Example sentences of "[det] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this exercise , the procedure being examined is that carried out within a section , and the procedure owner is taken to be the person who could authorise changes at this level ( eg by the introduction of pro-formats for day-to-day recording of mileage etc ) , in this case the head of each section . |
| 2 | And I think this done away with a lot of entries and keeping people away from meetings . |
| 3 | And I said , and she said oh well she said you know well it 's that 's how you 've got ta take it stripped , for me to take that to get that done up by a restorer you 'd have to take all the upholstery off , or quite a bit off |
| 4 | Divided into groups of eight , each watched over by a party official , an MP and an industrialist , they begin with a series of discussions about current affairs . |
| 5 | All these contributed much to a sense of fellowship and corporate social identity as well as providing opportunities for personal development and individual enrichment . |
| 6 | The two 6BA screws for the ‘ wicket ’ l.e.d.s and the gimp pins for the anchorage of the others must be fitted and the surface blemishes left by these levelled off with a filler and smoothed with fine sandpaper , before anything else is done . |
| 7 | I changed my own selection to that called out by a priest ahead of me . |
| 8 | It all added up to a hotel bedroom . |
| 9 | It all added up to a premonition of tragedy for Charles . |
| 10 | It all added up to an organisation , but what organisation ? |
| 11 | Suddenly , Constance realised that she actually was very tired — but not too tired to notice with pleasure the warm wood panelling , the Turkey-red stair carpet and the clean smell of polish which all added up to an atmosphere of richness and opulence quite foreign to her mother 's sparse house in Northumberland . |
| 12 | Wait till I 've cut it and we 're all sat down with a piece , and I 'll tell you a story . |
| 13 | They were all made up as a batch were n't they ? |
| 14 | Her face is all twisted up like a snarl . |
| 15 | The Book of Earth , the cornucopia of all the tiny books that go to make up The Book of Languages and even more disconcertingly , The Book of Mirrors , are all locked up in a glass case . |
| 16 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 17 | Mothers , mothers-in-law , aunties , grandmothers , first and second ( and third ) cousins are all bound together in a community of common suffering and joy . |
| 18 | she said it was all packed up in a box and I said well you would n't see it then would you ? |
| 19 | when I want to buy a shirt , that men 's shirts are usually all sealed up in a package |
| 20 | She 's got all these photos she took with that new camera — all jumbled up in an envelope — and she was saying she ought to put them into something . |
| 21 | but you see with him you see , they , it was packed , the house before the wake was packed , because Margaret kept coming over when he was all dressed up in a suit and everything , I did n't , she asked me if , once to go , I just said no I would prefer to remember |
| 22 | Due mid-September also is a double album of ‘ Haçienda Classics ’ , from New Order to Marshall Jefferson , and it 's all topped off with a party at the club itself on Sept 14 . |
| 23 | Until the European Parliament is strengthened , the events about which the Government and the European separatists most like to complain — those brought about by an interfering and inappropriate Brussels — are likely to continue , because the Government missed the opportunity to make the Community more democratic and accountable . |
| 24 | However , if we look at clear-up rates , those cleared up as a percentage of the total number of recorded offences we find that a 15 per cent decline from 41 per cent in 1979 to 35 per cent in 1988 . |
| 25 | If , however , subjects optimized but were not risk-neutral ( and hence maximized expected utility rather than expected profits ) , then their strategy would depart from that described below by an amount which depended on the degree of their risk-aversion or risk-loving . |
| 26 | FLASHPOINT : Spurs skipper Neil Ruddock ( centre ) and Palace 's Andy Thorn ( right ) were both sent off after a flare-up |