Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It will frequently happen that information disclosed in confidence is or becomes known to a limited number of people or to a specific section of the public only . |
| 2 | During six weeks of intensive pre-tour training at Lilleshall , Graham Gooch 's batsmen have , for the first time , been using a special indoor mat in the nets that has spun like a sub-continental wicket . |
| 3 | Some years later , Crook and Elliot ( 1980 ) conducted a similar review and came to similar conclusions , suggesting that social class is a confounding variable that has led to a spurious association in some studies between loss and depression . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman represents a party that has called for a 50 per cent . |
| 5 | Relatives may make a gift to a local hospital that has cared for a loved one . |
| 6 | Under Article 37 , an obligation that has arisen for a third party can not be revoked or modified without the consent of the parties and the third party unless they have agreed otherwise . |
| 7 | Even at the primary stage , it has been shown that children can often grasp that a country house contains material that has accumulated over a long period . |
| 8 | As at all his power stations , Scott faced the building in a fine Worcestershire brick that has weathered to a lovely pinky-brown . |
| 9 | So active is a job that gets done on a daily basis every day ? |
| 10 | Although having trained as a general physiotherapist he has always wanted to specialise in sports injuries . |
| 11 | Fraser 's relief at being able to resume a career that looked destined for a premature encounter with the scrapheap is manifest . |
| 12 | After a week of fighting , the war that had begun with a thunderous high-tech blitzkrieg in the skies over Baghdad had not yet delivered visible proof of victory . |
| 13 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 14 | For all that they were wrapped in fog , the revolver that had appeared in a gloved hand was all too visible to Sergeant Joe . |
| 15 | But all the will-power she could muster could not shut out the desolate sense of emptiness that had closed like a cold hand round her heart . |
| 16 | Thus began the last chapter of a case that had started as a simple bank robbery , then extended into one of murder and fraud , and drugs . |
| 17 | She went to bed in her own room , still full of pictures and possessions that had belonged to a previous and vanished Phoebe . |
| 18 | A tall , prematurely white-haired man in a navy blue suit , with eyes that could focus on you as if you were a fly that had settled on a distant door-knob , he could dominate a large room while seated behind a desk at one end of it and without raising his voice above a conversational level . |
| 19 | Their so-called furnished accommodation had consisted of two old beds that had come from a second-hand shop , a brokendown settee , and a gas cooker that had probably been used all through the war . |
| 20 | For companies that have kept at a specified size over the years , working to budgets that they know and understand , are forced to expand to deal with the increased flow . |
| 21 | It 's just that some of these of course , the ones that have got like a square textured , |
| 22 | Pool pairs of cells that have divided within a chosen time interval and culture until they attain the appropriate age . |
| 23 | Only use floppy disks that have come from a reputable source , such as shrink-wrapped software . |
| 24 | Among companies that have opted for a total or partial switch to diesel in recent months are Philips Electronics , Dunn & Bradstreet , the Milk Marketing Board , London Electricity Board and Alliance & Leicester Building Society . |
| 25 | Oh , I 'm not suggesting that these groups , if they come together and mix will cause problems , I 'm suggesting that if there is only one kind of person that 's attracted to a particular site and that type of person happens to be socially irresponsible , then then you 're it 's a recipe for disaster , is n't it ? |
| 26 | The bolt was a hook of thick metal that snapped shut around a U-shaped rod the thickness of a pen . |
| 27 | Sometimes I think I was intended to be an only child , and got born into a large family by a mistake . |
| 28 | Therefore , someone who lives in a bungalow and has lived in a high radon area since birth is the most likely person to suffer . |
| 29 | It rejected evidence from government witnesses that present management arrangements were working well and has called for a radical reorganization . |
| 30 | He believes that , because so many of the Yanomami have been killed by disease , they do n't need such a large area and has called for a new study of their territory . |