Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | The ideology of the enterprise culture through society has penetrated to a considerable degree to the young who grew up under Thatcher — ‘ Thatcher 's children ’ . |
32 | In the sleeper compartment of a train speeding through the night a youth crouches over a naked woman he has drugged with a hypodermic syringe . |
33 | The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has claimed as a major success its programme for integrated pest management in rice . |
34 | In a period when , as recent events in Los Angeles and elsewhere have shown , the ethnic melting pot has dissolved into a racial meltdown , the clemency of clear understanding is as sought-after as ever . |
35 | Third , the centre has collapsed as a political force — although not as a constituency — and this obliges both major parties to compete more assiduously for middle-of-the-road votes . |
36 | Tobacco has collapsed as a primary source of funds . |
37 | He likes my sticky , sweaty body which smells of nectarine and baby oil and a spliff that Jo has rolled beneath a shadowy cove of eucalyptus . |
38 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
39 | ‘ I find by the time I get to the last houses on Christmas Eve , rum custard has congealed into a nasty skin , ’ he said . |
40 | The turps in the jar has congealed to a semi-solid jelly around the brushes . |
41 | Patrick Duff wrote , ‘ This reverse has come as a great shock . |
42 | But the news has come as a total shock for many people . |
43 | Tearful Mandy said : ‘ This has come as a total surprise to me and my family . |
44 | This has come as a terrible shock . |
45 | ‘ This has come as a terrible shock . |
46 | Charles Tompkins , managing director of NOS , a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless , said the contract has come as a major breakthrough for his company , propelling it into the major league of offshore suppliers . |
47 | His death today has come as a complete shock . |
48 | I 'm sure this has come as a big shock to you . |
49 | The decision to sell Harford has come as a big blow to Luton boss David Pleat who said : ‘ I did n't want him to go but the club needs the money . ’ |
50 | ‘ Therefore the problem that had emerged in 1985 has come as a considerable shock to us and I would say that the present directors of Mogul Ireland — ourselves — have acted promptly , decisively and responsibly since it came to our attention . |
51 | But for accident victims like Marie Moore from Darlaston , today 's decision has come as a bitter blow . |
52 | The ruling has come as a bitter blow Brain Goldsworthy 's common law wife . |
53 | Political defeat has come as a profound shock for the ruling Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP ) . |
54 | Trained by Nicky Henderson and the mount of Richard Dunwoody , Flown has come through a satisfactory preparation for the step-up to the ultimate test today . |
55 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
56 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
57 | Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’ |
58 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
59 | Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation . |
60 | Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on . |