Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex . |
| 2 | Tragically , these trees are being torn down from the rapidly diminishing rainforests — and are not being replanted . |
| 3 | Rarer species of snowdrops are being indiscriminately harvested along with the more common ones . |
| 4 | " [ The transfer in 1860 ] between the Goldsmiths ' Company and the Corporation was carried through with the most perfect agreement and accord . " |
| 5 | You can tell that you have not been fobbed off with the more mature product by the size of the cuts and the pallor of the flesh . |
| 6 | that I 've just picked up off the here . |
| 7 | Crumbs of advantage , Bénezet had found , may be picked up in the most unexpected places . |
| 8 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 9 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 10 | By contrast , death and decay are speeded up in the equally characteristic Peter Greenaway film , A Zed and Two Noughts ( 1985 ) , set mainly in a zoo . |
| 11 | But there are few advocates for patients with anorexia nervosa and they carry the risk of being squeezed out by the increasingly technological emphasis of general medicine and the concentration of psychiatric services on the needs of chronic psychotic patients . |
| 12 | Tense thriller concocted out of the most unpromising elements : three characters , two boats , and a lot of water . |
| 13 | Lighting , heating , ventilation have all been carried out on the most approved modern principles . |
| 14 | How is a totally new , totally comprehensive valuation of capital values — something that has never before been done in England and Wales — to be carried out within the dangerously tight timetable dictated by the Government 's electoral concerns ? |
| 15 | Using a non-brittle stone , such as jade , shaping could only be carried out by the infinitely more laborious process of grinding . |
| 16 | A wide variety of work , from outer space to inner space , is now carried out in the newly restructured division ( PGGOS ) , including studies of solar and geomagnetic activity in the upper atmosphere , coastal and offshore geology , hydrocarbons on land and offshore , biostratigraphy , sedimentology and mineralogy , and earthquakes . |
| 17 | This evaluation will consider whether the school is now more effectively educating its students , and whether the change has been carried out in the most efficient way . |
| 18 | Of course , some sort of pattern can be teased out of the most disordered subject though it may take half a dozen attempts before a pictorial structure emerges ; such an unhurried approach is not always possible for the long distance traveller . |
| 19 | Whereas the bulk of athletes being attracted to this new four-pronged sport have spilled over from the more established triathlon ranks , and so have found the canoeing discipline particularly tough , Graham has the advantage of a fine record with the paddle . |
| 20 | Much of the speech was given over to the already familiar complaints about " destructive and separatist tendencies " and about " ferocious " attempts to discredit the central government , and to exhortations to political forces to unite behind perestroika . |
| 21 | There 's also Bob 's ‘ Songs Of Freedom ’ , a force worldwide , but out of fashion in Jamaica , a country that has moved on to the more bodily delights of raggamuffin . |
| 22 | The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene . |
| 23 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
| 24 | But it is equally true that there is no way of foreseeing the health status of the very elderly of 2010 or 2022 ; people grown up in the historically exceptionally prosperous period since World War Two may have very different health expectations than those currently aged over 75 who were born before 1911 in a very different environment from the present . |
| 25 | Ian Perry , fed up with the daily commute on overcrowded trains and a boring bank job in the City , traded in his four-bedroomed detached house in New Malden for a village post office and general store in Paul , near Land 's End . |
| 26 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 27 | But , in spite of the Royal Navy , Jones , after a voyage to be described later , sailed safely back to France , where his reception more than made up for the much cooler one he had received after his ‘ Whitehaven ’ cruise 18 months before . |
| 28 | Er Brian has already confirmed that er he will support the Conservative resolution which in effect recognises that some of the changes in government regulation over the past er decade has not always turned out for the best er this County in particular order er other asked the Secretary of State to re to relieve some of the pressures that generates in that area and it 's for that reason er |
| 29 | After the very earliest period of relative non-differentiation of functions , in which the ‘ literary ’ or ‘ artistic ’ had not or not fully separated out from the more generally ‘ cultural ’ , there had been this phase of specifically instituted artists , which should not really be described in terms taken from later phases , such as ‘ official recognition ’ or ‘ patronage ’ . |
| 30 | There are some words which are simply anomalous , like women , or once or gaol ( which is , anyway , being pushed out by the more reasonable jail ) . |