Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 2 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 3 | A pregnant employee will be given this by a doctor or midwife . |
| 4 | The campaign relies on a provision in the Water Resources Act 1991 , under which company directors are deemed guilty of an offence if their company causes pollution with their " consent or connivance " or if it is " attributable to any neglect " on their part . |
| 5 | The idea that drinking nablabs was a seriously smart thing to do ant that hordes or women would subsequently fall at one 's feet probably looked great on a storyboard but it failed to impress the punters . |
| 6 | In addition French ( 1986b ) found that various characteristics which go against the stereotyped image of the physiotherapist are stigmatised by that profession ; for example , to be very overweight was considered more of a barrier than blindness or needing to use a wheelchair . |
| 7 | There Dorothy was educated first by a governess and then in the intellectually stimulating environment of Southborough House , which provided the only formal education she valued in retrospect . |
| 8 | Chester have won five in a row and are now fourth . |
| 9 | See well , you could er I still went with the horse and cart down there on a Saturday , take the meat , still the same I done that for a year or two . |
| 10 | Motivation is often increased if it is made clear to a group that they are covering a topic on behalf of the whole class and that their results will be shared by the rest of the class . |
| 11 | This is of great importance in practice because planning permissions are invariably granted subject to a condition that the permitted development is begun within a stipulated time . |
| 12 | The ’ Harriet was hungry ’ example may be only nine words long , but it nevertheless demonstrates many aspects of knowledge that need to be made explicit to a computer before it could be said to understand . |
| 13 | If the matrimonial home is already subject to a mortgage then the requirements of the mortgagees will have to be ascertained prior to a conveyance or transfer and if , although the house is to remain in joint names , liability for the mortgage payments is to be assumed by one party , an indemnity to the other party will have to be included in the declaration of trust ( see Precedent 54 ) . |
| 14 | I think at the time of the er , of the A G M , I said we were pleased by the prospects and in the current statement I say the outlook continues promising , but I do n't think at any point we 've made more of a forecast than that . |
| 15 | That school , that school made more of an impression than I mean it was , if anything they were too soft . |
| 16 | ( 9 ) The Note to Rule 26 stipulates that a copy of each document which is required to be put on display pursuant to that Rule ( see para 11.5 below ) must , on request , promptly be made available by an offeror or the target to the other party and to any competing offeror or potential offeror . |
| 17 | During the 19th century , however , it fell on hard times , and was turned first into a warehouse and then a restaurant . |
| 18 | Bodies are shaped several at a time and come off the machine almost ready to finish . |
| 19 | S. Maria was originally a church built adjacent to a palace and was part of it , which probably accounts for its extensive and unusual character . |
| 20 | The stimuli to be used in the test phase were presented two at a time and the subjects were asked to describe the pair as ‘ same ’ or ‘ different ’ as appropriate . |
| 21 | No sooner have you got used to a place than you have to move on . ’ |
| 22 | Similarly , where a product which contains a secret mechanism is supplied subject to a condition that the recipient should not examine the mechanism , this will establish confidence in the mechanism ( see Paul ( KS ) ( Printing Instruments ) Ltd v Southern Instruments ( Communications ) Ltd and EP Ellis ( Male ) ( Trading as Ellis and Sons ) [ 1964 ] RPC 118 ) . |
| 23 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 24 | The answer is to recognize that the conversation has got stuck in a circle and to take an initiative to break it . |
| 25 | I reckon they must 've nearly got enough for a ticket cos they ask quite a few people . |
| 26 | I was talking to that presenter of that alternative-politics programme — what 's his name ? — and he said that he 'd got annoyed with a colleague because she criticized his pink bow-tie . |
| 27 | An exceptionally attractive pub , it 's housed Tardis-like in a cottage that 's said to be Leyburn 's oldest building . |
| 28 | Goscinny had worked in America with Harvey Kurtzman of MAD fame : he had become dissatisfied as a draughtsman and chose to redirect his talents to story-telling . |
| 29 | Spanish officials from the prime minister , Felipe Gonzalez , on down , have since defended these with a pugnacity that has upset federalists . |
| 30 | In May at his gallery Eigen & Art , Judy Lybke is showing the works of Kaeseberg from Leipzig ( who has become famous as a painter and a draughtsman ) : roughly carved wood sculptures reflect on our use of toys and the apparatus of war . |