Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Alderson made a case for the reintroduction of community policing in 1982 ( Alderson 1982 , also see 1979 ) , but its advantages were recognized much earlier when the House of Commons Select Committee on Race Relations examined relations between the police and ethnic minorities in 1972 , and in 1976 a report from the National Police College placed a central emphasis upon it ( Pope 1976 ) . |
| 2 | The usual way of expressing Boyle 's law , however , is Thus , when a gas is allowed to expand ( or is compressed ) at constant temperature from an initial volume of V1 to a final volume of V2 , the final pressure P2 can be calculated so long as the initial pressure Pl is known . |
| 3 | Some link with the doctrine of the matrimonial offence has been retained by the further provision that the court may not decide that a marriage has broken down irretrievably unless the petitioner can establish one or more of the five following circumstances : |
| 4 | The form of mills had developed only slowly since the Middle Ages , but by the middle of the eighteenth century the technology of wind and water power was being investigated scientifically and there was competition for mill sites because of enlarging industrial needs . |
| 5 | This English gate into Shrewsbury was guarded less stringently than the Welsh bridge on the further side , and therefore used more freely , and the drawbridge was lowered from earliest dawn . |
| 6 | The city 's newer pillars , especially the regulators and fraud-busters , have fared little better than the old . |
| 7 | If at any point it is bought by a non-registered person the VAT is not recoverable , but must be added on again if the vehicle is sold at some point in the future by a registered person . |
| 8 | The Balakovo reactors are regulated by a pressurized water system and are considered much safer than the older type of reactor installed at Chernobyl , the site of the world 's worst nuclear accident in 1986 . |
| 9 | The water from the lower source is emitted sufficiently faster than the main flow that it forms a turbulent jet . |
| 10 | In its original form , it is a time-consuming and complicated procedure , but it can be simplified so long as the underlying principles are honoured ( see Arnold , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | A 4″ pipe was built-in between this pond and the top header pool and a 2″ pipe was added just below where the capping stones would be . |
| 12 | The matured loan notes can be rolled over indefinitely until the tax liability expires . |
| 13 | A fragment from an altarpiece can not be appraised in just the same way as an independent portrait ; and a craftsman 's skill is esteemed more accurately when the materials used are rightly identified . |
| 14 | In the example given above , play B is discarded quickly only because the refutation was the first reply looked at . |
| 15 | Montague , meanwhile , who was only a party to the takeover , appears to have come off better than the man who masterminded it . |
| 16 | ( a ) Lord Roskill in Lambie said that a charge under s.15(1) would have succeeded more easily than the actual charge under s.16(1) , but the act was the same for both offences . |
| 17 | Nemesis had been wounded more severely than the others . |
| 18 | Europe 's ancient woodlands are being felled more quickly than the tropical rain forests : about 90 per cent of the temperate forest that once covered the continent has disappeared and the remaining pockets of old growth woodland are being replaced by monoculture timber plantations . |
| 19 | The advantage of this technique is that , in subsequent processing , the whole prime data track can be handled sequentially by the software , and overflow records are picked up only when the prime track has been processed . |
| 20 | The posture is organised as carefully as the length of the red tags or the Sta-prest or the hair . |
| 21 | Like many Oxford men , he belonged to the strong Socratic tradition in which dialogue was esteemed as highly as the written word . |
| 22 | It is n't easy when you 're in a single room jammed up with a double bed , and the dump is decorated as carelessly as the inside of a rarely used cupboard . |
| 23 | Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away . |
| 24 | However , the bar might not have come out even though the coin was put in . |
| 25 | It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel . |
| 26 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |
| 27 | As a result , a computer was installed in the EPH where the research was carried out shortly after the project was completed , which , being suitable for general administrative tasks such as wordprocessing , had the additional benefit of providing some immediate reward for the efforts of the staff who assisted with the analysis . |
| 28 | Its role was downgraded even further when the Royal Air force 's Transport Command was formed in 1943 , using largely American-built transport aircraft . |
| 29 | A child who is not feeling well will stop eating temporarily and rapidly lose weight over a short period but this will be regained equally quickly once the child has recovered . |
| 30 | Of course it was possible the van was parked there only because the man was inside destroying coypu or moles or rats or woodworm , but somehow Adam did n't think so . |