Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the more important , then , to stand protected from the like and ensure that all things — not excluding alcohol — conspire to bear visible witness to that ruddy hue sported by the English living in the Tropics . ’ |
| 2 | Work places have always had supervisors to measure output , so it is hard to explain why it was so much more painful to work plugged into the big brain . |
| 3 | Civilian patients had been turned out three days earlier , as the hospital prepared to receive wounded from the Eastern theatre of war . |
| 4 | In one instance a picture lent from Czechoslovakia to Cologne was prevented from returning because of a claim to title made by the former owner 's heir . |
| 5 | Roughly , unilateralism provides that the plaintiff must win if he or she has a right to win established in the explicit extension of some legal convention , but that otherwise the defendant must win . |
| 6 | We are nation builders , consecrated to God and to one another , and are ourselves stones in the very building we wish to see raised by the Divine Architect of our country . |
| 7 | The only way in which er you could get how shall I put it , another view on the issue , would be to continue the debate here on whether or not the outer northern fulfils the functions and the needs which it pr claims to do compared with the inner routes between Knaresborough and Harrogate . |
| 8 | The Spirit marks out Stephen as a special vehicle of God when he refuses to remain restricted to the static categories of the temple and moves into broader pastures ( 6:3,5,10 , 7:55 ) . |
| 9 | This is largely due to support provided by the British Library Research and Development Division which during 1978–1980 funded projects in seven UK library schools based on the use of the HP2645A . |
| 10 | I hope you are pleasantly surprised at how much further you are now able to stretch compared with the early days of the programme . |
| 11 | In her inaugural address Chamorro announced an end to military conscription ; plans to reduce state bureaucracy , strength of the Army and the size of the defence budgets ; the recognition of titles to land redistributed under the previous Sandinista government ; and a thorough review of economic policy . |
| 12 | UK electricity generating companies PowerGen and National Power have received the licences to pollute required by the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 13 | The northbound carriageway between junctions nine and ten is still blocked and we 're told it 's likely to remain blocked for the next two hours . |
| 14 | FORMER Armagh captain Jimmy Smyth has a two-fold ambition which he hopes to see fulfilled within the next ten days . |
| 15 | The most recent Scandinavian and American research suggests that however long you live , serious ill-health is most likely to lie compressed into the last three or four years before death . |
| 16 | The sub-contract was for the sale , not merely of similar goods , but of the very same goods as were to lie supplied under the first contract . |
| 17 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 18 | It climbed vertically above the field , retracing its earlier journey , until it seemed to hang suspended at the precise point where it had rested a moment ago . |
| 19 | We know that families are tied to school holiday dates , and for that reason we offer our highest discounts during these periods ; this is the best time to go combined with the best value . |
| 20 | By the end of September an anti-Singh faction within the Janata Dal appeared to have coalesced around the Prime Minister 's arch-rival Chandra Shekhar . |
| 21 | It seems to have formed through the successive accretion of continental and island arc fragments ( see Section 3.6 ) from then until the middle Cretaceous and at the time of its collision with the Indian Plate it was probably an area of relatively warm and weak lithosphere . |
| 22 | A crust appears to have formed over the volcanic rubble , but red-hot lava began creeping over it yesterday and into a private orchard . |
| 23 | Much of this moral panic about population ageing seems to have developed from the widespread and possibly indiscriminate use of population dependency ratios ( Calasanti and Bonanno 1986 ) . |
| 24 | We 're still here , two extensions later , and very happy not to have jumped on the house-moving bandwagon . |
| 25 | Nevertheless taxation does not seem to have fallen on the whole population . |
| 26 | As we walked around the town I witnessed several incidents as girls who had been known to have collaborated with the German forces were seized by members of the Resistance and had their hair chopped off , to the jeers and cat-calls of those standing around . |
| 27 | Taylor believes he must protect Gascoigne just at a time when he seems to have shaken off the horrific knee injury that has kept him out of football for 17 months . |
| 28 | In R. v. Monopolies and Mergers Commission , ex parte Argyll Group plc Lord Donaldson MR said that courts must show ‘ a proper awareness of the needs of public administration ’ : a court should be wary of striking down a decision if it is clear that the same decision would have been made even if the decision-maker had not acted unlawfully ; or if doing so would unduly delay the conduct of government business ; or if members of the public are likely already to have relied on the challenged decision ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's motivation in making the application was improper or vexatious or frivolous . |
| 29 | Union Discount claimed to have relied on the 1982 accounts in deciding in late 1983 and early 1984 to discount four bills of exchange , totalling £550,000 , drawn by Berg . |
| 30 | Union Discount was found not to have relied on the 1982 accounts and the deficit on liquidation arose largely because of unsuccessful commodity trading in 1984 and the failure of an £8m debtor , Esal . |