Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the long run , such images become coins of exchange along with pickets , football riots , and urban disturbances ; they populate our consciousness and can be recalled intact by the sheer mention of a single word or by a brief news clip from the past .
2 The production of up-to-date Class Lists has been delayed due to the tardy response of teachers to requests for current details .
3 Although there was an attempt to introduce some competition for BT , this has been limited due to the natural monopoly position of parts of the telecommunications industry .
4 You trust the judgement of a man whos been proven right over the last 5 years .
5 She was ready to be lulled asleep by the monotonous chant when they all stood up and repeated , ‘ God the Father , God the Son , and God the Holy Ghost . ’
6 Therefore , it can be calculated that of the 1,135 opioid users known to our five main indicator agencies in 1984–5 , 227 would have ‘ come off ’ opioids by the following year .
7 Back to Dan again , ‘ I checked on Charlie on the way home and his bleeding had stopped due to the extreme cold at high altitude .
8 The new Milanese opera , Lucio Silla ( another opera seria ) had been partly written during the summer in Salzburg , but Mozart could not complete it until he had heard each of the principal soloists , and was able to adjust his arias and recitatives to suit individual voices .
9 But what is of greater Baldwin significance is the clear indication that at this stage he had developed little of the pervading antipathy to wards Lloyd George which was to be the making of his own career .
10 I 'd heard some of the other men in the village mention the possibility of a game reserve for tourists , and I held my breath , wondering if Kalchu was going to implicate me , as they had done .
11 It reminded me of the ghost in the horror film I had heard some of the older children talking about .
12 This paper has highlighted some of the main difficulties associated with user participation and control in a day-centre system providing social and rehabilitative facilities within an explicitly voluntarist framework .
13 While motives may have been broadly consistent and widely shared , progress was in fact often erratic and haphazard , disagreements were many and the early Meiji leaders could scarcely have foreseen some of the longer term consequences of their policies .
14 Already UK companies have developed some of the best technology in the world and are exporting to other countries .
15 The hit squad blew her vehicle off the road , and she was lucky to have jumped clear before the main explosion .
16 ‘ You have already received some of the precious germ-plasm of our blessed Patriarch to kindle you as a true Imperial Fist … ’
17 So far , in our search for the forces which create coherence , we have examined some of the other factors in communication .
18 We have thus examined some of the general theories of power within society and within organisations .
19 The Pakistani parents in Rochdale were very anxious to bring up their children in an Islamic culture and regarded this as the key issue in decisions as to whether or not to stay in Britain .
20 Archelaos ' court indeed recalled some of the archaic tyrants , strong men and patrons of the arts like Polykrates himself .
21 Bushes of prickly blackberry and wild rose had broken free of the lower level and were now marching towards the house like an insidious green army .
22 His thick straight black hair was parted high on the left and plastered to his skull with hair oil .
23 Certainly anyone who has ever had a severe , immediate reaction to a food is likely to react in the same way if they are told that they have consumed some of the same food .
24 Also , under current regulations 75% was the minimum grant to Responsible Bodies ; although in practice the Ministry had treated this as the standard proportion , not to be exceeded , it was worrying that the Ashby Report gave 75% as the maximum .
25 s s several decades apart , had broken this about the same place you see .
26 A late and rather unreliable source also explained some of the northern discontent in 1469 as the result of the demands of the Hospital of St Leonard at York for payments of sheaves from the northern counties ( 13 , p.121 ; 40 , p.218 ) .
27 Indeed , many of the homes said that the fees from supplementary benefit were so adequate that the people who came in on that ticket were given some of the best accommodation in the establishment .
28 The key to this was that they all began life with a strong philosophical commitment to development and were given some of the new , additional staff needed in order to give life to this philosophy .
29 Given some of the appalling crud that gets sent to rss ( cf Denise ) , I could n't believe you were getting serious grief for it .
30 I have given some of the prosaic reasons why the new clauses should not become part of the Bill —
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