Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 2 | Although at the time of his discovery Priestley could not have foreseen the use of oxygen in aeronautics as Vital Air for the aeronauts to breathe when the atmosphere became too thin , such use was suggested as early as 1784 . |
| 3 | This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council . |
| 4 | The return to the gold standard , which implied maintaining the £/; $ parity , severely limited the range of options for dealing with unemployment because significant monetary expansion would have undermined the balance of payments and would therefore be inconsistent with the fixed parity . |
| 5 | The symbiotic relationship between State and nobility limited the scope of state power and conditioned government policy . |
| 6 | The fact that Stock Exchange rules limited the scope of member firms to increase their capital meant that resources for technological innovation were limited . |
| 7 | If you then take the point that it 's beyond the greenbelt , again you 've limited the area of search and if we take the point that Mr I think put across so well that it 's consistent with sub-regional policy , you already immediately then rule out that part of the erm area round Greater York that would have greatest impact on the Leeds Conurbation . |
| 8 | The fact that a peasant 's farm buildings were in the pueblo limited the number of cattle and hens he could keep ( it may be quite difficult to buy an egg in a town of 3,000 inhabitants ) and was one more factor inhibiting a satisfactory balance between animal and crop husbandry . |
| 9 | The difficulty in meeting the relaxed comparable income eligibility criteria and the complexity of preparing the plans has severely limited the number of plans agreed . |
| 10 | When string ensembles played in four parts , as they sometimes did if circumstances limited the number of players available , they simply left out the quinte . |
| 11 | For HLA-B35 peptides , the additional requirement for a terminal tyrosine limited the number of potential epitopes to be tested to 10 ( Table 2 ) . |
| 12 | However , both units limited the number of in-patients to two at any given time . |
| 13 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 14 | ( The pope may have been influenced by the fact that three years earlier the Spanish government had limited the right of asylum in Madrid , where it had also been quite unjustifiably extended , to the houses of foreign ambassadors . ) |
| 15 | Such incomplete and imperfect evidence naturally limited the validity of inferences and generalizations based on it , although this was seldom apparent at the time . |
| 16 | Other constraints have also , in practice , limited the impact of rate-capping . |
| 17 | Other acts sought to prohibit as far as possible corrupt practices and limited the amount of money a candidate could spend on election expenses . |
| 18 | The role she assumed in his life further limited the amount of attention he gave to female students . |
| 19 | It recognized and at the same time limited the importance of Egypt , Mesopotamia and above all Iran . |
| 20 | This met with opposition from representatives from civil-law jurisdictions on the ground that it was incompatible with the possession vaut titre principle and had implications going beyond the field of leasing , and the Study Group eventually concluded that no progress could be made on this issue and limited the statement of priority to conflicts between the lessor and the lessee 's general creditors , subject to perfection of the lessor 's title in accordance with any public notice requirements of the applicable law . |
| 21 | At an early stage four bishops had joined the queen in Suffolk ; six had later witnessed the proclamation of Prince Edward as keeper of the realm ; towards the end , more than a dozen prelates had been coerced by the London mob into support for the queen 's party . |
| 22 | Although only fragments remain , Dunseverick manages not to be outdone in the legend stakes ; Conal Caernach who lived here is said to have witnessed the crucifixion of Christ while serving in the Roman army . |
| 23 | The Phoenix Guard , survivors of those warriors who had witnessed the Ascension of Aenarion , waited beyond the flame to drape the newly woven feathered cloak of kingship round his shoulders . |
| 24 | Be that as it may , we have more than once witnessed the potential of legspin in limited-overs cricket . |
| 25 | The Conservative and Labour par ties have witnessed the creation of bodies within their own ranks favoring such reform . |
| 26 | That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists . |
| 27 | It was unfortunate , I thought , that at the same time as I had realised the grandeur of God I had fallen in love with a mortal , and that the two experiences should have proved to be mutually exclusive , leaving me with the sensation that I was being sundered by equal forces . |
| 28 | But it is Islam , not Christianity , that has realised the danger of privatisation and the negative and draining effect it can have on public life . |
| 29 | One problem relates to the grammatical word " have " when it is used to express past tense ( the " perfect " use of " have " ) : Women have been particularly targeted in magazines , especially during the Second World War , when the British government has realised the importance of women 's magazines as a channel of communication . |
| 30 | However , since then the course has realised the importance of methodology and its value as one complementary to content . |