Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AUSTRALIAN doctors have successfully frozen and thawed out a human embryo before planting it in a womb . |
| 2 | What needs to be considered when opening up a blocked off flue ? |
| 3 | Mr Major has said that setting up a Scottish parliament would lead to Scottish MPs becoming ‘ second class ’ , speeding the break-up of the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | And Piers saw himself being seen and put on a clever sort of don't-mind-us smile . |
| 5 | David has mellowed and quietened down a great deal . |
| 6 | While both initiatives are seen as bringing about a closer link between assessment and teaching and learning , and place a greater emphasis than hitherto on teacher assessment , Broadfoot points to various tensions and contradictions between these systems of assessment . |
| 7 | It is no longer adequate just to produce a plan of a church : all walls and elevations need to be examined closely , since most churches are built , developed and extended over a long period . |
| 8 | It burns slowly when ignited and gives off a pleasing smell . |
| 9 | It was agreed that there should be further investigation into optimum methods of publicising such an event in the future , and it was noted that setting up a central diary of events might help to reduce the chances of conflicting or uncomfortably close dates for similar events being chosen . |
| 10 | The cans banged and rattled over a fuzzy soundtrack already overlaid with calls to Vassilis to move his head or Kostas to provide a cigarette . |
| 11 | He turned his head and spat , then buckled and retched up a thin stream of vomit . |
| 12 | The whole of Havant 's operation has been spun off as a separate business , so Wilkie has to find outside customers for the plant 's mix of personal computer and mid-range disk drives ; integrated disk subsystems and ‘ flexible circuitry ’ expertise ( those plastic straps bearing solder tracks found when opening up a personal computer or disk drive ) . |
| 13 | He was almost certain that he had found him , that he could say , ‘ Our McCloy was here , ’ and yet what had he achieved but dredge up a tiny segment of McCloy 's life ? |
| 14 | The émigrés , ranging from monarchists to anarchists , were of course bitterly divided and carried on a fierce polemical battle over the responsibility for their common defeat . |
| 15 | ( Martial arts are a way of life — skills learnt and practised over a long period , used to tune the mind and body to a state of superb readiness . |