Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he sought to remain neutral during the English civil war , commissioners empowered by Parliament took control of the colony in 1652 and continued to administer Maryland until Oliver Cromwell restored Calvert 's proprietary rights in 1657 . |
| 2 | The much vaunted privatization of state companies , scheduled to begin in July , was repeatedly postponed due to legal and technical difficulties , and the promised cut of 360,000 civil service posts failed to materialize due to the constitutional safeguards protecting their employment . |
| 3 | Father rushed down and began yelling instructions ; the gentleman and his gillie just stood , mouths open , hardly believing what they were seeing , as Mother struggled and splashed in the river , fighting the salmon with one hand whilst struggling to remain decent with the other . |
| 4 | He is rarely mentioned in the press references to TI tend to go hand-in-hand with the name of its chairman and chief executive , the recently knighted Sir Christopher Lewinton . |
| 5 | Whole oats need to be fed in a larger quantity , as a proportion of them tend to pass undigested through the horse ; and crushed oats are usually smashed into oblivion , and reduced to a poor quality feed of husks and dust . |
| 6 | In the context of ancient sites , it involves becoming aware of the special nature of the place and taking some action , however small , in recognition of this . |
| 7 | What chloroplast cells there are tend to concentrate near to the veins , so that the little carbohydrate that is elaborated is quickly moved into the nearby veins and carried to where it is needed , thus we get a characteristic green outline to the veins in an otherwise pale green , even yellowish , leaf . |
| 8 | Where winter snow is plentiful , ponds and shallow lakes occupy large areas ; over much of the tundra they form networks of static waterways that make walking difficult after the thaw . |
| 9 | In the past 25 years the population has trebled due to the building program . |
| 10 | Gemerek 's resignation as OKP leader and the election of Gil on Nov. 9 reflected the internal divisions within the group between supporters of Mazowiecki ( including Geremek ) and those of Walesa , who was backed by Gil , although he promised to remain impartial during the election campaign . |
| 11 | Above all , the Labour Party should abandon its current stance on Northern Ireland if it wants to remain true to the principles of its founders . |
| 12 | Latin America 's new free-market orthodoxy has stopped short of the politically sensitive state-controlled oil companies . |
| 13 | City of London Telecommunications — or COLT — has already started construction of the network , which is expected to go on-line towards the end of the year . |
| 14 | ‘ The county council are taking seriously their request for a speed restriction on a stretch of road which has proven dangerous in the past and will continue to be so if action is not taken . ’ |
| 15 | This is where the sculptor might be expected to remain close to the original , though even here a Roman preference can be detected for a certain shape , or for an angle that increases the sentimental value of the copy . |
| 16 | In natural fibre-rich foods the taste-evoking substances appear to remain intact within the cell walls which have not been stripped away by refining processes . |
| 17 | This is simply because the second , or front , bed makes knit and purl knitting possible within the same row . |
| 18 | Any attempt to build a truly all-Nigerian party since the failure of Azikiwe 's pioneering initiative has fallen foul of the rivalry between the major tribal groups . |
| 19 | RMC , the building materials and ready-mixed concrete giant , has fallen foul of the slump . |
| 20 | Karla Fohrbeck has no party-political affiliation and has fallen foul of the SPD ( the Social Democratic Party ) running the town . |
| 21 | Even Vernon 's model has fallen foul of the continuing disturbance to existing patterns , as he himself acknowledged ( 1979 ) . |
| 22 | They have consistently refused to co-operate with any venture that has fallen short of the promise of self-determination . |
| 23 | So much so , that in the conventional use of the term , ‘ being critical ’ has come almost exclusively to mean that the object or action in question has fallen short of the standards in question . |
| 24 | In recent years the ‘ income ’ valuation — based on tax returns — has fallen short of the ‘ expenditure ’ valuation by progressively larger amounts . |
| 25 | Fish knives and forks were invented when electroplating became common in the last century , before the manufacture of stainless steel . |
| 26 | She looked across and tried to appear careless about the whole thing . |
| 27 | He has rescued Labour from the ‘ terminal decline ’ with which it was threatened in 1983 . |
| 28 | So , for a moment , consider a long-distance runner who has collapsed near to the finish on one occasion . |
| 29 | The top eye fixing is designed to pull free on the strike minimising resistance . |
| 30 | Not the kind of stuff some maudlin adult has deemed lovely for the kiddies but proper music , full of the sort of challenges which are really encouraging to meet , and robust enough to stand constant repetition . ’ |