Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After David had been there a couple of weeks , I used to go off doing odd bits of work in London , working as a journalist , although I was n't very keen on that side of my life at the time — there were other things that interested me more . |
| 2 | The official newspaper of the Communist Youth League had reportedly been criticized for publishing investigative reports against party orders , and its editors had been threatened with a period in the country . |
| 3 | Displacement theory has , however , been criticized for giving insufficient weight to political influences on the level of public expenditure . |
| 4 | His description is more sophisticated than that of the social anthropologically derived traditional community study which was rightly criticized for ignoring basal factors at the structural level . |
| 5 | GILLES PETERSON , head of the Phonogram offshoot Talkin Loud , has been reinstated as director/DJ of London 's Jazz FM station , after being sacked for playing anti-war songs during the Gulf crisis . |
| 6 | It is appropriately called ‘ Camelliifolia ’ and you can be forgiven for taking young plants as camellias . |
| 7 | This is important because specific mechanisms have since been developed for subsidizing private operations in the inner area , but it should also be noted that all inner-area housing sites were already designated as housing land and there were no ‘ change of use ’ profits to be made on them . |
| 8 | So you got ta go next week for a dress rehearsal an if you want me to . |
| 9 | How come you got ta give forty tapes to the lady then ? |
| 10 | Yeah but you got ta leave enough room for |
| 11 | You got ta get that roof off that erm jeep though . |
| 12 | He got ta put this bit on there . |
| 13 | AN heroic team of firefighters is being saluted for saving three people including a mother and baby son from their blazing home . |
| 14 | What controls should exist for using genetic knowledge in insurance and employment ? |
| 15 | Nor are cruise missiles intended for fighting nuclear war in Europe . |
| 16 | Taiwan was delicately situated for preserving American lines of communication between Okinawa and the Philippines . |
| 17 | Of course I accept that one man 's fun is another man 's nightmare , and because of this more companies should think about creating ready-made racks for those who want them , or maybe just come up with designs and ideas for those who want to build their own . |
| 18 | To see Portillo as the chief axeman even sent shudders down the spine of some Tory back-benchers who argued for keeping large areas of the welfare state out of the Government 's review , particularly health and pensions . |
| 19 | A social worker has been sacked after admitting smoking cannabis during a holiday with children in care . |
| 20 | ‘ My mind wandered off at four-love , ’ she admitted after winning nine games in succession from 1–1 to easily take the first set and forge a 4–0 lead in the second . |
| 21 | Those differences in income with age which remain after considering each type of household separately can mainly be explained in terms of two factors . |
| 22 | He was referred by his General Practitioner whom he had consulted after experiencing recurrent episodes of upper abdominal pain and severe indigestion . |
| 23 | Access methods , in general , are designed for handling small amounts of persistent data . |
| 24 | But it is a citizen of London who has left us the most elaborate rhapsody which survives from the central Middle Ages on any of the European cities of the day , and William FitzStephen 's glowing vision of the London in which his hero , archbishop Thomas Becket , was born , is a startling reminder that Londoners took fully as much pride in their city as did the Italians of their day — just as the fact that the citizens adopted Thomas Becket as their patron saint reminds us that he was martyred for showing excessive resistance to the king . |
| 25 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has for reducing waiting times in respect of eye treatments ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 26 | Brackish effluent from the farms has been blamed for polluting fresh water on which rice production depends , particularly in the south of the country . |
| 27 | It was n't long after that Sir Roger Casement was hanged for smuggling German arms into Ireland . |
| 28 | Burgess got himself caught for speeding three times in the same day , caused a deliberate rumpus with his inimitable flair for trouble-making , and departed under an engineered cloud . |
| 29 | And since the factory opened , Rajinder Anand has been fined for distributing large numbers of counterfeit audio-cassette tapes . |
| 30 | Under that system , which we will begin to have under the Labour Government , we would not have to worry about dispensing public funds to private solicitors . |