Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 2 | He was saved further embarrassment by the rustling approach through the fecundity of his garden of his wife , accompanied by two of the children . |
| 3 | Chairman John Craig said the group had performed particularly well in the US , had built up its market in continental Europe and had seen further growth in the Far East . |
| 4 | Under his captaincy , Leeds lost twice to Rangers in the European Cup and have since suffered further humiliation in the Premier League and in the Coca-Cola Cup against Watford . |
| 5 | The groove in the upper tooth-plate clearly prevented sideways movement of the lower jaw . |
| 6 | For Leconte , who only four months earlier had undergone back surgery for the third time in little more than two years , it had seen the re-birth of what was — and can be again — a gloriously entertaining , as well as effective , career . |
| 7 | Such organic-rich shales are likely to constitute a much more widespread potential source for hydrocarbons — probably mainly for gas and condensate — than the coals of the deltas which are restricted to the northern part of the region , although the possibility that isolated intermontane coal basins may have developed further south in the later Carboniferous can not be excluded . |
| 8 | Obviously the forcing resistance is one of the fundamental factors influencing high-speed performance so this relationship is given further consideration in the next section . |
| 9 | A three-man delegation from Bayern Munich — the team coach , Erich Ribbeck , general manager , Uli Hoeness , and club vice president , Karl Heinz Rummenigge — travelled back to Germany yesterday after watching Ferguson and having received further information from the last Scot to have played for them , Allan McInally . |
| 10 | Queen Elizabeth 's vault in Westminster Abbey was examined in 1868 by Dean Stanley : ‘ There was no disorder or decay , except that the centring wood had fallen over the head of Elizabeth 's coffin , and that the wood case had crumbled away at the sides , and had drawn away part of the decaying lid . ’ |
| 11 | He had married the daughters of several important Muslim chiefs and was in frequent communication with the " Mad Mullah " in Somaliland , supplying him with rifles and ammunition to help in his long drawn out war against the British . |
| 12 | A WELL thought out tribute to the classical talents of the late Valerie Thornton , this exhibition of paintings and etchings takes in her love for architecture , both ecclesiastical and vernacular . |
| 13 | Cognitive psychologists have also shown how belief in an overarching conspiracy can organize an individual 's perception of the social world by providing an integrated and self-sustaining system of explanation . |
| 14 | In a brief concluding chapter it is shown how study of the human impact can lead to wise management but also that man and nature are difficult to separate , that man is not always responsible for some of the changes with which he is credited , and that environmental impact statements of any kind are difficult to make . |
| 15 | Paul 's family in Swindon have given up hope of an early release . |
| 16 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 17 | With every move the visitor transfers from one ear to another , steps over the roughed out eye-socket of a sleeping figure , or dodges round a protruding nose . |
| 18 | The festival of Sekaten is marked by a week of playing sacred musical instruments called gamelans , brought in procession to the Grand Mosque — a colourful and tuneful display . |
| 19 | Laura Mancinelli 's Mozart 's Ghost ( 1986 ) combines two rather donnish mysteries : the protagonist is pursued by ‘ anonymous ’ telephone calls which consist of nothing but music by Mozart ; when she is spared further harassment by the entire Turin telephone system seizing up , she goes off in pursuit of the concealed manuscript of Plato 's last dialogue . |
| 20 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |
| 21 | The one thing that these , and other applications have in common , is a measurement of the Hall effect , in which , in certain circumstances , a voltage is set up perpendicular to a magnetic field and a current passing through a material . |
| 22 | A few tourists were aboard ; a couple with walking gear and their spaniel dog with one blind eye staring out of the low window , and a Canadian , rather loud , who had struck up conversation with a young Lewis woman who was coming back from visiting her husband working in Libya . |
| 23 | Thus the Greater London Council proposed in their evidence to Williams that the law should prohibit any depictions ‘ which purport to portray an unlawful sexual act ’ , a course which might have ruled out sin as a serious subject for filmed drama . |
| 24 | The Economic and Social Research Council has cut back work on the 1991 census and its ‘ positive health ’ centre for health promotion . |
| 25 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 26 | JOHN PERMAN , the former depot manager at Charlton , has taken over responsibility for the primary distribution project from BOB PARLE to enable Bob to take up his new duties as departmental director , distribution operations , when Derek Graham retires in August . |
| 27 | After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , Russia , whose delegation was led by State Councillor Sergei Shakhrai , had taken over responsibility for the former Soviet military divisions in the Baltic . |
| 28 | Without declaring for or against the coup , Sukarno issued an ordinance stating he had taken over command of the armed forces . |
| 29 | At the last moment he caught sight of Owen , who had taken up position at an adjoining table , and raised hands to heaven . |
| 30 | It was in a fold of high ground on the northern borders of the vale that William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy had recently taken up residence in a red-brick mansion called Racedown Lodge , a house combining Georgian elegance and merchant stolidity , and quite likely to be , as tradition asserts , the original of Sir Walter Elliot 's Kellynch Hall in Jane Austen 's Persuasion . |