Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop . |
| 2 | Not frightened about not knowing the answers but frightened about not hearing the questions in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | Not frightened about not knowing the answers but frightened about not hearing the questions in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | I will quote from it , because it is important to do so in the context of the reasons that have been given for not giving the WEU control of defence . |
| 5 | Researchers working in the 1950s perhaps could be forgiven for not recognizing the importance of ethnicity in family relations , since Britain was a more monolithic society in ethnic terms than it became subsequently . |
| 6 | The father 's had his house repossessed for not paying the mortgage . |
| 7 | Federal US prosecutors say that a former partner at Frost & Sullivan has been indicted for allegedly trading on inside information stolen from the law firm of Skadden , Arps , Slate , Meagher & Flom : Michael Borlinghaus was indicted for allegedly receiving the non-public information from an IBM Corp executive and the allegation is that Borlinghaus , his friend and neighbour Leonard Bellezza , and others traded on the information ; he faces a possible maximum prison term of 20 years and fines of more than $1m if he is convicted of the offence . |
| 8 | Nor can Edward be blamed for not foreseeing the ends to which Gloucester might put his power . |
| 9 | Nor can Edward be blamed for not foreseeing the ends to which Gloucester might put his power . |
| 10 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
| 11 | Schimberni had , however , succeeded in substantially reducing the workforce through the early retirement of approximately 30,000 workers . |
| 12 | She felt a bit like someone caught in quicksand , whose every turn only succeeded in further compounding the difficulties . |
| 13 | Housed in a 270m building , designed to partially resemble the form of a full-size Zeppelin structure , displays include relics from the ill-fated Hindenburg , an original Mercedes-Benz diesel engine from the LZ130 Graf Zeppelin , among many other airship-related exhibits . |
| 14 | GCHQ have analysed the signals and they are designed to completely confuse the whole system controlled from Bacton . ’ |
| 15 | They are not designed to exactly match the horses requirements . |
| 16 | The day 's cheese-making gets going at around 8am when Karen adds a specially prepared culture or ‘ starter ’ , which is designed to slowly increase the milk 's acidity . |
| 17 | It 's designed to gently exercise the small , delicate facial muscles to help prevent wrinkles and sagging . |
| 18 | Healthy exercise , rational recreation , better living conditions and temperance campaigns were all designed to morally arm the men against temptation . |
| 19 | The occasion of the most recent serious attempt was in 1968 when a Bill designed to further limit the power of the Lords received a second reading in the House of Commons but it foundered . |
| 20 | Hollis will head an initiative — ‘ Safety : the next level ’ — designed to further increase the XEU focus on HSE matters . |
| 21 | Hollis will head an initiative — ‘ Safety : the next level ’ — designed to further increase the XEU focus on HSE matters . |
| 22 | The blocks may even be omitted to further emphasise the relative timing of events . |
| 23 | It is Unikix 's ‘ openness ’ which is expected to best differentiate the product — while CICS AIX will support only IBM Unix , Unikix is easily ported to any flavour of Unix required . |
| 24 | Both systems were termed revolutionary in that they were both expected to radically influence the financial decision-making of government . |
| 25 | The Japanese are building artificial ski slopes in a new material which is claimed to closely simulate the sensation of snow . |
| 26 | The fonts are claimed to exactly match the standard Adobe ones which means that proofing could be done on a low-cost PCL printer with typeset output produced on a Linotronic . |
| 27 | Then outriggers can be added to greatly increase the stability of the tower |
| 28 | This is not confined to just making the applications do what they are supposed to but the whole concept of the Macintosh is that anyone can look after it . |
| 29 | When modules are deleted , only ‘ tight coupling ’ relationships from the module are retained ; the ‘ loose coupling ’ relationships are deleted to further reduce the LIFESPAN database file store requirement . |
| 30 | His devastation of Kent in 676 , in the course of which Rochester was ransacked ( HE IV , 12 ) , may have been partly designed at least to deter the Kentish king from attempting to repossess Surrey . |