Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sawdust and bran mixture not only provided a soft base on which to rest the corpse but also acted as a sponge for exuded matter ; the side lining masked the bare wood ; the side-sheets assisted in the presentation of the corpse ; and the frill along the visible top edge formed a seal when the lid was screwed down and helped to keep it all airtight . |
| 2 | During her construction an explosion of welding gas damaged the stern section and killed a gang of welders . |
| 3 | Our solutions containing rice derived glucose polymer promoted the highest water obsorption in the secretory state but it is not known whether increasing the polymer concentration ( but maintaining ORS hypotonicity ) would enhance water absorption by further stimulating active glucose transport or whether water absorption would be jeopardised , even by a moderate increase in osmolality . |
| 4 | The $18,000,000 sale marked the second failure of a commercial bank in the US capital within the past year , the National Bank of Washington having collapsed in 1990 . |
| 5 | A logging industry representative called the proposed listing part of an overall strategy by environmentalists to use the Endangered Species Act " as a first strike weapon against the northwest " . |
| 6 | An employee 's details are quickly accessible and the Instant validation of the data input achieved the desired levels of speed and accuracy . |
| 7 | The supervisory board would have a ‘ watchdog ’ role , with power to convene a general meeting if it thought it appropriate ; in addition , a company 's articles could provide that certain major actions of the management board required the supervisory board 's consent . |
| 8 | Entred … book or coppy under the hand of Warden MORTLOCK entitled The Fayery Queene , or Midsomers Nights Dreame , A play acted at ye Queenes Theatre Lycensed by JOHN FRASER … vjd |
| 9 | When the 1981 Companies Act implemented the Fourth EC Company Law Directive , it was not generally recognised how the nature of financial reporting would be affected . |
| 10 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 11 | Had the Home Secretary seen the offensive banners carried by the Party 's youth wing ? |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Lancaster rightly said that what the Home Secretary called the fast-track applicant will go not to a tribunal but to an adjudicator with no new evidence . |
| 13 | She remembers being in a kids ' dance troupe called the Wee Winkies when she was a seven-year-old in Chicago , she enjoyed a run of successes on the TV talent show Star Search , and she was eventually spotted by Prince dancing in a Los Angeles nightclub . |
| 14 | Using the broader measure of the proportion of the population living in a household headed by a NCWP-born person , the South East headed the regional averages in 1981 , closely followed by the West Midlands region , but again the main contrasts are more local in nature . |
| 15 | And then of course they 've got this soldering iron type thing called the diathermy cautery device that seals up the blood vessels and this is being stabbed into her . |
| 16 | The contract with Blue Rondo , and Virgin 's success in another auction for the signature of a limpid guitar group called the Pale Fountains , brought accusations within the industry that Virgin were guilty of ‘ chequebook signing ’ — paying prices that made life more expensive for everyone . |
| 17 | It includes a high availability array system for clustered environments , resource and storage management facilities , a graphical user interface called the Visual System Manager , Fairshare — a control and allocation facility for workload prioritising , network queuing , RxFS — a reliant file system , and C2 security functions . |
| 18 | On Feb. 19 the UN Security Council authorized the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) to make emergency deliveries of water purification equipment to reduce the risk of epidemics . |
| 19 | IBM also now offer a more comprehensive multimedia tool called the Audio Visual Connection ( AVC ) . |
| 20 | Adobe claims to have solved this problem with a Postscript-based file format called the Portable Document Format ( PDF ) . |
| 21 | Veritas has arranged to support Destiny with a cut-down version of its file system dubbed the Journaling File System and aimed at the desktop : the full product will come along later as a server upgrade . |
| 22 | This led us to identify a number of key themes in the contemporary literature concerning what the Chicago School called the biotic order . |
| 23 | The newspaper story marked the first occasion on which the media had given coverage to the longstanding allegation of Bush 's infidelity . |
| 24 | When considering whether the Revolution should be seen as a victory for Whig principles or not , historians have tended to take a constitutional frame of reference — the more a particular historian believes the Revolution settlement limited the constitutional powers of the Crown , then the more Whiggish the Revolution is said to be . |
| 25 | Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba . |
| 26 | In 1987 , the Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Act abolished the existing salary scales ( see the introduction to Figures 7.5–7.8 below ) , and also the Burnham Committees , in which representatives from the teachers ' unions , the LEAs and the DES had negotiated salary structure , levels of pay and conditions of service . |
| 27 | The North Side Civic Development Council placed the latter firmly on its agenda through its attempts to establish incubators for small businesses and local labour contracts in larger projects , with limited success . |
| 28 | During the revision of the Office Administration and Technology modules , the Module Development Group incorporated the latest draft of the Lead Body standards of competence into the relevant modules , and these were conditionally approved as SVQs in Business Administration for session 1990/91 . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the National Society for Art Education regarded the forthcoming introduction of TEC courses as an important development which would emphasize the needs of the design area to be better served by more appropriate courses and examinations . |
| 30 | The Phnom Penh government released the last of its political prisoners and prisoners of war on March 29 . |