Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But women tend to work by manipulating the threads , setting up a pattern to be woven , which may not be fully revealed until much later . |
| 2 | Mr Rodney Graham , a fellow consultant at Guy 's , said Professor Keen had started legal action after discovering that Guy 's staff were being diverted to work on implementing the NHS proposals . |
| 3 | Once we have agreed the contents with him we will be in a position to drawn up a Phase 1 contract in which we intend to concentrate on making the sanctuary wind and watertight that will allow us to begin work on the interior alterations . |
| 4 | Before he marketed Playboy — and got fined for sending the Monroe picture through the mails — the only full-page colour nudes outside nudist magazines were the aborigines of the National Geographic Magazine . |
| 5 | ‘ We remain committed to supporting the needs of blind people and our aim must be to achieve a fair system right across Cleveland . ’ |
| 6 | Yet in the end it sold the site for three times the amount that the City expected to obtain by demolishing the buildings . |
| 7 | His mouth became occupied in tracing the line of her jaw . |
| 8 | ‘ Ultimately , rock'n'roll has to contend with carrying the burden of primitive music on its shoulders , the way Atlas carried the world on his shoulders . |
| 9 | Over the past two years the debate has veered between consolidating the remains as a war memorial and reconstructing the church ( see The Art Newspaper No. 9 , June 1991 , p.14 ) . |
| 10 | The Library Association is increasing efforts in parliamentary lobbying but the question of how far it wants to go in challenging the use of legislation for censorship is unclear . |
| 11 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the answer that he has given on paying the guaranteed minimum pension to the Maxwell pensioners is wholly inadequate ? |
| 12 | For relatively large volumes of antibodies , industry has relied on raising the hybrids in ascites ( fluid in the peritoneal cavity ) in mice , rather than in tissue culture . |
| 13 | The balance has tipped from viewing the problem entirely in terms of liability and expense to acknowledging that it also offers an opportunity … |
| 14 | J. D. North has succeeded in reconstructing the St Albans escapement from the purely verbal description given in the surviving manuscript . |
| 15 | The imposter then declares himself , and it is interesting to see if the judicial process has succeeded in ascertaining the truth of the matter . |
| 16 | In Unix , it has succeeded in creating the impression that it has far more of the management , security and support capabilities in place than any of its competitors , and while this may not be entirely valid , time and again in the computer industry , winning the perception is nine tenths of the battle : in the 1970s , it was universally acknowledged among the cognoscenti that Burroughs Corp had by far the best mainframe architecture and operating software , but that did nothing to prevent the vast majority of its users migrating to IBM over time . |
| 17 | He has succeeded in creating the atmosphere of a Mediterranean village , through the various architectural embellishments ; the old style Mallorcan houses , with their pastel-shaded façades , balconies , verandas , shutters and irregular roof-lines , suggest that the Anchorage Village has evolved over generations rather than just six years . |
| 18 | A detailed exploration of the area has succeeded in locating the headquarters of the rebel leader who led the revolt of 66-70AD and who fought alongside the Masada rebels for several years . |
| 19 | Henry James was followed by the Benson brothers , E. F. Benson the novelist and A. C , for years Master of Oxford 's Magdalen College — I wonder if anyone has succeeded in editing the twenty-six volumes of autobiography he left . |
| 20 | In the event , minor engineering work to the existing twin-catalyst 6.7-litre pushrod V8 has succeeded in achieving the desired results . |
| 21 | Although the change , introduced last year , to gross accounting has succeeded in highlighting the volume of activity which was previously reported in modest , net contribution figures , it should be appreciated that significant fluctuations will occur on the completion of major projects . |
| 22 | Oxfam NoLoGo has succeeded in making the concept of recycling fun and giving charity shops a completely new look . |
| 23 | Since it began using the gas phase process in 1979 , ICI has been at the forefront of process control and development and has succeeded in covering the whole product range with this new technology . |
| 24 | Although the NPT has succeeded in retarding the spread of nuclear weapons , there is no doubt that the treaty will collapse unless significant progress is made towards nuclear disarmament by the nuclear powers . |
| 25 | Can Sandra Bernhard ( FACE 48 ) seriously believe that , because it is she who is stripping for Playboy and not some ‘ subservient bimbo ’ , she has succeeded in subverting the soft-porn medium ? |
| 26 | The Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) in California has spent ten years running a US government-sponsored project , which has succeeded in reducing the price of solar cells by 15 times , increasing cell efficiency from 6 per cent to 15 per cent and extending their lifespan from ten to thirty years . |
| 27 | The recent political activities of Haringey Black Action has succeeded in raising the profile of Black lesbians and gay men . |
| 28 | Although so far no one has succeeded in interpreting the Etruscan language we can fully appreciate their sculpture , painting and craftsmanship . |
| 29 | The government has responded by increasing the military presence in the area , while the " Mindanao Defenders " , an irregular civilian paramilitary force of a type common in the Philippines , is beginning to intimidate the protestors . |
| 30 | Mutation has to work by modifying the existing processes of embryonic development . |