Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the first time students have been given permission to broadcast outside a campus . |
| 2 | In our corpus we have attested need used as a modal in all of Jacobsson 's ten types except ( 7 ) , ( 9 ) and ( 10 ) . |
| 3 | If ever she 'd seen determination shining from a man 's face she could see it shining from Alexander Vass 's now . |
| 4 | A search revealed the battery operated handset hidden under a mattress . |
| 5 | This substantial and carefully argued paper deals with a number of thorny methodological issues , such as defining the scope and relevant contexts of the syntactic variable ( see 7.4.1 ) and problems associated with the low frequency of particular verbs . |
| 6 | Investors , who have seen life breathed into a share price that was destined for the doldrums this year , may have a different view . |
| 7 | Some early designs incorporated fin offset in an attempt to combat it , with varying success . |
| 8 | There are many projects where farmers have seen potential benefits from a project , but where these have not been the same as those anticipated by the project designers . |
| 9 | Little relative movement between the Indian and Eurasian Plates seems to have occurred between the Middle Eocene and Early Miocene , but isostatic readjustment of the presumably thickened crust resulted in a withdrawal of the sea on the adjacent Indian continental lowland . |
| 10 | And I 've got work to do in a minute . |
| 11 | Once , long ago , at the dawn of time , he had persuaded man to disobey in a garden . |
| 12 | Thorold Mackie was alleged at the High Court in Edinburgh to have used information obtained from a company chairman about an impending profits warning . |
| 13 | This so called sovereignty amounts to a choice between a continued run on the pound and an interest-rate-induced slump . |
| 14 | We 're also told the projected DEC Alpha workstation/server Sandpiper has a little friend called Pelican built around an Alpha Lite chip and expected to give 70% of Sandpiper 's performance . |
| 15 | Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice . |
| 16 | One of the people to mastermind the jeans clad mechanic transformed into a sex symbol was the Sydney fashion guru . |
| 17 | When they complain about ‘ stress ’ they are not saying they want to spend the rest of their lives lazing about in the sun being brought rum bamboozles on a silver tray ( though the idea has its appeal ) . |
| 18 | Brigitte 's grand reunion with her new found family came after a separation from Nicolas of more than 10 years . |
| 19 | As for Mrs Thatcher 's loudly voiced determination to force through a replacement of the Lance nuclear missile , nobody is listening . |
| 20 | Negotiations between transport owners and members of the newly appointed government led to an agreement to await a final decision by the Council of Islamic Ideology . |
| 21 | It had been discovered that the atom consisted of a small , positively charged nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons . |
| 22 | It is however apparent from the judgment in that case that the Court of Appeal regarded information overheard as a result of accidents or imperfections in the telephone system as free from the obligation of confidence . |
| 23 | The first is here exemplified in Guercino 's firmly detailed Woman Seated on a Bed Raising a Curtain , while the second is clearly illustrated in the sinuous design arrangement proposed in Parmigianino 's mannerist Virgin and Child . |
| 24 | Grade 1 step kicking and a strenuous pull round an overhung chockstone led to a notch below the summit . |
| 25 | As the loaded kibble arrived at the landing platform the lander gripped a loose ring in the base of the bucket with a long hooked bar suspended from a chain . |
| 26 | Nikolai Ryzhkov , the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) , on March 14 threatened his own and his government 's resignation after his name was cited during exchanges in the Congress of People 's Deputies in connection with a recently discovered scandal centring on a plot illegally to export Soviet battle tanks to the West . |
| 27 | Under its terms legislative authority is vested in a bicameral popularly elected Congress consisting of a House of Representatives of up to 250 members and a 24-member Senate . |
| 28 | ‘ ( 1 ) If any person who has paid tax charged under an assessment alleges that the assessment was excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return , he may by notice in writing at any time not later than six years after the end of the year of assessment ( or , if the assessment is to corporation tax , the end of the accounting period ) in which the assessment was made , make a claim to the Board for relief . |
| 29 | The antibodies were visualised by application of enzyme labelled antisera followed by a substrate agarose overlay . |