Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 M F I traditionally has a stronger second half cash flow and net borrowings are expected to fall further in the second half of the year .
2 After it gets the ball rolling , FCSI is expected to wither away over the next two years , passing the torch completely to FC/Open .
3 The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar .
4 But which of those progeny Is selected to go forward into the next generation is not random .
5 The Indian economy was made to contribute heavily during the First World War , including a gift payment of £100 million .
6 There was coughing and shuffling and a lot of page-turning as the court prepared to move on to the next case , and Donaldson helped Mrs Balanchine down from the witness-box .
7 If you do n't do it , it 'll be two possibly threeish because you 're not too sure , you 've got to go back to the second appointment and he might do it but then again he may not .
8 The fact that the army and guerrillas had agreed to meet directly for the first time was seen as a breakthrough and a indication that " professional " elements in the army leadership wished for a political solution .
9 I have n't got enough background information ’ ; ‘ I 've got to find out about the First World War , and I 'm not sure how to begin . ’
10 ‘ I 've got to lie here for the next twelve hours without moving with an ice-pack over half my face because you walked out and left me to the mercy of a predatory pit-popsy ! ’
11 Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled .
12 BA is keeping its distance from attempts by Stephen Wolf and Jay Pritzker to revive the bidding consortium , but there are still hopes in the US that it could be persuaded to step in at the last minute to add weight to a new bid .
13 As Ian said , ‘ After one robbery , you 've got to prepare immediately for the next . ’
14 She 'd stopped riding out with the first lot because of nausea on waking , and Tremayne , far from minding , continually urged her to rest more .
15 In the United States the obvious involvement in the political process of the Supreme Court is due to the court having laid claim early in the nineteenth century to the power of judicial review , that is the right to review the constitutionality of executive and legislative acts .
16 demographic trends show that the proportion of elderly people is set to rise dramatically over the next ten years .
17 erm Students will be asked to report back to the next erm sub-committee
18 ‘ This is something I should have done days ago ; something I 've wanted to do almost from the first moment we met , yet I 've fought against it every step of the way , just as you have .
19 Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men .
20 He had badly wanted to sign off with a first victory in Adelaide and a record 10th in a single season .
21 Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training .
22 Once I am happy , the men are allowed to stand down until the next patrol .
23 We decided to try to get to know one another better , seeing as we 're forced to work together for the next week or so . ’
24 What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for .
25 And then , deciding that it was time to start dropping bombshells , ‘ Some actresses have continued acting well into the eighth month of pregnancy . ’
26 An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life .
27 With the wisdom of hindsight it is easy to say that they should not have tried to raid there in the first place , but success had bred a certain arrogance .
28 These were already declining by 1400 and apparently continued to do so throughout the fifteenth century .
29 The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well .
30 On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place .
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