Example sentences of "[vb pp] of the [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fingered the cord , was reminded of the horrifying moment when she felt a constriction around her throat and the colours of the room receded . |
| 2 | Like many others , I am saddened almost to the point of despair at the result of this general election , and am vividly reminded of the moving words once spoken by that truly good man , Michael Foot . |
| 3 | As Buck states , ‘ there is , in reality , a lot of difference between the expression of a preference and a choice and it seems that some parents who have heard of the new rights sometimes confuse these two concepts . ’ |
| 4 | Teething gel ( I had n't heard of the homeopathic granules then ) just before a feed established normal feeding again . |
| 5 | It is with great pleasure that I now enclose a copy of the video film made of the first semi-final round . |
| 6 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 7 | But many junior doctors are unhappy about what they have seen of the new deal so far . |
| 8 | There is little to be seen of the former docks now , only depressions marked with stakes identifying the site , but the village remains , where some of the master shipwrights lived who built Nelson 's favourite ship , HMS Agamemnon , as well as many other men o' war for the British fleet . |
| 9 | I 've got rid of the damn thing now . ’ |
| 10 | They bring me dogs bones for the dogs and they like talking to my parrot I wish I could get rid of the bleeding thing though . |
| 11 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 12 | The slip is used just to get rid of the excess height so that less than full airbrake is required for the rest of the approach . |
| 13 | It would never get rid of the damned things permanently but at least it would give the Ryans a breathing space . |
| 14 | Is not it about time that the Government recognised that the only cure for unemployment is to get rid of the Conservative Government as soon as possible ? |
| 15 | The authority of the Earl of Derby in the North-west , celebrated in the soubriquet " King of Lancashire " , was only the best known of the independent fiefs where the writ of the party leader did not run . |
| 16 | The freely jointed dimensions are now more realistic when restricted by the factor ζ the skeletal factor — composed of the two terms where σ is known as the steric parameter and is for simple chains . |
| 17 | Wool-sucking seems to be most common among young cats that have been orphaned or have for some other reason been deprived of the maternal nipple too soon . |
| 18 | Bailed driver Mrs Jill Gunns , 47 , was warned of the possible charges when she reported to police yesterday . |
| 19 | I will arrange for you to be advised of the respective decisions as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | Where intensive negotiations on a proposal are under way in Brussels , Parliament may be informed of the latest developments shortly before the critical Council — thus placing a new reserve on the proposal even if an earlier draft has previously been cleared — but if a compromise satisfactory to United Kingdom interests emerges , the minister will wish to agree , and to make his peace with Parliament later . |