Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of hijackings and bomb hoaxes in the west of the city was apparently designed to act as a diversion as a mass escape was made . |
| 2 | Or are poorer respondents simply less prepared to admit to an interviewer that they would be prepared to break the law ? |
| 3 | A heavy drinker , obsessive gambler and renowned conversationalist , Bacon frequently felt that his work was misinterpreted : ‘ You 've only got to go into a butcher 's shop , like Harrod 's food hall . |
| 4 | Watkin would have pride of place as St George while Ranulf the rat-catcher eagerly agreed to put on a costume and act the role of the dragon . |
| 5 | Zantford Granny Granville was a motor mechanic who decided that he wanted to get into aviation , so offered to work as a mechanic at East Boston Airport in exchange for flying lessons . |
| 6 | It was two hours before he felt sufficiently recovered to stop at a phone box and report in . |
| 7 | By proclaiming the arrival of democracy , and with it " the end of ideology " and ideological politics , the revisionists of the 1950s perhaps hoped to bring to an end the perennial debate about democracy . |
| 8 | It is generally accepted that managers are motivated to pursue profits , whereas they are not greatly motivated to keep within a cost budget . |
| 9 | He sets Ireland up as a type of extreme place — a place possibly cursed in its very soil or divinely reserved to act as a scourge for England . |
| 10 | His concern was to ensure that Indirect Rule was sufficiently modernized to function as an instrument of government in an era of rapid social and economic change . |
| 11 | Embarrassing for all concerned although I suppose we can always rip out Chapter 1 , daringly entitled Leaving on a Jet Plane . |
| 12 | The shelf display is supplemented by an indexing system flexibly organized to allow for a variety of approaches , to lead the enquirer to the right " shelf address " and to remedy any deficiencies in the system for particular types of user . |
| 13 | This implication was not lost on some members of the Eastern District , notably several in Essex where the views of leading WEA activists were such that the District eventually decided to do without a tutor-organiser for the county altogether . |
| 14 | While the flair derived from street football in Africa is richly prized adjusting to a Wiltshire training pitch in January is not straightforward . |
| 15 | Also , the normal deglutitive response is generally considered to consist of a contraction wave that appears at manometry as a single or M shaped peak . |
| 16 | Increasingly candidates thought able enough were entered for O and even A levels ( and rightly , because there was at first no other examination for them to take ) and when the CSE examination was introduced for those thought not to be up to O level , the top grade of CSE was soon deemed to count as an O level , and thus itself to aspire to the academic . |
| 17 | Furthermore , fermentation does not increase the colonic osmotic pressure and diarrhoea is not longer considered to occur as a side effect since most of this osmotic load is rapidly absorbed . |
| 18 | The functionality of the gear-lever is thus seen to exist as a set of attributes of the intersection of the functional domains ( see Figure 2.24 ) , which are mapped and preserved within the geometric domain . |
| 19 | His exhausted mother was finally persuaded to rest in a hotel . |
| 20 | Members of Maghull Chapel have already helped pay for a well to be dug to give the village drinking water . |
| 21 | The strategy finally agreed consisted of a number of actions to be taken progressively , ie : |
| 22 | It is hard to exaggerate the importance of this development , which , for reasons purely of financial accountability , involved the Colonial Office intimately in economic planning for the empire and thus helped to bring to an end the old imperial system in which colonies had puttered along as virtually independent satrapies , with the Colonial Office exercising only a watching brief . |
| 23 | ‘ Odd place to be , if you 'd just got rid of a baby . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It may interest you to learn , oh Wise and Wonderful One , ’ said Cassie tartly , ‘ that we 've only just got rid of a woman Prime Minister . |
| 25 | I 've just got to put on a swimsuit , ’ she muttered , taking a nervous step backwards . |
| 26 | It was named after the nearby Inn , the ‘ Star and Garter Home ’ , and it still provides for the needs of such servicemen , the newer inmates generally rendered handicapped as a result of their tours or duty in Northern Ireland , also some from the Falkland conflict . |
| 27 | Where A makes a promise to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do under a contract with A ; |
| 28 | Where A makes a promise to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do under a contract with C. |
| 29 | I put my pyjamas on underneath my clothes and thus protected went for a walk round Pau . |
| 30 | This quasar was already known to lie within a galaxy , and improved observations have shown that the ‘ host ’ galaxy itself is interacting with a small companion galaxy . |