Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greengrocer was large , round and taciturn with a white apron wrapped completely around his waist like a sheet which brushed the floor . |
| 2 | Thus NEP as a monetary phenomenon took time to seep slowly through the various levels of society , just as pistoles and écus had competed with the franc in the French provinces after that other great revolution . |
| 3 | ( I quote from a written complaint received . ) |
| 4 | Anger on a slow fuse began to build . |
| 5 | The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 7 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , local education authorities have for a long time had a duty to provide special education for handicapped children . |
| 8 | This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp . |
| 9 | Libraries and librarians have for a long time sought to play a role in the educational development of young children in the formative and primary years , particularly in the simple stimulation of the reading habit . |
| 10 | The desire or need for a fresh start arose either because , as in the United States , some neighbouring communities wished to unite together under a new government ; or because , as in Austria or Hungary or Czechoslovakia after 1918 , communities had been released from an Empire as the result of a war and were now free to govern themselves ; or because , as in France in 1789 or the U.S.S.R. in 1917 , a revolution had made a break with the past and a new form of government on new principles was desired ; or because , as in Germany after 1918 or in France in 1875 or in 1946 , defeat in war had broken the continuity of government and a fresh start was needed after the war . |
| 11 | Within this mass , the smaller workers have in a similar fashion created chambers in which the pupae hang . |
| 12 | The Gulf War and work on a new runway had kept the planes away . |
| 13 | Work on a new constitution began shortly after the June 1990 elections , but political differences within the parliamentary drafting commission delayed consideration of it for several months . |
| 14 | The decline of the extended family network , and its replacement by smaller ‘ nuclear ’ family groups , has meant that valuable networks of support and care have to a considerable extent disappeared . |
| 15 | This division of labour by artefact type epitomises attitudes towards archaeology generally at that time , and such divisions have to a large extent persisted to this day , emphasising how artefact-based early Anglo-Saxon studies have remained . |