Lamb not to have rocked the boat . ’ |
| 27 | The statutory demand was admittedly excessive in that it ought not to have included the sum of £146-odd mentioned above . |
| 28 | He pretended not to have read the piece . |
| 29 | In fact I happened just to have spent the weekend with a dear friend and was well aware that at some point over the two days she had entertained everyone suspected of being concerned , and not a word of politics was discussed , nor a syllable about supplanting anybody . |
| 30 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |