Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Mike Leander has basically left the music business , Jeff Wayne was busy with ‘ Spartacus ’ and Visconti wanted an astronomical fee . |
| 32 | The twins , who had only left the Pony Club two years ago , pushed off to see their old chums . |
| 33 | Anatoly Sobchak , a radical Congress deputy from Leningrad , alleged in the Congress on March 14 that Ryzhkov had personally signed the export licence . |
| 34 | The interiors of the Socata light singles have more of the feel of a quality car than an aircraft , and the company has obviously studied the car market well . |
| 35 | A trace of ammonia could also have sufficiently enhanced the greenhouse effect , though there is no other evidence that such a trace ever existed . |
| 36 | A strong religious element also naturally coloured the hostage story . |
| 37 | As she outlines in her chapter of Passion entitled Mapping : Blackwomen Artists 1980–90 , she not only created the ground plan of contemporary Black Art in Britain but also curated such essential exhibitions as 5 Black Women at the Africa Centre and Black Woman Time Now . |
| 38 | He not only created the material world but also , like a divine watchmaker , set it going by an initial injection of motion , and kept it going by occasional adjustments . |
| 39 | They 're singing gold-rush songs at the tops of their voices in the dayniter and it 's a wonder they have n't all rocked the train right off the rails , with the noise and the booze . ’ |
| 40 | The General Statute was perplexing enough , but the local statutes not only divided the empire west of the Urals into four broad areas — Russia , Ukraine east of the Dnieper , Ukraine west of the Dnieper , and the north-western provinces ( although even this is an over-simplification ) — but also subdivided the four areas into zones ( by type and profitability of economic activity ) . |
| 41 | Ibrahima Fall , Minister for Foreign Affairs since October 1984 , was replaced by Seydina Oumar Sy , who had hitherto held the Commerce portfolio . |
| 42 | Indeed the vendor community has successfully prevented the supply side of the industry from descending into a free-for-all by effectively staking out their respective territories and more or less sticking to them , Rothstein argues . |
| 43 | The fact that the project ultimately failed was not the fault of the process teams , who had successfully made the rocket fuel despite all the handicaps . |
| 44 | For one thing , it is doubtful if OPEC could have successfully imposed the price increase at the time it did in the absence of the high levels of demand that accompanied the mini-boom . |
| 45 | I AM reliably told that the AUSTRALIAN RUGBY UNION has eventually accepted the tour itinerary of Ireland and Wales as initially suggested . |
| 46 | I goes ah just broken the indicator lens and a few other little bitties . |
| 47 | English National Opera has just given the world premiere of Robin Holloway 's Clarissa , after the Richardson novel , while next month the Almeida Festival will introduce The Intelligence Park by the Irish composer Gerald Barry , one of the most distinctive and exciting of the younger Europeans . |
| 48 | Cleaning may consist of a quick dust or ‘ whip round ’ for the harassed housewife , and to some eyes at least it will still look as though the house has been cleaned — hence the expression ‘ eye service ’ ( 'I 've just given the house eye service today' ) . |
| 49 | I 've just received the fixture list from Elland Rd ( yellow card this year ) . |
| 50 | Graham Hill had already joined the Lotus team a year earlier and he helped lift the gloom by winning the world title in 1968 . |
| 51 | About the same time TWW were looking for two journalists Ron Evans , a former journalist with the Empire News and the Sunday Times , had already joined the television company and he came over to Thomson House to check me out . |
| 52 | ‘ He 's already joined the emigration society . |
| 53 | xviii ) , had already consulted the Ammon oracle . |
| 54 | Conceding that the widespread use of abortion under the existing legislation was a " social catastrophe " , the Democratic Union nevertheless regarded the draft legislation as draconian , and argued that abortion legislation should be reviewed in the context of overhauling social policy and of encouraging greater personal responsibility . |
| 55 | It may not yet be the FBI but , just as in the movies where the American flag stands behind the FBI chief 's desk , Mr Mullett has already propped the Union flag against the wall . |
| 56 | Editor had already received the class winner 's trophy in the section for newspapers published 10 or more times a year when TV and Radio personality Barry Took opened a sealed envelope to reveal the evening 's top award . |
| 57 | We had already disconnected the water supply , so the first thing was to empty the cistern by flushing , and then remove the flush pipe from the flush pipe horn by folding back the rubber gasket and unscrewing the joint at the cistern . |
| 58 | ‘ You do n't want to wind up on crutches when you 've just won the world title . ’ |
| 59 | Manchester City had just won the League Cup and this was the night of their gala celebrations . |
| 60 | However health officers say they have already slashed the waiting list and that children now face a maximum eight-week delay . |