Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Redford , looking craggy and bemused , has thankfully jettisoned the po-faced sermonising of such bloomers as Havana and returned to what he does best : sprinkling an intelligent script with finely tuned , anarchic quips and exhibiting twinkling vulnerability to the ladies . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that the middle-class exodus from the towns to the countryside has vastly improved the physical fabric of the housing in rural areas . |
| 3 | She has thereby taken the first step towards adult sexuality in developing a wish for a baby . |
| 4 | He has since lost the Australian , French and US Open championships . |
| 5 | But the 32-year-old son of the late Graham Hill has since landed the sought-after No 2 spot alongside Alain Prost at Canon Williams Renault . |
| 6 | San Antonio has since joined the small number of US museums which are now active on the antiquities market . |
| 7 | The engine has since visited the Great Show at Harrogate during July , and is now back at the NRM . |
| 8 | BHC has since adopted the same skirt design for the latest version of the smaller SR.N6 , raising its payload from 10 to more than 17 tonnes . |
| 9 | Piper , 26 , has been beaten only once in his 18-fight career , when he strayed 7lb above the super-middleweight limit and conceded an additional 10lb to Manchester 's Karl Thompson , who has since won the British cruiserweight title . |
| 10 | But that was many years ago when they were still juveniles and one day she disappeared and none of the eagles there has since had the full power of a Callanish eagle . |
| 11 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
| 12 | Another generation of artists has emerged ( many from Goldsmiths ' College in London ) , which has successfully developed the rival approach . |
| 13 | The establishment has successfully monopolised the major positions within the state and the social institutions allied to the state , and it has exercised a pervasive influence over those outside its own ranks . |
| 14 | Made famous by her Vampire Chronicles ( Interview With The Vampire [ 1976 ] , The Vampire Lestat [ 1985 ] and The Queen Of The Damned [ 1988 ] ) she has successfully reinvented the tired myth of the vampire . |
| 15 | And while he has successfully offended the doctrinaire Protestants , he does not seem to have pleased the Pope . |
| 16 | But what has most disturbed the professional archaeologists is the increasing decentralisation of decision-making in their field , reducing the CSRA to figurehead status . |
| 17 | You can see that VMS has effectively concatenated the logical name , so that you have in effect typed DUA0 : [ SOFTWARE_LIBRARY . ] |
| 18 | Mr Mayor I think we , we owe a debt of gratitude to councillor this evening because the sort of motions he 's been putting forward has effectively united the progressive forces . |
| 19 | However more recently the evolutionist Leon Croizat has intensively evaluated the evolutionary role of orthogenesis against a background of space , time , form by pan-biogeographic method . |
| 20 | But as we have seen , he referred to the Duddon valley as ‘ the darling of my heart ’ — he says in the Guide that Mr. West ‘ contented himself by speaking of the scenery of easy access from the public roads , for he has entirely omitted the vast and romantic wilds which lie between the sea and the chain of lofty mountains , beginning at Coniston and ending at Lows Water — who shall traverse Seathwaite , Eskdale Wastdale , Ennerdale and Ennersaledale , and not be ready to acknowledge that the Western side of his tour , though probably less beautiful , is infinitely more magnificent than the Eastern side ? ’ |
| 21 | The hotel owner , Peter , has personally overseen the comfortable design of all 33 rooms to include telephone , TV , radio . |
| 22 | These African developments owe much to an American entrepreneur who has personally provided the necessary technology transfer and opened up new possibilities for breaking old structures of trade that were dominated by the large producers in developed countries . |
| 23 | A. G. Griffith , Professor of Public Law , University of London , may have been near the mark when he wrote , ‘ In both capitalist and communist societies , the judiciary has naturally served the prevailing political and economic forces . |
| 24 | In draining the marsh , clearing the wood , cultivating the fields , and flooding the valleys , man has inadvertently changed the thermal , hydrological and roughness parameters of the earth 's surface and the chemical composition of the air … |
| 25 | Martha Wolfenstein ( 1955 ) has brilliantly analysed the changing pattern of advice given in succeeding editions of Infant Care , the bulletin for parents published by the United States Children 's Bureau ; a close parallel in the United Kingdom is found in the Mothercraft Manual ( Liddiard , 1928 ) . |
| 26 | This places his discourse firmly in the domain of public cultural policy and returns us directly to the concerns of the Newbolt Committee , indeed to one of its major areas of anxiety : " Whether the class.consciousness which has hitherto formed the chief force of [ linguistic ] stability in Great Britain , will continue to influence the masses , has yet to be seen . " |
| 27 | It is just one illustration of the double standards that we have tolerated for generations that , for one and half centuries , the House has rightly imposed the strictest safety rules and regulations on the railways , while doing virtually nothing about the roads . |
| 28 | If the difference of interests of bourgeois and worker is the social contradiction of capitalism , then the advent of modernist culture is what Daniel Bell has rightly called the cultural contradiction of capitalism . |
| 29 | The extent to which such rights might justifiably embrace ideas unrelated to government or public affairs , ideas of no value at all , or cloaked in images of a sexual or violent nature , has long exercised the finest minds not only in American jurisprudence , but in Europe and the Commonwealth as well . |
| 30 | What to do — of anything — about the Italian Connection is a problem that has long perplexed the top administrators : some see it as a cancer at the heart of rugby ; others as a storm in a teacup of no consequence to what they see as larger and more insidious threat to amateurism in England and the rest of the ‘ Big Eight ’ . |