Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |
| 2 | Since its establishment in 1959 it has built up an international reputation as a centre of excellence in its fields . |
| 3 | During this period it has built up an impressive reputation for its concerts , broadcasts and recordings , having given over 1000 concerts in Britain , played in almost 50 countries spanning four continents and broadcast over 100 times for the BBC alone . |
| 4 | Miss Muir , 59 , who with her husband Harry Leuckert has built up an impressive collection of art pieces , declines to discuss the gift , but stresses that her donation was a private gesture . |
| 5 | He has built up an extensive wine list in close co-operation with Peter Davenport , and is knowledgeable and enthusiastic about it . |
| 6 | Since the 1930s , the Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute has built up an extensive collection of material relating to the Soviet Arctic . |
| 7 | Whitehead Mann has built up an enviable concentration in the top end of the market , attracting some particularly senior and thus highly remunerative assignments . |
| 8 | At Oxford University , their chap-lain has built up an active programme of events , getting speakers as varied as heart transplant pioneer Dr Christian Barnard , actor Jon Voigt and Israeli cabinet minister Ariel Sharon . |
| 9 | Over the past 50 years , PPP has built up an excellent reputation for its prompt and caring service . |
| 10 | Colwyn skipper Alistair Kitman has pinned up an unchanged side after two solid wins last weekend . |
| 11 | The Yugoslav republic of Serbia has set up an environmental inspectorate with wide-ranging powers . |
| 12 | In Wales the WRFU has set up an international players ' trust fund . |
| 13 | The British government has set up an inter-departmental committee to review the future of forestry in the country . |
| 14 | Has set up an independent enquiry which will show the effect of closure . |
| 15 | The essential appeal in ‘ Sliver ’ is the voyeurism of apartment building owner Zeke Hawkins ( William Baldwin ) who has set up an elaborate video system to monitor what his tenants get up to behind closed doors . |
| 16 | ICI Australia has set up an imaginative scheme to improve industry/teacher links , whereby one of its employees and one teacher are paired in a scientific expedition alongside a distinguished researcher . |
| 17 | In an effort to prevent widespread electricity blackouts , the Thai government has set up an ambitious energy conservation programme . |
| 18 | He has set up an overseas trust for the benefit of his minor children . |
| 19 | This has brought about an abundant supply of leased freehouses , forcing down the premium that a tenant might achieve in respect of goodwill . |
| 20 | The issue of whether to legalize abortion has brought down an Italian government , and yet the age of consent is fourteen , and furthermore sexual intercourse below that age is only illegal if the minor concerned brings charges . |
| 21 | This year , the company has brought out an enhanced system of Plexicushion , the Plexicushion Prestige , a new and innovative development which sees the use of more resilient base coats beneath the conventional Plexipave system . |
| 22 | The election of Bill Clinton has brought in an American administration with human rights as the cornerstone of its foreign policy , according to Warren Christopher , the secretary of state . |
| 23 | SCHOOLGIRL Alyson Butcher has chalked up an incredible attendance record . |
| 24 | The Department of Trade and Industry has ruled out an official Companies Act investigation of the flotation , in which the ashes of up to half a million share certificates were discovered in a skip in South London and tens of thousands of other documents were botched . |
| 25 | The Government has ruled out an immediate ban on birthing pools in hospitals , despite the deaths of two babies born underwater . |
| 26 | Under this set of structural conditions , research has taken on an instrumental character , extrinsically oriented to external goals . |
| 27 | And indeed Britain has notched up an enviable record in the sport . |
| 28 | Pilate standing on , you imagine knowing that he has delivered up an innocent man , knowing that he 's delivered to death someone who is not guilty of death , knowing that he is the son of God , the King of the Jews , listen to what he says and th listen to what he 's watch , he 's seeing rather and the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around him and they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him , and after weaving a crown of thorns they put it on his head and reed in his right hand , and they kneeled down before him and mocked him saying , hail ! |
| 29 | My brither , George , has put on an awful lot of weight since I wis last hame . |
| 30 | The idea behind it is that Arnie has to move along an ever-scrolling backdrop , punching and headbutting all and sundry while ducking underneath projectiles hurled by his assailants . |