Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official newspaper of the Communist Youth League had reportedly been criticized for publishing investigative reports against party orders , and its editors had been threatened with a period in the country . |
| 2 | Displacement theory has , however , been criticized for giving insufficient weight to political influences on the level of public expenditure . |
| 3 | His description is more sophisticated than that of the social anthropologically derived traditional community study which was rightly criticized for ignoring basal factors at the structural level . |
| 4 | GILLES PETERSON , head of the Phonogram offshoot Talkin Loud , has been reinstated as director/DJ of London 's Jazz FM station , after being sacked for playing anti-war songs during the Gulf crisis . |
| 5 | It is appropriately called ‘ Camelliifolia ’ and you can be forgiven for taking young plants as camellias . |
| 6 | This is important because specific mechanisms have since been developed for subsidizing private operations in the inner area , but it should also be noted that all inner-area housing sites were already designated as housing land and there were no ‘ change of use ’ profits to be made on them . |
| 7 | AN heroic team of firefighters is being saluted for saving three people including a mother and baby son from their blazing home . |
| 8 | Nor are cruise missiles intended for fighting nuclear war in Europe . |
| 9 | Taiwan was delicately situated for preserving American lines of communication between Okinawa and the Philippines . |
| 10 | A social worker has been sacked after admitting smoking cannabis during a holiday with children in care . |
| 11 | He was referred by his General Practitioner whom he had consulted after experiencing recurrent episodes of upper abdominal pain and severe indigestion . |
| 12 | Access methods , in general , are designed for handling small amounts of persistent data . |
| 13 | But it is a citizen of London who has left us the most elaborate rhapsody which survives from the central Middle Ages on any of the European cities of the day , and William FitzStephen 's glowing vision of the London in which his hero , archbishop Thomas Becket , was born , is a startling reminder that Londoners took fully as much pride in their city as did the Italians of their day — just as the fact that the citizens adopted Thomas Becket as their patron saint reminds us that he was martyred for showing excessive resistance to the king . |
| 14 | Brackish effluent from the farms has been blamed for polluting fresh water on which rice production depends , particularly in the south of the country . |
| 15 | It was n't long after that Sir Roger Casement was hanged for smuggling German arms into Ireland . |
| 16 | Burgess got himself caught for speeding three times in the same day , caused a deliberate rumpus with his inimitable flair for trouble-making , and departed under an engineered cloud . |
| 17 | And since the factory opened , Rajinder Anand has been fined for distributing large numbers of counterfeit audio-cassette tapes . |
| 18 | For his abrupt switch to English had come after taking one look at her knitted hat , cheap raincoat and brogues . |
| 19 | The girl was attacked after leaving this club in Northampton just after 11 p.m. last night . |
| 20 | But the Pope did not mention Serbia , which has come under increasing international pressure for supporting the Bosnian Serbs in the civil war . |
| 21 | You want to enjoy food , not to feel pressured into eating prescribed foods at prescribed times . |
| 22 | Labour councils , throughout the length and breadth of the country , have delighted in presenting high bills to ratepayers and charge payers and in providing poor services . |
| 23 | Vice-President Spiro Agnew , operating as Nixon 's " hatchet man " , delighted in identifying new recruits for this list of " demons " . |
| 24 | In addition , four exploration wells have been drilled in surrounding onshore areas of Great Britain . |
| 25 | The rest of that evening was occupied in selecting suitable hiding-places for the eight hundred horsemen towards which the enemy hopefully could be lured . |
| 26 | According to an indenture to the will of Albert C. Barnes , the eccentric collector who established the foundation to conduct art appreciation classes based on his extraordinary assemblage of paintings , the foundation is specifically forbidden from loaning any works of art . |
| 27 | Despite its role , Data Logic has n't shied from voicing some concerns over its employer 's attitude to transaction processing-on-Unix , concerns lodged not on the technology side , but at IBM 's marketing approach . |
| 28 | As we descended it became increasingly hot , and in the space of two hours we had dropped from rolling grassy hills to a sandy , semi-desert plain . |
| 29 | The physical brain and the world of introspectible phenomenal experience are all that there really is : ‘ no cognitive psychologist has succeeded in defining another sort of input between these two which would provide the ultimate bits of information to which rules are applied ’ ( p. 199 ) . |
| 30 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |