Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] and the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The call was given to launch and the Mitchells , one by one , moved forward on the ‘ deck ’ , opened the throttles , held the aircraft on the brakes and were flagged-off by ‘ flyco ’ . |
| 2 | Some 150 communicators are expected to attend and the theme will be ‘ Christians in a Media Culture ’ . |
| 3 | In the modern age he is expected to lead and the people look to him for solutions to their problems , but the chances of his being allowed to do what he needs to do are negligible . |
| 4 | There are numerous complications that need to be addressed if an earlier transfer date is to deemed to apply and the complications will outweigh the advantages unless there are exceptional circumstances . |
| 5 | The maintenance section should indicate what , if anything , the operator is expected to do and the symptoms which indicate that more specialist maintenance skills are required . |
| 6 | Plants grown in different environments can be expected to vary and the biologist 's job is sometimes to identify the environmental change which has caused an observed effect . |
| 7 | Ask your butcher to remove the rind and the bones from the piece of pork meat ( the bones can be added to stock and the rind will enrich a beef dish for the next course ) and if he will , to cut the back pork fat into cubes . |
| 8 | A great deal depends on what the computer was programmed to ask and the criteria for writing the programme might not prove acceptable to all Old Testament scholars . |
| 9 | Alf Gover has decided to retire and the Gover Cricket School in Wandsworth is to be demolished . |
| 10 | Clashes of ideology will be a primary cause of conflict in organisations , whether related to work and the organisation itself ( eg. ideologies of the relationship between manager and worker , about the value of work etc ) or to non-work factors ( eg. political , religious or cultural ideologies which may bring an individual into conflict with others ) . |
| 11 | Smoking is also significantly related to stroke and the risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked [ 8 ] . |
| 12 | When two grammatical items occur together in a specified syntagmatic relation , they are said to colligate and the combination is a colligation ( as opposed to a collocation ) . |
| 13 | Russia was in the last resort not prepared to fight and the crisis fizzled out ; no one paid any attention to the Turkish contention that Ferdinand 's title was illegal . |
| 14 | During that time the passengers had been made to dismount and the car subjected to an exhaustive search . |
| 15 | Colleagues , as , as conference will have heard from the mover of motion three , motion six , not prepared to withdraw and the C E C is therefore asking you to oppose both . |
| 16 | Whenever a signal experiences power gain , amplification is said to occur and the network achieving it is described as an amplifier . |
| 17 | In all types of contracts , particularly the last , definition of the risks it is intended to cover and the manner in which they will be allocated is of great importance . |
| 18 | As Caparo showed , there had to be a specific relationship between the function that the defendant was requested to perform and the transaction in relation to which the plaintiff said he had relied on proper performance . |
| 19 | In that case the seller would have had to deliver and the buyer to pay for the lots remaining complete . |
| 20 | There was a deepening of the shadows and a swirling of something heavy and turgid and foul , and then the creature was gone and the Workshops were once again lit to crimson and the slaves turned back to their tasks . |
| 21 | The main carriage is set to slip and the ribber to knit ( both set levers on 1 ) . |
| 22 | The charges , linked by two rings of cordtex , were set to fire and the squad ran for cover clear of the building . |
| 23 | One of the soft white animals had gone to sleep and the other went across the desk to sniff at it . |
| 24 | Except in their occasional introductions , science textbooks do not describe the sorts of problems that the professional may be asked to solve and the variety of techniques available for their solution . |
| 25 | This practice supports T. S. Kuhn 's ( 1963 ) argument that science textbooks ‘ do not describe the sorts of problems that the professional may be asked to solve and the variety of techniques available for their solution ’ but rather they ‘ exhibit concrete problem-solutions that the profession has come to accept as paradigms ’ which the student is expected to solve for himself ( or herself ) in the laboratory . |
| 26 | The adjudication officer is then asked to respond and the claimant is given an opportunity to comment on those responses . |
| 27 | He thought they were old already in 991 ; he saw they could be said as well by a heathen as a Christian ; he thought the fierce spirit they expressed was one of the reasons for Beorhtnoth 's rash decision to let the Vikings cross the river and fight on level ground ; they had led to defeat and the death of the innocent . |
| 28 | Despite the repairs in 1958 the walls of Cell-y-bedd had continued to deteriorate and the rest of the church was in poor condition . |
| 29 | The degree of freedom which teachers in England are allowed to exercise and the responsibility with which they exercise the power vested in them is a major factor in the unique nature of English primary education . |
| 30 | The morning 's cream is quietly clotting on the stove , the gleaming copper pans are being put to use and the farmworkers are filing in to a meal which is pure poetry ; vegetables plucked from the soil within the hour , fresh baked bread , farm butter , eggs , game and fruit . |