Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need for gastroscopic follow up of pernicious anaemia patients is therefore still debated . |
| 2 | It must be remembered that for all its world status and the great influence it has upon the rest of the airworthiness authorities of the western world , the FAA is after all made up of fallible human beings . |
| 3 | How much of that goes back into Tory funds , through the businesses , shops , the places you 're staying ? |
| 4 | Despite this stirring up of architectural disorder into what one unkind French critic called a ‘ cultural Chernobyl ’ , the powers at Disney , led by its dashing chief executive Michael Eisner , have managed to persuade a handful of élite and influential American architects to participate . |
| 5 | Whilst the FADS of old went in for five-man random obscurity and ‘ playing bizarre rhythms as fast as possible ’ , their forthcoming album boasts structure , recurring themes and even the odd polished pop song . |
| 6 | The Sikh pattern-cutter 's abdomen is examined with a distinctly shaky hand that tries to elicit the signs of a possible perforated ulcer as his family of six stare on with fixed incomprehension . |
| 7 | Traditional epics taken from Frankish oral poetry also commanded Charles ' interest , and he had several of these copied out into formal texts . |
| 8 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 9 | Khrushchev decided he liked Eisenhower , ‘ a reasonable and modest man ’ , and the much discussed ‘ Spirit of Camp David ’ meant that a lot of smiling went on in public . |
| 10 | Thirdly , to avoid the problems of ‘ single stage ’ studies , we adopted a processual approach and followed up a sample of those arrested through to final outcome . |
| 11 | The rationalisation is one of several going on between various European defence companies in a shrinking market . |
| 12 | Mr Young said that now the trust had its core holdings , the second tranche of money would be invested more slowly with some held back for new opportunities . |
| 13 | These included stars of stage and screen , all of whom entered into the spirit of the ball 's " Around The World in 80 Days " theme , with many turning up in fancy dress . |
| 14 | Network South East has its patriotic red , white , and blue bands with grey thrown in for good measure . |
| 15 | It was then but a short — though for many an agonising — step to provide special courses for those coming out of special schools and the remedial classes of comprehensives . |
| 16 | Geoffrey Scott was at Rugby School from 1898 to 1902 , and in 1903 went up to New College , Oxford , as an exhibitioner . |
| 17 | Procedures after the discovery of these tumours have varied from mere follow up to radical gastrectomy . |
| 18 | For framework knitters in the hosiery manufacture of the east Midlands , their historian William Felkin described a golden age lasting from 1755 to 1785 , but a more recent authority has suggested that although knitters by the time of Luddism 's outbreak in 1811 looked back to pre-war wages of 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) for plain work and up to 30s ( £1.50 ) for skilled , they were generally prosperous down to 1809 . |
| 19 | Whether by luck or careful management , Callaghan 's administration looked much more credible now , and many expected him to call an autumn election in 1978 to cash in on favourable economic and political trends and , against all the odds , snatch another term of power . |
| 20 | It has become clear that some colleges are having difficulty in recruiting viable numbers of students , especially from those coming in at 18-plus , mainly because school-leavers with two A levels prefer to opt for degree courses . |
| 21 | Young enthusiasts drove across the border to join the freedom fighters who had appealed to the world to help , but the world in general looked on in anguished impotence as the rebels were extinguished . |
| 22 | The scale of injustice , cruelty , and tyranny in the world in 1988 cries out for continuing protest of various forms including the democratic and peaceful marches and assemblies which in the 1960s helped to achieve greater civil rights in the USA and in many other nations , whilst the same phenomenon , sometimes more disorderly , hastened the end of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War . |
| 23 | Apply back stick to half loop back to normal flight . |
| 24 | Then back they go to continued breaking off on match-winning fish with their totally inadequate lines . |
| 25 | Proposals by the neighbouring countries for the establishment of so-called safe havens ( similar to those set up for Kurdish civilians after the Gulf war ) were not taken up either , largely because they required the deployment of ground troops , for which there was no consensus . |
| 26 | Infants developing competence in their first language , experience it as a working high-speed whole , yet acquire native speaker competence without any formal instruction , apparently without effort , without any conscious formulation of rules , and without any splitting down into manageable ‘ areas ’ ( although the features of adult speech to children may provide some help ) . |
| 27 | There were some engineers who wanted more experimentation and more rapid adoption of larger sizes or re-heat , arguing that , while Britain had at last caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency in 1938 , she was now again falling behind . |