Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally the top two finishers in each event would be named in the team provided they met the qualifying time set by the International Amateur Athletic Federation . |
| 2 | Observers commented that the party 's support appeared to come largely from the Kikuyu , the country 's largest ethnic group , and that it lacked the broad-based support enjoyed by FORD . |
| 3 | Peasants certainly lacked the spatial mobility required for regular participation in the politics of the realm . |
| 4 | Mary did refer to Scottish affairs in her letters , but under the influence of the cardinal , and in a manner which visibly lacked the vigorous interest shown in her determination to get rid of her governess . |
| 5 | The member states most concerned by the proposal — Greece , Spain , Ireland , Italy and Portugal — favour the three-month period proposed by the Commission . |
| 6 | After the 1988 Education Reform Act , the primary team expanded further to accommodate the additional responsibilities placed on LEAs by the Act . |
| 7 | Once you have completed the basic exercise given above you will have a ready reference on which to draw when identifying your personal learning needs . |
| 8 | The general climate of the times was all too apparent as riots broke out in Spa Fields in London in late 1816 , followed in due course by the March of the Blanketeers , the Pentrich Rebellion in Derbyshire , the Peterloo Massacre and that desperate attempt to kill the entire cabinet known as the Cato Street Conspiracy . |
| 9 | When the birds spewed out of the darkness the flower-seller flapped her great shawl like a matador to ward them off ; they broke formation , circling the massive clock stopped at ten to ten , floundering upwards towards the whirling sky framed in the shards of glass set in the iron ribs of the shattered roof . |
| 10 | Because this market controls and disciplines the economic power associated with property ownership it serves to legitimate that power within the framework of liberalism . |
| 11 | It is possible that , while we lose the administrative costs incurred by property valuation , we could easily replace them with the valuations of the poll tax for many different households . |
| 12 | He said Labour would be denied the opportunity to re-erect the interventionist policies promised in the policy review . |
| 13 | I despise the theological problem posed by the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ , the sanctification of ‘ Guernica ’ , the violent controversy surrounding ‘ Guernica ’ , the Last Supper status accorded to ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 14 | Thus , a Bill which sought to bring shipbuilding and repairing under public control but which did so , so far as repairing is concerned , by naming the particular firms affected , would be a ‘ hybrid ’ Bill . |
| 15 | Historically , the emphasis on maintaining the initial capital invested in a public limited company derives from the causes célèbres of the nineteenth century , when creditors were swindled out of their debts by PLCs which distributed capital as income thus leaving insufficient assets to repay creditors . |
| 16 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 17 | Radio in the 1940S and television under the Fifth Republic enabled de Gaulle to ‘ commune ’ with the French people : circumstances frequently conspired to dramatize the stark alternatives associated with his name ; in 1940 the rejection of collaboration and defeat ; from 1946 to 1958 , when out of power and largely absent from the radio , he slowly became ‘ le recours ’ , the possible saviour from the ‘ regime des parties ’ , party factions and divisions ; when President ( 1958–69 ) , and master of the airwaves , the recurrent implicit or explicit message was ‘ but for me , France faces chaos ’ — ‘ moi ou le chaos ’ — the twentieth-century equivalent of Louis XIV 's celebrated ‘ l'état c'est moi ’ — ‘ I am the state ’ . |
| 18 | This parallels the trampling experiment described above where the skulls were the first element to be broken . |
| 19 | On July 21 the Finance Minister , Nasir Abdel allah al Rawdan indicated that the government did not intend to borrow the entire sum authorized by the decree ; he expected the actual amount borrowed to be less than $24,000 million . |
| 20 | My second observation demonstrates the absurdity of the idea that our relationship was , to borrow the elegant formula adopted by one news comic , ‘ the perverted passion of two sex junkies who would do anything — even kill — for their fix ’ . |
| 21 | This chapter considers the use of expert determination in : ( 1 ) energy and mining contracts ( 7.2 ) ; ( 2 ) shipbuilding contracts ( 7.3 ) ; ( 3 ) construction contracts ( 7.4 ) ; ( 4 ) computer contracts ( 7.5 ) ; which display the following features discussed in Chapter 6 : ( 5 ) the use of technical experts drawing on expertise not directly associated with valuation ; ( 6 ) the use of technical experts to act as general dispute resolvers ; and ( 7 ) the use of " two-tier " dispute resolution procedures . |
| 22 | Prior to the opening of the Republican Party convention , the party 's leadership attempted to curb the huge lead enjoyed by the Democrats by launching a series of attacks on the character of Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton . |
| 23 | This seems to support Parsons 's claim that any division of labour requires an authority structure to organize and coordinate the various tasks involved . |
| 24 | Under deep snow the wooden steps built to control erosion disappear , and the hill once again takes on its pristine quality . |
| 25 | Gross , Franko and Lewin ( 1980 ) asked whether involuntary eye gaze would influence the cognitive processing employed by subjects . |
| 26 | As a result , there were two important cross-currents which could influence the political stance taken by any particular member of Parliament under William and Anne . |
| 27 | A series of scandals , involving gambling and divorces , upset the moral demands made by the bourgeois conscience on the morality of the royals . |
| 28 | The anti-Roman faction in the royal household seized power and totally upset the careful arrangements made and fostered by Rome . |
| 29 | He engaged Jonathan Otley to do the scientific work necessary for his guide books , and John Gough made the botanical notes required . |
| 30 | Takeshiba-O made the early pace followed by the two American horses Czar Alexander and Fort Marcy , while Piggott was content to keep Sir Ivor well covered up at the back of the field with La Lagune . |