Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'll take a quick break for some tea and then we should be ready to run it up in another hour , ’ he briefs Captain Tuck-Brown , who has come across to check on progress before going home for the day . |
| 2 | Mr. Livsey : Will the Secretary of State note that British Coal Opencast has decided again to try for permission to work the Bryn Henllys site in my constituency , after an inspector turned down that application about a year ago ? |
| 3 | In France the Directive has not been implemented in order to further nature conservation — that it has done so results by default rather than by design . |
| 4 | A mass of evidence follows , most of it from sound medical sources , that the medical profession has become hopelessly hooked on prescription drugs ; that the drugs are neither so effective nor so safe as our doctors would have us believe ; and that the public and the profession is being remorselessly taken for a ride by the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 5 | For Westerners the sense of shame and embarrassment has become strongly associated with nakedness and the proprieties of dress and attitudes towards nudity ( especially among conventional Protestants ) . |
| 6 | Baudrillard goes even further than this by suggesting that the whole of contemporary life is dedicated to consumption and communication in a way which has become wholly disconnected from meaning and content . |
| 7 | It is this cause and effect relationship that has become quite lost in respect of ionic strength , precisely because the correlation at low concentration is so seductively good . |
| 8 | The ancient Dwarf hold of Karak Ungor has become so infested with Night Goblins that it is now known as Red Eye Mountain . |
| 9 | Investigative journalism usually implies intensive and detailed study revealing the ‘ dark under-belly ’ of a subject already in the public domain or dragging a subject which has remained conveniently hidden from view into the public domain . |
| 10 | Certainly , but I should hate you to forget that he has scored more runs in Test cricket than any other Englishman . |
| 11 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
| 12 | It was bad enough in normal circumstances , but when you had n't slept a wink , when you 'd lain there suffering from shock and disgust , it was more than any normal person could bear . |
| 13 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 14 | Alternatively , the public may simply have become more sensitised to crime , through media and press reports or the Government 's crime prevention publicity , and so believing crime to be on the increase they are more likely to report offences leading to a rise in recorded crime which will lead to further media attention and so on in a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ . |
| 15 | It was in a sense paradoxical that a regime for which the social repercussions accompanying industrial development in the West were anathema should have become actively committed to industrialization . |
| 16 | NAM Chairman Roger Bryan felt it was very important to remember every effort made at fund-raising , while at the time the work might have seemed far removed from aviation preservation , this work was incremental in the success of the overall project . |
| 17 | Having tried unsuccessfully to negotiate by telephone a compromise truce with Mola and other rebel commanders , he in turn resigned and was replaced by Azaña 's friend José Giral . |
| 18 | A MAN due to get married today appeared in court yesterday accused of attempting to murder his aunt . |
| 19 | It was not the first time he had come home covered in blood . |
| 20 | Yanto had hardly bothered to reduce speed as he had turned sharp left by Stone school into the narrow lane which would take them back to Berkeley . |
| 21 | The cat had done well to run for shelter … |
| 22 | ( It might be useful to remind the reader at this point that the Speech and Drama movement , although fading at the school level , had become firmly entrenched in teacher colleges where many well qualified Speech and Drama people had gained appointments , colleges such as Trent Park and Goldsmiths ' , where teacher-training in the arts was not unlike theatre-training . ) |
| 23 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 24 | But underlying all these was the fact that the power of the Polish monarchy had evaporated since its elective character ( which had existed in theory since the 1430s ) had become finally established in practice from the 1570s onwards . |
| 25 | The prejudices had built up over centuries but had become more accentuated since independence in 1948 . |
| 26 | Among the young couples moving into the area were those who had dropped out of church life when they had left home to go to university , or when they got married . |
| 27 | had baked then frozen under snow , |
| 28 | They were mixing and mingling , her guests ; the young were speaking to the old , men were speaking to women , Left was speaking to Right , art unto science , and only a few impossible old dullards of the financial world had drifted together to talk about pay comparability and public sector borrowing and the GNP . |
| 29 | The account of global politics that I have given here derives in part from such a paradigm , in which I emphasize the importance throughout the twentieth century of the opposition between capitalism and socialism , and more generally between those processes and policies which tend either to increase or to diminish inequality in its diverse forms , within societies and in the world as a whole . |
| 30 | Yet Burn 's Revesby shares with Soane 's Pelwall the distinction of being one of two houses Save and English Heritage have done most to save from demolition , and rightly so . |