Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In summary , we have successfully carried out TIPSS in 18 patients with control of bleeding from gastric or esophageal varices and portal hypertensive gastropathy .
2 The ANC favours the much watered down form of regional government .
3 In the past , Mrs Thatcher had easily fended off challenges from Tory ‘ wets ’ .
4 Grumman finally coughed up $40m in 1988 in settlement of the legal claims against it .
5 There was a lot of teasing and we had soon thought up nicknames for each other .
6 The Irish have already sounded out Sweden as possible alternatives .
7 Surely the Conservative Government have already set out proposals for such a programme : they should be telling him where the money would come from .
8 He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer .
9 ‘ I have already paid out £100,000 in legal fees .
10 Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada and José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera , who had respectively taken over responsibility for foreign affairs and ideology [ not solely Balaguer as given on p. 39089 ] were elected to fill the central committee vacancies .
11 Over three days , speakers repeatedly conjured up images of incompetent social engineers , bent on disarming honest citizens and leaving them helpless in the face of criminals ; ‘ anti-gun fetishists ’ in the media , with their expense-account life-styles and homes far from the front line ; lawyers who turn criminals out on to the streets to kill and rape again ; and , above all , the federal government , which is determined to subvert the constitution by establishing a monopoly of arms .
12 SAVE also carried out research in individual historic towns , in some cases professionally , in others with the help of local civic societies .
13 Despite prevailing economic gloom , the Salon also turned down requests from several US dealers wanting to take part .
14 Rig should be a large fractional with slightly swept back spreaders for short-handed security , and single runners .
15 As before , Thomson , who has also put out calls for biographical material on other subjects , including S G Brown , signs himself a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , helping establish credibility with editors unaware of the fact that he started collecting original papers in 1972 .
16 Whereas Rolle 's poetic understanding of spiritual life embodied in his English works makes them like flares sent up to illuminate dark ground , each a light but each separate , Hilton 's Scale brings into the daylight a carefully worked out map of spiritual life with each of the major stages interconnected .
17 Both Bishop ( 1971 ) and Hathaway ( 1959 ) give carefully worked out guidelines of suggested seating in relation to classroom lighting , blackboard and fixed furniture .
18 However , they quickly adapted themselves and even picked up snatches of Gaelic much to the amusement of our neighbours who were quite proud of their accomplishment .
19 At first , it seemed that the antics of marine woodworms in the piling of Barmouth 's 115 span timber bridge would rob the Cambrian coast of its railway , but BR surprisingly stumped up £500,000 for short-term repairs , and , after a seven-month closure , the line was back in business .
20 ( For " The Dry Salvages " he had even written out lists of rhyming words to assist him . )
21 A well set out manual with step-by-step diagrams , even cartoon pictures , would make all the difference , because the Multiverb has so much to offer the guitarist in terms of both quantity and quality .
22 FX760 ‘ GA- ? ’ ( below ) replaced FX740 , again retaining my father 's ‘ ? ’ symbol and was then taken on charge by 112 on June 3 , 1944 and then being flown by S/L Attearne DFC and Reg Wild eventually being replaced on June 22 , 1944 by the incoming Mustangs , re-equipping the Squadron , thus disproving the news item on FX760 in August 's issue of FlyPast stating 112 did not operate this aircraft but 3 Squadron RAAF !
23 Two huge frying pans were being wielded on charcoal fires by a pair of vividly made up girls in blue jeans and flowered blouses .
24 MICHAEL Caine 's supersmart London caff , Langan 's Brasserie , recently shelled out £2,000 towards two smart black cast-iron litter bins .
25 Hewlett-Packard Co recently sent out pairs of natty sunglasses to the UK computer press bearing the message ‘ you 'll be needing these on May 5th , ’ ( well some of the poor loves must have thought things rather fetching as they were wearing them on Olivetti 's jaunt to Paris a couple of days later ) .
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