Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Car 68 was withdrawn and replaced in the following year by a modernistic design , which eventually became known as the Bandwagon . |
| 2 | The upmarket London furniture store Heals , fashion chain Richard Shops and finally British Home Stores were absorbed into the group , which eventually became known as the Storehouse group . |
| 3 | Six hundred people in the business coughed up £2 10s 0d each , thereby becoming known as the Noble Six Hundred ; subsequent donations and the proceeds of Royal Variety performances meant that a nursing wing was added two years ago , and today there are 36 residents with a staff of 60 to look after them . |
| 4 | Some bastard cheated , they say there was not enough binding put around the joins , again the pipe leaks . |
| 5 | The blades , twisted like tentacles , were then dumped in the corner of the field , near a hangar , which of course swiftly became known as the Octopus Den . |
| 6 | It only became connected with the miracle because both events took place in the same village . |
| 7 | If this were not the case , then the two components would necessarily remain coupled in a way that would allow little difference from convection due to just one of them . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyway , the first time we did the scene , the catch did n't unhook and I literally got dragged through the mud by my boobs . |
| 9 | Thus , for example , Eusebius , Bishop of Caesarea , one of the leading theological figures of his day and a close personal associate of the Emperor , says : ‘ He grows strong in his model of monarchic rule , which the ruler of All has given to the race of man alone of those on earth ’ . |
| 10 | The Royal Family has thus judiciously assented to this and so has participated in the creation of its own image ; in the process , it has ensured that the monarchy , as an institution and as a symbol , retains a cultural past , present , and ( crucially ) future . |
| 11 | Much RE writing in the past 20 years or so has centred on the raising of ultimate questions , and there has also been an insistence on developing in pupils skills of understanding and of handling these questions . |
| 12 | But why does it suddenly feel threatened by the contact of its peaceful owner ? |
| 13 | They had all grown used to the sounds of the camp : the low open-air roar of many voices , the lowing of cattle , the chiming of harness and smith-work , the continual creak of John 's waterpumps ; the intermittent discharge of either cannon or handguns . |
| 14 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 15 | This was done by cross-tabulating the answer to the question : ‘ To what extent did you personally feel threatened by the review ? ’ against all the other items in the questionnaire . |
| 16 | The ad-man opposite had been casting meaningful glances at her all evening , and the likeliest explanation seemed to be that she and Roger were doing a number together and I 'd inadvertently got caught in the crossfire . |
| 17 | The Directors may , after that period , allot any shares or grant any such rights under this authority in pursuance of an offer or agreement so to do made by the Company within that period . |
| 18 | The Directors may , after that period , allot any shares or grant any such rights under this authority in pursuance of an offer or agreement so to do made by the Company within that period . |
| 19 | To some , a portable is a machine that only gets moved between the office and home , and is used with a proper external monitor and keyboard in both locations . |
| 20 | Oh do n't worry about putting them in piles , they only get chucked in the bottom of the box |
| 21 | If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book . |
| 22 | Any rise in aggregate demand which was rationally anticipated would have had no such effect — it would merely have led to a rise in prices . |
| 23 | Had she not met Flynn , she would merely have asked for the farms to be restored to Maran Hill ; but the news from London made her too bold . |
| 24 | Even if this outcome had not occurred , and by some miracle the world economy had continued to grow after 1918 , it is not possible that States would merely have accommodated to the requirements of growing world trade . |
| 25 | Kirkman and Hendy , the Earl of Camden 's agents , may merely have responded to the College 's advertisement , but another explanation for their involvement seems possible . |
| 26 | Nothing traumatic happened ; there were just the ordinary ups and downs which would naturally have occurred in the life of a humble family striving to make a reasonable living in a somewhat precarious way . |
| 27 | Whilst the smallest kind of town can only have served as a market point , those with populations exceeding 500 usually provided more extensive services to their localities , and some had developed specialised manufactures even if on a modest scale . |
| 28 | While this can only have arisen on the basis of particular cases , it too has now become fossilized ; it is now described in terms of relative order of fixed groups of adjectives , and there are even cases where purely formal requirements concerning serial order actually override the organization appropriate to the semantics of what is intended ( see Chapter 8 for some instances ) . |
| 29 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 30 | Pictures that could only have come from the Americans or the British , ’ Kragan answered warily . |