Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 2 | The outlet into the Meloch was obvious once we had slashed down a bit of undergrowth , and so was the confluence with the Dee , but where , under the sizeable area euphemistically called the drive , was the tunnel ? |
| 3 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 4 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |
| 5 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 6 | Jay had picked up a pattern of sleeplessness over the last five months . |
| 7 | At the other end of the scale , however , our machines have picked up a host of animal noises at frequencies above the range of our ears , called ultrasound . |
| 8 | Poshekhonov said that he had found the way to laugh , he had picked up the spear of ridicule . |
| 9 | Timber which has been properly kiln-seasoned ( which needs expensive kilns and close supervision ) is in no way worse than ‘ naturally ’ seasoned timber and indeed is rather less likely to have picked up the infections of rot during the seasoning process . |
| 10 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 11 | And we have speeded up the benefits of revaluation for those businesses who gain from it . |
| 12 | The reforms have speeded up the pace of resource management ( now being rolled out to all acute units ) , made medical audit compulsory and strengthened managers ' formal powers over clinicians . |
| 13 | This has speeded up the flow of information on companies to the regions . |
| 14 | You 've let out a bag of trouble for yourself , ’ said Lucenzo harshly . |
| 15 | But the red-beard had already let out a roar of fury , and launched himself forward . |
| 16 | her husband died she 'd picked out a bit of land all this and I borrowed this and one thing and another , so well they never found a penny ! |
| 17 | Warwick University has carried out a survey of management handling of industrial relations in multi-establishment firms . |
| 18 | The committee had also carried out a survey of parking problems in residential areas . |
| 19 | Mr Johnston revealed that Trading Standards officers had recently carried out a survey of motor dealers which showed that most were breaking the law by not displaying vehicle prices properly . |
| 20 | Marshall ( 1985 ) had already carried out a range of sensitivity tests , and had found , for example , that varying the discount rate from 0 to 30 per cent only shifted the break-even market share at time N = 1 from 50 to 70 per cent . |
| 21 | The Times Higher Education Supplement has carried out a number of peer reviews of UK University Departments over the years . |
| 22 | The churches also carried out the function of education in spiritual guidance to a population largely illiterate . |
| 23 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |
| 24 | for centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience . |
| 25 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 26 | Giles talked of Spaxton acquaintances , of a visit to the opera , of an entertaining incident in his office : bland impersonal discourse , given somehow an edge of intimacy . |
| 27 | First of these was our Himalayan hill-walk , albeit seen fro the comfort of Undercroft chairs , in the cheerful company of Bill Mitchell . |
| 28 | But attribution could only be meaningful if trade union representatives on company boards everywhere and always accepted wholeheartedly the duties of ownership along with the rights , so changing the role of the unions fundamentally and abandoning any pretence to industrial democracy . |
| 29 | We will take your pledge to the Earth Summit where it will be hung on the Tree of Life itself . |
| 30 | A set of pictures can be hung from ribbons or cords — for example , a set of two or three miniature ovals can be hung down a length of ribbon , with a velvet or silk bow positioned at the top of the strip . |