Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the women 's identity remained shielded during the trial , she was named by several news organizations in the pre-trial period , and she chose to reveal her identity in an interview shortly after the verdict . |
| 2 | Mathematics can be explained through the written word ‘ We went to the main road at 10.00 am to begin our traffic count . |
| 3 | Contemporary Marxist structuralists arguably confuse voluntarism ( the notion that individuals have unconstrained choices ) with methodological individualism ( the notion that social phenomena should be explained through the intended and unintended consequences of human actors making choices within constrained feasible sets of options ) . |
| 4 | Gregson had called immediately and Houghton had explained about the fingerprints and how he was sure he now had positive identification of at least one of the bodies . |
| 5 | Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery . |
| 6 | The superintendent explained about the name of the guest Nicola was expecting to meet . |
| 7 | I was nervous and frightened about the future , yet excited because of being so . |
| 8 | The producers of public expenditure have helped increase public spending since the competition for votes has led politicians to promise more and more spending ; moreover , since governments come into office with a vast amount of spending commitments inherited from previous governments , their ability to reduce these commitments substantially is limited through the length of time that would be required to make such reductions , and further , they are unlikely to court unpopularity through doing so . |
| 9 | A discharge from the urethra can sometimes be demonstrated during the medical examination , but , since the urethral opening in the female is hidden between the folds of the labia , such a discharge will not be apparent to the woman herself ; even if she examines herself , the natural moistness of this part of the body will tend to mask any contribution from the urethra . |
| 10 | Whatever the specific features of the occupations chosen for study , samples tend uniformly to be male , or mostly male : this fact is hidden through the use of titles which purport to be describing work in general and the worker irrespective of gender . |
| 11 | By that time the information contained in the audited accounts would be so out of date that it would not reasonably be foreseen as the basis for a business judgment concerning the extension of credit to Berg or the discounting of bills . |
| 12 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 13 | Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel , Senna 's stop went like clockwork . |
| 14 | It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess . |
| 15 | An adult 's constant blaming of another can also be heard as the angry protest of the deprived internal infant within that adult body , and when it turns to whining , may also serve to express the yearning and become an attempt to control the whereabouts of the other . |
| 16 | An A major-F major chord progression is heard as the remorseful Achilles reflects on his men who died through his fault . |
| 17 | According to The Wall Street Journal , Washington first heard about the coup plans from the wife of the rebel leader , Major Moises Giroldi , nearly three weeks ago . |
| 18 | But as soon as Nate heard about the latest strike , that was it . |
| 19 | At the same time , hundreds of workers in the Midlands plants who had heard about the Pier Head meeting on the grapevine now decided to drive up to Liverpool to influence the return to work vote . |
| 20 | HEARD about the Skoda that 's made of concrete and runs on uranium ? |
| 21 | Virtually everyone has heard about the importance of adequate protein in the diet . |
| 22 | ‘ This is probably my most important game to date , certainly I have never played in front of the kind of crowd that is expected , and I have never played at Twickenham , though I have heard about the swirling wind that can make life uncomfortable for kickers . |
| 23 | Yet he also makes clear that a number of the best poets in his anthology were unbothered by developments in London : ‘ Some homely writers had clearly never heard about the requirements of polite taste ’ [ ECWP , p. xxvi ] . |
| 24 | ‘ Have you heard about the intended evacuation ? ’ |
| 25 | She d heard about the People 's Palace , a museum concerned with Glasgow and its past , and promised herself she 'd pay it a visit in the near future . |
| 26 | You may have heard about the Family Bond before , but I 'd like to remind you how attractive this investment plan really is . |
| 27 | He complained to Donaldson , who coolly said that he had not heard about the delegation , but if he was invited he would join it . |
| 28 | He had obviously heard about the strange fish from the two boys at the pub , and anything concerning the river was Herbie 's concern . |
| 29 | Women heard about the different educational method used in the five phrenological schools that had beer founded by William Ellis in the 1850s . |
| 30 | Sir Leon told the assembly that although Brussels was aware of the dissolving of the Enimont joint venture , the Commission had not heard about the court ruling . |