Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It suggests that your vehicle was once petrol engined or has had the wrong springs fitted at some point . |
| 2 | It is true that many experienced abseilers will tackle the steepest descents without any protection or having tied the hanging rope ends together . |
| 3 | Foreign aid is so important in conservation policy-making in lesser developed countries because , with a few exceptions , most newly independent lesser developed countries had either no official conservation organisation whatsoever ( as in Latin America with the exception of a couple of Southern Brazilian states ) or had experienced the colonial model mentioned above , principally in Africa , South and South-east Asia . |
| 4 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |
| 5 | You do n't need to have taken in the fact , planted early on , that Joe keeps a gun , or have noticed the required sign in the foyer warning that shots will be fired ( ca n't the nanny state keep its paws off anything ? ) to know that retribution is coming , and on elephant feet . |
| 6 | Or have gained the appropriate number of points through the licentiate assessment scheme . |
| 7 | If it is less than a hundred-per cent change , ignore it ; you are studying the wrong system or have designed the wrong experiment , he insisted . |
| 8 | Or have held the associate grade for at least four years . |
| 9 | The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything . |
| 10 | In effect this has meant approximately 400,000 new and inexperienced customers coming on to the overseas market each year , and it is this that has kept the traditional inclusive tour package alive . |
| 11 | Now , as socialism knocks on the door of Number 10 , the Hoorays are preparing to go back underground , adopting once again the protective colouring that has kept the British upper classes safe and sound while heads have rolled all over Europe . |
| 12 | Since the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD , it has been the synagogue that has kept the Jewish faith alive throughout the centuries even to the present day . |
| 13 | In many ways , the issue of knowledge acquisition has been one that has separated the practicable representations of natural language semantics from those that can only remain as theories in textbooks . |
| 14 | It now , persists , it may be said , because of a non-rational or irrational longing on the part of philosophers to have order in the universe , a longing that has replaced the lost comfort of a belief in an all-governing God . |
| 15 | Dent is a throwback to medieval times bypassed by modern progress , an anachronism that has survived the passing years . |
| 16 | What must ultimately be recognised is a more profound change that has overcome the cultural sphere , namely the broad and far-reaching symptoms of the ‘ postmodern ’ in culture . |
| 17 | The drivers , now cut up and veering to the Left , find voting for the party that has championed the self-employed harder to do . |
| 18 | Medical advances almost invariably increase the demands on doctors ' time , and it is this increased intensity of working that has made the long hours of many doctors intolerable . |
| 19 | It is all this research into stable fluorescent powders that has made the new compact fluorescents possible . |
| 20 | But it is not just population displacement that has made the High Dam at Aswan such a controversial issue . |
| 21 | But , it is that very fascination — bordering on fanaticism — with the game that has turned the Afrikaner sport into a political football , as the All Black and Wallaby tourists found out . |
| 22 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 23 | Texas does not need the economic stimulus offered by Mr Clinton : the state has a muscular economy with an employment-growth rate that has exceeded the national average for the past three years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The counter-argument is that it is precisely the importation of capital that has prevented the local bourgeoisie accumulating its own on a grand scale . |
| 26 | It 's the sort of performance that has placed the gentle West Indian giant at the top of the bowling averages . |
| 27 | Better margins on such items and a less Luddite approach to VAT have helped , but fundamentally it is the trend to one-stop leisure shopping that has spurred the modern book retailer to stock not just stationery , but T-shirts , videos , CDs , cassettes and games and a host of other merchandise . |
| 28 | ‘ The violence against street children is now far more barbarous than anything inflicted on political prisoners during the worst phase of the military dictatorship , ’ said Benedicto Rodrigues dos Santos , of the National Street Children 's Movement , a welfare organisation that has documented the violent deaths of 1,397 street children since 1984 . |
| 29 | But it is more than just the lucky shot that has defeated the Great White Shark . |
| 30 | It is , after all , an approach that has served the rich rather well and will continue to do so , given the sweeping changes that have been made to wealth taxation . |