Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four thousand goose-grazing hours an acre are not to be bandied about lightly as a conversation stopper . |
| 2 | In addition , ex vivo platelet aggregation to ADP and adrenaline was significantly reduced in diabetic subjects treated for up to a year with therapeutic doses of gliclazide ( Poari et al , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | The improvements in the accident rate have come about largely as a result of increased awareness about safety matters and a developing safety culture . |
| 4 | The answer to all of this is surely that it is not the legal qualities of limited liability or separate personality in themselves that justify intervention , but the concentration of power in private hands that has come about partly as a result of their existence . |
| 5 | This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading . |
| 6 | It has come about entirely as a result of privatisation . |
| 7 | It was the decaying thatched cottage known as Gilbard 's which stood at the top of Lime Street in Stowey , and which had been occupied until then by a widow called Elizabeth Rendell . |
| 8 | If the entire index is in main storage , the correct cylinder to search is located in well under a millisecond . |
| 9 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 10 | Lifts are like shared entrances , you never know who is in them and you run the risk of being trapped in there with an attacker . |
| 11 | He was approached from behind by a man who shoved a sharp object into his back and ordered him to return to the bar in Beaumont Street . |
| 12 | West Indian cricket has been strong for so long principally because it is looked upon almost as a religion in the Caribbean . |
| 13 | And do n't you recall the ribbing you got off Father when you were fifteen and were caught in there with a girl … or was it a woman ? |
| 14 | Anyone with a home proving difficult to sell — which means just about everyone — will be resigned by now to a peeling , semi-permanent board mated to the gatepost . |
| 15 | Gallagher , who was injured in February and was originally expected to be sidelined for up to a year , follows striker Nigel Shaw as a beneficiary of the new operation , which involves the small insertion of laser equipment in the side of the knee to minimise surgery . |
| 16 | Gallagher , who was injured in February and was originally expected to be sidelined for up to a year , follows striker Nigel Shaw as a beneficiary of the new operation , which involves the small insertion of laser equipment in the side of the knee to minimise surgery . |
| 17 | Possessed for once by a spirit of happy hilarity , the Indian crowd unhitched the horses from Mountbatten 's carriage and dragged it through the streets ; British officers were lifted shoulder high and cheered . |
| 18 | If information could be transmitted from here to a Centauri in less time than this , it would effectively be travelling back into the past . |
| 19 | The usual reaction was confusion , followed by a claim that a ‘ mistake ’ had been made in not including a negative in the utterance . |
| 20 | The Missa Papae Marcelli of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( C. 1525–1594 ) , then master of the chapel at St. Maria Maggiore at Rome , may well date from this time and have been accepted at once as an embodiment of the Tridentine ideal but there is no evidence that it was the unique exemplar of the legend . |
| 21 | Brenda 's remedies are made by up by a pharmacist and sent to her . |
| 22 | Cotherstone cheese has been discreetly celebrated for well over a century . |
| 23 | The A5 flyover is expected to be closed for up to a year . |
| 24 | The school will be closed for up to a week , and pupils will have to stay at home while temporary buildings are put up on the site . |
| 25 | Early in his career he was thought of primarily as a left-arm spinner , and made his debut for Barbados in 1941–2 as such . |
| 26 | Modern Delhi is thought of either as a city of grey bureaucracy , or as the metropolis of hard-working , nouveau-riche Punjabis . |
| 27 | I enclose herewith the principal , duplicate , Copy List of Assize and List of Assize to be summoned in conjunction with the instructions shown below together with a warrant for citation in respect of the above mentioned High Court Sitting . |
| 28 | In 1802 William Jowett was to sail to Jamaica to help sort out his father 's affairs , having acted until then as an accountant for his uncle William at Cotes , Titford and Brookes . |
| 29 | Three cocaine smugglers have died in just over a month after swallowing their contraband to beat searches . |
| 30 | ‘ Fasting can be resorted to only against a lover , not to extort rights but to reform him , is when a son fasts for a father who drinks … |