Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grenada was the last tiny but bitter dreg in the constitutional cup which the United Kingdom has drained in the past thirty-five years ; and bravely , though not without a grimace of disgust , did we swallow it . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received on the proposed council tax . |
| 3 | Yesterday saw Hopkinson in sad , frustrated mood , attacking the ‘ complacency ’ among many field sportsmen and bewailing the lack of support he has received over the past seven years . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received about the future strength of the Territorial Army in Scotland . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what representations he has received from the Combined Heat and Power Association about the barriers to the wider use of combined heat and power ; and what action he proposes . |
| 6 | Will he confirm that all the professional advice that he has received from the Royal Navy is that only four boats absolutely guarantees an effective nuclear deterrent for this country ? |
| 7 | There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received from the Scottish steel industry . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will make a statement on his replies to representations which he has received regarding the future financing of adult education . |
| 10 | A particularly dangerous trap in analysis has developed with the increasing use of computers in data analysis . |
| 11 | Fundamentally , roses are as much shrubs as any others in the garden and , like them , divide broadly into two categories as far as pruning is concerned ; those that flower in spring and summer on wood developed during the previous growth period ( i.e. last year ) , and those that flower , necessarily a little later , from mid summer on , upon wood that has developed during the current season . |
| 12 | The Institute has played a major part in the development of the Construction Industry Council and the policies it has developed on the key issues affecting the industry . |
| 13 | This is done only when the fluffy coat of the youngster has developed into the waterproofed fur covering of an adult . |
| 14 | The idea of ‘ care in the community ’ has developed over the past 20 years to encourage the development of services to help older people in need of care to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish , and for as long as is practical . |
| 15 | It is obviously a very exciting project for us though , and it will allow Kylie to show just how much she has developed over the past three years . |
| 16 | I have enjoyed reading all your letters and look forward to continuing the two-way communication that has developed over the past year . |
| 17 | Although interest in soil erosion has developed in the late 1970s ( e.g. Morgan , 1979 ) it is a paradox that earlier work , for example developing from the Universal Soil Loss Equation ( Wischmeier , 1976 ) , did not materialize . |
| 18 | This happens when tension , which has developed in the rectal wall , impedes further radial expansion . |
| 19 | In contrast , the state has played little role in the protection of women against domestic violence although a very active voluntary sector has developed in the past 20 years . |
| 20 | There has developed in the past decade or two a mass audience for previously specialized cultural forms . |
| 21 | Still owned by its employees , Meiko has broken into the American and Japanese supercomputer markets , and now has offices across the US and in Europe . |
| 22 | THE ACQUISITIVE sales promotion company FKB Group has broken into the lucrative US medical promotions market with the $41m ( £26m ) acquisition of a specialist marketing company . |
| 23 | Page 29 US purchase for FKB : Acquisitive sales promotion company FKB Group has broken into the lucrative US medical promotions market with the $41m ( £26m ) acquisition of a specialist marketing company . |
| 24 | In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth . |
| 25 | Now , at 43 , Twiggy has matured into the breathtaking beauty of the Nineties . |
| 26 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 27 | He has travelled from the liberated past , when imagination took power , to the liberation of an interest in fact — a state which may or may not prove to have been , for Roth , partial or provisional , and which The Facts , in its totality , manages to enclose in an ironised uncertainty . |
| 28 | Deconstructionism has pointed to the inherent flaws in structuralism — that , for example , binary oppositions are not absolute , but are dependent on their social meaning — and has celebrated the idea of ‘ subjectivity ’ . |
| 29 | In a challenging analysis Hans Medick has pointed to the increasing output of gin as indicating greater working-class expenditure on leisure . |
| 30 | von Beyme ( 1980 ) has pointed to the potential influence of union size and pluralistic divisions upon the degree of union democracy . |