Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the figures given presumably refer to the state of play in 953/1546–7 , the note in the summary that the original salary for teaching was 15 akce and the reference to teaching in the section concerned with the stipulation(s) laid down by the founder sart-i vakif ) suggest that the medrese figured in the original . |
| 2 | Plans to build a ‘ flying village ’ of apartments complete with hangars at Amougies Airfield in Belgium ( Pilot Notes , January 1992 ) appear to have received enough support for the developer to get started on the construction . |
| 3 | They had heard loud banging from the boxcars , as if someone was trying to attract their attention . |
| 4 | A small team of business experts have been gathered together to look at the ways new markets and business prospects can be fully exploited . |
| 5 | The weights and fuel consumption times given below refer to the larger CV470 . |
| 6 | Two of them are ‘ common ’ sails , in which slats could be adjusted manually according to the speed and direction of the wind . |
| 7 | Strange as the taste of defeat was , however , Kylie shrugged off the episode and instead carried on looking to the future . |
| 8 | He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High . |
| 9 | The man had collapsed and the vessel had carried on running into the water . |
| 10 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 11 | Applying the multiplier of eighteen to that figure , one arrives at a figure of fifty eight thousand one hundred and sixty two pounds and fifty pence which when the additional costs are added in comes to the total of fifty nine thousand and forty three pence , I 'm sorry , fifty nine thousand forty three pounds and seventy five pence which is the figure I would award under this heading . |
| 12 | The colour may be varied perhaps according to the type of tools put out with it ; ‘ natural ’ for pastry cutters and patty tins , for instance . |
| 13 | In nightclubs and pop promo videos , it 's as if the banshees have come down screaming from the catwalk , staggering in their stilettos under the weight of their Max Factor cosmetics and costume jewellery . |
| 14 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 15 | They are expected suddenly to adapt to the modern world after a century of colonial domination and outside interference . |
| 16 | Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air . |
| 17 | It was designed merely to fit within the minimal requirements of the European Convention and it hardly revolutionises the data privacy scene . |
| 18 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 19 | On the boring but practical side — do n't get too carried away wandering through the Dartmoor mist — it 's all too easy to get lost so do n't try it unless you 're competent with a map and compass . |
| 20 | Serious cinema 's attempts to portray sexual passion have generally succeeded best according to the extent they have ignored this temptation : think of Brando , obese , with straggling grey hair and face plastered with pan-stick , howling obscenities as he floors Maria Schneider ; or Dennis Hopper , jumping on Isabella Rossellini like a mad dog with velvet , scissors , and mask . |
| 21 | If only … if only … if only there could be some way of reaching agreement , some way of reassuring each player that the other can be trusted not to go for the selfish jackpot , some way of policing the agreement . |
| 22 | Only those who were regarded as ‘ fit ’ could be trusted not to trade on the despair of people , at their wits end , reduced for the first time in their lives to seeking a loan . |
| 23 | Did anyone else see on teletext last night , that gobber Fergie was voted best manger in the world ? admittedly by some shitty magazine , but how anyone could think that he 's a good manager is beyond me . |
| 24 | ‘ ( a ) A person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse . |
| 25 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 26 | Caught still standing at the window , Meg 's scattered treasure , her , now lost forever , blown wits . |
| 27 | When he finally returned to England in 1952 , an unreconstructed radical from the 1930s , he was appalled to discover that an acquiescent temper of mind , even Christianity itself , had returned to haunt a literary world he had once supposed forever cleared of the religious taint . |
| 28 | I mean unfortunately the authority in days gone by has benefited from the scheme in the sense that the extra , extra money in service in truth , the revenue was there , erm , the chickens have come home to roost in the sense that it 's , the tables have turned the other way , and I mean , gone are the days where , when we 're least worried out that impact that , that , that much more of our er , of our budget . |
| 29 | In the early 1680s , although the liverymen of the substantial City companies had not noticeably favoured one party , the Whigs had attracted more support from the lesser companies than the Tories . |
| 30 | There remained , however , the boarded up remains of the Melvin Hotel , which had stood derelict and unwanted since the day it was bombed in 1972 . |