Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left wing William Techoueyres has withdrawn because of a thigh injury and his place will be taken by Perpignan team-mate Laurent Arbo . |
| 2 | The tallest Turk has resigned and in a fit of unparalleled generosity the Commander has ruled that his uniform should be sent instantly to a fast dry cleaners . |
| 3 | Since then the demand for cotton has grown and after a trial range , they now produce more cotton than wool and have even added fancy cottons to their range . |
| 4 | This study has shown that with a prompting system diabetic care comparable to that of a hospital diabetic clinic can be provided in small inner city practices , and with a lower lost to follow up rate . |
| 5 | ( Professor Dudek has demonstrated that from a base of only 1.7 per cent of the population , the input in terms of literature and art amounts to a staggering 25 per cent . ) |
| 6 | that car back from Fiesta got the minibus going out got the estate car , he and Jimmy 's look , he talks about Mr , he has left that like a tip ! |
| 7 | The setting up of the European environment agency has stalled because of a lack of agreement over where its headquarters should be . |
| 8 | Apparently because of the public nature of policing activities , the House of Lords has held that in a tort action for false imprisonment the question of whether the police acted reasonably in arresting a person suspected of having committed an arrestable offence is to be judged according to public law principles of reasonableness . |
| 9 | Though I 'll say as I said earlier in the half there 's some play some referees might have seen that as a sending off offence . |
| 10 | ‘ He might have preferred that to a bullet wound , ’ Maxim said . |
| 11 | She continued , ‘ I would have thought that for a man in your position , required to make countless decisions every day , such a weakness would prove to be a considerable handicap . ’ |
| 12 | I should have thought that as a matter of course , when it sent out its communications to the applicant , it would include the list . |
| 13 | ‘ … shall not be treated as due to the fault of the person suffering it by reason only that he could have prevented it by fencing ; but [ the defendant ] is not liable … where it is proved that the straying of the livestock on to the land would not have occurred but for a breach by any other person , being a person having an interest in the land , of a duty to fence . ’ |
| 14 | Can , for example , consciousness avoid being somehow enriched by a pervasive quality , which could not possibly have occurred except as a quality of just such a state of consciousness , when it becomes consciousness of a beautiful object , instead of consciousness of something else , or ‘ mere consciousness ’ ? |
| 15 | The driver could have applied the brake but because of a defective ratchet , for instance , the brake could have slipped and as a result would not be effectively set . |
| 16 | Well you would n't have fancied that as a goalkeeper would you Pearce suddenly came flying in on Ward . |
| 17 | For rectification to be applicable , there needed to be some prior agreement between the parties , the agreement still needed to be effective when the instrument ( ie the s 54 agreement ) was effected , and the instrument should have failed because of a mistake . |
| 18 | But for the Munitions of War Act of July 1915 which enabled the Board of Trade if necessary to impose arbitrated settlements on unwilling employers , the union 's policy of patriotic co-operation must surely have failed and within a month of the passing of that Act the waters were muddied by another development which the union considered to be even more sinister — the demand from the " Reptile press represented by the Daily Mail , Times and associate journals " , for conscription . |
| 19 | The pines grew spaced as in a plantation . |
| 20 | The leapfrogging process which resulted meant that as a wage round progressed , later settlements tended to be more favourable to the unions and also more costly to the employers . |
| 21 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 22 | The door did not lead into the shop as Wycliffe had expected but into a minute hall with the shop door on the right , and stairs leading up . |
| 23 | Others before Frank Kermode , in his suave and erudite but ultimately acidulous The Classic ( New York , 1975 ) , had protested that as a framework inside which real political decisions and actions could be taken , Eliot 's Virgilian-Dantesque perspective was not just useless but dangerous . |
| 24 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 25 | Quentin had said that for a moment Kate had reminded him of Miss Trimm , and for another moment Lavinia imagined that : Kate at eighty-two , passionately involved with God . |
| 26 | ‘ Micky , you 've said that for a fortnight , and there 's no sign of it happening . |
| 27 | You do n't need the brake lights of the guy in front of you to tell that he 's gon na stop , you 've anticipated that in a minute this guy 's gon na stop so you you 're already er braking and slowing down . |
| 28 | There was also the possibility of sexual jealousy , going way back , but Greg had thought that over a lot , and still did not feel inclined to take the possibility seriously . |
| 29 | Going , I 'm cha erm , cancelled yesterday cos I was n't off anyway erm but I 've managed , I 've used that as a opportunity to go onto the other doctor the other dentist . |
| 30 | Yeah but apparently apparently that were n't hi his Am that was his American car that nearly hit them but th Brian had sold that to a bloke down in down your mum 's road . |