Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a first step , joint financing has been arranged for cleaning up the Dnepr river , one of the main polluters of the Black Sea . |
| 2 | More than 1,000 women have been recalled for a repeat smear test after it was revealed Practice Nurse Ina Gordon used a wooden spatula designed for holding down the tongue instead of special metal spatulas made for the vital tests . |
| 3 | Situated in the foothills of the Pennines and near to the centre of Huddersfield , Wellfield House is ideally located for enjoying both the history and beauty of Yorkshire . |
| 4 | A volcano has even been blamed for speeding up the onset of the last Ice Age . |
| 5 | Berle hoped to have the British blamed for breaking up the conference , as he knew he had the support of the Latin American states and some European countries . |
| 6 | Southend defender Prior played a poor back pass and full-back Powell was booked for bringing down the goal-bound Thompson . |
| 7 | Has a corrosion-inhibitor been added after cleaning out the system ? |
| 8 | To provide for any improvements in education or Institute affairs , close liaison and dialogue with the committees , tutors , general membership , educationalists and also kindred associations all of whom are committed towards advancing both the profession of embalming and funeral service . |
| 9 | Paul Lane was occupied in putting together the formal structure of the police case against Terence Place which would then go to the DPP . |
| 10 | This follows the realisation that if the hunters succeeded in wiping out the goats the vegetation might swiftly regenerate , making it impossible to see the wary pigs . |
| 11 | In July he slipped away by train to Dire Dawa and my father wrote despondently to the Foreign Office : " Lij Yasu , during his three months ' stay in Addis Ababa , has succeeded in destroying even the semblance of central government and is dragging down the prestige of individual ministers so that there is no authority to whom the Legation can appeal . " |
| 12 | These succeeded in bringing out the noble , Edwardian character of the music ; but failed to convey adequately its restless , questioning and sometimes despairing elements — as Elgar 's performances did so clearly . |
| 13 | The campaigners succeeded in returning both the policy debate and the decision-making powers to the local community . |
| 14 | By the time the boat reached the island Sven Hjerson had still not succeeded in shaking off the ample , daisy-sprinkled form of Arabella Buckley . |
| 15 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 16 | A spokesman stressed that the government was still committed to setting up the agency ( one of the commitments in the Conservatives ' election manifesto ) , and that the necessary bill would be introduced later in 1992 or in 1993 . |
| 17 | This means it is committed to doing exactly the right thing . |
| 18 | The indications suggest that the Conservative government elected in 1987 is committed to reducing swiftly the scale of public-sector housing . |
| 19 | The government was also committed to reducing radically the budget deficit by implementing cuts in social spending ; defence expenditure , however , is set to increase by almost 11.6 per cent [ see p. 38289 ] . |
| 20 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 21 | Several pointed-butt celts are depicted by pecking away the surrounding surface of the stone . |
| 22 | This is shown by the fact that while it is possible to produce a semantic clash within the noun phrase which can only be resolved by replacing the adjective or the noun ( ? extremely fast wines , extremely fast runners , extremely potent wines ) , it is impossible to produce a clash which can only be resolved by replacing either the intensifier or the noun . |
| 23 | No reparation seems to be being made for killing off the father . |
| 24 | It 's a result of the Constitution of France , which was drawn up in nineteen fifty-eight , when General de Gaulle came to power , and the Constitution was very concerned to produce a separation between the legislative , that 's the law-making , part of the government , and the executive , that 's the part which was seen as carrying out the laws . |
| 25 | He believed that if nothing were done about filling in the quarry , another tragedy would happen there . |
| 26 | Notice that the thought that in principle a would-be rapist should be compensated for giving up the right to rape is implicit in the answer of the supporters of the third principle as well . |
| 27 | In addition to the general comments and proposals that the Environment Select Committee made about tightening up the approach to dealing with toxic and hazardous waste , it said that an environmental protection agency should be set up . |
| 28 | The UN Security Council imposed an air and arms embargo on Libya last year in an effort to force the surrender of two men suspected of blowing up the American airliner over Lockerbie in 1988 . |
| 29 | Two preliminary points need to be made before setting out the argument against secularism . |
| 30 | Many residents were reduced to eating a crude bread made from grinding down the cores of corn cobs , mixed with buds from tree branches and berries from which tea was brewed . |