Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 2 | The uncertainty surrounding the future of London 's specialty care services continues despite the publication this week of 6 reviews by working groups set up by the London Implementation Group after publication of the UK Department of Health 's response to the Tomlinson report on London 's health services . |
| 3 | The answers to these questions are discovered from the diagram ( given certain simple diagrammatic transformations carried out by the system , which are structurally analogous to changes that would happen in the real world ) , rather than being computed in terms of abstract mathematical equations and specific numerical values . |
| 4 | The process of generating the CSF begins with three-year or five-year regional plans drawn up by the individual member states which are then presented to the Commission . |
| 5 | But they 've got the bloody labels mixed up by the look of it . |
| 6 | Registration of membership for the two political parties set up by the government to participate in the transition to civilian rule , the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and the National Republican Convention ( NRC ) , closed on May 5 , 1990 [ for their creation in October 1989 see p. 36968 ] . |
| 7 | All round there are No Smoking signs strung up on the fences . |
| 8 | The action follows detailed investigations carried out by the board last month . |
| 9 | Brown sticks stuck out of the sleeves where there should have been wrists and his head was like a hard dry acorn , sun-burned and bald , no hair . |
| 10 | ‘ A few notes spaced out like the first stars that penetrate the sky at sunset ’ , as Tovey describes the miraculous midway section . |
| 11 | He was unlikely to have her arrested again , and an unwanted pass might seem like fair payment for a few hours spent out of the confines of her depressing little room . |
| 12 | A typical short cut was the successful assumption that some indicators set up by the operators in the four machine windows were not random but girls ' names or four-letter dirty German words . |
| 13 | And then there are all those empty packets discarded out of the window onto Britain 's already polluted streets . |
| 14 | Of the 49 visits carried out during the year ( 42 routine , seven investigative ) , four were satisfactory , 13 reasonable , 25 not satisfactory and seven unacceptable . |
| 15 | It has survived from the early 1930s because of its craggy independence , its non-institutional base , its ability to adapt to new social movements thrown up by the working-class and oppressed groups and , most important , its radical philosophy and perspective . |
| 16 | There were about fifteen cattle , around a dozen sheep and a few lambs left over from the spring lambing . |
| 17 | He could see the upturned hulls of a few boats drawn up onto the shore , mostly of fibreglass but some of varnished timber , all of them de-rigged and tied down against the weather . |
| 18 | In a recent study of British libraries carried out by the Graphic Information Research Unit at the Royal College of Art for the British Library ( 1977 ) , it was found that ‘ the general standard of graphics was poor … signs in particular tended to vary in design and construction ’ . |
| 19 | All this would have been unthinkable in the 1930s ; though , as Paul Addison has pointed out , there were signs that a progressivist tide of ‘ middle opinion ’ was rising gently , nevertheless the speed with which these developments occurred after 1940 must be attributed to the peculiar conditions brought about by the war . |
| 20 | However , obvious explanations are not always correct , and some studies carried out during the past couple of decades seem to suggest that , instead , we are born with an inherited knowledge of the signals that can indicate danger . |
| 21 | Personal Computer World ( January 1993 ) — the free disk has been removed and the accompanying pages torn out of the journal . |
| 22 | For those who prefer scientific evidence for the effects of essential oils on the mind , let me draw your attention to some experiments carried out in the last ten years by John Steele ( an American research worker ) and Maxwell Cade , a British biophysicist . |
| 23 | What is clear , I think , is that to refer to the whole debate as a ‘ scandal ’ is grossly to exaggerate the position , and it disregards the very great scientific problems thrown up by the apparently simple question of whether low-level lead exposure does indeed produce the alleged effects . |
| 24 | With a rat-tat at the door , a few envelopes dropped on to the doormat . |
| 25 | Mungo had a vision of his dark head tilted back to drink the rain , and his outstretched palms held up to the sun . |
| 26 | Yeah I mean if you get erm , I 'll tell you what actually , because it 's a two hour slot I can in one slot get them to y'know and th we 're not in a great hurry cos there 's usually a few spaces left over at the end of the term . |
| 27 | Mr Rawley told the court that he had received full details of the scientific tests carried out by the Ministry that morning . |
| 28 | Closer to the smoking fire , Blake could see that the colours of the flames varied with the different amounts of crushed rocks thrown on to the pyre . |
| 29 | He whistled ‘ Roll Out the Barrel ’ out of tune as he pushed the few remains left over from the day towards the setting sun . |
| 30 | The first is much larger : 444 interviews carried out in the early 1970s . |