Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their thesis maintains that as technology — seen as the driving-force of change — and industrialisation become more uniformly applied the countries involved will tend , over an extended period , to develop more similar industrial features , including their industrial relations arrangements , practices and ‘ web of rules ’ . |
| 2 | Try to visualise the meaning of historical writing and thereby make the past come to life . |
| 3 | We eventually got the repairs done free of charge , despite the fact that we were on the verge of receiving a repair bill totalling £100 . |
| 4 | The right hon. Gentleman properly mentioned the difficulties faced by Holy Loch . |
| 5 | Rarely has the Turf seen her like . |
| 6 | Only very rarely has the patient carried out the act with suicidal intent in mind . |
| 7 | Hastings ' previous dealings with the Tula tribe would seem rather to diminish the role played by force of personality in this affair , but the traveller and eccentric socialist R.B. Cunninghame Graham , who contributed an introduction to Hastings ' book , did not for that reason forbear to indicate that force of personality was precisely what it showed . |
| 8 | The Manager may only prepare the package provided that the package has not yet been submitted for approval . |
| 9 | The child must not only remedy the situation caused by his or her negligence or transgression but also ‘ overcorrect ’ it to an improved or better-than-usual state . |
| 10 | Now in 596 Theudebert received Austrasia , and Theuderic Burgundy , apparently cementing the divisions created by Charibert 's death in 567 . |
| 11 | Once he has learned to take steps , he can practise these at home , perhaps using the kitchen fitted surfaces for support as he moves sideways in each direction . |
| 12 | The students , who are already working as racial equality officers all over Britain , have all completed the course sponsored by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 13 | President Reagan lifted the ban two years ago , but the Barnwell consortium says this is not enough to expunge the injury caused by Carter to its plans . |
| 14 | The separate estimates for large and small companies were then added together to provide the figures shown in Table 2 of this report . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend rightly highlights the problems caused by what the Government have failed to do in the regions . |
| 16 | So has the club changed its policy , or even cynically taken in one Jewish member ? |
| 17 | As our awareness of ‘ the environment ’ has gown , so has the meaning given to the term expanded until it has come to signify the whole of the non-cultural world . |
| 18 | You are our future , and if school leavers are untrained or unskilled , without a home and the economic means to advance , not only has the government failed them , it has failed the country too . |
| 19 | Not only has the Government failed to appreciate the importance of the fare mechanisms and allocated systems such as BR 's Business Systems division in dealing with complexities of out-and-back fares on journeys where a multiplicity of different routings are available . |
| 20 | That first sentence setting up the idea in the reader 's mind that not only has the narrator committed a murder but that something has gone wrong and he has , despite all precautions , been found out . |
| 21 | Not only has the élite closed itself off to interlopers ( some 70 per cent of officer cadets at the Odessa High Artillery Military School are sons of active duty officers ) ; but , on the evidence , skilled workers have become downwardly mobile members of society . |
| 22 | Not only has the furniture occupied the room , but the ‘ Rule of Taste ’ has been utterly confounded by eclecticism . |
| 23 | In discussing Brian Way , I have suggested that not only has the emphasis placed by him on the individuality of the individual been misleading , it has also put some teachers in a position of distorting the medium of drama itself ; and that Brian Way in practice overcame this problem by including in his seminal publication a system of training in life skills . |
| 24 | Since then , not only has the show opened in the West End , but also I , your client , have taken over the leading part . |
| 25 | Not only has the DES funded a major evaluation programme of its own schemes , many of the local and regional initiatives are also instituting evaluation studies . |
| 26 | Not only has the quality improved , but the frenzy with which we threw away 4-bit , 8-bit , and 16-bit computers has now reached a plateau at 32-bits . |
| 27 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that rule 21 of the Family Proceedings ( Children Act 1989 ) Rules 1991 required justices to give reasons and state their findings of fact on making orders under the Children Act 1989 ; that where a party appealed their order , justices could not remedy their failure to comply with rule 21 by supplying to the appellate court a more detailed statement of reasons and findings of fact ; and that , accordingly , the appellate court could only consider the reasons given by the justices at the time of the decision ( post , p. 527A–C , E–G ) . |
| 28 | We have often supplied rocks or slate , only to find the eggs laid on the side of the tank . |
| 29 | The 1958 war is remembered now not so much for the vicious sectarian battles that occurred in Beirut but for the arrival of the US Marines , who stormed ashore only to find the beaches occupied not by militiamen but by bikini-clad ladies and street urchins who were merely waiting to sell Coca-Cola to the country 's latest rescuers . |
| 30 | The expansion of the public sector , as Harris points out , merely filled the gap left by the private sector and , what is more , ‘ there is no evidence that private sector output would have been substantially higher than it actually was if the output of the public sector had been lower . ’ |