Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a radio address on 24 May , for example , he announced three major categories of reform , which he expected to see accomplished before the end of the year : reform of the civil service ; nationalization of the coal , electricity , and banking industries ; and a plan to boost France 's birthrate . |
| 2 | If the heads are restricted to general terms they are a useful means of outlining the transaction and identifying the main areas the parties want to see included in the sale agreement . |
| 3 | It is not a label which I want to see attached to the British economy . |
| 4 | To do this , the researcher has to remain detached from the group at the same time as becoming a member of it . |
| 5 | Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time . |
| 6 | The effect of s80 is that if , for instance , the settlor creates a trust for himself for life and then his son for life or absolutely that in order for the trust to be an excluded property trust the settlor must not be domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time when the settlement is created and nor must he be domiciled in the United Kingdom ( and this would include deemed domiciled in the United Kingdom ) at the time of his death . |
| 7 | All the rain she needs has fallen on the Queen 's racetrack in the past week to make jockey Pat Eddery set for a much better day than last year . |
| 8 | An examination of Figure 6.1 reveals that , whilst each of the groups considered has gained over the period 1979 — 89 ( due to the tax and benefit changes discussed above ) , the greatest gain was made by the richest tenth of the population . |
| 9 | WASHINGTON — Countdown to liftoff has begun for the space shuttle Atlantis and the Jupiter-bound spacecraft it is carrying . |
| 10 | ‘ Now he has got fascinated by the paper as well , he 's made it look like a field of bridal veils , but it 's going to be difficult to keep it in place when we move it at night . |
| 11 | They proposed getting rid of the philistines found along Wardour Street , London 's Film Row , wiping out the middle-class personnel who had been creeping into the director 's chair , or introducing a bunch of amateurs into the business . |
| 12 | Perhaps , not surprisingly , in a short space of time life skills training has become detached from the wider objectives associated with liberal humanist education : the point being that teaching young people about society has been replaced by criteria designed to alter their relationship with it . |
| 13 | In the case of many other states parties , the Convention has become incorporated into the domestic law , thus discharging a primary rather than a secondary function ( i.e. coming into operation only in the event of a failure of domestic remedies ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Women 's Lib ’ has matured and has become incorporated into the language and into the superficial behaviour of most self-respecting liberal socialists . |
| 15 | Volcanic bombs can be composed of either lava , or of preexisting rock which has become incorporated into the magma in the neck of a volcano . |
| 16 | Within France , the issue has become absorbed into the debate over the forthcoming referendum on the Maastricht treaty , with opponents claiming that an EC single market would result in France becoming the " dustbin of Europe " . |
| 17 | Nuclear power , once thought to be a way to buy time while fixing all of the above problems , has become discredited following the Chernobyl disaster . |
| 18 | Over the years that The Women Artists Slide Library has been collecting and documenting the work of women artists it has become sensitised to the many issues around health and disability . |
| 19 | What really happened has become over-printed by the fiction . |
| 20 | ‘ Our philosophy has become emasculated by the anxiety to propitiate deterministic sciences . |
| 21 | But more than that , John has become rated as the man for the big occasion . |
| 22 | But more than that , John has become rated as the man for the big occasion . |
| 23 | The former take little account of the latter although much of the HMI 's thinking has become known over the same period i.e. the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 24 | Paradoxically , in most years the outcome of the Defence budgetary process is under-rather than overspending , and this is not because the accounting officers fear the wrath of Parliament , but because of what has become known as the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ , illustrated in figure 3 . |
| 25 | The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US . |
| 26 | Spasticity , which comes from the word ‘ spasm ’ , has become known as the common term for the whole range of cerebral palsy handicaps but the three forms are significantly different . |
| 27 | This movement has become known as the Renaissance in the English-speaking world , the Rinascimento in Italy . |
| 28 | Several parish and community councils have given themselves the status of a town council , whereupon the chairman of the parish council has become known as the town mayor . |
| 29 | The monitoring network has become known as the radioactive incident monitoring network ( RIMNET ) and has , as its prime responsibility , the detection of abnormal increases in radiation levels within the UK of the kind that might arise from an overseas nuclear accident . |
| 30 | It turned out that a mathematically-respectable ‘ electroweak ’ theory required three exchange particles for the weak force : two electrically charged particles , W+ and W- , and a third neutral partner which has become known as the Zo . |