Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've fallen in with a right bad pair there , chief . |
| 2 | Yet , between the upper strata of the landed aristocracy and the wealthiest members of the industrial and commercial society there were many links ; and gradually these two elements came to be joined together in a single ruling group … |
| 3 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 4 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 5 | A players ' strike was averted only after a top-level six-hour meeting last week , but Fry revealed some players were still not happy with their pay-slips , allegedly short of £60 . |
| 6 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 7 | THE best of east and west are being fused together in a new joint venture designed to give Courtaulds a dynamic presence in coil coatings throughout Europe . |
| 8 | Not all were tankers — the second , a South Korean-run oilfield service vessel , was caught close to a Saudi offshore field and sunk . |
| 9 | The hotel is pleasantly decorated throughout with a smart new breakfast room and a lovely restaurant for dinner . |
| 10 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
| 11 | A firm has come up with a new high-tech way to beat credit card fraud . |
| 12 | Merkel had come up with a sinister final solution to the population explosion . |
| 13 | BIOTECHNOLOGISTS have come up with a surprising new way of repairing many scars and wrinkles — using purified cow-hide . |
| 14 | Following new yarn developments in France , Charnos have come up with a beautiful lustrous leg look that is built for comfort — ‘ Sheer Lustre ’ tights at £2.99 with 10 denier appearance leg . |
| 15 | Recognising that a lot of women are taking to the hills , and that they may feel a little intimidated by such a male-orientated sport , especially since they all dress in the same fluffy things as us now , I have come up with a startling new innovation . |
| 16 | With the genre scenes , part of the secret lies again in the way natural-sounding dialogue is skilfully caught up into a formal musical structure . |
| 17 | Cut-price chains Presto and Lo-Cost , caught up in a bloody head-to-head battle with discounters like Kwik Save , managed only a small profits increase . |
| 18 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 19 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 20 | The ‘ best ’ rooms have chimney-pieces picked out in a canny false-stone effect ( in fact no more than mortar ) or else ornamented by rubbed and painted bricks . |
| 21 | Interviews and observations carried out during a long-term follow-up study in fifty classrooms revealed that the classroom practice of nearly 50 per cent of the respondents had not changed in any perceptible way as a result of their attendance at such courses . |
| 22 | Their examination profits from the use of ultra-thin sections ( Chapter 4 ) , employed initially in studies of carbonate diagenesis ( Lindholm & dean , 1973 ) , so that initial research into mudrock diagenesis can now be carried out with a good petrological microscope . |
| 23 | Much of the Group 's work is carried out under a comprehensive quality-assurance programme , and the Group provides the internal auditors for the whole of the BGS quality-assurance programme . |
| 24 | Planning exhibitions should be carried out within a rolling three-year cycle , so that strategic , management , budgetary , horticultural , and logistic aspects can be incorporated in a professional manner well ahead of time . |
| 25 | The nationalization of the railways , the creation of the state holding company INI , the acquisition of a major state shareholding in the telephone company , were carried out by a repressive authoritarian regime which had crushed organized labour . |
| 26 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 27 | Some five years ago , a survey was carried out by a major British company on this subject . |
| 28 | The alleged plot was said to have consisted of five so far unsolved supermarket killings in which 28 people died and which were apparently carried out by a clandestine right-wing movement to discredit the state [ see also p. 34893 ] . |
| 29 | Since it is essential , not only that the glue should be heated to about 150°C. but also that there should be no appreciable gap or space in the joint , the gluing operation had , in practice , to be carried out in a heated hydraulic press . |
| 30 | Trainer Geoff Lewis was caught out by a special 48-hour deadline introduced this year so that a consolation race , the Spring Handicap for horses who miss the Lincoln cut , could be staged at Doncaster today . |