Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's a standard Italian word and it 's been mixed in amongst all the French rubato . |
| 2 | The police chief Tuma was taken to court by one judge for breaking an October 1989 decree to remove the miners , only to be let off by another a few weeks later . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ On top of all his talent , to have come back from such a serious injury and regain his best form is supremely brave . |
| 4 | Oh , he had come out with all the usual male excuses . |
| 5 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 6 | I refer to a letter written by the hon. Member for Leeds , Central on 28 November 1991 to the secretary of the Society of Chief Inspectors and Advisers : ’ The subsequent evaluation , monitoring and implementation of new practices could be carried out by both the initial inspector or by a group of advisers . |
| 7 | The test , which at present can only be carried out in half a dozen laboratories around the world , seeks to identify an abnormal antibody in the blood of likely sufferers . |
| 8 | 1990 is a good time for a Zeppelin retrospective since a new generation has grown up without all the negative associations that the band once had . |
| 9 | 1990 is a good time for a Zeppelin retrospective since a new generation has grown up without all the negative associations that the band once had . |
| 10 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |
| 11 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 12 | ‘ I was just so fed up with all the internal politics . |
| 13 | Well , bored motorway cops , fed up with all the would-be Nigel Mansells roaring down the fast lane , recently adopted a system called Speed Snooker to nab offenders . |
| 14 | She had to admit later , on renewing her lipstick in the Ladies ' , that it was fun being seen out with such a charismatic man . |
| 15 | That 's a possibility but this has been talked through with both the Social Services and the the hospital and er we 've decided to take that chance . |
| 16 | It is possible , though by no means proven , that the success of magnetic fields at 10 Hz in promoting healing is simply due to a type of replacement therapy , giving the patient a good-going dose of Earth 's magnetic field which has been drowned out by all the artificial , man-made frequencies surrounding us . |
| 17 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 18 | It had been a long day — the children safely delivered to Grandma , the freezer full of food ( for a husband to cope on his own ) , leotards and tights packed along with all the other paraphernalia needed for a Medau display . |
| 19 | True enough , in the original imprint of Scouting for Boys he had sounded off with all the usual gusto about ‘ How the Empire Must be Held ’ : . |
| 20 | She was grumbling about being called out at such a late hour . |
| 21 | He could have resented being called out on such a dark , stormy night , not saddled the King 's horse properly and this caused the accident on Kinghorn Ness . |
| 22 | The idea is to create employment until the total unemployment is brought down to half a million . |
| 23 | We thought from where we sat that the department should stand up and be counted along with all the other participants around the table . |
| 24 | His attitude to life is brought out in both the mutual greeting of friends who agree that Life Is Very Interesting ( 1980 ) as well as the personal philosophy of the Lonely Man Who Is Very Happy And Enjoying His Art Work ( 1974 ) . |
| 25 | The biggest threat is from loss of habitat because the rainforests are being chopped down at such a fast rate . |
| 26 | The thing has gone on in a different way from previous years , and the outcome , as you 've observed , although the Liberal Democrats initially proposed spending at capping , they have gone down by half a million pounds . |
| 27 | I 've run out of such a good dog food again ! |
| 28 | Remote and isolated , the quarries were remarked on by many an unbelieving traveller in this region which Defoe called ‘ the wildest , most barren and frightful of any that I have passed over in England … |
| 29 | ‘ If you 're forced to live on benefits you 're thrown on to such a low level that you ca n't dress properly for interviews or even afford the travel involved . |
| 30 | When there were still twenty square miles of maps left over after all the available floor was used up , she created a curtained alcove into which the jigsaw could extend . |