Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 2 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 3 | Captain Hymers did n't stay to see the coffee served because he then went on to visit another of his garrison units , namely the Duchess of Kent 's Military Hospital . |
| 4 | Although this was done in an ad hoc and somewhat piecemeal fashion , it was intended to mirror the direction taken by the workshop itself . |
| 5 | If their motive actually is er to enjoy seeing a fox torn to pieces er then I suggest to them er that is unbearable cruel there are of course objections to er this motion and to its further extension the banning of fox hunting altogether . |
| 6 | I do not want to see the election lost on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 7 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
| 8 | The ROA would prefer to see the money used to increase prize money in the lower races , but when money is reallocated in that manner it has a way of disappearing . |
| 9 | I should prefer to see the Bill amended so that the two Light Railways Acts were repealed only in England and Wales . |
| 10 | Interference between boxes is checked using an algorithm based on the four states of Interference ; remoteness , touching , interfering , and enclosed ( see Figure 6.6 ) . |
| 11 | The refund of interest in the event of early repayment is calculated using the formula known as ‘ The Rule of 78 ’ as required by the Consumer Credit ( Rebate for Early Settlement ) Regulations 1983 . |
| 12 | The refund of interest in the event of early repayment is calculated using the formula known as ‘ The Rule of 78 ’ as required by the Consumer Credit ( Rebate for early Settlement ) Regulations 1983 . |
| 13 | The effect of this depends on record or block size , but can be calculated using the methods given in Chapter 4 on blocking and buffering ( see p. 75 ) . |
| 14 | They say a letter they 've received exonerating the doctors involved is an insult to their daughter 's memory . |
| 15 | The failure to continue to provide the service offered by the unit anywhere in the regional health authority 's area amounted to a substantial variation in the provision of the service . |
| 16 | The World Bank had in March 1989 suspended disbursements on $350,000,000 of sector reform loans after the government failed to meet the conditions attached to them [ see p. 36613 ] . |
| 17 | On July 13 , 1989 , the European Commission sent to the West German government a " reasoned opinion " that West German drinking water failed to meet the standards set under a 1980 EC directive . |
| 18 | Only 88 of the 416 beaches monitored in 1992 ( compared with 102 in 1991 ) failed to meet the standards set by the European Community directive on bathing waters . |
| 19 | However , it is clear that sufficient places in secure accommodation do not exist to meet the need created by that change in the law . |
| 20 | The Society are now seeking a skilled modeller to carry out this work and have undertaken to bear the costs involved . |
| 21 | It may be helpful to look further into the factors helping to establish the pattern shown in Fig. 16.4 . |
| 22 | This User 's Guide is intended to provide the knowledge required to operate LIFESPAN effectively on a day to day basis , describing the format of the LIFESPAN User Image and the structure of the various options available to users . |
| 23 | The point is , of course , that B might not have intended to communicate the assumption expressed by [ 15c ] . |
| 24 | I ca n't believe knowing er some of the people who do hunt , that their motive is actually that they want to see a fox torn to pieces . |
| 25 | A little more confidence and openness on both sides would inspire a little more confidence in those who want to see the differences met and resolved rather than quietly avoided . |
| 26 | Lin was writing about his native village but he tried to evade the problems posed by autobiographical honesty by couching his story in the form of a novel . |
| 27 | I could not , in all conscience , advise anybody to embark on a commercial diving career at present , especially if that person has to borrow the money needed for the training . |
| 28 | In France Gian Piero Zarri has developed a system known as RESEDA to allow Artificial Intelligence techniques to be applied to historical source material ( concerning the Hundred Years War ) . |
| 29 | An Egyptian scientist has developed a gel based on petroleum waste which he claims can dramatically improve the productivity of sandy soil . |
| 30 | For instance , Evan Zaidel has developed a device known as the Z lens . |