Example sentences of "the [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When an Information memorandum is released the form is passed to Mirian Sedlan who records it as an introduction on the INTRODUCE database and files the papers . |
| 2 | It can be seen from the dares and sites of his drawings that he was an intrepid walker in regions where the only places of rest were shepherds ' cottages . |
| 3 | Thanks to the Dares and the Rossitters , it had had a good start , but all innovations are eyed askance in small villages — and Overclyst was very small indeed . |
| 4 | A remarkable film of 1955 , Rebel without a Cause , claimed as ‘ new realism ’ when it was first screened , showed delinquent boys and girls in the mid-teens proving their worth in ‘ chicken ’ contests whose violence , distorted as it is by social pressures , does express a genuine personal pride : the dares and challenges of the groups of Hell 's Angels today , leading to criminal actions , have a distant debased origin in the concept of honour . |
| 5 | The difference between the two options , enquiry and amend , to the user was that the amend option highlighted colons on each screen after each item of data which could be amended . |
| 6 | In opposing this motion the amend that you 're about to hear about is actually supporting restrictions on justice . |
| 7 | The atmosphere is charged ( worth noting : the building of the Berlin wall is mere months away ) , the singing good ( thought the voice occasionally sounds overworked as in Take the A Train ) , the intonation typical Ella ( spot-on ) and the songs typically ‘ Fitzgerald in Concert ’ . |
| 8 | I used to enjoy the singing a lot but sometimes the preachers used to go on quite a bit . |
| 9 | Then it was there , the blurry light of the candles and the singing Happy Birthday and the big whoosh … and the clapping , and when the curtains were open again Benny saw the thin young man that her father had been shaking hands with . |
| 10 | But on that dusty track outside Maubisson I found the singing macabre . |
| 11 | ‘ The Safe-Buy concept has been so successful that the scheme is now spreading all over the UK , ’ says Judith Chalmers . |
| 12 | ‘ To a company , the Safe-Buy seal-of-approval means they have a start over the cowboys . ’ |
| 13 | In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished . |
| 14 | No , does n't fit on it 's stopped recording change the change the tape so a su but going back to that she was so convinced that it was gon na be a heck of a job that she would save us time by taking all the clothes out putting them somewhere else and I said it 'll take us three minutes |
| 15 | In seminar teaching it should elicit feedback , questioning , the bringing out of implications or contradictions , and the opening up of fresh aspects of the subject . |
| 16 | The government and the ANC are bickering over the preconditions for negotiation — matters such as the bringing home of exiles and the release of political prisoners . |
| 17 | But in the case of these classes , the rule relating to the bringing into account of advances does not apply . |
| 18 | Tactile qualities , colour and personal handling were reintroduced , incorporating collage and the bringing together of disparate materials for emotionally provocative purposes , and encouraging the innovation of individual forms of symbolism . |
| 19 | Third , there are epistemological and ideological problems associated with the bringing together of issues which have hitherto been studied in one or other of the natural or social sciences . |
| 20 | In more general heraldic usage the word is applied to the bringing together of two or more sets of arms to form quarterings — this is to say a shield divided into a number of areas , each capable of carrying a complete coat of arms as a sign of familial bonding . |
| 21 | The bringing together of school-leavers and vacancies began with the adolescent being interviewed at school , after which a form was completed by the headteacher and a member of the SCC , just as the ‘ Friendly Visitors ’ had done prior to 1910 . |
| 22 | One of the fond hopes for the tertiary colleges established in Sheffield in 1988 , by the bringing together of sixth form education and the further education colleges , was that the new 16–19 provision would draw upon the strengths of the partners . |
| 23 | Here a wide entrance , guarded by boarded doors from the street provides for the bringing in of Corn , Hay , Straw , & c … receptacles for soiled litter and stable sweepings are provided . |
| 24 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 25 | The result of this is that , when he becomes an adult , he is likely to experience a considerable amount of difficulty in standing on his own two feet — let alone taking responsibility for his part in the bringing up of a family of his own . |
| 26 | The passing of a decade between the Royal Assent granted to the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ( the 1974 Act ) and the bringing into force of all sections of this piece of legislation on 19 May 1985 has substantially contributed to the general confusion . |
| 27 | The extraordinary stories of oddball training methods , holidays on the job , the wilful behaviour , the bringing down of star players . |
| 28 | Instead W/C Hay took her to Brussels the same morning to finalise the bringing home of released Prisoners of War . |
| 29 | That has much to do with the bringing together of all participants in the one place — all staying in the same hotel , all competing at the same venue , all joining in the same events , culminating in the Barbarian Easter Tour-style tradition of each nation providing a ‘ cabaret ’ turn at the farewell banquet . |
| 30 | Many thousands of years of natural evolution and hybridization , helped in recent centuries by the bringing together of species from widely separate parts of the world , and in modern decades by the attentions of the human mind and hand , have produced a multitude of rose forms , shapes , colours , habits and abilities . |