Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you have completed the basic exercise given above you will have a ready reference on which to draw when identifying your personal learning needs . |
| 2 | Some MOX fuel has been made — the lack of an economic rationale has never stopped the nuclear industry trying things — but as yet it has used up only 12.5 tonnes of plutonium . |
| 3 | The creditors ' committee does not come into being until the trustee has issued a certificate of its due constitution ( r 6.151 ) and his certificate must not be issued until he has received the written consent to act from three members of the committee ( r6.151(3A) ) . |
| 4 | We were taught the right way to hold the tiller and mainsheet , how to pull the sail in and out and how to ‘ tack ’ — change direction by turning the front of the dinghy into the wind . |
| 5 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 6 | Sandys ’ proposed deployment of the Army might have been practicable if Afro-Asia had remained quiescent , and if the Army had been given the strategic mobility needed to compensate for its reduction in manpower . |
| 7 | Those principles reflect our conviction that Britain has done best when the people of Britain have been given the personal incentive to succeed . |
| 8 | Given the withering contempt expressed by the Situationists for ‘ prositus ’ , one shudders to think what Debord et al . |
| 9 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 10 | Given the extra work done when fillings are removed , their replacements are larger than originals — and if replacement is not possible , an onlay or a crown involves the destruction of even more tooth . |
| 11 | Given the remaining time left open for consultations within the professions and the time needed to enact rule changes , the requirement is unlikely to reach the statute books before 1990 . |
| 12 | Taylor was given the perfect platform to set the record straight at yesterday 's press conference . |
| 13 | It was unclear whether Japanese armed forces would be developed significantly but given the covert encouragement given by General Willoughby and others to Japanese defences — of which the Soviet Union could not have been unaware through intelligence activities — disquiet was bound to increase . |
| 14 | The Biro is a wily beast , which , if given the least opportunity to make good its escape , will do so . |
| 15 | The justification ( in addition to the desire not to increase the department 's work load ) is that local authorities are elected bodies which have been given the legal power to decide . |
| 16 | Only in 1689 , the closing date for this study , were they at last given the legal right to conduct their nonconformist worship in their own meeting-houses ( see Chapters 3 and 6 ) . |
| 17 | You are given the following par yields : |
| 18 | Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door . |
| 19 | Directors were given the exclusive right to manage the day-to-day business of the company . |
| 20 | Given the requirement that medical evidence has to be served with the proceedings , and given the long waiting lists that now apply for very senior surgeons , it might be a good idea either to get an initial report from the treating surgeon or to use one of the independent physicians mentioned above . |
| 21 | Given the right crime to answer for , Vologsky might well not fear death itself , but he would certainly fear to continue living . |
| 22 | Given the higher risk associated with equity , a positive yield gap ( i.e. with earnings yield greater than the bond yield ) would be expected . |
| 23 | Given the substantial resource committed to education and the consistent government policy of the last 10 years of shifting the balance of power from local authorities to individuals , this is not in any way surprising . |
| 24 | Given the political rationale lying behind these sharp changes in the volume of aid directed to particular countries , it is clear that the promotion of the donors ' perceived national self-interest is closely bound up with aid . |
| 25 | Statements of attainment could be set out in very general terms , permitting a great variety of learning routes and greater autonomy for teachers in the classroom , but they would run the risk of being uninterpretable by SAT developers and teachers , or , given the political imperative to produce national assessments , interpretable in an arbitrary fashion . |
| 26 | Given the general anxiety to avoid long-term indebtedness , a stated preference for small instalments — even at the expense of a long repayment period — must often be interpreted as recognition of tight budget limits that rule out larger instalments . |
| 27 | The effects of differential immunosuppression and of coexistent serious opportunistic infections have probably been important given the poor protection effected by youth in our matched controls , but the significant reversal of even this minor association should probably not be ignored . |
| 28 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 29 | This model , which echoes that used by Oliver MacDonagh to explain the growth in nineteenth century government , relies on a high degree of consonance in the wishes of lawyers and their clients , a not unreasonable assumption given the limited access to divorce in Stone 's period . |
| 30 | Given the actual situation following the 1967 war , it was natural that the Security Council , in consultation with the belligerents themselves , should cast its prescriptive Resolution 242 of November 1967 in inter-statal terms : a return ( more or less ) to the pre-June 1967 frontiers , implying that the 1949 Armistice Line should now become a substantive and internationally recognized inter-state border , and an end to the state of war and full recognition for every state in the area . |