Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics . |
| 2 | First tonight , a bitter row has broken out over plans for a Sinn Fein councillor to address a public meeting in Glasgow this week — despite calls for him to be banned following the weekend atrocity in Belfast . |
| 3 | A bitter row has broken out over plans for a Sinn Fein councillor to address a public meeting in Glasgow despite calls for him to be banned , following Saturday 's massacre in Belfast . |
| 4 | Welcome back : A blood feud has broken out between producers of one of our oldest breeds of cattle . |
| 5 | PEACE has broken out in relations between workers and employers in Northern Ireland , figures revealed today . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend , who has been courteous and kind in meeting delegations led by me and by other hon. Members to discuss the problem , has pointed out from time to time that the scheme is the responsibility of the county council . |
| 7 | Suppose now , however , that B , having accepted S 's repudiation in June , sees the market beginning to rise rapidly in July and , in an attempt to minimise his loss before the market rises further , buys replacement goods on July 15 at £115 per ton — ; only to discover that by the delivery date under the original contract ( December 1 ) the market price has fallen back to £110 per ton . |
| 8 | In peseta terms , the cost of American assets has fallen by about 5% in the past year . |
| 9 | Kevlar ( DuPont ) has fallen out of favour for reasons of safety . |
| 10 | Once the market leader , Adidas has fallen out of favour with committed runners in recent years . |
| 11 | Tormented by allegations of adultery , draft evasion , and venality , he has limped through to victory with an empty campaign , crafted to avoid giving offence to anybody . |
| 12 | Certainly there are exceptions : ( 5 ) Alec 's shoes are real leather Intuition leaves no room for hesitation in taking this as an example of assignment , with leather used purely descriptively , rather than of equation , but the occurrence of the adjective real indicates that leather is nonetheless a noun ( this is no doubt partly possible because the adjective leathern has dropped out of use in modern English , and because leather itself is a mass noun able to occur without a preceding article ) . |
| 13 | ONE of Norfolk 's oldest houses , a twelfth-century converted priory at Horsham St Faith , five miles outside Norwich , has come up for sale through the Prudential ( 0603 761600 ) for £350,000 The house 's rarity is reflected in its Grade I listed status . |
| 14 | A convicted robber has come out of prison on parole … and walked straight into a job as a professional actor . |
| 15 | Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season . |
| 16 | ALTHOUGH the temporary loss of the Grand Opera House was a major disaster , unbelievably , good has come out of evil in the shape of a production of West Side Story by Opera Northern Ireland that must surely be a landmark in local theatrical history . |
| 17 | The US profession has come out in support of E&Y and many firms recognise that , with the number of outstanding suits , the amounts involved and the rising cost of litigation , the settlement is a bargain . |
| 18 | The reason is that George Soros has come out in support of the metal . |
| 19 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 20 | The force has come in for criticism in the past two months after figures released on the constabulary 's ‘ crime-free day ’ in April showed Cheshire had suffered the highest rise in crime in the country . |
| 21 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 22 | The Berlin Philharmonic , founded in 1882 , has grown up in tandem with the evolution of the star conductor . |
| 23 | The number of credit cards has shot up from 9.8m in 1979 to 28.4m now . |
| 24 | After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor . |
| 25 | A processing plant at Gwithian will extract from the mud tin oxide which , over the centuries , has channelled out to sea as waste from mines New Scientist 21 April , p 159 ) . |
| 26 | Which leads a jaded old hack like me to ponder on the disparity in attendees that has crept up on Conference over the years . |
| 27 | Since February sterling has risen by over 5% against the D-mark . |
| 28 | It has turned up in Canberra with Japan to develop Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation ( APEC ) and a new 12-nation organisation which will mimic the role of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Europe . |
| 29 | The source of rising neo-fascism , which in countries such as France has now deeply infected the political mainstream , is the contradiction that has opened up in Europe between democratic aspirations and its economic policy . |
| 30 | He may be right that the centre of gravity among that supposedly central group of Britons , the skilled workers , or C2s , has shifted back in favour of higher state spending . |