Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One advantage of secondary sources is that they are often easy to understand ; but a problem which can arise is that they may have altered or distorted the original idea . |
| 2 | Following a day out by the river , the class were asked in pairs to make a picture or a model of something they had seen or done the previous day . |
| 3 | On the one hand lay those who had trained in or followed the European tradition of independence and free investigative journalism ; on the other lay a tradition that was also important and which has perhaps been the more lasting . |
| 4 | Kosa sees this charismatic character as peculiar to medicine and clergy , although he notes that some Protestant denominations have weakened or eliminated the charismatic authority of the clergyman . |
| 5 | A plaque and certificate was presented by our branches to thirteen local projects each judged to have successfully protected or enhanced the visual appearance of the countryside . |
| 6 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 7 | For instance , when the government sold British Telecom to private shareholders in 1984 , it set up the Office of Telecommunications as the regulatory agency and limited the permitted rise in telephone charges to 3 per cent below the rate of inflation . |
| 8 | Administrative computing ( for which the University has created and filled the new post of Director of Administrative Information Services ) will continue to be developed under the Management and Administrative Computing Initiative . |
| 9 | The majority of the refugees in India ( housed mainly in camps in the states of Tamil Nadu and neighbouring Orissa ) had fled to escape the violence of 1990-91 , after India had abandoned its military involvement and withdrawn the Indian Peace-Keeping Force ( IPKF ) from the island . |
| 10 | Gavyn Davies , head of investment research at Goldman Sachs in London , finds that despite all the labour-market reforms , and given the recent level of unemployment , there is no evidence that wage growth is intrinsically more moderate than in the past . |
| 11 | And given the prevailing prejudice against people actually speaking to each other , suitors and their intended sposi had to have recourse to the ambiguous and easily misunderstood language of fans and flowers . |
| 12 | Given the amount of time that Karsten Schubert has been in business and given the new wave of gallery/dealers , this year is going to be the year to break with a much more open policy towards new art , are being seen as central to the contemporary art scene . |
| 13 | It has also named former UK marketing director Mark Miller vice-president of marketing and given the new post of vice-president of corporate planning to Gael Curry , anticipating a quickening in sales . |
| 14 | It has also named former UK marketing director boss , Mark Miller , vice president of marketing and given the new post of vice president of corporate planning to Gael Curry , anticipating a quickening in sales . |
| 15 | Erm and given the wide range of densities , the only conclusion I came to was I should accept forty three workers per hectare . |
| 16 | THE WORLD OF CHAS ADDAMS — ( Hamish Hamilton , £25 ) The original cartoons featuring Morticia and family — sophisticated and witty and given the big-screen treatment in this massive tome . |
| 17 | Political persuasion was required to keep up the political momentum , and given the changing age profile of the electorate — many of whom had not been adults a decade ago — Sir Geoffrey warned : ‘ We 've got to choose the style to match the mood of Britain . ’ |
| 18 | And given the brutalizing effect of the war itself and the undeniable impact of at least parts of the ideological message which had been hammered into Germans for years , by no means all of what was taking place and would lead Germany into the abyss was unwelcome or unpopular . |
| 19 | Later re-designated the AIR–1 and given the civil registration R–RAIR , a replica of this aircraft is now preserved in the Museum . |
| 20 | What they were based on , and I I have to say it though , that since poverty in all its forms has proved an intractable enemy to us , and given the limited Council resources that were available , plus the Government , which has consistently attacked Local Authorities and made financial constraints upon us almost impossible to operate , we have we recognise that to analyse the job in hand , first of all we needed an accurate picture of need , we needed to share the commitment with the workforce of Council and all those in partnership of consultation . |
| 21 | Given the requirement that medical evidence has to be served with the proceedings , and given the long waiting lists that now apply for very senior surgeons , it might be a good idea either to get an initial report from the treating surgeon or to use one of the independent physicians mentioned above . |
| 22 | erm and given the right weather , there is no better place to be than in the Thames and Chilterns . |
| 23 | In fact , the adversary politics thesis overgeneralises about the extent of policy instability ; the evidence affords only limited support for the existence of political business cycles ; and given the long-term trend of Britain 's economic decline it is absurd to blame this on the nature of party politics in the sixties and seventies . |
| 24 | There is plenty of skilled labour available and given the short-term view nobody will train . |
| 25 | Firstly , if the argument is that any of the suggested markets — be they for products , corporate control or managerial talent — at present actually operates to constrain corporate managers , this is not something which is empirically demonstrated , and given the present nature of these markets it seems an implausible claim . |
| 26 | At the conclusion of the Marshal–Basset rebellion in May 1234 , Richard Siward was pardoned , appointed to the king 's council , and given the temporary keeping of Glamorgan and the castle of Bolsover . |
| 27 | As seen above , the accession of George I provoked widespread unrest throughout much of England and Wales , and given the extensive discontent in Scotland , it seemed that the time might be ripe for a Jacobite rebellion . |
| 28 | And given the extensive fear of denunciation for critical or defeatist comment , it is hardly surprising that negative remarks about the speeches rarely came to light . |
| 29 | And given the political sensitivity of so much of our work , it is under the secretary general 's guidance that difficult discussions on strengthening the movement 's development and human rights awareness programmes must take place and where the final green light must be given for increasingly complex initiatives to intensify public pressure on governments . |
| 30 | And given the general increase in mobility , would even a massive increase in investment in railways make much difference to road traffic ? |