Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 4,000 12 to 16year-old members of the Halifax Building Society Quest Club filled in questionnaires for the latest survey . |
| 2 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 3 | Hendry , who has now earned over £200,000 during the 1992-93 season despite his relatively poor run of results , added : ‘ When you believe that you 're the best player in the world it 's very depressing when you keep on playing like an idiot . ’ |
| 4 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 5 | Before they were colonized the Zande regularly carried out autopsies on the dead bodies of suspected witches , to see whether their bodies revealed any trace of the deadly ‘ witchcraft substance ’ ( mangu ) or essence in the small intestine . |
| 6 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 7 | Lovell ( 1986 ) reviews around a dozen papers which have carried out tests of the rational expectations hypothesis using direct survey data . |
| 8 | Having carried out savings of a similar amount last year , he says there 's no fat left to trim . |
| 9 | Not a great deal in the way of interpretation or conclusion should be hung on answers to a single question about ‘ liking ’ housework . |
| 10 | They are now sixth with supporters angered by the run of poor results particularly as Rovers have lashed out £5.4m on a make-or-break spending spree . |
| 11 | For Leconte , who only four months earlier had undergone back surgery for the third time in little more than two years , it had seen the re-birth of what was — and can be again — a gloriously entertaining , as well as effective , career . |
| 12 | With reference to our meeting on March 7th : on the assumption that the Unit 's terms of reference will be agreed in some form broadly consonant with the one you indicated , I have drawn up proposals on the attached annexes under the following headings : |
| 13 | A FOREIGN medical company has drawn up plans for a private hospital development in Darlington , it was revealed last night . |
| 14 | Deadwood prospered and Costner was befriended by locals until they discovered he had drawn up plans for an 800-room hotel and conference centre nearby . |
| 15 | If Channel 4 get it right , they could strike a mortal blow at BSkyB and their drawn out screenings of the Premier League . |
| 16 | He had married the daughters of several important Muslim chiefs and was in frequent communication with the " Mad Mullah " in Somaliland , supplying him with rifles and ammunition to help in his long drawn out war against the British . |
| 17 | A WELL thought out tribute to the classical talents of the late Valerie Thornton , this exhibition of paintings and etchings takes in her love for architecture , both ecclesiastical and vernacular . |
| 18 | Paul 's family in Swindon have given up hope of an early release . |
| 19 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 20 | Over the last year an extra 29,000 inpatients and 8,500 day case patients were treated up 6pc on the previous year 's total of 588,000 . |
| 21 | One clubs , Wasps , decided to wait until Saturday to make their decision , much to the annoyance of their opponents , Harlequins , who had forked out £1,500 for an overnight stay in a hotel . |
| 22 | Bunny , wearing a knitted Balaclava and carrying a clip board , called out commands to the chief electrician in a voice muffled with pain . |
| 23 | With every move the visitor transfers from one ear to another , steps over the roughed out eye-socket of a sleeping figure , or dodges round a protruding nose . |
| 24 | The festival of Sekaten is marked by a week of playing sacred musical instruments called gamelans , brought in procession to the Grand Mosque — a colourful and tuneful display . |
| 25 | One local says helicopters brought in reinforcements to the isolated rural area an hour before the shooting began . |
| 26 | Every £1 in extra revenue brought in 93p at the bottom line , said the board , with the new 7 per cent Government levy on sales the only deduction . |
| 27 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |
| 28 | The one thing that these , and other applications have in common , is a measurement of the Hall effect , in which , in certain circumstances , a voltage is set up perpendicular to a magnetic field and a current passing through a material . |
| 29 | we have set up co-ordinators in every local education authority to train teachers about the harm drugs can do , a nd to bring the fight against drug abuse into the classroom ; |
| 30 | However , the attack has brought back memories of the last battle between rival operators . |