Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Bitter experience has taught me to remove the gaffer at the end of the event only by holding the wire down on the floor as you pull the tape up . |
| 2 | And the prophecy of Isaiah 61 : 1 , ‘ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me , for he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor … ’ stands in Luke 's Gospel ( 4:18 ) , as a beacon shedding light over the whole of his ministry . |
| 3 | It has stirred us to see the Africans raise their own fares , communally and by hard work . |
| 4 | ‘ The coroner 's court has instructed me to obtain a photograph of a young girl … who will never wake up again . ’ |
| 5 | The book 's title comes from Psalm 60 : ‘ Thou has shewd thy people hard things : thou has made us to drink the wine of astonishment ’ . |
| 6 | I have not been happy with my lateral movement and Pepe has helped me to rediscover the sweet science . ’ |
| 7 | Intracerebral microdialysis has helped us to understand the pathophysiology of ischaemia , central nervous system trauma , and epilepsy in laboratory animals and will have increasing application clinically . |
| 8 | Has there been a time when someone has helped you to see the world in a different way ? |
| 9 | The Schneiderei 's six-member managing committee of writers , musicians and visual artists ( Margaret Bozionek , Heinz Conrads , Jutta Rinas , Ingrid Roscheck , Manos Tsangaris and Thomas Witzmann ) abhor the description ‘ alternative ’ , but the collective 's soft-sell policy by which works are sold to further the gallery 's own activities rather than for profit has helped it to weather the uneasy times faced by traditional commercial galleries . |
| 10 | SPORT 'S role as a major employer and contributor to government coffers has helped it to discover a latent power and a voice of its own , discarding its traditionally apolitical posture in the process . |
| 11 | Analysis of silver ingots from Troy II has shown them to equal the standard of purity of Roman refined silver . |
| 12 | Defence activities employ a third of France 's 270 000 researchers But the ministry 's bad image among many scientists has persuaded it to woo the science community more explicitly . |
| 13 | The polytechnic handbook which I used was not much help and my tutor has told me to ask the librarian for help . |
| 14 | He started taking his own photographs to publicise his collections when he got impatient with photographers who did not understand what he was trying to say ; this has lead him to launch a parallel career as a photographer and his work is much in demand by magazines who like his candid portraits of such luminaires as Caroline of Monaco . |
| 15 | The absence of her own , however , has enabled her to spend a lifetime amusing and instructing other people 's . |
| 16 | The Labour party have lost their majority which has enabled them to do a lot of stupid things . |
| 17 | Do the students feel the teacher has enabled them to achieve the objectives ? |
| 18 | Author Mik Chinery runs a powerboat school and has been involved in the incorporation of electronic navigation in RYA courses , a background which has enabled him to explain the principles and application of this still relatively new field . |
| 19 | At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years . |
| 20 | Development of specific platelet activating factor blockers such as TCV-309 has enabled us to examine the role of platelet activating factor in the pathogenesis of caerulein induced acute pancreatitis . |
| 21 | This has enabled us to identify a novel protein ( CBP100 ) that directly interacts with CREB . |
| 22 | This has enabled us to secure a significant contract relating to a drug delivery system . ’ |
| 23 | Having bought back this establishment from his former employers , Trusthouse Forte , his new freedom from the body corporate has inspired him to create a serious £23 dinner menu and leave the comfortable grey-blue decor well alone . |
| 24 | The club is run by a group of 40 dedicated ex-patriots from all walks of life , including plumbers , teachers , restaurateurs and businessmen , whose love of the game has inspired them to establish a well-organised and competitive club . |
| 25 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |
| 26 | Now his landlord , the Allied Brewery group , has invited him to accept a 10-year lease at a starting price of £36,000 a year . |
| 27 | This has led them to postulate the existence of ‘ structures ’ in the animal 's head : in contrast , behaviourists are reluctant to say anything about what is in an animal 's head , other than that the members of a particular species have an innate tendency to be reinforced by some stimuli and not by others . |
| 28 | The desire to get away from an extrinsically motivated mastery of skill at the expense of meaning has led them to question the necessity of graded readers . |
| 29 | Canadian Professor David Gaskin 's 20-year involvement with harbour porpoise has led him to examine the conflict between gill-net and small cetacean worldwide . |
| 30 | His research on bereavement has led him to formulate a list of factors which make it possible to identify those likely to be at particular risk for psychiatric disorder . |