Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1946 the feast sing committee promoted the first Holmfirth musical competitions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I remember my first-ever game , it was at a place called The Golden Sands Holiday Camp , and they had one snooker table , right next to the miniature railway — it used to be very off-putting when you were playing in the holiday camp competition . |
| 4 | At a point called the optimum LAI the maximum crop growth rate is attained . |
| 5 | The opening sentence of the Sun report — under the headline Girl , 6 , raped by ‘ New Fox' — has the echo of the earlier report reproduced above — ‘ A savage sex fiend dubbed The New Fox was being hunted by police last night … . ’ |
| 6 | A sex fiend dubbed the Teenage Fox has raped a 15-year-old girl at knife-point . |
| 7 | They said they were offering a new short introductory course called the general SVQ in care . |
| 8 | ‘ Snoopy , ’ the code name given the unchristened Praxsys software , promises to take all current and future off-the-shelf shrinkwrapped Windows applications , whether written for Windows 3.0 , 3.1 or NT , and run them unmodified on any RISC or Intel Corp Unix platform in native mode . |
| 9 | A MSS instrument like the one carried by Landsats 1–3 and described earlier is carried by the newer Landsats ; in addition , they have a more modern scanner called the Thematic Mapper or TM . |
| 10 | Look out for the CET range of products , including an ingenious rubber bone called The Dental Kong , £10 , and the Nylabone dental range , £2-£4 , available from better pet shops and veterinary centres . |
| 11 | This covers the whole of the costs up to May 16th , 1908 ( the official Opening ) and when the officers elected the previous December , formally took over the working of the club and course . |
| 12 | Did n't you say that those youths who got their friend drunk the other Saturday were not the kind of visitors you liked here ? ’ |
| 13 | No 192 Squadron 's ‘ A ’ Flight operated the four Washingtons and these were WZ966 ‘ 55 ’ , WZ967 ‘ 56 ’ , WZ957 ‘ 57 ’ and WW346 , which , unlike the other three , was a conventional bomber . |
| 14 | More than twenty people were killed and hundreds injured when tornado storms struck the American Mid-West . |
| 15 | Today 's reading is the first part of an American novel called The Great Gilly Hopkins written by Katherine Paterson . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | MacCulloch ( 1819 ) , and later , Murchison and Geikie ( 1861 ) , provided the first accounts of the geology of Lewis and Harris and the other islands which constitute the north east-south west chain of islands called the Outer Hebrides , which lies some 70 km west of the northern Scottish mainland . |
| 18 | The leather bucket seat held her slender figure in a cushioned caress , and trees overhanging the road softened the strong Queensland sunlight with patches of blurred green shade . |
| 19 | In a letter written the following April , he notes that he too " found the endowment very small , but the Inhabitants liberal in their patronage and support " . |
| 20 | Our Invention consists of an improvement on the Invention relating to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways which forms the subject of a previous application for Letters Patent dated the 22nd April 1896 , No. 8501 . |
| 21 | Your letter dated the 19th May to Wales Wildlife and Countryside Link has been passed on to me in my capacity as Vice Chair of the Link , but more relevantly perhaps as Director of CPRW . |
| 22 | The next morning , a Sunday , he agreed to Dick 's suggestion to see a West German doctor , had tests done the following Wednesday and was referred to Zurich for an operation a week later . |
| 23 | Burun was sitting on a chest which had been used to carry the food , and his second wife , Kiku , whom men called the Regal Lily , was standing behind him dressing his hair while he admired himself in a hand-held mirror . |
| 24 | For instance , in 1940 a British author of fairly conventional detective stories , Henry Wade ( who was in private life Sir Aubrey Fletcher , a magistrate and son of a full-time Metropolitan magistrate , and thus not unacquainted with police work ) wrote a book called The Lonely Magdalen , telling the story of a murder investigation seen largely from the point of view of the police officers conducting it . |
| 25 | This is a particular threat given the present NHS management ethos , which is at best distant and disinterested and at worst disregards workforce morale . |
| 26 | Back in the late 60s and early 70s , Basil d'Oliveria had with some fine batting displays caught the eyes of England selector and displayed his talents on a world stage with the former Gloucester and Worcester bat , Tom Graveney given the mighty West Indians some headaches . |
| 27 | Though there is no European analogue cellular standard , Olivetti reckons that the GSM system provides a more uniform digital standard for Europe than is available in the US — an ironic role reversal given the homogeneous US analogue market . |
| 28 | So that 's what his friends and/or employees called the unpleasant Mr. Preston . |
| 29 | They are among the performers on a new LP titled The Exotic Beatles . |