Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost at once , those who had most favoured the change start squealing . |
| 2 | By the Jan. 31 deadline a further nine parties had successfully completed the registration process . |
| 3 | Clark owned an estate in Tetbury which was eventually given the name Highgrove by his grandson John Paul Paul . |
| 4 | On that cruise the ship 's drilling bit , after being lowered through 3 km of water , bored through a thin veneer of sediments and 600 m into the underlying basalts ; it had successfully penetrated the ocean crust for the first time . |
| 5 | Not only are the young maidens of India swooning in their thousands but a host of saris , long married , have suddenly developed the mothering instinct . |
| 6 | You have all heard the club golfer who says of his opponent , after losing a match , ‘ he putted like God . ’ |
| 7 | But this was to increase utilization of that Cumbrian coast line which had originally been conceived for the movement of iron ore and coke and this symbolized the extent to which the railway companies , as distinct from the resorts , long regarded the holiday traffic . |
| 8 | Citalia guests have long given the Hotel Clipper high marks for its friendly , family atmosphere and its good position . |
| 9 | There was silence at the table for a moment , until the old lady spoke again ; ‘ You 've all forgotten the Boer War , ’ she said , ‘ although Hughie 's carrying a bit of it in his leg . |
| 10 | IBM and Motorola have also apparently skirted the heat dissipation problem haunting both the Pentium and the Alpha . |
| 11 | ‘ It is almost inconceivable that having so rightly stressed the tourist potential of Caernarfon that the Trust should then fail to seize the opportunity to capitalise on that potential . |
| 12 | Between 1836 and 1841 , J. and E. Wight were the tenants and in 1839 , John Driver apparently occupied the dye house . |
| 13 | The reduction of the horse 's anxiety through movement and calm handling , not only solved the bit problem for that day but also prevented the horse from establishing an undesirable form of behaviour to present on other occasions when it felt anxious . |
| 14 | The man had been in the wood and had perhaps seen the animal cemetery . |
| 15 | We have all met the school secretary or a main scale teacher with a strong personality who exerts more influence on staff attitudes than senior post holders . |
| 16 | It must never be lost sight of that the objective of an R&D project is not only met the target performance specification but , equally importantly , to produce and prove a design that can be manufactured efficiently and exploited profitably . |
| 17 | Had he merely handed the delivery order to G for return to A , the decision might have been otherwise , but by endorsing it to G he had gone far beyond what was necessary to secure the return of it to A. |
| 18 | Well because I 've only got the life cover , then er , that cover would disappear . |
| 19 | Subsequent reflection and erm consideration of various comments that we that were received I think rightly persuaded the County Council and the district councils that in order to ensure erm a proper search and a proper consideration of all the factors , er that eight miles should be extended er to ten miles . |
| 20 | These difficulties have long dogged the newspaper industry . |
| 21 | In the West Riding woollen manufacture the independent working clothiers had long used the spring shuttle , and as a group who produced much of the food needs of their households were well enough protected from the high food prices of the war years . |
| 22 | Modular or unit credit courses are currently the subject of much discussion in higher education , but interest in them in this country dates back to the 1970s ( much earlier in the USA ) when , for example , the Nuffield team produced a report on them rather facetiously called The Container Revolution ( Mansell 1976 ) . |
| 23 | Climbers in the South East have long recognised the sandstone outcrop at High Rocks as a mecca for hard routes and new lines . |
| 24 | Also in contrast to the Nationalists , the internal differences which had so damaged the Republican camp prior to 1936 persisted even now , causing deep divisions between the Republican rank and file and their government , and between the political and trade union organizations of the Left . |
| 25 | It will stand as a permanent memorial to the man whose generosity has so benefited the Theatre Collection . |
| 26 | Thenceforward it was to be taken that Parliament had only conferred the decision-making power on the basis that it was to be exercised on the correct legal basis : a misdirection in law in making the decision therefore rendered the decision ultra vires . |
| 27 | We have long believed the land use planning system is a vital mechanism for ensuring environmental protection and enhancement . |
| 28 | The defendant squatter , Tillson , had occupied several acres of agricultural land belonging to the council since 1967 , but in 1983 he had apparently acknowledged the plaintiff council 's title by becoming their tenant of the land . |
| 29 | Telecommunications companies as varied as AT&T , Ericsson in Sweden and Standard Telephones and Cable in Britain , have all followed the convergence theory into computers , but without great success so far . |
| 30 | Leonard , one of seven graduates that year , was merely awarded the graduation certificate ; a sign , he says of his half-hearted application . |