Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A final point to note on grouping is the mismatch we frequently witnessed between the ostensibly collective strategy of grouping and the predominance of individualized work tasks . |
| 2 | Moreover , a marked tension developed between the predominantly Great Russian businessmen of the centre and the variety of mutually divided ethnic minorities operating on the periphery — including poles , Jews , Armenians , Greeks , and Tatars . |
| 3 | The decision … is to be determined by the most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates " . |
| 4 | The human conscience should be respected and revered as the most precious and effective thing that the human race , in its struggle to civilise itself , has available , and it can be used only by giving it the utmost priority in child training . |
| 5 | These techniques were developed for the perfectly legitimate ‘ bronzing ’ and ‘ antiquing ’ of patently modern metalwork , but could also be used by the faker with less honest motives . |
| 6 | Our model adjusted for the most obvious of these ( age and smoking ) , but there may be other unidentified factors . |
| 7 | Electrification was first mooted during the early LNER days but it was to be 1954 before the final chapter in the story of Victoria opened . |
| 8 | He 's always fallen for the really pretty ones , she said . |
| 9 | In the most serious corruption scandal to face the government of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , the Comptroller-General Guillermo Potoy made public on July 17 a report which accused a former deputy Minister of the Presidency , Antonio Ibarra , of misappropriating US$1,000,000 in foreign aid funds intended for the most disadvantaged sectors . |
| 10 | Thus , we suggest that pou[c] should be placed as the presently sole member of a new , sixth class of POU proteins . |
| 11 | A federal plan to finance the cleaning up of toxic waste — known as Superfund — was begun ten years ago with 1,200 out of the US 's 40,000 sites being designated as the most dangerous . |
| 12 | It wo n't surprise you to hear that I 'm not the first to recognise the beauty of this region of South Wales — it was officially recognised in 1956 when it was designated as the very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain . |
| 13 | Again Mozart 's composition of the arias was delayed through the very late arrival of some of the principal singers : |
| 14 | With its large population and massive dependence on foreign exchange from oil exports Nigeria is regarded as the most vulnerable of the OPEC countries and has constantly battled to increase its production quota above the 1.3 million barrels per day laid down by OPEC . |
| 15 | He made his début for Essex in 1930 and during the 1930s was regarded as the most effective amateur bowler in English first-class cricket . |
| 16 | SIR , — I disagree with F. O. ter Kuile and colleagues ' conclusions ( April 24 , p 1044 ) about the anti-malarial drug mefloquine , which is regarded as the most effective such medication at present . |
| 17 | This summer more than ten million people will go to watch the Red Arrows — widely regarded as the most spectacular aerobatic team in the world . |
| 18 | The Shedd is widely regarded as the most advanced oceanarium in the world . |
| 19 | The results showed that Amasha was the least likely of the four to be treated with LGS and that Daeria , generally regarded as the most dangerous of the four , was the most likely reason for LGS usage . |
| 20 | The eastern diamondback and the western diamondback are regarded as the most dangerous snakes in North America and are responsible for a number of human fatalities every year . |
| 21 | Seals make up a large part of the diet of the great white shark the beast which terrified movie-goers in Jaws and is regarded as the most dangerous shark species . |
| 22 | Suffice it to say , at this point , that even in the midwest region of Ireland , widely regarded as the most successful free zone in the world , whose agencies have an unsurpassed international reputation , the impact on the Irish economy of the foreign-owned sector in terms of linkages is uninspiring . |
| 23 | For practical purposes , the culpable causing of another person 's death may fairly be regarded as the most serious offence in the criminal calendar . |
| 24 | If causing death is to be regarded as the most serious harm that can be inflicted , it would seem to follow that the most blameworthy form of homicide should result in the highest sentences imposed by the courts . |
| 25 | Written by Dom Pérignon 's pupil and immediate successor at Hautvillers , the treatise must be regarded as the most authoritative contemporary account , not only of the state of viticulture and viniculture in Champagne in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries , but also of Dom Pérignon 's particular contribution to the art of winemaking . |
| 26 | An extensive Cabinet reshuffle on Feb. 19 involved some 20 changes and numerous new appointments , and included the transfer of the Foreign Affairs Minister Habib Boulares , regarded as the most pro-Iraqi member of the government , to Defence ; the departure from the Cabinet of Hamouda Ben Slama , who as Minister of Youth and Sports had been seen as having an " affinity " with Islamists ; and the appointment of Habib Ben Yahia , a US-educated career diplomat and former ambassador to the UN , to take over Foreign Affairs . |
| 27 | is regarded as the most expensive grain in the world , and is n't really a rice at all but a type of grass . |
| 28 | By contrast Aleksandr Yakovlev , regarded as the most liberal politburo member , won an unexpectedly warm reception for an impassioned address in which he dwelt on the value of perestroika in doing away with the Stalinist legacy and restoring morale and morality and the dignity of both the party and the individual : he observed that " not only emptying shelves but also emptying souls brought about perestroika and demanded revolutionary changes " . |
| 29 | Lavenham is widely regarded as the most complete example of a medieval town with its superb timber-framed houses , medieval street pattern and market place . |
| 30 | Die Grünen is generally regarded as the most turbulent and self-destructive of the Green parties , but its internal quarrels are , says Sara Parkin in her guide to the European Greens , ‘ only a more flagrant example ’ of what goes on in all the parties . |