Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must 've broken the other arm because the next day he had both arms in plaster . |
| 2 | this geezer from Bedlam yeah got stopped the other day in this car yeah , he was pissed , he was tripping and he was speeding yeah , no M O T , no licence , no tax , no ruddy insurance yeah |
| 3 | You should 've heard the different birds . |
| 4 | There is no pretence of competition with commercial banks for private sector business , and there is some suggestion that the accounts are maintained in order for the Bank to keep in touch with banking practice , although the degree to which such experience accrues is likely to be limited given the small number of accounts relative to a commercial bank . |
| 5 | This result might seem puzzling given the conventional characterisation of most Friends in the eighteenth century as quietist ‘ following their habit of attending religiously to their internal impressions ’ . |
| 6 | Eric Voegelin has emphasized the fundamental difference between what he calls the ‘ cosmological ’ civilizations , which presupposed the political symbolization of the cosmos typified by Babylonia with its epic of Marduk , and ‘ eschatological ’ civilizations such as the Hebrew — but first exemplified by the Iranian — based on the religion of Zarathustra . |
| 7 | The end-of-term jollity was illustrative of the relaxed atmosphere that has pervaded the final week of the Liberal Democrat election drive — a product not merely of the light-headedness of exhaustion but also of the undoubted success of what has been a well-judged campaign . |
| 8 | His is an angry , radical critique of the changes taking place , arguing that market ideology has pervaded the Scottish universities to the extent that their work has lost its breadth , its pace , its ability to question and its identity . |
| 9 | One used to be able to listen to light classical music on Radio 2 on a Sunday morning , but that has disappeared , and Radio 4 's topsy-turvy ‘ streamlining ’ has wrecked the listening habits of years . |
| 10 | The problem has delayed the second phase by 18 months . |
| 11 | ROBERT Powell Thomas of Barham Road , Petersfield has received the Imperial Service Medal . |
| 12 | Rev Tiit Salumäe , Director of the Information Department with the Church of Estonia , has received the 1991 information award of the Church of Finland . |
| 13 | The Radio Production Centre ( CEPRA ) in Cochabamba , Bolivia , has received the 1992 Silver Condor award from the Communication Commission of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference and the Bolivian Radio Education organisation in recognition of its outstanding work in the service of the Bolivian people . |
| 14 | Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself . |
| 15 | I can only take it that he was n't that concerned , that perhaps the Chief Constable does n't share Mr 's concerns , and is perhaps happy that he has received the generous funding that we state he has . |
| 16 | Scottish stalwart Ann Packard has received the 1993 Chairman 's Award for services to BAIE . |
| 17 | McGregor , who was found guilty , has received the Humane Society Award for saving life and the Strathclyde Police Award for bravery , and will now face police disciplinary action . |
| 18 | It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget . |
| 19 | To date , he has received the most commissons of any architectural ‘ mousequeteer ’ : three at Disneyland , Florida , one in Burbank , California , three at Euro Disney . |
| 20 | The creditors ' committee does not come into being until the trustee has issued a certificate of its due constitution ( r 6.151 ) and his certificate must not be issued until he has received the written consent to act from three members of the committee ( r6.151(3A) ) . |
| 21 | It seems to me there is no foundation for it whatever ; all that a court of justice can look to is the parliamentary roll ; they see that an Act has passed both Houses of Parliament , and that it has received the royal assent , and no court of justice can inquire into the manner in which it was introduced into Parliament , what was done previously to its being introduced , or what passed in Parliament during the various stages of its progress through both Houses of Parliament . |
| 22 | He argues that , in seeking to protect children from poverty , AFDC has eased the financial strain of raising children alone ; so more women do so . |
| 23 | In retrospect the pace of international expansion may seem extravagant , especially since the franchising route which has eased the financial pain of UK expansion was not thought practicable abroad . |
| 24 | Kinnock has made great changes and one admires the way he has manipulated the Labour Party towards reality . |
| 25 | The discussion in this section has developed the key points about inter-organizational practice by means of consideration of the rules-discretion dichotomy . |
| 26 | And this company U K has developed the new control systems for it . |
| 27 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 28 | Ottawa , Canada-based , ObjecTime Ltd , a Canadian Bell Northern Research Inc subsidiary , claims it has developed the first Unix object-oriented CASE tool for real-time applications , ObjecTime . |
| 29 | The bank is looking for someone canny — not to say extremely gifted — who has developed the right skills in a reasonably sized corporate environment within a few years of qualifying . |
| 30 | Paul Fussell has developed the interesting point that the first world war was a peculiarly literary war . |