Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happened , just before reading Mr Aitcheson 's article , I had attended a Tribunal involving five unemployment benefit cases where not one of the five appellants attended and indeed one did not even acknowledge receipt of his set of Tribunal papers . ’ |
| 2 | Lord Vansittart , a former Foreign Office official , had written a pamphlet entitled Black Record blaming the Germans for a record of barbarism going back to the era of the Roman Empire . |
| 3 | TWO academics , who clearly did not do much of their research in the North-East , have written a book called Bad Language . |
| 4 | One of their number has just written a book questioning this kind of control and spilling the beans of angst rather as American and British feminist writers did in the Seventies . |
| 5 | He also claimed that Senegal had imposed trade sanctions and embargoes , damaging Gambian companies and parastatal organizations ; Senegal had imposed a restriction limiting each person crossing into the Gambia to an allowance of 20,000 francs CFA ( about US$75 ) . |
| 6 | The State President also made a commitment to review covert funding operations . |
| 7 | Hezbollah radio ( Voice of the Oppressed ) claimed to have ambushed an SLA patrol that day , but made no mention of casualties . |
| 8 | Lawyers for the Princess of Wales have been granted an injunction to prevent further publication of photographs of her exercising in a gym seen in the Sunday and Daily Mirror newspapers . |
| 9 | The Bok selectors do , however , seem to have made an effort to add some pace to the back row in the form of Pretorius and Richter , both of whom showed well when Northern Transvaal produced comfortably the best provincial performance of the Antipodean tours to take the Wallabies to the wire . |
| 10 | Specialist diving equipment distributor , Sea & Sea , has produced a purpose designed first aid box for divers and other water users . |
| 11 | The environmental group Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) is an experienced campaigner for improvements in the quality of our water and has produced a briefing giving detailed advice on requesting information from your water supply company . |
| 12 | John Bryan had already produced a paper called Open City in San Francisco , but Art Kunkin , a former Trotskyist , decided to put together a semi-spoof , semi-newspaper , the Faire Free Press , which he hawked at the Faire . |
| 13 | ‘ But we have got a teashop opening this year . ’ |
| 14 | There is quite a lot on at the moment cos I 've got a church meeting this evening at Flint about er ministry |
| 15 | Every single dog , when the record comes up , has got a field headed main use and then says something like guide dog , guard dog , rabbiting or whatever it is . |
| 16 | Mind , she 'd got a nerve wearing that costume with those legs . ’ |
| 17 | Got a lot done this morning then ? |
| 18 | I think what I 'll do , you 've got about forty minutes of it today , you 'll get Carl Rogers working with a client called er and then we 'll stop there and then next week you 'll see the er the next behaviourist called er called erm Arnold Lazarus , okay , who you might wan he 's got a book called Multi Modal Therapy which was a big hit about ten years ago and there 's about five copies in the library . |
| 19 | Best form of fuel and the cheapest : fill them with a mixture of coal dust and mud and you 've got a fire goin' all day and night . |
| 20 | I have n't had a chance to wear this outfit to go out yet — but I will . ’ |
| 21 | The helicopter was very big , good , so you 've all had a chance to use one set . |
| 22 | A year , ago he would have had a junior to carry that lot . ’ |
| 23 | They 've had a practice match this morning , and every striker in the club is going to do some finishing this afternoon . |
| 24 | On Oct. 31 , the People 's Assembly had approved a bill to give financial assistance to " persons who remain jobless due to the implementation of economic reform " . |
| 25 | Every woman who 's pregnant should be offered a test to avoid this happening . |
| 26 | The Regional Council have already offered a contribution to fund this project . |
| 27 | Montupet , the French aluminium manufacturer , has recently opened a plant producing lightweight aluminium cylinder heads for Ford in the former DeLorean car plant . |
| 28 | Elderly people who have had an accident derive great benefit from the project . |
| 29 | For years souvenir-hunters had swarmed over it on summer Sundays ( and now also on Lubbock 's bank holidays ) , their hammers at the ready , and the owner , Antrobus , had Supplied an attendant to keep some order . |
| 30 | Even from his hon. Friends , the Minister has received a request to consider that matter again . |