Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we have given rather a gloomy vision of what being a parent is |
| 2 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 3 | Associated American Artists has gathered together a representative group of this work in a show called ‘ Rufino Tamayo — seventeen years at the Mixografia workshop ’ . |
| 4 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 5 | Thus far , Kirov had received only a vague brief about his current project . |
| 6 | J. Sainsbury , Britain 's biggest food retailer argues that discount shops have received only a temporary boost from the recession . |
| 7 | The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal . |
| 8 | The listener was given only a limited picture of life outside the capital and one which was seen through urban eyes . |
| 9 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |
| 10 | Once more , we are given only a masculine point of view . |
| 11 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 12 | By the early nineteenth century three ‘ large carrying establishments ’ had made their headquarters here , of which Sutton & Co. carried on a great trade with Hull and Gainsborough , Liverpool and Manchester , the Cheshire salt works and the Potteries , and with Birmingham , Dudley and the Black Country . |
| 13 | In the intervals between his military activities Karadjordje had carried on a successful business as a livestock trader , selling pigs across the border into Austria , and he had acquired a modest level of prosperity . |
| 14 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 15 | But so far we have considered only a limited part of the environment , namely the weather . |
| 16 | The huge world market out there was worth $330 billion between 1989 and 1992 , but the industry has won only a small share of that business . |
| 17 | She could be trapped down a vertical hole within the burrow system . |
| 18 | Together with radiometric age determinations of the most recent eruptive episode , such reconstructions enable estimates to be made of the amount of material eroded over a known period of time . |
| 19 | Stansted is ideally located just a short drive off the M11 and the M25 . |
| 20 | His Pilgrim 's Progress was by far the most popular book in the cottages of the poor , and in Apollyon he had conjured up a monster fit for any fable : scaled , bear-footed , dragon-winged and breathing fire and smoke from a lion 's mouth . |
| 21 | From then on , as though that had conjured up a bleak picture of him never having a life with his love , he began to sound quite despairing . |
| 22 | Most of this has to do with Veronica Lake 's deep , husky voice : a smoky spirit whose name and form collectively conjured up a feminine aura of water , vapour , air , smoke and flesh at the same time ; a floating dreamboat that any boy of six would be proud to be married to . |
| 23 | And , Charles ' mind raced on , Steen could have picked up a new tottie at the Sex of One … party on the Saturday night . |
| 24 | Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter . |
| 25 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 26 | And the , but then I went to live in Northern Ireland so I 've got a so picked up a fair bit of Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | Clough junior , used as a lone striker , put Forest ahead after five minutes , prodding the ball wide of Hans Segers after Kingsley Black had picked up a dreadful pass by Wimbledon 's Roger Joseph . |
| 28 | He and Fonda retired to their trailer , smoked some marijuana and then came out and told the crowd of local youths that they should imagine that the two of them had just arrived in town , and , on the way , they had picked up a local girl of fifteen , and raped and left her in the bushes . |
| 29 | Mirroring Sun Microsystems Inc 's efforts in this area ( UX No 386 ) Hewlett-Packard Co has rolled out a new range of ISDN connectivity enabling standalone workstations to communicate over public or private ISDN networks . |
| 30 | Stemberger ( 1984 ) has carried out a recent study of lexical errors produced by normal adult native speakers of English in natural speech settings . |