Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN RAF man told a court yesterday how he had fallen asleep at the wheel of a Land-Rover before his friend died in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A1 . |
| 2 | Mr Levy claimed Andy Linighan was drunk and had fallen asleep in the back of the taxi . |
| 3 | This is consistent given that in the case of intention , and all other mental capacities , those of animals are viewed by him as ‘ models ’ of human mental capacities ’ ( 75 ) . |
| 4 | It may demonstrate a sense of outrage toward the criminal and the enjoyment of seeing the wrongdoer punished and justice being done , given that in the majority of crime stories and programmes the criminals come off worse . |
| 5 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 6 | These pupils in Wales do not start formally to be taught English until the age of 7 or 8 ; all pupils in England will be required to be taught English from age 5 . |
| 7 | It is evident from the progress of the talks between employers and union , that the employers equally recognized this as the heart of the dispute . |
| 8 | And even though his kiss was far from a lover 's caress , she felt her body respond , acting as though it had broken free from the control of her mind , curving into him , begging for more of his savage domination . |
| 9 | A press conference on the subject , which was scheduled for Monday , was cancelled due to the suicide of former Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy over the weekend . |
| 10 | Caught fly-like in the treacle of romance , |
| 11 | After the historical analysis Payne briefly reviews current themes which detrimentally affect the political position of these theories : he argues that psychodynamic approaches appear more embattled and wounded due to the voraciousness of the attack against them . |
| 12 | However , there is indirect evidence that the orbit of a binary pair , one member of which is the pulsar PSR 1913+16 , is collapsing at exactly the rate expected due to the loss of energy in gravitational radiation . |
| 13 | A first criterion might be that the treatment at least has to be considered acceptable to the majority of the local culture . |
| 14 | The cabins were located high on the side of a steep hill . |
| 15 | Although the Prophet Muhammad forbade castration , eunuchs were always common in Muslim society and because of their sterility were considered free of the taint of sexuality . |
| 16 | Any sections not reported clear by the time of the arrival of the Fire Service units will result in the Fire Service undertaking to search such areas as an immediate priority . |
| 17 | As a result , policies that might be considered harmful to the functioning of business , such as a major redistribution of wealth or income , are effectively removed from the political agenda . |
| 18 | Some of the features of the legal model which we have depicted such as the power of the shareholders to dismiss the directors and the fiduciary duties imposed upon the directors are provided for by the law rather than by the articles of association . |
| 19 | They have occupied much of the time of the higher courts but are on the margins of land law , which traditionally focuses on the market-place and the importance of documentation as the root of title . |
| 20 | Whilst it could only be considered such with the wisdom of hindsight , it was nevertheless seen at the time as a geographically limited episode of a much wider-ranging struggle . |
| 21 | The US still carried much of the burden of NATO defence and undoubtedly remained the most powerful state in the world , but its relative superiority to other states was not what it had been in the 1950s . |
| 22 | Thirdly , health is considered central to the process of community organization and empowerment , and can not be ignored or postponed until more general political and social changes have taken place . |
| 23 | In alcoholic liver disease , transplant assessment was considered appropriate in the case of sustained abstinence following medical advice . |
| 24 | From this perspective , electoral politics were only one aspect of the struggle , and the parliamentary leaders were considered subordinate to the leadership of the mass party , which was at the same time the leadership of the class itself Conservative and liberal parties , however much they in fact represented class interests , saw themselves as parties functioning within an established social order and a system of political institutions in which parliament was supreme . |
| 25 | Their lives are dominated by three main concepts — the male ego whose nurturing , preserving and boosting is considered of vital importance ; a sense of hierarchy which is considered synonymous with the existence of the family ; and finally the closeness of relationships — the bonds which provide consolation . |
| 26 | These had always bulked large in the history of diplomacy . |
| 27 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 28 | The carrying value should be adjusted if dividends are subsequently paid out of profits earned prior to the change of status . |
| 29 | The town , which been evacuated prior to the beginning of the war , was only lightly defended by allied troops . |
| 30 | What is persuasive in this case is a consistent series of answers given by the minister , after opportunities for taking advice from his officials , all of which point the same way and which were not withdrawn or varied prior to the enactment of the Bill . |