Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Lara ( 86 off 91 balls with two sixes and 13 fours ) and Desmond Haynes ( 59 off 71 balls , a six and seven fours ) wiped off the 153 needed to win the second match from just 25.5 overs . |
| 2 | The services that the authorities developed for the handicapped followed the model already established for the blind . |
| 3 | The problems with the gearboxes of the 141s , 142s and 143s were well publicised as the 1980s drew into their second half . |
| 4 | Blacks ' recent involvement in sport began in the 1950s and continued spasmodically through the next two decades , intensifying as the 1980s approached ; in the spheres in which they opted to compete , many achieved excellence . |
| 5 | The recession deepened as the 1870s proceeded , and by 1879 Skerne Iron Works had called in the liquidator . |
| 6 | Carriage driving for the disabled began about 20 years ago and it 's been growing in popularity ever since . |
| 7 | However , it is suggested here that the prime factor attracting women to work in the 1980s lay rather in demand for labour from the service sector , albeit at comparatively low rates of pay ( Townsend , 1986a ) . |
| 8 | The combined total number of patients included in the above mentioned studies is 428 , 220 treated and 208 in the control group . |
| 9 | Why are the North York moors not included in the 12 proposed environmentally sensitive areas ? |
| 10 | It would be easier to plant the tuber first , in a pot consisting of the above mentioned medium and then to place the pot in a shallow tank . |
| 11 | The title of Cater 's article ( 1977 ) , ‘ Soil erosion : the problem persists despite the billions spent on it ’ , speaks for itself . |
| 12 | Many other venues suffered as the Sixties drew to a close . |
| 13 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 14 | Other employment measures adopted during the 1970s included attempts to co-ordinate national employment policies , with the exchange of information and research , and Resolutions on training schemes for the young , information technology and vocational training . |
| 15 | The growth rate is modest , because Matisse was fully appreciated in the Seventies and the massive revaluations that were widely applied in the Eighties had in his case already happened . |
| 16 | Slater and Woodside found that the couples they interviewed in the 1940s showed ‘ a mutual liking canalised by prudential and social considerations ’ . |
| 17 | Indeed , use of agency workers seemed totally unaffected by performance measured according to the above mentioned indicators . |
| 18 | A depth-first traversal goes from a node to one of the nodes directly connected to it and then immediately continues by visiting a node that is connected to the last visited node ( see Figure 12 ) . |
| 19 | Only a magnificent sand shot at the 72nd got Curtis Strange into a play-off for his country 's national title , although once in it he dominated . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , from the British viewpoint at any rate , the dispute-solving model adopted by the Sinhalese had little to do with British conceptions of justice . |
| 21 | Many of his pictures were imaginative figure compositions , including the water-colours produced during the 1850s called ‘ Sketches to illustrate the Passions ’ . |
| 22 | The Black Muslims , founded in the 1930s grew fast in the 1960s ; their most celebrated recruit was Muhammed Ali , the world heavyweight boxing champion . |
| 23 | But ironically the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1880s accentuated rather than diminished this tendency , for police and judicial measures , combined with the efforts of moral reformers , were making ever clearer that distinction between respectable and unrespectable behaviour . |
| 24 | This included fifteen actual vintage aircraft , thirty rebuilt trainers for use by the American film unit , another 21 rebuilt trainers used in the Japanese produced scenes , and thirty P–40 mock-ups for targets . |
| 25 | Peregrines , whose numbers have recovered in recent years after poisoning by pesticides used in the 1960s caused a slump in the population , are given special protection by the Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 26 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 27 | I look at the first enjoyed it |
| 28 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |
| 29 | Run by the few fell to the many , and |
| 30 | The amended text produced by the CMI reflected the strong influence of the Harter Act . |