Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified . |
| 2 | Butyl liners can be repaired successfully with a patch and special adhesive ( it 's rather like repairing a puncture in a cycle inner-tube ) . |
| 3 | It is often said that an assault can be committed only by an act and that an omission is not sufficient . |
| 4 | It was quite pointless having a runner who saw the whole thing as a social outing and had once even sat down in a kitchen and said she 'd just rest for a minute . |
| 5 | Then I turned to the other side of the coin — the Civil War that might break out , even if Reunion were voted in by a majority and approved by the Dáil . |
| 6 | The first process is in part an aspect of the interaction of men grouped together in a society and engaged in production . |
| 7 | Often a would-be escapee , whose one foot was on the express path and whose other was still on the slower acceleration strip , was whirled aside in an eddy and sucked underfoot . |
| 8 | Bradshaw himself got picked off by a thirty-footer and lost his board . |
| 9 | And just as everybody who looked to that serpent on the pole was healed , so I am gon na be lifted up on a cross and everybody who looks in faith to me , and in obedience receives my gift of forgiveness , they will be saved ! |
| 10 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |
| 11 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 12 | Twenty-five days later three survivors , all wounded , were picked up from a raft and taken to Capetown . |
| 13 | Connors said the guy must have curled up into a ball and hidden in a waste-basket . |
| 14 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 15 | The words had come out in a babble and by the time he had gathered his wits and been able to respond she had put the phone down . |
| 16 | DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis was carried out on a primary and recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma in a hepatitis B virus negative patient . |
| 17 | The most severe tests have already been carried out on a man and a woman , unconnected with the project , last week . |
| 18 | Workflow software is able to recognise when a particular action has been carried out on a document and can then carry out other actions ( which were previously done manually ) by itself . |
| 19 | Recognition of good work carried out by a student and help in improving standards when her work is less good will demonstrate the interest of the ward staff in her progress . |
| 20 | However , the results of an autopsy carried out by an Israeli and a US pathologist on Feb. 7 indicated that whilst Akawi had been beaten he had died as a result of a " cardiac insufficiency " brought on by a serious heart condition . |
| 21 | He breathed the air deeply , hauling it into his broad chest as if this particular air on this exact spot could be stored up and carried around as a reserve and reminder : for minutes on end he stood there , resisting any move which would lift the spell , gazing into the hidden valley as if in there lay the treasure he wanted . |
| 22 | Business had come almost to a standstill and the newspaper was adversely affected to an increasing degree . |
| 23 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 24 | If a local entity analysis is carried out , the model can be mapped on to a database and applications applied to it before another local data analysis is started . |
| 25 | Lindsey used Bravo Golf from the time of its purchase in 1967 until 1973 as the family transport , that was until he had a visit from the Airshow Coordinator at RAF Finningley in 1973 who asked him if he would like to be shot down by a Spitfire and Hurricane at the Battle of Britain airshow that year ! |
| 26 | He was bold into every fence , but did n't pull , and even managed to canter the little one-stride double ( sited just after a corner and with 24ft between the elements , it was the ideal opportunity ) . |
| 27 | We cross the Blue Ridge Parkway and , just beyond the town of Abingdon , find ourselves travelling on the Trail of the Lonesome Pine itself , which was named not after a Laurel and Hardy song but after the ‘ underground railway ’ route which helped escaping slaves escape before and during the Civil War . |
| 28 | Once hardened , the repair can be shaped flush with a plane and chisel , before a final finish with abrasive paper . |
| 29 | The information is fed directly into a computer and the digitised information printed out as a linear contour map or as a solid representation in light and shade . |
| 30 | it is n't necessary , well it is the same as saying it is n't true , it is n't necessary er because this will be built up over a period and it will be for er the Government in all the normal ways in the public expenditure round to decide how much goes into the passenger franchises and through that therefore into the Briti the Rail Track investment . |