Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where direct sunlight is received for much of the day , its heating effect is severely restricted by high winds and high humidity ( Green & Harding 1983 ) . |
| 2 | Dr. Thackeray had never seen or prescribed for any of the patients at the asylum . |
| 3 | Both teams 's lack of scoring power always threatened a goalless draw and there was little to suggest the deadlock would be broken for most of the match . |
| 4 | It is somewhat eased for some by the student loans system . |
| 5 | As leader of the Church Edward the Confessor played his part , though not perhaps very adequately , since he left on his death an archbishop of Canterbury who was not recognized as such by the pope . |
| 6 | Terms with dual meanings , for example , intelligence ( either an individual 's analytical and reasoning abilities or information on an adversary ) must be recognized as such by the searcher . |
| 7 | And they were able to place that subsequently because it was a , was a relevant thing that people wanted to read , and it was recognized as such by the organizations concerned . |
| 8 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 9 | ' How the Holy Spirit spoke at this time is unclear , but it seems reasonable to suppose that it was through a prophecy or exhortation given through another of the leaders . |
| 10 | For both parts of the experiment , for each trial ( represented by columns 1 to 12 in each word list ) , the experimenter simply ticked each word correctly recalled and totalled the number of words recalled for each of the 20 serial positions . |
| 11 | MAI Systems Corp , the Irvine , California maker of small business computers that just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ( CI No 2,147 ) , listed $26.1m in assets and $145.0m in liabilities ; Brooke Group Ltd , which is controlled by MAI chairman Bennett LeBow , owns 82.3% of MAI 's voting securities ; the largest unsecured creditor listed in the filing was Chemical Trust Co. of California , trustee for $40m of 11.75% senior subordinated debentures ; the obligations listed for most of the other creditors were mostly for $4m or less . |
| 12 | Group and subgroup means ( SEM ) were calculated for all of the proliferative data . |
| 13 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 14 | Travel Delay — If your arrival in the resort on the outward journey , or at your UK destination on the return journey , is delayed for any of the specified reasons for more than 8 hours , you may claim £30 plus £15 for each subsequent completed 8 hour period up to a maximum of £105 in all . |
| 15 | This helps explain why purchases of shares , paintings or antiques , although often termed ‘ investments ’ in everyday speech , are not regarded as such in the Accounts . |
| 16 | Figure 3.4 shows the massive concentration of 25–44-year-olds to the north and west of London , in precisely those counties which have recently had substantial population increases and which are regarded as some of the most prosperous places in the country ( Champion et al . |
| 17 | It is otherwise where the employee can be considered to be part of the " brains " of the company , ie sufficiently senior for his acts to be regarded as those of the company . |
| 18 | The British , who play the Americans in three more Tests as part of their extensive preparations for Barcelona , dominated for much of the match , but their poor shooting form , combined with a great display by the home goalkeeper , denied them . |
| 19 | Not far distanced from the council , in England at any rate , was Parliament , dominated for much of the fourteenth century by the peerage ; and in that body , too , matters of policy and national finance were frequently discussed , for it was there that kings liked to benefit from the practical experience of men who had taken an active part in war . |
| 20 | The seascape , dominated for most of the year by grey sky , grey sea , brown sand , was splashed with bright colours today : a white motor-boat whining past dragging a water-skier in a brilliant orange wet suit ; a wind-surfer 's sail bellying out in blue and red stripes , silver heart-shaped helium balloons joggling above the slow-moving crowds ; women in egg-yolk yellow , lime green , shocking pink … . |
| 21 | Following this initial research , a questionnaire was designed for each of the core services of audit and tax which was sent to either the chief executive or finance director of 100 client companies . |
| 22 | I believe that we achieve this very successfully , and when you bear in mind the pressure under which the Magistracy have been in recent times , with erm industrial action , demonstrations , which have brought them to the forefront of the attention , I think it 's a remarkably achievement that the Magistrates have come through this with the public in general terms satisfied with the performance of Magistrates in the discharge of these very onerous functions . |
| 23 | On the one hand it led to the concept of art education rather than craft training , with the professor-student relationship substituted for that of the master-apprentice . |
| 24 | The tags in the LOB corpus and Text710 dictionary were then substituted for those of the combined tagset . |
| 25 | He looked up , as Kemble had looked up , and then picked off each of the attendant five with a dimpled smile which impelled them to treasure his grand simplicity and unaffected openness . |
| 26 | For a sample with different atoms the result is simply a superposition of those expected for each of the constituent atoms . |
| 27 | Lifting the cup of wine which symbolically pointed to His blood which would be shed on the cross He said ‘ This is my blood of the new testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins . ’ |
| 28 | Moreover , in contrast to much of Buxtehude , the spaces are occupied for most of the day so that space is not freed for other uses , such as children 's play or adults ' talk . |
| 29 | The following table shows how the repayment period varied for each of the four main samples , once people knew all the cost information , depending on what order they had been shown each set of cost figures . |
| 30 | Sterling was probably overvalued for most of the period from 1950 to 1967 , especially against the European and Japanese currencies [ Allsopp , 1979 ] . |