Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directory will then be made available to students , trainees , and researchers who are better placed to carry out the studies . |
| 2 | It was , of course , by far a situation too good to last and in time , gazing down the glen , a solitary figure was spied struggling up the brae — without a kit-bag — the WAAFs identified their squadron officer ( known as Belladonna ) apparently about to make her first call on her troops in the wild , I was never able at first hand to witness this airmen 's paradise but it is a story that passed the rounds at Kinloss . |
| 3 | When the recipient is not expected to write down the details , it is often the case that the speaker repeats them sometimes several times over . |
| 4 | I did n't intend to eavesdrop , I thought he 'd gone and forgotten to pull back the curtains . |
| 5 | He 'd never once forgotten to lock up the hens when she 'd asked him . |
| 6 | In addition , all water authorities spent large sums on routine river maintenance on farmland ; and still more money was spent by the Ministry of Agriculture in contributing between 30 and 70 per cent of the cost of farmers held drainage , designed to pick up the benefits of lowering the water level , a result of river engineering schemes . |
| 7 | This had to be her mother 's bed , she surmised , and the doctor had forgotten to draw back the curtains . |
| 8 | c ) The stakes which have been installed to mark out the areas of additional planting on the Sighthill Section of the Bypass . |
| 9 | Were they still dressing or had the ADC forgotten to switch off the lights ? |
| 10 | This prediction was borne out , though the tears that were shed rolled down the cheeks of Labour loyalists — or better Labour chauvinists — as well . |
| 11 | A new telephone system has been installed to speed up the operations of Middlesbrough Borough and Cleveland County Councils . |
| 12 | In the second stage , ammonia is added to filter out the oxides of nitrogen . |
| 13 | The particular principles adopted relate to attitudes and stated priorities , so there are schools where something like the Danish approach is used , and other schools where committees have been formed to set out the principles of a formal system comparable to SEE or SE . |
| 14 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 15 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 16 | However , by the end of May , the Russian government had decided to pull out the troops . |
| 17 | One of the reasons for failure is the need to measure more background variables , chosen to meet the needs of decision-makers ; critics of NAEP think that more effort should be made to find out the needs of such decision-makers . |
| 18 | The problem is compounded when attempts are made to find out the costs of individual services when subsidies are paid line-by-line , rather than for whole sectors ; yet this is what RENFE 's 1984 programme contract with the state claimed to achieve ( RENFE 1984a : 80 ) . |
| 19 | Neither of those sums of course has to be taken into account in any of the mathematics which now have to be done to total up the awards which I would make . |
| 20 | Susanna Rance finds out why serious-minded La Paz dwellers can be seen walking down the streets intently fondling toy cars , play-money and doll 's house pieces . |
| 21 | A great deal of work now needs to be done to work out the details of the new arrangements . |
| 22 | Volunteers were sought to set up the tables . |
| 23 | Finally , do n't forget the value of such structural objects as walls , containers , raised beds or even large boulders sited to set off the plants . |
| 24 | Will the Minister go further and give assurances that , however desperate the European negotiators are to achieve a GATT agreement , nothing will be done to sell out the interests of British textiles and clothing ? |
| 25 | Serious attempts were made to level up the resources for secondary modem schools , in order to make them comparable with grammar schools , and so achieve that parity to which Ellen Wilkinson was openly committed . |
| 26 | The USA had moved to send out the invitations only after the Israelis and the Arabs had failed to agree on a time and venue . |
| 27 | When we saw Liz 's auburn colouring we instantly thought of pre-Raphaelite curls , and prepared to get out the tongs . |
| 28 | Under new powers , also approved on June 26 , the Serbian Assembly had been empowered to take over the affairs of the Kosovo Assembly and of other official bodies , and to suspend troublemakers . |
| 29 | The students later believed a legend that part of this famous book was written ail over the walls of his room . |
| 30 | Carl was destined to take over the duties and responsibilities of his father from an early age . |