Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muhammad ibn Ali promoted a campaign which used the medium of itinerant missionaries and was calculated to appeal to most of the people who for different reasons were discontented with the Umayyads . |
| 2 | Overheating degrades battery electrolyte , and rechargeable types are designed to cope with this to a large extent , but dry cells are not . |
| 3 | Heavy rain driven by gales predicted for last night was forecast to continue for much of today . |
| 4 | He continued in his refusal to offer a defence in his trial on charges of corruption , which opened in March 1991 and was expected to continue through most of the year [ see pp. 38157-58 ] . |
| 5 | ‘ The slump on the major markets is expected to continue throughout most of 1993 . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Warburton replied that since Newton had had single-lead aspects in the past , it had not been considered to fall within any of the interpretations of the embargo . |
| 7 | But based on the experience of the last 10 years the total is expected to fall by more in March . |
| 8 | This year Mr Rooker stayed out of the race , and has nominated Mr Davies who is expected to pick up most of his votes . |
| 9 | The performances are certainly very competent , but this is n't quite the vintage Kantorov we 've come to expect from some of his later Denon recordings ; a degree of blandness gives the playing a slightly ‘ automatic ’ quality . |
| 10 | The new system is designed to hook into most of the popular network operating systems used in small to medium size PC networks.Microsoft is not just targeting existing PC network users but also customers seriously thinking about installing a network . |
| 11 | His sort of realism just could not be expected to compete with that of the gangster film and especially now with that being offered by James Cagney . |
| 12 | Most patients are expected to respond to some of these dummy challenges , but they should respond to significantly more of the real ones . |
| 13 | The katun , comprising twenty years of 360 days , was the most important unit of time in the Maya view , because the events in one katun were expected to approximate to those in a previous katun that had ended on a day with the same number . |
| 14 | The company says that every POSLogic terminal comes with full-featured point of sale and inventory control software designed to operate under any of the popular species of Unix . |
| 15 | The aim of the measure may also have been financial , because the Crown was empowered to distrain for half of the profits resulting from the enclosure ; it was not , however , an easy way to raise money , so it is unlikely to have been the only reason for the Act . |
| 16 | They are seen to suffer from some of the myths and lack of understanding which Bandana Ahmad 's chapter explores . |
| 17 | This example shows clearly how the units of phonological analysis can sometimes be seen to differ from those of grammatical analysis . |
| 18 | Since Raymond Oliver 's assertion to the effect that your , dairyman always has one of the great vintages of French Gruyère can not be said to apply to any of my dairymen both the questions of authenticity and of relative skill with the fondue set are academic . |
| 19 | The book was a popular success ; its sales at one time were said to compete with those of Marie Corelli [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | Holiness , in early medieval society , was not seen to lie above all in the cultivation of a personal and interior life of prayer , morality , and spiritual meekness . |
| 21 | The nineteenth century was to see its status as the language of diplomacy grow still further as it became even more a symbol of some underlying European unity which , however vague , was genuinely felt to exist by most of those who decided the continent 's destinies . |
| 22 | It would also now risk being seen to act as much in the interests of its own credibility , as in support of a sincerely-held belief . |
| 23 | Despite the establishment of a quango for the universities , the extent of their " national " role was still a matter of controversy , and for this reason discourses on the national education could not , without some difficulty , be made to coexist with those on the university curriculum . |
| 24 | Nowadays these horizons have expanded to take in much of the world outside by virtue of changes in education , in transport and communications , and , as we shall see in the following chapter , by virtue also of changes in the social composition of village community itself . |
| 25 | Wave-driven variations in the ozone column in spring can be seen to correlate with those in the HNO 3 data . |
| 26 | To most people , a receptionist is an obstacle to be negotiated , and that was unfortunately how I was made to feel for much of the time . |
| 27 | Treloar smoked for a while in silence , then he said : ‘ I suppose that was the man 's nature but I 've wondered sometimes whether it was why Francis turned out so bloody useless … if he was made to feel like that from childhood — insignificant , a bit of a joke . ’ |
| 28 | Each child is genetically equipped to cope with any of these rules but must discover from its surroundings which option its own language has taken . |
| 29 | So I mean I think we 've got to go into this for all the course . |
| 30 | I 've got to wait till half past seven tonight . |