Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last 18 months Brighton Poets have invigorated the poetry scene by bringing well known guests to read with locally-based poets . |
| 2 | LIKE Shakespearean scholars after a spell at Harvard Business School , the managers of the world 's best-known branded products have long pondered the question : what 's in a name ? |
| 3 | Before speaking to her he has pondered the question of committing suicide to absolve himself from the responsibility of avenging his father ; and Ophelia 's behaviour only emphasises the apparent pointlessness of trying to oppose Claudius , who could easily destroy him . |
| 4 | Having pondered the operating characteristics of the circuit , the next criterion in our list relates to the space available in the housing used to accommodate the finished board . |
| 5 | He had studied and pondered the case , and was immersed in it ; he tried talking to both Marco and Eddie , and pursues Marco for the promise that could save Eddie 's life . |
| 6 | He had pondered the drawing , its cold angry gaze , the intricacy of the creature 's skeletal limbs . |
| 7 | 3.4 HAS NOZICK REFUTED THE SCEPTIC ? |
| 8 | The watchful French gunners behind Bois Bourrus soon pin-pointed the train by the tell-tale smoke from its engine , and it was forced to retire , a little ignominiously . |
| 9 | In winter when all the leaves had fallen the forest became rough and creviced like the trunk of a tree . |
| 10 | To my brother and me had fallen the task of disentangling our parents ' possessions from the original contents of the house . |
| 11 | Wing Commander J.M. Gilchrist had been appointed Bursar and Clerk to the Governors in 1962 , and to him had fallen the task — in addition to his ordinary duties — of arranging the financing of the numerous building programmes . |
| 12 | Second , the doctor has aided and abetted the patient only in his refusal to undergo further treatment . |
| 13 | The Cotswold-stone shop sells bears vintage ( £2,500 ) and everyday ( £10 ) , and owner Ian Pout has trawled the world for the top teddies . |
| 14 | Yanto laughed when he realised the old joker had palmed the sawdust and was allowing it to trickle in such a way as to give the impression that it was trickling from his ear . |
| 15 | We have just occupied Vienna ; a far-sighted man could have foreseen the possibility some considerable time ago . |
| 16 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 17 | Negotiations on free trade were also initiated with Yugoslavia , even though the 1983 EFTA-Yugoslavia joint declaration had not specifically foreseen the possibility of a free trade area . |
| 18 | It was held that the defendants were liable because they ought to have foreseen the possibility of the chemical coming into contact with water and they had not warned the buyers of this danger . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Like all provincial towns , it will lose its individuality , ’ said Hardy when presented with the Freedom of the Borough in 1910 , but he could not have foreseen the demise of the small local shops so intrinsic to the town 's character , or the threat of a huge new shopping centre . |
| 21 | It should be said that the forecast figures have probably turned out to be slightly high , particularly for 1991 , since it seems unlikely that the US Department of Commerce would have foreseen the downturn in the global economy which is now biting so hard in all industries . |
| 22 | All these were heresies from a Marxist standpoint but then Marx had not foreseen the coming of nuclear war . |
| 23 | She was a fool not to have foreseen the outcome . |
| 24 | The defendant must be proved to have been indifferent to an obvious risk of injury to health , or actually to have foreseen the risk but to have determined nevertheless to run it . ’ |
| 25 | The loss of such a man at most other clubs would have spelt disaster , but Chapman had foreseen the danger and the solid foundations he had built at the club enabled Arsenal to win another League Championship the following year . |
| 26 | Though she had foreseen the need for such a private moment Louisa would certainly not have chosen it to occur so quickly . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | None had foreseen the assumption of absolute power by one of their own number . |
| 29 | Lord Diplock went on to say that the principle applies even though there is reason to think that if Parliament had foreseen the situation before the court it would have modified the words it used . |
| 30 | ‘ Many statutes are passed by political bargaining and snap judgments of expediency ; the courts can rarely be sure that Parliament would have altered the wording if it had foreseen the situation . ’ |