Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the 1730s before the government stumped up compensation for those whose houses had been damaged or destroyed and among them was one James Sharp , ancestor of Jane , my great-grandmother , whom I still remember being taken to visit as a child . |
| 2 | Because of it they say they 've been forced to live in a tent with their young children . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’ |
| 4 | The court staff have been admonished to deal with a request for postal service by solicitor as a matter of priority . |
| 5 | Trade and professional bodies have been invited to comment on a consultation paper . |
| 6 | SCHOOLS around Petersfield have been invited to contribute to a mural competition to decorate the panels around the Tilmore Walk scheme . |
| 7 | Far too many handicapped young people have been condemned to operate at a lower level of education and achievement than their abilities warrant because of lack of facilities for further and higher education . |
| 8 | Viewing the text in this way raises the question of the containment of transgression , since both play and pamphlet have been seen to move toward a closure which contains — even eradicates — their challenging elements . |
| 9 | The bar 's management have been asked to report to a future meeting of the committee . |
| 10 | Over the last year ACET 's centres in Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow have been asked to care for a growing number needing practical help to stay at home . |
| 11 | ‘ A number of district officers have been asked to look at a variety of projects across the service , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Playgroup mothers in Ness and Barra have been asked to contribute to a series of Gaelic broadcasts on the significance of playgroup experience for mothers and young children . |
| 13 | To avoid backlight exposure problems , they have been re-angled to appear against a darker background . |
| 14 | In this experiment , pigeons have been trained to peck towards a particular compass direction , which is that of the controls illustrated to the left . |
| 15 | From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena . |
| 16 | He marched back in with his shoes duly laced up , before telling the court : ‘ I have been made to look like a child in a legal institution and take it very badly . ’ |
| 17 | The Office for Fine Arts in the Netherlands has decided to rid itself of most of the 230,000 works of art which have been left to deteriorate in a number of large depots around the country . |
| 18 | But she 's left a string of debts in this country while thousands of pounds worth of emergency supplies have been left to rot in a warehouse . |
| 19 | The air battle was the first time Allied planes have been forced to respond to a breach . |
| 20 | Teachers have been forced to teach in a way that could be useful to those who had no natural bent for literature at all . |
| 21 | Diane Brewer is finally being treated at the Eldene Health Clinic , where Health officials have been forced to hire in a dentist for half a day a week . |
| 22 | Engineers have been forced to operate at a snail 's pace to counter the danger of the bridge deteriorating further . |
| 23 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 24 | Multiple forms of fibronectin have been shown to arise as a consequence of alternative splicing of the mRNA at three sites ( 25,26 ) . |
| 25 | Some of these have been shown to bind to a specific octamer DNA motif ( 2 , 16-18 ) . |
| 26 | The responses of black students to these different forms of racism have been shown to result in a range of black male and female identities in different settings ( see , for example , Fuller , 1982 ; Riley , 1985 ; Brah and Minhas , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | Seventy have been given refugee status and 240 have been allowed to stay for a year after which their cases will be reviewed . |
| 28 | As peregrines have been known to dive at a speed of 180 miles an hour , they hit their prey with such force that they often break its neck , and sometimes even break the head clean off . |
| 29 | The likes of Terry Wogan , Michael Parkinson and Ernie Wise all have been known to clamour for a soul food supper in preference to other exotic foreign fare . |
| 30 | Odours from the following activities have been found to amount to a private nuisance and the remedy of an injunction and , or damages granted : odours from a fried fish shop , in close proximity to a dwellinghouse ; odours from stables ; odours from smoke and effluvia from a factory chimney ; odours from a gasworks affecting the plaintiff 's plantation of trees ; odours from a sewage disposal works , and odours from the spraying of cars and the burning of tyres . |