Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ plane lumbered around , came back into the wind , and began its second run in over the target zone . |
| 2 | Jacopo della Quercia is divided into two volumes , with the first given over to an account of the artist 's life and works , followed by a concise catalogue . |
| 3 | The fact was that she had lost the six square inches of canvas allocated for the kettleholder when it was first given out to the class . |
| 4 | The fermentation of organic matter by gut micro-orgamisms is mediated by a number of interdependent reactions in which complex polymers are first broken down to their constituent monomers by hydrolytic enzymes synthesised by the bacteria . |
| 5 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 6 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 7 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 8 | When this was first pointed out to the ambassador , he said that he could not be sued for libel since he possessed diplomatic immunity . |
| 9 | Such a relation was first pointed out by Kinnersley ( 1975 ) , and by Fisher ( 1980 ) . |
| 10 | I do n't know who it was first pointed out that , given enough time , a monkey bashing away at random on a typewriter could produce all the works of Shakespeare . |
| 11 | It was the man who had first joined in when Clive started on Nina . |
| 12 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |
| 13 | Bob could remember his own loneliness and isolation when he had first come down and started work on the paper . |
| 14 | The more common structures for a management buy-out , on which the remainder of this chapter concentrates , consist of one or more of the following : ( a ) a straightforward acquisition by Newco of Target 's business and assets ( see 5.1 ) ; ( b ) an acquisition by Newco of Target 's share capital ( see 5.2 ) ; ( c ) an acquisition by management or Newco of shares in a company to which the targeted business and assets are first hived down ( see 5.2.5 ) ; ( d ) a buy-in of the vendor shareholders ' shares in Target , usually combined with an issue of new shares in Target to management ( see 5.3.1 ) ; ( e ) a buy-out effected by way of a de-merger ( see 5.3.2 ) . |
| 15 | The study suggests that women under 50 with breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease if it is first picked up by mammograms than if they discover the lump by feeling their breasts . |
| 16 | Moreover , working wives provide the family with a contact to the world of work where news about job opportunities is first picked up . |
| 17 | Mr Choyce adopted the technique from work first carried out by Georges Baikonn in France . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , given the failure to repeat the practice of a mid-decade Census as first carried out in 1966 , this source can provide only snapshots of the population at ten-year intervals , the most recent being 1981 . |
| 19 | In the two decades since research was first carried out ( 1963-1965 ) , Ghana has experienced radical socio-economic change , including oscillation between military and civilian rule in a series of coups d'etat c , gross inflation , and decay of the network of transport , communication and postal services . |
| 20 | De-horning was first carried out , largely successfully , in semi-desert areas of Namibia in 1990 , and Zimbabwe embarked on the practice with some of its white rhinos in 1991 . |
| 21 | People who were incredibly enthusiastic at first dropped out because they thought the language barrier would be a major problem , even though they were assured that an English-speaking teacher would accompany the children . |
| 22 | These private verses were first collected up in the Nonesuch Collected Papers vol. 2 ( see MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ) . |
| 23 | Preferably , you should use the front kick only when you have first moved out of line and the opponent is unable to respond powerfully . |
| 24 | When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms . |
| 25 | Nor , when their parents had already helped them more than enough with furniture and carpets and the like when they had first moved in , did she think she could take any more from them . |
| 26 | You know when er the fir when we went up to Edith 's , when she 'd first moved in , for |
| 27 | It is only now , decades after they were first written down , that the reading public can begin to have any sense of the extent and range of Tolkien 's mythological writings . |
| 28 | These were first written down in draft form , then refined on input to the database . |
| 29 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | These were first written down maybe in the twelfth century , but now survive , often in a fragmentary state , only in the Icelandic prose sagas of the thirteenth century and later , the most famous of which is Heimskringla , a series of lives of kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson ( d.1241 ) . |