Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each criterion is broken down further into a number of different categories with varied weighted values . |
| 2 | The substance or substances were placed down either on an object in front of the horse or somewhere on the front of the horse himself . |
| 3 | when the business of the partnership can be carried on only at a loss ; |
| 4 | He may be mistaken in his choice of means , but it is against nature that he should wish harm to his kingdom ’ A unified and consistent policy , it was often contended , could be carried on only by a monarch , not by a group of ministers each of whom had his own axe to grind ( this was a favourite argument of Frederick II in particular ) . |
| 5 | We 'll look , we 'll actually look at the processes of deep water formation tomorrow , so you 'll actually see how the waters are formed , but the reason why this is high is basically the act of A , low biological activity removing it and B , the fact that the source waters have not come from below , they 've come in horizontally from an area where they were formed which was very rich in oxygen . |
| 6 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
| 7 | So , I 'm fed up I want to go to Malita And then we get , they 'll call in and say you have n't come up there for a week ! |
| 8 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 9 | Le Bon seemed to have in mind here a church congregation , as in the remarks about people being lifted up ethically in a crowd . |
| 10 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 11 | On the , on the down side , some of us felt that the , the actual heading could have been , might get picked up verbatim by a news editor and used almost in that form . |
| 12 | You were rolled up tight as a mummy in canvas , then water was poured on it . |
| 13 | On the whole , she thought as she grilled her lamb chop , tossed the broad beans from cullender to plate and regarded the ginger-haired Tobias who had curled up companionably on a copy of the parish magazine in the centre of the kitchen table , it 's an icon of paradise : a garden I did not make , a house I 'm only partly responsible for and , above all , no human contacts unless I seek them out . |
| 14 | In October 1990 the WEU had come out strongly against a proposal by the EC Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers that the EC 's Treaty of Rome should be amended to incorporate Article 5 of the Brussels Treaty establishing the WEU , so that the EC should effectively control the WEU . |
| 15 | Love has already come out firmly as a feminist who believes that a certain female viewpoint needs to be given space , but even she sees the dichotomy between feminism and her ‘ battered slut in baby dolls ’ image . |
| 16 | Government functions were to be carried out instead by a Cabinet attached to executive President Islam Karimov [ whose title is given wrongly on p. 37323 as President of the Supreme Soviet ] . |
| 17 | Sometimes assessments are carried out simply as a classroom routine . |
| 18 | Such audits are being carried out already by a number of large European companies . |
| 19 | Nevertheless some valued individual work is undertaken and I was told it was often most effective when carried out jointly with a Probation Officer , each undertaking specific but complementary work . |
| 20 | The second to seventh defendants have complained to the ombudsman that such valuations made in respect of further loans to them were carried out negligently by an employee of , in the case of the second and third defendants , the Halifax Building Society ; in the case of fourth and fifth defendants the Woolwich Building Society , and in the case of the sixth and seventh defendants the Leeds Permanent Building Society . |
| 21 | I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration . |
| 22 | This modern view has come about not as a result of any further substantial constitutional developments — perhaps strangely , or perhaps significantly , the issue has never been seriously tested — rather , it has come to enjoy widespread , although not universal acquiescence largely because Dicey ( following Stephen and an equivocating Blackstone ) posited it as a central feature of the English constitution and because it has a deceptively simple logical appeal . |
| 23 | I thought I 'd better come round today in a bit more positive mood . |
| 24 | ‘ Wayward , twisted psykers are hunted down ruthlessly on a host of worlds . |
| 25 | I knew I 'd got kids written down here for a reason . |
| 26 | She will try to accept the fact , as she takes her mother 's ‘ elevenses ’ in to her , that any attempt she may make to start a discussion of something that might not be of immediate interest to her mother may be turned off suddenly like a switch , and will plunge her temporarily into an emotional darkness in which she will feel very much alone . |
| 27 | He 'd tried to fight it , to stay on the straight and narrow to the M1 , but had turned off eastwards like an automaton . |
| 28 | The revaluation resulted in a £68m write-down of wholly-owned properties and a £34.7m write-down of property associates ' , both written off directly against a revaluation reserve of only £84m . |
| 29 | Later , more complex constructions were built up further with a drum upon the pendentives , pierced by windows in the sides to light the building beneath , and the dome surmounted this drum ( ‘ F' ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Great Mates ’ The Blockheads ( they of Ian Dury And … ) once turned up unexpectedly at a Clash recording session dressed as policemen , causing Mick Jones to flush all his illicit substances down the toilet and the rest of the band to flee . |