Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOPES that there will be more interest rate cuts to come sparked off a fresh shares boom yesterday . |
| 2 | PRINCE Edward is calling in top football teams to help set up a new-look Duke of Edinburgh award . |
| 3 | Admittedly , Bicknell began the current campaign sluggishly as he experimented with an abbreviated approach , then reverted to the full Monty in the B&H quarterfinal against Lancashire to help set up a notable victory . |
| 4 | After 18 months training with AA in Chicago , Mr Shiratori returned to Tokyo to help set up the new office . |
| 5 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 6 | It is one of Marx 's greatest contributions to philosophy and the social sciences to have pointed out the systematic relationship between knowledge and historical and social processes . |
| 7 | Police were reported to have broken up a pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa , the Tibetan capital , on March 20 . |
| 8 | And in this particular county one has only got to look to Ryedale who s I so far as I know is the only authority to have carried out a comprehensive survey of local housing needs . |
| 9 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 10 | The LTTE claimed to have shot down a Marchetti combat aircraft with a SAM 7 missile . |
| 11 | Polisario also claimed to have shot down a Moroccan Mirage F-1 fighter and to have succeeded in occupying a 25-km section of the Moroccan wall . |
| 12 | On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft . |
| 13 | Governor Bill Clinton appears to have sewn up the presidential nomination by winning a plurality in New York on Tuesday , but only after suffering further humiliation . |
| 14 | The first was that the market was too young to have built up a proper record of likely default rates , especially during a recession . |
| 15 | His meeting with Peters also seems to have sparked off the long voyaging section of ‘ Death by Water ’ in the Waste Land manuscripts , which would be united with the fate of the ancient Phoenician sailor , Phlebas , and details of which would find their way into ‘ Marina ’ and ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ . |
| 16 | Not to be confused with Pergolesi 's catalytic opera of the same name ( the one reputed to have sparked off the operatic ‘ Guerre des Bouffons ’ in Paris ) , Paisiello 's La Serva padrona ( ‘ The Servant Mistress ’ ) has enjoyed a less exalted fate . |
| 17 | Paradoxically the threat to their survival posed by reorganization appears to have gingered up the interested members of the dying Kensington , Chelsea and Westminster area authority . |
| 18 | It is clear that the founding treaties , and in particular the EEC Treaty which has by far the broadest scope of the three , have established the Communities and the institutions which enable them to operate ; but more than this , they have been held by the European Court to have set up a new legal system separate from those of the Member States . |
| 19 | Makeshift Australian opener Mark Waugh , a scorer of two half centuries in the series , appeared to have set up a winning total when he hit 108 . |
| 20 | Lloyds Register of Shipping was to have set up a large administration centre next to Junction ( 16 ) Sixteen of the M-Four , but it 's chosen a site in Hampshire instead . |
| 21 | Here it might have been wise for Parliament to have set out a comprehensive code staking out the borderline between the demands of a fair trial and those of a free press whenever a contempt was committed through the medium of a particular case . |
| 22 | His summing-up left the jury in no doubt about his own views and would have required a jury of quite exceptional perversity to have brought in a guilty verdict . |
| 23 | By Nov. 16 US President Bush was said not to have ruled out a military strike against Libya . |
| 24 | Shirai 's voice here seems to have taken on a new dimension , a darker tonal colour , a new expressiveness that is constantly compelling with the emphasis on the drama . |
| 25 | He seemed to have taken on a new lease of life . |
| 26 | John Powell , at 61 , is probably the oldest driver to have taken on the new Grand Prix Circuit . |
| 27 | But no artist seems to have taken over the comic strip format whole until Art Spiegelman came along . |
| 28 | It will always be the case that it would have been better for one of the counterparties not to have taken out the forward contract but to have waited and transacted in the spot or cash market at the time called for delivery . |
| 29 | POSH gifts group Aspreys is thought to have lined up a late Christmas present for itself . |
| 30 | Perhaps he was trying to butter up America and Britain , because the United Nations Security Council will soon be discussing tighter sanctions against Libya unless he hands over the people who are believed to have blown up an American airliner over Scotland in 1988 . |