Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly pictures of their lead singer , Ben Volpierre Pierrot , have stopped appearing in the front sections of Sunday newspaper supplements captioned by bad puns on his name , and secondly the single from this album is all about leaving messages on an answering machine . |
| 2 | Most of us of course will be occupied seeing in the New Year . |
| 3 | But the 7,500 punters at Manchester 's G-Mex Centre were not fooled — there was scattered booing after the ninth and 10th rounds over Eubank 's inability to deck this human punchbag . |
| 4 | Products are grouped according to the principal benefit which customers perceive that their purchase will bring . |
| 5 | The data were then grouped according to the mean value . |
| 6 | Information is available from the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry ( HIPE ) on national bed-use rates by sex , age group and medical condition for non-psychiatric patients , where conditions are grouped according to the seventeen major Chapter headings of the International Classification of Diseases . |
| 7 | Here are some words which are commonly used in essay and exam questions , grouped according to the basic types of writing which they might be asking you to do . |
| 8 | Two-syllable simple adjectives are stressed according to the same rule , giving : |
| 9 | The objectives should therefore be modified according to the individual requirements of a student . |
| 10 | The numbers of tumours at each site were predetermined according to the approximate frequency of presentation at that primary site . |
| 11 | What is important is that cells in area MT of monkey always responded according to the illusory direction of movement of the chevron perceived by a human observer rather than to the physical direction of movement of the component gratings . |
| 12 | Second , when they are raised , they are resolved according to the simple criterion of political muscle power . |
| 13 | Later , the vogue for the now growing town was consolidated and much expanded by Dr Alexander Taylor , who recuperated there from the typhus he had caught serving with the sottish , mutinous and incompetent ‘ Spanish Legion ’ sent from England to help the Queen of Spain in her war against the Car lists of Navarre . |
| 14 | You will see that there are two parts to it — one in which the items have been sorted according to the geographical location ( ie by county name , alphabetically ) ; the other by service category . |
| 15 | The change in SDS for height during follow up varied according to the overall severity of gastrointestinal symptoms as defined in Table II ( p=0.03 , partial R=0.10 ) and according to sex . |
| 16 | The content varied according to the imagined circumstances but it invariably contained the information that he was a magistrate , an exponent of the martial arts , or someone who had recently been diagnosed as HIV positive and would have no hesitation in biting if attacked . |
| 17 | Although policies obviously varied according to the occupational structure and size of the company ( Hannah 1986 ) , large organizations were considered more likely to instigate rigid retirement policies than were small ones ( Acton Society Trust 1960 ) . |
| 18 | The use of strategies varied according to the occupational category : at the professional and managerial level , 82 per cent of employers used strategy 2 , and at the technician level it was used by 74 per cent . |
| 19 | The ratio found between the delay observed and the delay expected according to the general theory was 1.000 ± 0.002 , which is another clear success for Einstein 's theory . |
| 20 | The one that was caught bonking in the very beginning sort of thing . |
| 21 | In early September all leave and non-essential travel by US military and government personnel was cancelled owing to the increased security threat as the negotiations on the bases approached . |
| 22 | Major deals over the past two years have included leasing for the new ethylene cracker ( a type of refinery ) for BP at Grangemouth , at that time thought to be the largest leasing deal in Britain , a £180m long-term facility to North West Water to finance major infrastructure projects , and a £75m deal with Fujitsu Microelectronics to fund investment in semiconductor equipment at its factory at Newton Aycliffe , County Durham . |
| 23 | Barnsley always looked threatening on the aerial front and they made it count when Brendan O'Connell arrived at the back post to bury a Wayne Biggins cross with a power header . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I was caught dancing with the wrong girl at a party . |
| 25 | This followed fierce anti-communist demonstrations by Rhee 's supporters in Seoul , which had included protesting outside the Soviet consulate . |
| 26 | TWO Liverpool schoolboys were caught dealing in the sick horror videos , it was revealed today . |
| 27 | This tradition happily has been continued by his successors whose duties have included presiding at the Annual General Meeting , an unpredictable , lively affair where it has been known for election to the Board to be determined by the toss of a coin ! |
| 28 | The man would , of course , have come fasting to the first Mass of the day . |
| 29 | I had always enjoyed working in the commercial sector and was missing the action so I got a job in Singapore in March , 1992 and am working as a sales and marketing manger in an electrical engineering company . |
| 30 | Accidentals are placed according to the emotional needs of the melody itself . |