Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months . |
| 2 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
| 3 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 4 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 5 | The aim is to elucidate some of the methods by which entrepreneurial decisions are reached and entrepreneurial activities carried out on a day to day basis . |
| 6 | This example is from a standard medical statistics book : ‘ Consider the following results from an influenza vaccination trial carried out during an epidemic . |
| 7 | It was a large room , totally silent save for the voice of one Sister perched up on a pulpit in the end wall , reading portions of the scriptures . |
| 8 | The optimum bucket size to minimize the time taken by operations carried out on a file depends on the nature of the operation . |
| 9 | They become very ill and need immediate intensive care in hospital with antibiotics given directly through a vein . |
| 10 | She reached up and pulled his head down , her lips parted expectantly for a renewal of his kisses . |
| 11 | Some people prefer to hold the script ; others like to read off a lectern , which can be simply a tray propped up on a couple of books . |
| 12 | They vary from the smallest tin shack propped up against a breakwater to the smartest yacht club in Cowes — but you will find the same enthusiasm for the sport in each . |
| 13 | He 's probably got a private cache of cheap cider or meths hidden somewhere under a paving slab to help him nod off at nights , and a pile of newspapers to keep him warm . |
| 14 | New rules in s88 and Sch 8 Finance Act 1993 now restrict the usefulness of capital losses carried forward in a target company which is acquired by a capital gains tax group . |
| 15 | The Convention shall likewise apply to carriage carried out by a state or a state organisation . |
| 16 | Detectives say they 're almost certain the same people were behind the two break-ins carried out in a north Oxfordshire village . |
| 17 | The Elton Report has produced a detailed set of recommendations following a comprehensive examination of the subject , informed by specially commissioned research carried out by a team from the University of Sheffield . |
| 18 | Based on research carried out by a team from Leicester University , this study , and subsequent articles arising from it ( e.g. Murdock , 1981 ) , analysed the pre- and post-event media coverage . |
| 19 | A female clerk in the advertising department owned up to a cream skirt ; Tavett to cream trousers ; and Linley to a cream shirt . |
| 20 | I do n't think he conceived ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ as a concept album , but the songs slotted together in a way that it became a concept , and the way he presented it on stage , how he wanted to look , how the boy 's costumes looked ( facsimiles of his — though his were patterned and theirs were simple ) meant that he 'd breathe life into a concept hero . |
| 21 | I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education . |
| 22 | His eyes moved on to a chest of drawers , two chairs and a bed he had never seen before . |
| 23 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 24 | Jonathon had a high , airy attic , freshly whitewashed , with a little iron bed with a cover made of knitted squares sewn together like a refugee blanket . |
| 25 | The stainless steel split pins were then removed from the 14 castellated nuts and the main caps drawn off with a length of 1/2″ BSF threaded rod and a large section of channel . |
| 26 | As he stepped forward the chocolate hackles rose on the cat , its mouth drawn back in a snarl . |
| 27 | Rebecca bounded back like a retriever with a stick . |
| 28 | The conference would become a rally before which John Major must perform , reading from a thirty-minute script cobbled together by a squad of clever young men . |
| 29 | Making no reply , the agent tied up to an iron ring let into the stone . |
| 30 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and Alyssia felt suddenly dizzy , as though the breath had been knocked out of her , then she regained her self-control , and replied politely , ‘ I 'll be down for lunch . ’ |