Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors to Buckingham are hard pressed to guess what the gothic style building in the town 's centre once was . |
| 2 | But it does , by this convention , proclaim itself to be a book of a special kind , one designed to proclaim what the faithful believe about Christ , not necessarily a book which is straight narrative history in the modern mode . |
| 3 | It 's just that we 've received soooooo many queries asking ‘ when ’ , ‘ who ’ and ‘ … how much ’ that we 've decided to give you the full story here ( maybe NOW you 'll stop inundating us with begging letters ! ) |
| 4 | It was decided to teach him the final lesson , which would also warn off other émigrés who thought that they were secure in the West and could say what they liked about Ceauşescu . |
| 5 | I think it was also about that time when it was decided to phase our the old term of Customs Waterguard for the uniformed branch , with Waterguard becoming a dirty word . |
| 6 | At p625 he stated : A vendor selling property to a purchaser can not be said to lend him the unpaid portion of the purchase price . |
| 7 | A sequel to Marshall Aid was needed to consolidate what the latter had begun . |
| 8 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 9 | The Government 's invited bids to save the Vulcan , but no one 's come up with the money needed to give it the necessary overhaul . |
| 10 | ‘ Alec , ’ I said , a little desperately , ‘ I 've got to do it the only way I know how to . |
| 11 | There were three words in the do n't ring yet there were three words in the title I 'll give you two you have got to give me the last one . |
| 12 | I said , well I 've got to give you the funny finishes for when you come to your finals . |
| 13 | While money has been used to reward them the intrinsic motivation of working in a harmonious team has been eliminated in many jobs ; for example , checkout operators in a supermarket , process workers in a manufacturing plant . |
| 14 | you know , but , you , not only have you got to get the right colour and everything , you 've got to hold it the correct distance away from the metal |
| 15 | ‘ I had thought to ask you the same thing . |
| 16 | Can you see it requires more in a static holding , this is building muscle power and you have to do things , and muscle can build it if , it c if you asked that those legs to do that every day they would get better at it , because what the body would then do would be build in more muscle fibre to cope with the job , so can you see it , what you ask the body to do , you 've got to ask it the right amount , not too much or else you damage and you 've got to ask it regularly and gradually increase it if you want to improve the muscle power . |
| 17 | The prints spilled on to the carpet and as Sabine bent to retrieve them the young boy 's face seemed to glare directly up at her , challenging and inimical . |
| 18 | Recent research has attempted to show what the European public think about biotechnology , to identify correlations with resistance to other forms of technology , an d to attempt to quantify the support . |
| 19 | Thus we have a recipe for the dictatorship of the leadership of the ruling party , since they are presumed to know what the historical tasks of the proletariat are . |
| 20 | I have been asked to send you the following extract from the Minutes of the Computing Sub-Group meeting held 24 March 1993 . |
| 21 | Her alarmed personal physician Dr Michael Roth was forced to give her the stark warning when she refused to rest up completely . |
| 22 | I 'm afraid it 's another story which does n't reflect much credit on me — I seem doomed to show you the worst side of my character . |
| 23 | And eventually Doyle was forced to tell him the whole story . |
| 24 | He was forced to tell her the heartbreaking news that : ‘ Mummy is n't coming back . ’ |
| 25 | Austen Chamberlain had been trained to be a conventional statesman ; Rugby , Cambridge and a determination to live down his father 's reputation had all combined to make him the most conformist of politicians . |
| 26 | She would have loved to know what the erring Frau Gesner had done , but he had suddenly looked so stern , so sad , that she had n't the nerve to ask . |
| 27 | Your COSMOS FUNBREAK holiday is carefully planned to give you the maximum time spent at the EURO DISNEYLAND Theme Park , whilst your travel and accommodation arrangements have been sensibly selected to combine comfort and convenience at truly low prices . |
| 28 | This game can be repeated to make it the best of five . |
| 29 | The message went to the largest meeting yet held to discuss what the political parties have to offer research . |
| 30 | 1 have chosen to call them the Northern and Southern Bands ( Map 3.1 ) . |