Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The health authorities declared a fresh state of " red alert " on Dec. 28 when further cases of cholera were discovered in three northern provinces bordering Bolivia and Paraguay , although it was reported that none of the 44 people diagnosed in the space of five days had died [ for outbreak in early 1992 see p. 38761 ] .
2 We do not want to have a future relationship of United States and Latin America reproduced in South Africa , which so many people talk about now when they talk about South Africa as the engine of growth if we have that kind of growth it 'll be distorted and none of the poor in South Africa or the region will benefit from it .
3 But the Japanese have decided that anything with the slightest chance of helping to make better microchips deserves a close look .
4 We have already seen that someone with a voidable title can nevertheless transfer to an innocent purchaser a perfect title , provided he does so before his title is avoided .
5 How would you have felt if someone with a hundred times your experience had tried to buy into one of your early ventures ? ’
6 It may even be that the indiscriminacy of some of the air operations in the Second World War will come to be seen as something of a historical aberration , and a mere temporary consequence of the undeveloped state of the arts of target acquisition and guidance .
7 The mid-'70s are now seen as something of a cultural wasteland for rock and it is no exaggeration to say that Wednesday 's NME was the highlight of the musical week for a generation .
8 I am told that none of the new franchise applications have senior women as part of their management .
9 A business mistake is made , and it is assumed that the mistake would have been avoided if somebody at a higher position in the organization had known about it , or had intervened .
10 And they , knowing me to be one not prone to exaggerated statements , well understood that something of an extraordinary nature was impending .
11 The struggle is probably better understood as one between a dominant oligarchy and those whom they excluded from power .
12 It is known that none of the three thousand or so of letters were received by the children until their return home .
13 Thus a school in an affluent area is usually praised whereas one in a deprived area will usually only get a ‘ satisfactory in the circumstances ’ judgement .
14 It is also believed that none of the injured has made a complaint to the police .
15 In particular , TV buying has come in recent years to be regarded as something of a separate skill — arguably to the detriment of the media operations of agencies as a whole .
16 Before he had even set off , however , Pliny the Elder received urgent requests for help from people living nearer the volcano , so his trip which had been intended as something of a scientific investigation rapidly became a rescue mission .
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