Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis . |
| 2 | Three Samoans who played in the World Cup — Tagaloa , Bunce and Steve Bachop — have just been picked for the All Black trials . |
| 3 | In this study , this was achieved by examining the estimated kilometre square populations together with those which were reported for the same areal units in the 1971 Census of Population . |
| 4 | The Governor 's sanctum was a leviathan suffused with the same dreary red light . |
| 5 | In principle , too , it should be possible to design an artificial organism organised along the same basic principles that produce consciousness in living things . |
| 6 | ROLLINS BAND : ‘ Tearing ’ lifted from the former Black Flag leader 's ‘ End Of Silence ’ LP , backed with ‘ Earache In My Eye ’ recorded live in Sydney , Australia in 1990 |
| 7 | What seem to be four candlesticks — designed in the same sugary style — stand guard around it and a fifth , a little distance from the main confectionary , is crowned with a gilded figure . |
| 8 | Had that been approached in the same meticulous way ? |
| 9 | The Committee of Senior Officials ( CSO ) of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , meeting in Prague on Nov. 5-6 , made public a specially commissioned report recommending the creation of an international tribunal to try war crimes alleged to have been committed in the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 10 | The Exeter Maritime Museum is located in the former Victorian warehouses alongside the Exeter Ship Canal , built to allow vessels of 400 tons to reach the city centre from the estuary of the River Exe . |
| 11 | Her Cinderella feet , when not encased in riding boots or miniature galoshes , are shod in the same perfect low-heeled pump , custom-made by the dozen by Farkas and Kovacs , and matched to pearly brocades , soft pastels or surprisingly vivid patent primaries . |
| 12 | But if her words had any effect on him , he had n't revealed it ; instead he had continued to avoid her glance , riding at her side with his features frozen in the same expressionless mask . |
| 13 | This was explained by arguing that the neural mechanisms underlying both motor control of the right hand and the production of speech are located within the same cerebral hemisphere and thus the two tasks compete for limited neural space or processing capacity . |
| 14 | can not help him out because they too are caught in the same conceptual framework . |
| 15 | On Oct. 11 five Polish nationals living in Frankfurt and Bochum were arrested when police uncovered consignments of radio-active caesium and strontium believed to have originated in the former Soviet Union . |
| 16 | After ten minutes , Mick was asked for his passport and was then handed a sheaf of letters , all in the same size of envelope , all addressed in the same neat hand of his father . |
| 17 | Sometimes certain families adhered to the same religious beliefs for several generations . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm always attracted to the same swirling motif , so a certain harmony is inevitable . |
| 19 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 20 | Let us determine now the mutual inductance between two coils wound on the same magnetic core ( Fig. 4.7(b) ) . |
| 21 | Thus , both the Fisher and Cambridge versions of the quantity theory come to the same important conclusion : that an increase in the money supply leads directly to an increase in spending and , with full employment , the general price level is proportional to the quantity of money in circulation . |
| 22 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 23 | Their product — stock and services — was carefully targeted to the many different client groups in the school . |
| 24 | From June 1991 until Dec. 4 , 1991 , the DP had participated , as the main opposition party , in an administration dominated by the former communist party , the Socialist Party of Albania ( SPA ) . |
| 25 | A little house , surrounded by the same black trees , at the foot of which , his chops on the whited steps , his sinuous length curved around its corner in a dragon-clasp , the long wolf lay , whose hairs were cut in harmony with the incisive feathering of the trees . |
| 26 | Both gain from being surrounded by the same protective shell , though they diverge from one another in the precise thickness of shell that they ‘ prefer ’ . |
| 27 | The variables and definitions for 1981 will differ from those in 1991 , as described above ; it would obviously be desirable if the 1981 Census sample were organised by the same geographical zones , and the same codings of variables as that for 1991 . |
| 28 | These figures are more than 200 times higher than the official toll of 31 deaths as claimed by the former Soviet government . |
| 29 | That is owned by the same stable if you like , it 's a publisher and it 's the Sun . |
| 30 | At a press conference the Prime Minister , Carl Bildt , agreed that it was likely that the surveillance equipment had been installed by the former Soviet authorities , but he insisted that it was Russia 's responsibility , as the successor state , to remove them . |