Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bus from Francistown had broken down again and the passengers disembarked , squatting in the cumbersome shade of a baobab tree . |
| 2 | Some link with the doctrine of the matrimonial offence has been retained by the further provision that the court may not decide that a marriage has broken down irretrievably unless the petitioner can establish one or more of the five following circumstances : |
| 3 | It turned out that the forms had all been filled in correctly but the DSS had n't read them properly . |
| 4 | If at any point it is bought by a non-registered person the VAT is not recoverable , but must be added on again if the vehicle is sold at some point in the future by a registered person . |
| 5 | When confronted with the pollution , G. says the manager claimed it was an accident , that a vat had tipped over accidentally and the ice cream had disappeared down a drain . |
| 6 | The matured loan notes can be rolled over indefinitely until the tax liability expires . |
| 7 | Montague , meanwhile , who was only a party to the takeover , appears to have come off better than the man who masterminded it . |
| 8 | The advantage of this technique is that , in subsequent processing , the whole prime data track can be handled sequentially by the software , and overflow records are picked up only when the prime track has been processed . |
| 9 | By this time the wagonettes had caught up so that the rest of the day proceeded according to plan . |
| 10 | However , the bar might not have come out even though the coin was put in . |
| 11 | This kind of commentary is usually produced by means of an interview , although again the interviewer 's questions will often be edited out so that the commentary sounds like continuous speech . |
| 12 | Hip replacements were once a rarity : now they can be carried out easily and the call for them has escalated . |
| 13 | During those long war years , the women in Britain had carried out jobs which only men had carried out previously and the influence of the voice of women had to be acknowledged . |
| 14 | As a result , a computer was installed in the EPH where the research was carried out shortly after the project was completed , which , being suitable for general administrative tasks such as wordprocessing , had the additional benefit of providing some immediate reward for the efforts of the staff who assisted with the analysis . |
| 15 | As the repair had been carried out negligently and the plaintiff was a consumer , the action succeeded . |
| 16 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | The fringes of the carpet had been teased out so that the individual strands could be seen . |
| 18 | In the opposite case the transistors 12 and are turned on so that the current direction in the phase winding is reversed . |
| 19 | The missing video was finally tracked down yesterday and the BBC ran it on their lunchtime news programme . |
| 20 | Case loads of course built up gradually as the samples were generated , and then tailed off after the recruitment year ended . |
| 21 | The discovery of her father 's history of abuse is not only a personal tragedy to Miss X. Resale of the family home means she has missed out financially because the house , valued at £32,500 , was purchased by her for only £14,625 after a standard 55 per cent discount was made . |
| 22 | The words were broken off abruptly when the man saw Isabel sharing the saddle with fitzAlan . |
| 23 | The weather had closed in again and the 401st bombed through 10/10ths cloud on secondary targets . |
| 24 | Plainly the clause was not on this occasion incorporated by virtue of the sold note , which had been handed over only after the bargain was struck . |
| 25 | Half of each company 's shares would be sold off immediately and the rest at a later date . |
| 26 | Have they been dusted off now that the war is over ? |
| 27 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 28 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 29 | To his surprise , when he reached the office he found the green car drawn up outside and the Prince about to go in . |
| 30 | The reformers argued that since departments built up their philosophies over a period of time and since new measures took a considerable period to negotiate , these processes should be opened up so that the informed public could make its reactions clear while principles were still being settled . |