Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree with the reasons given for allowing the appeal . |
| 2 | After five bitter weeks the NUAW succeeded in holding the line — but only just . |
| 3 | A practice developed of allowing the individual to make representations and call witnesses before a panel of three people who would advise the Secretary of State . |
| 4 | The Bush administration responded by prohibiting the use of dead fetal tissues for research of any kind in institutions supported by federal funds . |
| 5 | No other parties succeeded in reaching the 5 per cent threshold required to win representation . |
| 6 | But by speaking plainly — and wittily — both speakers succeeded in retaining the attention of their audience for a full hour , despite a collective hangover from the conference dinner the night before . |
| 7 | Some years ago , in an action in the High Court , a Birmingham ratepayer succeeded in preventing the Birmingham City Council from granting free tickets to old age pensioners on the City 's transport system because they then had no statutory power to do that . |
| 8 | The Australia Group comprises 20 industrialised nations committed to preventing the proliferation of chemical weapons . |
| 9 | On the issue of United Kingdom participation in UNESCO ( the United States , United Kingdom and Singapore having withdrawn from the organization in 1984-85 — see pp. 33499-501 ) Mayor held talks on Feb. 28 with the UK Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , Timothy Sainsbury , and on March 15 the House of Commons foreign affairs committee issued its first report on reforms within UNESCO , indicating that if Mayor succeeded in reforming the organization 's administration , the UK should rejoin . |
| 10 | Without adding much to the defensive capabilities of the palace , these outworks succeeded in masking the original work of Shah Jehan ‘ like a veil over a beautiful bride , ’ as Dr Jaffery put it . |
| 11 | In December , the DoT decided against granting the £5 million needed for the road , which would stretch from nearby Snape Hill to Red Bridge . |
| 12 | In a significant number of other cases , the user was arrested for either possession of illegal drugs or a crime related to financing the habit . |
| 13 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 14 | A further 27 people , including six journalists accused of publishing the newspaper al-Nidaa [ see p. 38212 ] , received death sentences between June 15 and 20 . |
| 15 | O Weights measured by netting the bird , perch-balance weights of free bird on its territory . |
| 16 | In addition all the plate , ornaments and utensils of the temple were made of gold , including even the implements used in tilling the temple gardens . |
| 17 | The other part will reflect the cost of materials and labour used in producing the product and will therefore be , to a first approximation , linearly related to production volume . |
| 18 | Mr. Macdonald spoke of the methods used for making the prints , the shading required , the need for softer grades of paper and the treatment needed for cracked negatives . |
| 19 | From this you may form some idea of their distress , and the holy violence used in entering the strait gate . |
| 20 | The warp thread is wound round the pegs and two large and two small shuttles used for weaving the weft . |
| 21 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 22 | Studies of differences between published price indices and transactions prices have assumed that all the variables used in calculating the transactions prices are error free . |
| 23 | It decided it could squeeze in a fifth , but there is no room for a sixth channel and by the time you add up the extra transmission channels needed for relaying the signal onwards , there will not be enough spectrum to allow the fifth channel to cover the whole country . |
| 24 | In accordance with suggestions already made by the North Korean government Yon proposed an arms control agreement between the two states which would involve a three-phase troop reduction programme based upon cutting the standing army of each side to fewer than 10,000 men within three or four years . |
| 25 | Geoffrey Ford 's Review of methods employed in determining the use of library stock , published in 1990 , reviews data collection methods and the interpretation of findings , and factors associated with book use , referring to 135 surveys in his bibliography . |
| 26 | ‘ In mild cloudy weather the vapour on the mountains sometimes travels horizontally , by which their summits are hid from the eye of the anxious spectator , but when ascending or descending mists shall roll upon the surface of gigantic nature , when some castle-like rock alternately of the deepest air tint and most celestial light , shall seem as hung in clouds , the powers of the pencil are frequently suspended , and the mind employed in comparing the greatness of nature with the littleness of art . ’ |
| 27 | The public 's ideas for providing full employment were coloured by the success of wartime planning , but they remained largely the notions of the years before the war , as Table 1 , compiled immediately following the publication of the Beveridge report in December 1942 , shows : a public works programme was mentioned four times as frequently as socialism , which was less popular than solutions based on reducing the amount of work to be done by individuals , and in the number wanting work . |
| 28 | The difficulties the administration encountered in enforcing the collection of taxes made it impossible for it to maintain a flow of funds to the king in Flanders , and Edward was now suffering the severest financial embarrassment . |
| 29 | Age Concern England and Edward Arnold have jointly produced a book which brings together various authors experienced in addressing the particular needs of elders from ethnic minorities . |
| 30 | The question of ‘ opting out ’ has been controversial , and doubts have been expressed about the methods proposed for establishing the will of the parents . |