Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I imagine those who appeal would carry on paying the bill until the outcome is resolved and then receive a rebate with interest if necessary , ’ said Mr Collin . |
| 2 | The lathe has been modified and now has an indexing system with a range of divisions with 16 , 32 or 60 stops . |
| 3 | I hauled it when the weather permitted and invariably found a lobster or two in it , or even a fish of some sort . |
| 4 | I have never met or even seen a member of the Royal Family . |
| 5 | However , the diversity of the range of information and its potentially extensive scope do require consideration of the methods by which the data may be collected and thereby offers an opportunity for the development of more creative ways of defining and discussing with older people these various areas of their lives . |
| 6 | We should have SOME games in the season where we are outplayed and yet get a result . |
| 7 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 8 | In practice , we first form a column of skip means alongside the values to be smoothed and then form a column of the required smoothed values . |
| 9 | He said he would wait another week to see if the injury healed and then make a decision — if he steps down , leading batsman Javed Miandad may lead the team . |
| 10 | During the year , Mortgage Asset Management Limited has been further developed and now has a portfolio totalling £74 million . |
| 11 | In practice , unless the employer can show that the employee has copied or physically removed a list of names or the details of a process then it may be very difficult to establish that the knowledge of the employee is exclusively due to confidential information . |
| 12 | This duty might vary according to the nature of the contract of employment but would be broken if the employee copied or deliberately memorized a list of customers . |
| 13 | Whilst it is conceivable that some of these jobs will be craft based and thus provide an outlet for some initiative and self activism , the significant reality will be that they have no economic power and no industrial muscle . |
| 14 | The reasons for these declines in late-age mortality are not well understood but probably reflect a variety of factors including better health care and improvements in nutrition and other aspects of living conditions as well as improvements in the availability and quality of medical care . |
| 15 | Between 1740 and 1760 there was introduced and popularly used a sauce-boat in the shape of a shell , sitting on a short-stemmed , moulded foot . |
| 16 | The trees and shrubs wavering in the wind had stilled and now resembled a child 's Plasticine world . |
| 17 | Larval termites look like those most primitive of insects , the bristletails ; larval horseshoe crabs are visibly segmented and so reveal a similarity with the trilobites difficult to perceive in the adult ; the free-swimming molluscan larva looks very like that of the segmented worms and thus suggests a link between the two groups . |
| 18 | More generally , governments in Japan , the US , and Europe have promoted and lavishly funded a number of large-scale pre-competitive research consortia ( such as the VSLI consortium , SEMATECH , MCC , ESPRIT , and others ) , and antitrust law and practice in both the US and Europe have become noticeably more lenient with the passage of the National Co-operative Research Act in 1984 and the announcement of the block exemption from Article 85 in the EEC for certain categories of R&D agreements in 1985 . |
| 19 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 20 | In 1576 Thomas Cherrington complained in the Queen 's Council of the Marches , that Thurston Woodcock , lord of Meason , had assembled a gang armed with long staffs and billhooks , and had forcibly ploughed and then enclosed a piece of his waste ground with a ditch . |
| 21 | His tone had changed and now held an inflexion that could almost have been mistaken for tenderness . |
| 22 | Imaging quality has been vastly improved and now includes a 3D facility . ’ |
| 23 | It may be an absolutely true statement , but it does nothing whatsoever to give any guidance as to the ways in which performance may be improved and merely passes a message down the line that those at the top do not want to know the bad news and would like to dissociate themselves from it . |
| 24 | Situated just a mile from Kirchberg centre , the hotel has recently been completely re-furbished and now offers a sauna , table tennis and bicycle hire free of charge . |
| 25 | Will the Foreign Secretary keep the House informed and perhaps make a statement when the House returns after the recess ? |
| 26 | At 4 a.m. it was purely by chance that Bob Newman first heard that Tweed had murdered and then raped a girl . |
| 27 | Words like " explain " , " justify " and " assess " are used to focus your attention on causation and evidence ; you should not only describe what you have read but also offer an analysis of why you take the view of it you do . |