Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the old tradition of pilgrimage , peregrinatio , spawned or became united to the new kind of military adventure we call the crusade ; and the resources of the roads and waterways of Europe and the Near East were strained to the uttermost to meet the insatiable demands of these adventurous travellers . |
| 2 | Either he could wait until the pod splashed down at which point it would start to sink , and if the water was deep enough and he had difficulty in escaping from the safety envelope , or became entangled with the chute , he might drown before he was able to struggle to the surface — or else he could blow the hatch prior to landing , risking being either injured or knocked unconscious during an unprotected impact . |
| 3 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
| 4 | Isaac said th'must 've drowned or got took by the press gang . ’ |
| 5 | Or getting rid of the old one . |
| 6 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 7 | Unless you fall into a frozen lake or get left on the mountainside overnight , this will not happen to you . |
| 8 | And when you are , you hide yourself in your office or get glued to the video . |
| 9 | Hard cash will be the measure of whether Climb for the World develops into an annual jamboree or gets consigned to the drawer marked ‘ heroic failure . ’ |
| 10 | It is extremely important that you press more pieces from the bouquet than you think you will need , as some of the plant material may turn brown in the press or emerge pressed into the wrong shape . |
| 11 | Subjectively , people may learn helplessness ( Maier and Seligman , 1976 ) ; have an external locus of control ( Rotter , 1971 ) ; or feel alienated from the world in which they live ( Seeman , 1959 ) . |
| 12 | or stay put in the icy brine . |
| 13 | No pearly raindrops dripped from the gutters or lay trapped in the hollows of the leaves . |
| 14 | The various pupils ’ study needs just listed include many skills that most school teachers would expect their pupils to have been taught or to have acquired in the process of their secondary education . |
| 15 | A mechanical wound to the cotyledon ( lines 4–6 ) led to a systemic accumulation of pin activity and levels of this activity were identical whether the cotyledon was excised five minutes after wounding or left attached to the plant for 48 hours . |
| 16 | Steady-state levels of pin 2 mRNA were identical whether the cotyledon was excised 5min after wounding ( Fig. 3 D ) or left attached to the plant for 4 hours ( Fig. 3 E ) and are comparable to those observed in other studies of wound-inducible pin mRNA levels . |
| 17 | Equivalent and high levels of pin activity and pin transcripts were found in the systemically responding leaf 1 , whether the wounded cotyledon was excised rapidly or left attached to the plant . |
| 18 | Although the minister is uniquely and personally responsible to Parliament for everything — everything , that is , outside clinical decisions — which is done or left undone in the health service , he administers it through a hierarchy of non-elective bodies on which the professions are strongly represented and are influential more than in proportion to their numbers . |
| 19 | Political-economic analysis could help professional economists both by providing a critique of their ideology , and also in assessing what is feasible , who will benefit and lose from their policies , what will tend to be done or left undone in the project and so on . |
| 20 | Most record-company chiefs had risen to their position by one of two ways ; either they were ‘ record men ’ born and bred , who by their own taste and judgement had quietly built their own companies , or had risen through the sales and marketing ranks of some multinational to positions of prominence ; or they were lawyers or accountants , practised in the art of negotiation and creative bookkeeping . |
| 21 | These would be examples 1 and 4 , where the party who carried the plaintiff 's goods had also issued the bill of lading or had entered into the freight contract with the shipper , whether or not the shipper was the plaintiff . |
| 22 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 23 | Those members of the working-class who rejected or had sunk below the influence of the class above them , remained largely illiterate and inarticulate . |
| 24 | No account is usually taken of the care which the dependant may be giving or have given in the past to the carer . |
| 25 | Subsequent legislation and regulation have only supplemented the 1974 Act that made directors , managers and other officers liable to prosecution where they have consented to or have connived at the committing of any offence or where an offence has been caused by neglect on their part . |
| 26 | Electronic surveillance ( bugging ) , telephone tapping , infiltration of political organizations and squats , photographing demonstrations , the maintenance of files on perhaps 2 million political activists and ( in London ) the systematic recording of all public meetings and demonstrations , including the names and addresses of speakers and chairpersons , are all practices that have been admitted by the police or have emerged in the course of court hearings . |
| 27 | The primary function of the centres is the documentation of modern and contemporary artists who work or have worked in the former Eastern-bloc countries and the promotion of living artists previously unknown to the West . |
| 28 | He was also told that 11,090 containers with low-level radioactive waste were dumped in the Kara Sea , and that at least five barges holding large quantities of nuclear waste are floating or have sunk off the island of Novaya Zemlya ( a former Soviet nuclear testing site ) . |
| 29 | Previous studies have uncertain relevance to the outpatient setting as they either investigated subgroups of patients for example the elderly , or have reported on the findings in hospital inpatients . |
| 30 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |