Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and all my beautifully arranged slides all arranged the right way up and all in the right order all tipped all over the floor . |
| 2 | You are given the following information about four firms : . |
| 3 | Will you please ask the Commissioner to ensure that the Sessional Order is given the highest priority so that we can get to this place without being obstructed by coaches ? |
| 4 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 5 | But , given the meticulous planning now undertaken by terrorists on both sides , the potential for operations going disastrously wrong means siege situations are likely to remain the exception to the rule . |
| 6 | If they are given the green light then the running costs will have to come from the police authority . |
| 7 | SUN-SEEKING Mr Lamont was given the cold shoulder yesterday when he was told he was NOT needed for a crisis meeting back in Britain . |
| 8 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
| 9 | The remaining 900 employees — out of a workforce once totalling 40,000 — were given the grim news yesterday at a meeting with managers and union representatives . |
| 10 | If individual utility of income functions are given the isoelastic form then the associated marginal utility of income is |
| 11 | However , does he agree that as part of the process of reform , those who have a conscientious objection to working on Sunday should be given the statutory right not to do so ? |
| 12 | I have n't given her this last year ( since I left home ) one half of the consideration I 've given the beastly creature upstairs just this last week . |
| 13 | In the confusion following Belgium 's partial withdrawal from its colony , the UN force was at first given the foolish order not to shoot unless attacked . |
| 14 | The Soviet Union regarded the American refusal critically and predictably withdrew the offer of coal to the south , which instead had to be supplied from Japan . |
| 15 | I had regarded the English language almost as my own private possession , something which was mine by right , and now it seemed that I was going to have to fight to hang on to it , as I was having to fight for everything else . |
| 16 | The families of the nobility have always fascinated the visiting public more than their historic homes and works of art . |
| 17 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 18 | The same kind of reasoning , on a smaller scale , leads to the conclusion that the common ancestor of the oil-bird and the cave swiftlet also did not use echolocation , and that these two genera have developed the same technology independently of each other . |
| 19 | Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ? |
| 20 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 21 | SERAFIN : Do n't you begin to feel you have heard the whole debate before ? |
| 22 | He 'd joined the International Brigade just before Franco 's final victories and been sent back when he was on his way to Cardiff to catch the potato boat to Bilbao . |
| 23 | Other fears expressed at the debate included the belief that republics with more recent experience of private farming , for example the three Baltic republics ( which had joined the Soviet Union only in 1940 ) , would develop at different rates to other parts of the country which had experienced only collectivized agriculture . |
| 24 | Funny girl Pamela Stephenson looked like she 'd joined the smile-high club yesterday as she jetted into Britain with pop star George Michael . |
| 25 | A fortnight after being made a minister , this raconteur said that he had joined the Labour Party simply to make sure that ‘ they did nothing too silly ’ . |
| 26 | Like Domanov 's Cossacks , this heterogeneous group , made up from the various peoples around the Caucasus , including Georgians , Armenians and Azerbaidjani Moslems , had originally joined the German retreat westwards in 1942–3 . |
| 27 | Erm me , myself and Steve are currently working on er , health and safety for contractors coming on site purpose to work etcetera and one of reasons why well he than ever before on this , visi visitor 's information when they 're on site on the back of cars it would , it would have been a nice thing to do would have been to have joined the whole lot together . |
| 28 | Brooke appears to have joined the Alien Office around 1796 , and he was clerk from about 1798 to 1813 . |
| 29 | In this instance ( and because it 's in the ‘ Flapper ’ series perhaps ) Pearl has adjusted the upper sound-range slightly from its usual practice . |
| 30 | She had dismissed the instinctive feeling before , but it was still there , and Glyn had merely heightened it . |