Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These rugged peaks played a large part in determining Harlech 's siting as one of the so-called ‘ iron-ring ’ of fortresses , built to contain the Welsh in their mountain fastness . |
| 2 | Maybe ‘ The Queen Is Dead ’ is better ( only maybe ) but by then we had grown to expect the remarkable as a matter of course . |
| 3 | But it is one of history 's ironies that this castle , built to subdue the Welsh by an English king , was captured in 1404 by Owain Glyndwr . |
| 4 | The Church was built in 1863 by William Hall and might be said to represent the ultimate in Victorian Non-Conformist ‘ Chapel ’ building . |
| 5 | Bernard Arenson , Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs , claimed that the relaxation had been made to assist the poor in Haiti who had suffered unduly from the effects of sanctions depriving them of jobs and wages . |
| 6 | Headteacher David Darlington said he had decided to ask the elderly to lunch after seeing how many lived by themselves when he was delivering harvest food parcels in the autumn . |
| 7 | Efforts were made to nudge the International in the same direction . |
| 8 | When a total loss arises the following formula can be used to establish the written down value . |
| 9 | Firstly , the weight transmitted through the sailor 's feet can be used to counter the capsize by placing them on the rail ( W2 ) . |
| 10 | He also wants to know whether the £40m saving was used to subsidise the tender for the helicopter carrier . |
| 11 | He suggests the army could no longer be used to drain off the unemployable proletariat by conscription , nor could the newly independent colonies be used to dump the troublesome of society ( see also Hughes 1987 ) . |
| 12 | A church that is dedicated to a gentle , caring man who cared about the poor , instead of helping the man who needs help and who is literally sitting on the doorstep , is showing tourists paintings , especially commissioned to educate the illiterate about God , is not even showing them to the illiterate . |
| 13 | Since the French have long tended to regard the British as a doggedly upright people rather than an artistically discerning one , a critic in Diapason describes this accuracy in terms of probity ( ‘ voix droites comme la justice ’ ) ; another , writing in Compact , speaks of performances that are millimetrées , as if they were mathematical exercises . |
| 14 | In this particular example , only a very small amount of the green was needed to change the yellow in comparison with the large amount of yellow that was required to influence the green . |
| 15 | In truth , however , the inspector would not have been induced to exempt the accused from liability because he acted on the assumption that none existed . |
| 16 | ‘ No one seems to face the fact that this is bound to reduce the tragic to the simply catastrophic . |
| 17 | Like anchoring , objectification is presumed to turn the unfamiliar into the familiar . |
| 18 | Parliament never intended that the limit on the amount of compensation payable to individual depositors could be side-stepped by dispositions made after formal steps had been taken to initiate the winding up process . |
| 19 | Yet at the same time , social policy and public attitudes combined to define the elderly as an increasingly useless group in society . |
| 20 | The Poor Law was intended to deter the able-bodied from seeking relief . |
| 21 | But , even if the All Blacks are subconsciously tempted to relegate the Irish to an after-thought , it might not make a bit of difference . |
| 22 | Local authorities have , therefore , begun to help the disabled in their own homes by providing meals services , domestic help and so on , and in some cases they make arrangements to take the disabled person on holiday to give the other members of the household a break , although all of these services are restricted by cash limitations on local authority expenditure . |
| 23 | Veterinarians , horticulturists and environmental scientists have known for years that fluoride at very low concentrations can damage vegetation , aquatic life and livestock ; chemists have learnt to expect the unexpected from this unpredictable element ; and biochemists , physiologists and toxicologists all know that fluoride is a potent poison of enzymes . |
| 24 | But an aid worker who has daily contact with camp inmates does not believe this means that the Hong Kong government has managed to persuade the Vietnamese to quietly accept their fate . |