Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 2 | This pattern has come to be considered as something of a pre-industrial norm . |
| 3 | ‘ It must have looked like something from an old-fashioned horrorvid . |
| 4 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 5 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 6 | When he come across someone of a different religion , namely Shylock , he abuses and generally mistreats them just because of their religion . |
| 7 | Soon the seascape seemed to be occupied by nothing but the two great ships clamped together , with a web of men and weapons passing glittering from the one to the other . |
| 8 | They may be issued or modified by anyone with the requisite permission ( see Section 6 of this manual ) , who also has the appropriate access rights . |
| 9 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 10 | I knew why , they had the queer sensation that they were being addressed by someone from a bygone age . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman should ask Neath borough council why , when money has been available , it has not applied for anything in the past two years . |
| 12 | Gradually , she found herself being turned into something between a useful servant and a source of relief ; a person who was little more than a housekeeper and temporary mistress . |
| 13 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 14 | it may be flattering to be taken for the head of the firm if you are not , but it is not good business , and sound progress can not be made with anyone on a false footing , in fact , it must be obvious that the greater the respect you hold and encourage towards any of your seniors , the better the position they will be in to assist you in any difficulties which may arise . |
| 15 | In less than ten years the market for these potent desktop machines has grown from nothing into a global business with sales of $1.4 billion last year . |
| 16 | When a putative diagnosis of yaws is made in someone from an endemic area , on the strength of positive treponemal blood tests , it is customary to give a course of penicillin which would be adequate to treat latent syphilis should this have been the cause of the positive STS . |
| 17 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
| 18 | But it WAS clearly written by someone with an intimate knowledge of the royal marriage crisis before it became public in Andrew Morton 's controversial book . |
| 19 | A tongue that left people in no doubt of their responsibilities but delivered in impeccable style , seen by everyone as a proper ‘ gent ’ . |
| 20 | At its most distinct , it includes work which could not physically be produced by a non-Disabled person ( for example , drawing as seen by someone with a specific visual impairment , or using muscle spasm to create a particular photographic quality ) . |
| 21 | Our samples were no exception : Table 5.1 takes a loose definition of ‘ carer ’ and shows — for the three points in time — whether the dementia sufferer lived with someone who helped in some way to care for him or her , and if not , how frequently he or she was visited by someone on an informal caring basis . |
| 22 | Residential care has been viewed and therefore avoided as something of a last resort . |
| 23 | On the flickering screen just to the right , light suddenly reflected from something in the black hole of the cell-like room . |
| 24 | All this though was some way from any quantitative expression of conservation of ‘ energy ’ — a term first used in something like the modern scientific sense by Thomas Young at the beginning of the century . |
| 25 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 26 | It is recommended that modules in this state are not formally issued from LIFESPAN , although they may be read and used by anyone with the appropriate access rights . |
| 27 | More than a dozen firms turn out look-alike Cobras , powered by anything from a reconditioned Ford Sierra engine to a massive Chevrolet V8 capable of over 130mph . |
| 28 | Failure to match performance to expectations has developed into something of a national neurosis . |
| 29 | He said he thought it possible that , within five years , one French house in a hundred would be equipped with solar power , compared with one in a thousand today . |
| 30 | 11 To there friends who knew her , her self-assertion was born from nothing but a necessary and confident determination to succeed in an area where women rarely rose to prominence . |