Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The second section shows the action taken on the particular version of the module , and the name of the LIFESPAN user who carried out the action .
2 Ritual is an action taken on the physical level , which is intended to have effects at other levels — emotional , mental , spiritual , or all of these .
3 Cheshire County Council brought in the new day centre charges on April 1 to a furious reception by carers .
4 The housekeeper brought in the first dish .
5 In Lorenzo the Magnificent 's anniversary year , this publisher is also bringing out an edition of the inventory of the entire Medici residence taken on the great ruler 's death , L'inventario in morte di Lorenzo il Magnifico , edited by M. Spallanzani and G. Gaeta Bertelà .
6 In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year .
7 He and the motor trader filled in the usual forms .
8 Expertly , the gardener pinned down the last of the net with a wire stake .
9 The scheme is not out of the woods yet ; and rather than break the law Maxen last week filled in the local VATman 's registration form .
10 The different types of tenure marked out the leading characteristics of the different forms of land holding known to the law ; but they told us nothing of the nature and incidents of the various interests which those who held by these tenures might have in the land .
11 An illustration of the complex pattern of cross-party allegiances in the early 1690s is provided by the stance taken on the abortive Triennial Bill of 1693 .
12 Neither the exactions of the Versailles Treaty nor the creation of a republican form of government rooted out the nationalist old guard or revolutionised the German social structure ; within 15 years , Germany was set on a course of revanche .
13 Cargolux in turn brought in the three hauliers as fourth parties by serving fourth party notices on them .
14 The Government brought in the new law after inspectors found that 97 per cent of ‘ pints ’ contained less .
15 In 1838 a troop of Nottinghamshire dragoons and the metropolitan police were attacked with stones and bricks and in 1839 the government brought in the 5th Dragoon guards to suppress the bull-running once and for all .
16 Its attempts to strangle the revolutionary movement at birth during May 1968 were consistent with the approach taken over the previous 30 years , including the immediate postwar period ( part I ) .
17 ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’
18 Other companies reluctantly followed suit , though it was not until 1910 that the Great Western Railway phased out the last of its second-class carriages .
19 The commotion brought in the new duty officer , a tall and muscular young lieutenant with a sad , world-weary face .
20 Nothing very special here , then , to herald the arrival of little William ; but just as that year brought in the new , so it took away the old : Benjamin Titford the Outrider 's widow Elizabeth , 70 years old and paralysed , died in Shoreditch Workhouse on 12 September .
21 Slow transit constipation can be distinguished from outlet obstruction by the ingestion of a capsule containing 20 shapes followed by an abdominal x ray film taken on the fifth day ; 80% retention of the markers signifies slow colonic transit .
22 An eager public lapped up the vital evidence .
23 In many cases it obviously would be and if there was any element of duress brought on the other contracting party under the modern development of this branch of the law the proposed breaker of the contract would not benefit .
24 When told to settle down — and Emlyn Williams , who had to a large extent taken over the parental role from Philip Burton at this stage , did instruct him to do that — it clicked with something and he thought — well , why not ?
25 Increase the time on the outbound leg by half the difference between the time taken on the first turn from the entry heading ( 145° above ) and from the hold axis .
26 He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government .
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