Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owner Lachie Stewart aims to have re-built the 16th-century fortress he bought two years ago by December 1999 . |
| 2 | Given the colonial context it should not be altogether surprising that literacy experts have rejected the use of indigenous languages to propagate education . |
| 3 | Given the moral seriousness he had already , these expectations intensified his anxiety about his subject . |
| 4 | Given the increasing pressure we and others are putting on offshore dredging , which has major implications for future terrestrial supplies , I thought you should also see the Commentary . |
| 5 | Until these underlying images of individual and society are recognized , and their study given the explicit attention it deserves , the significance of geographical knowledge for social practice will not be realized , nor the constraints it currently imposes overcome . |
| 6 | As Freud has been so greatly misunderstood , especially in his more speculative sociological work , this type of exposition seems necessary if his theory is to be given the serious consideration it deserves , and which sociology needs . |
| 7 | Er , but having said that I mean I have a sweet five year old daughter and I would n't change her for anything , but given the second chance I would n't do it again . |
| 8 | NORTHERN Ireland butchers have been given the good news they can compete in a major English contest to find the country 's top sausage-maker . |
| 9 | It was never a question of somebody saying ‘ we have a depression , let's give them depression movies ’ but given the new dispensation it was Hollywood 's instinct to come up with just that added edge that the age required in its films . |
| 10 | They are relevant to what the speaker wishes to provide as an answer to the question , given the particular hearer he has . |
| 11 | Subconsciously , she must have sensed the potent effect he could have on her , an instinctive recognition of the dangerous power he would assume if once she had known his touch . |
| 12 | Andy Caddick ( ‘ He 'll get a few 0 for 70s , that will be the real test of temperament , ’ Cottam had said ) maybe has n't sustained the outstanding promise he showed at 2nd XI level last summer . |
| 13 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |
| 14 | Having said that , I 've heard the French love it , and over there the Mad Axe is selling like , er … mad . |
| 15 | In the promenade bus-shelter they broke the window they had n't broken the last time they 'd visited it . |
| 16 | Now there would be a certain logic in this incorporation , for , if we were to have a Bill of Rights enforced in Britain , then in a situation in which we have ratified the European Convention it would be difficult for us to bypass these rights and draw up a completely new set . |
| 17 | He had shed the formal suit he 'd worn previously and was dressed today in black trousers and leather jacket over a black silk shirt , sombre colours that only served to emphasise the olive cast of his skin , the night-darkness of his hair and eyes . |
| 18 | But had the Labour Party won the last Election they too would be facing hefty tax bills and precisely the same threat to their lavish standards of living . |
| 19 | In other words , if the legal discourse had exactly paralleled the everyday discourse it would not have been possible to achieve a solution in one but not in the other . |
| 20 | Over her shoulder was slung the home-made sub-machine-gun she had assembled in the TARDIS lab . |
| 21 | While numerous professional and employee groups support the hepatitis B regulation , many employers have protested the financial burden they say it will impose . |
| 22 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 23 | And she had also forgotten the stern lecture she had given herself earlier , she thought despairingly . |
| 24 | I 've forgotten the scruffy intellectual I once was . |
| 25 | I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’ |
| 26 | Ever since we entered the training video market , competitors have claimed the only way we can offer training videos for less than they can is because we do not bear the full cost of production , by sourcing products from broadcast programmes . |
| 27 | She had discarded the dirty wrapper she had been wearing and had on long silky black stockings and suspenders , a black peephole bra and crutchless panties . |
| 28 | So we sought wiser men than ourselves who have trodden the same path he proposes to take . |
| 29 | Having solved the two-cylinder problem we are not much wiser ; we still do n't know how to tackle a general problem . |
| 30 | It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know |