Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British government has delayed indefinitely the preparation of a register of contaminated land , much of it on inner-city sites with a history of industrial use , because of the effect it would have on land values . |
| 2 | As the technique has developed so the range of applications in clinical practice has expanded . |
| 3 | Erik Olin Wright , for example , has broken down the concept of ‘ determination ’ into six distinct relations : structural limitation , selection , reproduction/non-reproduction , limits of functional compatibility , transformation and mediation . |
| 4 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 5 | Nine days after the first spillage the government 's Marine Pollution Control Unit declared : " The stormy weather has broken down the oil and driven it out to sea . |
| 6 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 7 | Two special spending programmes , worth ¥23.9 trillion ( $114 billion ) , announced in the past year , have helped ward off full-blown recession , and the government has propped up the stockmarket by shovelling post-office savings money into it . |
| 8 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 9 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 10 | Over the years he has pieced together the plane 's last , dying moments from the second one of its engines caught fire . |
| 11 | Scriven has pointed out the distinction between formative and summative evaluation . |
| 12 | As J. K. Galbraith ( 1979 ) has pointed out the adman actually creates markets and implants ‘ needs ’ in people ; he is not merely responding to consumer demand . |
| 13 | Bishop John Taylor , in his moving and perceptive book The Go Between God , has pointed out the importance of this link between the Spirit , with all his undifferentiated power , and the Word , with all its particularity of meaning . |
| 14 | Nisbet ( 1979 ) has pointed out the irony that this new distrust may itself be a product of modern education , since a number of new approaches to teaching and learning encourage children to ‘ think for themselves ’ . |
| 15 | Lionel Sawkins has shown that men did , indeed , sing soprano parts at the French court , and Lois Rosow has pointed out the appearance of male sopranos in the chorus at the Paris Opéra . |
| 16 | But first this lunchtime , the High Court in Glasgow has heard how the brother of murdered Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon had a flashback of the incident which helped him to identify one of the alleged attackers . |
| 17 | The UK Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) has highlighted both the need to maintain safety standards in the face of competing pressures and the importance of organisational factors in preventing accidents inside and outside the nuclear industry . |
| 18 | The predator , by the time it has given up the chase , will probably have forgotten the exact location of the nest and will not be able to retrace its steps . |
| 19 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 20 | My chief 's brother has given up the obstetrics side of his practice altogether now , and just does the gynaecology . ’ |
| 21 | However I know that one Christian friend has given up the therapy because of the amount of occult literature and New Age material she was receiving through the post . |
| 22 | An executive from an international chemical company has given up the rat race to run a plant nursery . |
| 23 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 24 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 25 | The president of Edison , New Jersey-based Verbex Voice Systems Inc has skedaddled so the board has picked chief operating officer Larry Dooling , former USL chief , to replace him . |
| 26 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 27 | He is a natural opener , and Paul Terry has dropped down the order to accommodate him . |
| 28 | By contrast with the Geneva and Reykjavik summits between Mr Gorbachev and the former president , Mr Ronald Reagan , which were dominated by SDI , the issue has dropped down the superpower agenda . |
| 29 | DEL Harris of Colchester , for so long in the top three of the British squash rankings , has dropped down the list because of injury and a recent loss of form . |
| 30 | This is because , after a sunbird has sucked out the nectar from a flower , the flower takes some time to replenish its nectaries . |