Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But housing experts and governments just have not given enough thought to the type of building materials that developing countries need . |
| 2 | Lord Justice Parker differentiated between liability of the car driver to her passenger , who must have been within her reasonable contemplation as being likely to be affected by her omission to remove her broken down car from the carriageway and any drivers who may have been proceeding in the opposite direction on the other carriageway . |
| 3 | A year later , having received only part of the sum owed to him , Edward III demanded and got more : all that he had been ceded in 1358 , to which were added Normandy , Maine , Anjou , and Touraine , also in full sovereignty . |
| 4 | Voters are given only part of the story when making their decisions . |
| 5 | Someone , something , moved in the dark shadows by the empty fire-grate , filled in summer with a copper jug stuffed full of artificial flowers . |
| 6 | Switching codes holds no fears for Sillars Stalker who , having topped off his last jumping campaign with a four-timer , filled in time during the summer , scoring three times on the Flat . |
| 7 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 8 | Recent work south of the town has revealed an apparently defended pre-Roman site , while concerted watching briefs and limited excavations have added further information about the town 's history and its cemeteries . |
| 9 | Similar facies may be expected further east in the subsurface . |
| 10 | So it can be seen that the parties will usually be excused further performance of the contract , either partly or entirely , according to what is a reasonable presumption of what the parties would have intended . |
| 11 | It would also be better from the point of view of traffic — she had n't yet looked up Hallborough on a map , but she guessed she would need her car to get to it . |
| 12 | He 'd picked up dysentery at a game fair in Hampshire ! ’ |
| 13 | Similarly in Britain , a party can win several thousand votes in each constituency yet not come out top of the poll in any ; in consequence , it amasses a large popular vote but no seats in Parliament . |
| 14 | Mining companies , including Consolidated Gold Fields Ltd ( MEG 4 ) and Noranda-Kerr ( MEG 74 and 115 ) have also carried out work in the area . |
| 15 | ‘ Another time I asked him about his having turned down Parliament on a point of principle . |
| 16 | The plan drew wide support from schools , universities and industry , but was turned down flat by the Department of Education , apparently on instructions from Downing Street . |
| 17 | Lindsey reckons that he is the most shot down pilot in the world , after all , until the appearance on the UK airshow circuit of Spanish-built Messerschmitt ‘ 109s ’ ( Ha 1112MIL Buchons ) in 1988 , Lindsey had the only German ‘ fighter ’ available . |
| 18 | He could have moved directly south into the valley of the Dee , but instead he chose to head eastwards towards the vale of Clwyd , to take a cautious look at the borders of Lord Grey 's domain before he turned south to cross the mountains to Valle Crucis . |
| 19 | At Stanmer , the earlier Pelhams created a well-balanced ‘ Palladian ’ house in the 1720s ; in order to preserve a sense of proper grandeur , the village was moved further north in the downland valley to hide it from view . |
| 20 | President Bush 's proposals for the future of US wetlands [ see ED 49/50 ] have met further criticism from a group of environmental scientists , who complain that the plans open up millions of acres of previously-protected wetlands to development , counter to Bush 's election promise that there would be " no net loss " of wetlands . |
| 21 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 22 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 23 | What you yo were trying to achieve is the expansion of the built up area towards the ring road , and thereby having built development hard up er as it is at the moment the ring road goes through for the most part open countryside on either side of it . |
| 24 | Madame Mattli was almost exactly as Paula had imagined she would be , a petite perfectly turned out woman with an air of chic that was unmistakably French . |
| 25 | In 2 we have looked at how the formal system operates between as well as within sentences ; in 3 we have seen how knowledge of the world ( about cats and gates , for example ) or of the culture ( about social roles and relationships ) enables people to make their language function as they intend and to understand how others do the same to them . |
| 26 | The importance of good foundations is clearly seen when dealing with the growth process which must inevitably take place if marriages are to survive , let alone flourish . |
| 27 | As a result of this intrusion the Nganasans were pushed farther north into the tundra , and a lasting enmity between them and the Dolgans was created . |
| 28 | In addition to the exceptional nature and size of his victory , it was considered a potential watershed in Haiti 's history , a view given further credence by the failure of a coup attempt in January 1991 which had aimed at preventing Aristide 's inauguration [ see p. 37955 ] . |
| 29 | Your Committee have given further consideration to the date of the Annual General Meeting of the Society and now recommend that it be held on 4 May 1990 at 7.30 pm at the Community College , Bishop 's Castle . |
| 30 | Prior to Haibara 's testimony , Noboru Takeshita had given further evidence to the Diet concerning his role in the affair . |