Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will be expected to carry out tasks during the residential with limited support from the tutor and to monitor their own progress in terms of personal and social development . |
| 2 | The sand eroded accumulates down wind from the dune , where , being fresh , it is recolonised by marram and stability is thus regained . |
| 3 | Fifty eight studies reported drop out rates during the treatment phase . |
| 4 | It will argue to delegates in Kyoto that , while a Bryde 's whale is worth about ¥33.4m ( $100,000 ) in a fish market , the 16 resident Bryde 's whales at Ogata are expected to bring in ¥675m to the boatmen over the next 15 years and nearly eight times as much in hotel accommodation and assorted knick-knacks . |
| 5 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 6 | However , a report in The Times of April 25 stated that the three main Panthic committees , whose member organizations led the separatist struggle in the state , had decided to put up candidates in the elections . |
| 7 | The USA first threatened to call off talks with the PLO in the immediate aftermath of the May 30 seaborne attack on the Israeli coast by guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) [ see pp. 37443-44 ] . |
| 8 | She had never so much resented having been made to take over responsibility for the dog from old Adam , who had been used to walk him , than on that day . |
| 9 | In the preceding months the PS had sought to step up pressure on the government ; it had joined with the PCP in tabling a censure motion in parliament in October 1989 attacking the government for its low ethical standards ; although the motion was defeated , attention was again turned to the then Finance Minister , Miguel Ribeiro Cadilhe , following allegations early in the year of his financial misconduct [ see p. 36945 ] . |
| 10 | At the same time , there are reports that workers ' militias had been used to cordon off streets during the demonstration in Leipzig on Monday night when some 10,000 people marched through the streets chanting ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ and calling for the legalisation of the opposition group New Forum . |
| 11 | Pooled drop out rates from the 58 trials which reported drop out by treatment group . |
| 12 | This gesture becomes more strongly evident and unpredictable as more and more events crowd in until both hands are used to shut out thoughts of the suicide he feels is inevitable . |
| 13 | Pregnant or not , she had had to read out passages from the scripts which recorded Paul 's thoughts , to see how they sounded ; and he would make her rewrite the illegible parts in her neat hand at some length . |
| 14 | For example , in 1987 , a Public Accounts Committee report ( 1986–7c , paras 20 , 44 ) claimed that ‘ a major effort ’ was needed to speed up implementation of the FMI . |
| 15 | The snout is used to stir up mud on the river floor , to expose worms , crustaceans and other small organisms on which the fish feeds . |
| 16 | Stories on video tap the interest most of us have in the lives and predicaments of other human beings and can be used to spark off discussion in the classroom . |
| 17 | Social services set out to meet needs , and to solve problems , but they can also be used to bring about changes in the social and economic structure of society . |
| 18 | A working party is to be formed to draw up opposition to the plan , for presentation to the Welsh Office . |
| 19 | Of course the inspectorate is highly respected in Wales , but the hon. Gentleman will know that it was never geared to carry out inspections with the frequency that we expect will result from the provisions of the Education ( Schools ) Bill and that we envisage in the parents charter . |
| 20 | In 1818 he was employed to carry out repairs on the parish church in Halifax , West Yorkshire , and the following year he settled in Leeds , from where he developed a substantial practice in the Yorkshire area , particularly as a designer of churches . |
| 21 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 22 | Large end plates tend to ‘ stick ’ to sea beds when grounding and when they do come off have been known to carry around lumps of the said seabed for some time . |
| 23 | We have also attempted to set down priorities for the Council . |
| 24 | With so many films being made in South Central LA , an organisation has arrived to help out directors in the ghetto : BOSSO Personal Bodyguard And Escort Services ‘ took care of business ’ for Boyz N The Hood and the upcoming White Men Ca n't Jump . |
| 25 | Anglian Water refused to hand over details of the document . |
| 26 | Stoke and Coventry have attempted to bring back families into the game with a ‘ Lads and Dads ’ programme . |
| 27 | The convention 's eighth protocol , which was opened for signature in March 1985 and was intended to speed up procedures before the Commission of Human Rights and the Court of Human Rights ( see p. 33881 ) , came into force on Jan. 1 , 1990 . |
| 28 | After the race , the track was redesigned to slow down traffic at the corners . |
| 29 | Research projects are concerned with housing for the elderly , the mentally handicapped and mentally ill and it is hoped to carry out research on the housing circumstances of single women , ethnic minority groups and the physically disabled . |
| 30 | And after Mass , accompanied by great hand shaking I was asked to pass on thanks to the Christians in Salford for their support but mostly great thanks for sharing our priest with them . |