Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some have cut back on foreign investment . |
| 2 | But the school of Tolkien was still notable in creating a large , sudden surface ripple in intellectual life : a surprising return to a sense of the supernatural and the transcendent that modern technology and modern philosophy , between them , were supposed to have finished off for good . |
| 3 | There is a kind of feedback into the black community : stories about going for a job , getting turned down and explaining the failure as caused by being black get fed back to other blacks and so nourish conceptions about the structure of society . |
| 4 | Abnormalities which are recurrent and frequent become hedged about by cultural barriers and prohibitions which have the force of signals : " Danger ; keep out ; do n't touch ! " |
| 5 | These latter had fallen out of traditional summer grazing use during the present century and official encouragement ( mainly through SAFER — Societe d'Amenagement Foncie et d'Etablissement Rural ) has been given to establishing farmers ' associations for their re-use by cattle . |
| 6 | A few stayed where they were sent — there are many fishermen in Louisiana and Texas — but many have filtered back to Orange county . |
| 7 | Tirana home service radio initially denounced the hunger strike as having " nothing to do with a loyal strike struggle " , but in subsequent days the radio detailed the hunger strikers ' demands and deteriorating health , and by June 1 had swung round to emotional support for them and for the UITUA . |
| 8 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 9 | By that date Moscow had provided a mere three and a half million roubles , and one million had come in from other gubernii . |
| 10 | MasterCard International Inc has teamed up with Checkfree Corp to provide banks and their customers in the US with remote banking service , enabling customers to pay credit card bills and get financial information via the telephone or personal computer : MasterCard will provide technology , network management and marketing support and Checkfree will provide electronic bill payment processing , customer service and operations development for the new MasterBanking service . |