Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 2 | In this context it was the externality of British Afro-Caribbeans and Asians which was highlighted rather the racist institutions and processes which worked against blacks at all levels of society . |
| 3 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 4 | Up to now I have heard only the few reluctant words in the lane . |
| 5 | ‘ Then , Benedict , you have heard only the scandalous tale . |
| 6 | She uncurled her legs , determinedly smoothed down the neat white culottes , and stood up . |
| 7 | We have gathered together the largest and most spectacular collection of Indian BANJARA embroidery ever to be shown in the UK . |
| 8 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 9 | While parental choice embodied in the Educational Reform Act has broken down the traditional secondary-feeder primary school catchment areas , for the vast number of secondary schools their associated primaries are unchanged . |
| 10 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 11 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 12 | Numbers were small ; but a final case study approach revealed that for people who lived alone , had no informal carer who could manage all necessary care ; and had a high level of cognitive impairment , the Home Support Project was likely to prolong home care beyond that of those who had received only the usual services . |
| 13 | PGSS and Makaton have received perhaps the least evaluation . |
| 14 | Members in AIB Bank , in Britain , have received perhaps the greatest blow yet delivered to them , when the Mediator dealing with their outstanding salary claim came forward with his Recommendation . |
| 15 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 16 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 17 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 18 | But we have probably not emphasized enough the obvious benefits it has brought about . |
| 19 | Although various thinkers before him had formulated much the same basic principle of utility as basic to ethics none had used it so systematically as the basis for rethinking all moral and social arrangements . |
| 20 | The new Whig government of 1832 instituted a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws whose agents pieced together the first really comprehensive picture of the situation and a single answer to it . |
| 21 | A MAN injured in a police shoot-out was last night in hospital with chest wounds while police pieced together the tangled events of a night of violence that also left one man dead and three policemen injured . |
| 22 | She had just begun to settle into her neat flat , and although it was n't furnished expensively the few pieces she had were chosen with loving care . |
| 23 | The first being that he had driven such motor cars before , and the second that he had consumed only the barest minimum of champagne . |
| 24 | Had he agreed to resign , he would have been entitled to his superannuation for 29 years ' service in Poor Law Institutions ; as it was , he was given only the nine years entitlement from his time at Bedford . |
| 25 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
| 26 | The look in her eyes filled in the unspoken words in her sentence . |
| 27 | The pipe is filled in the usual way . |
| 28 | He and the motor trader filled in the usual forms . |
| 29 | Following the retirement of Frank Whitehead ( 1982 ) and the early retirement of Alan England ( 1984 ) neither of the posts left vacant has still been filled ; they are unlikely to be filled in the foreseeable future . |
| 30 | The scheme is not out of the woods yet ; and rather than break the law Maxen last week filled in the local VATman 's registration form . |