Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 2 | They had liked each other , got on with remarkably little rancour and he had been genuinely upset , if principally in his pride , when she had left him . |
| 3 | It is more difficult to understand the senseless vandalism that goes on in comparatively affluent areas . |
| 4 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 5 | A CLEVELAND school band conducted by Labour leader Neil Kinnock hopes to go on to more national acclaim . |
| 6 | Such schemes were an attempt to accommodate the desire of many older people to continue in at least part-time work and to find new ways of continuing the older tradition of gradual transition from full-time work to full retirement . |
| 7 | The presentation is crisp and the topics broken down into easily comprehensible parts : every page tells a story and does it in such a delightful way that the reader is led on through the book . |
| 8 | The whole notebook is saved as a complete file and would typically contain a large spreadsheet broken down into more manageable sections , sets of related data or similarly formatted spreadsheets . |
| 9 | Large scale problems or decisions are usually more effectively tackled by being systematically broken down into more manageable components . |
| 10 | Because BT was not restructured or broken down into more manageable units which might compete with one another ( the US solution to their phone giant AT & t ) , competition between giant BT and tiny Mercury is unlikely to constrain BT much . |
| 11 | John Lennon 's ‘ Imagine ’ , so powerful when one is listening to it , may afterwards be quite easily broken down into fairly disparate elements : radical text ; rock-ballad melody , harmony and orchestration ; singer-songwriter ( ‘ confessional ’ ) piano ; soul/gospel-tinged singing . |
| 12 | What , what it is on that one you 've got this speaker right and it goes down to really low frequencies especially |
| 13 | Under the aegis of James Prior , the Department of Employment was unlikely to go in for strongly anti-union policies . |
| 14 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 15 | Having dealt with a less than happy situation Mr Vernon moved on to more pleasant matters , reminding the meeting of the Headquarters and Depot Open Days in August and of the warm reception shown to the public by those who man the lifeboat stations . |
| 16 | Pillsbury would have come in with very strong ideas , and I do n't think they would have appreciated that at the National Gallery ’ . |
| 17 | The myth of the returned loved one is rooted deep in both Celtic and Norse mythology and has carried over into more recent times . |
| 18 | The occupation of Denmark and Norway , carried through with unexpectedly low losses and seen as a major blow for Britain , was celebrated as a ‘ great success for the bold , determined policy of the Führer ’ , whose birthday in April 1940 saw propagandists struggling to find new superlatives to express the ‘ unshakeable loyalty ’ of his ‘ following ’ . |
| 19 | The changes were carried through with relatively little bloodshed . |
| 20 | I simply heard from numerous of my friends that they were rung up by quite junior Whips who stressed that Alec was standing , having decided to renounce his peerage . |
| 21 | He was struck by how similar the behaviour of different species can be , as in ( for example ) the courtship of different species of ducks which grow up in very different environments . |
| 22 | Mere tittle-tattle dredged up for purely prurient interest is another matter . |
| 23 | According to Middle East International of May 17 , the EC had come up with more generous terms in response to GCC criticism that " the EC was being too restrictive in offering trade concessions to Gulf exports of petrochemicals " . |
| 24 | It is admitted that the gradings assigned to the respective countries have been done on a subjective basis and that different observers might well have come up with somewhat different rankings . |
| 25 | Despite the vast edifice that they built up on extremely shaky premises the phrenologists were socially-committed men , with an interest in holistic medicine and a shrewdness that served them well when they ran their fingers over somebody 's skull in pursuit of character . |
| 26 | Jason was jealous of her ability to come up with consistently good ideas and saw her as a threat to his career . |
| 27 | The only means he has of doing that is by accepting new clause S. He will have to come up with very convincing arguments to persuade any Hon. Member that he can not accept it , but it is framed in the most uncontentious way anyone could imagine . |
| 28 | But in fact it enabled staff to come up with more appropriate answers to those problems , said Edwards . |
| 29 | It simply set out some crude ideas on how public spending could be reduced and suggested that ministers should have six months to come up with more refined views . |
| 30 | This adds up to more good marks than most cars get . |