Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bicker stared at Finnan for a long moment , then turned to take in the rest of the company . |
| 2 | So if you become re-employed after retirement in a post which is outside of the education service , the civil service , local government , erm private industry , self employment , that work will have no effect on your teacher 's pension . |
| 3 | It is suggested that men become addicted to alcohol as a result of two quite different situations at work . |
| 4 | You 're asking me to believe that I 've fallen in love with a nothing . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's just something I 've got in mind for a big party I 'm planning . ’ |
| 6 | I 've got , I 've got in touch with a football supporters society |
| 7 | Most of those ones you can audit , they really are procedures we 've had in place for a year but have been audited before and have had minor changes to erm , the wording . |
| 8 | Whilst Hobbes described the rational structure of such a concentration of power and developed it into a veritable philosophy of power , Locke , taking up the challenge , demanded that the exercise of this power , although it was derived from the ultimate and unified source of all power the people remain divided by virtue of a fundamental decision . |
| 9 | The moves , counter moves , rejections , romances and broken hearts are spun together effortlessly through the music and will strike a chord with any teenagers and ex-teenagers who have fallen in love on a Saturday night . |
| 10 | You have heard in response to a direct question put by yourself to an expert for North Yorkshire County Council , that he regarded the village of Flaxton as making a contribution to the historic setting of York , that it had a greenbelt function . |
| 11 | Both are part of the process of informal education and have developed in answer to a single underlying requirement to adapt more closely to a profession and within it , to a specific job . ’ |
| 12 | Viennese citizens have voted in favour of a hydroelectricity plant at Freudenau on the river Danube , south east of Vienna . |
| 13 | Newspapers have traditionally moved from profitability to loss and vice versa at regular intervals as their costs and revenues — always delicately balanced — have come under attack from a variety of quarters . |
| 14 | The government 's so called mum 's army proposals have come under fire at a meeting of teachers and councillors in Nottingham this afternoon . |
| 15 | The concept of the ‘ drug career ’ has been used by a number of authors ( for example , Becker 1963 ) to systematise the response patterns of individuals who have come into contact with a given drug . |
| 16 | Our Sunday Trading laws have come into question as a result of a possible conflict with Article 30 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 17 | The Court found on the facts that it did not need to pronounce upon whether the provisions relating to the Gex Zone created a stipulation in favour of a third party , but warned that the existence of such rights should not be lightly assumed : each such claim must be separately examined to determine ‘ whether the States which have stipulated in favour of a third State meant to create for that State an actual right which the latter has accepted as such ’ . |
| 18 | Thus , as we have argued at length in a recent book , ‘ doubly disadvantaged ’ sections of the working class — the unemployed , women , black people , the retired , and the disabled — have especially acute educational needs . |
| 19 | This is why commentators such as Shaw ( 1978 ) have argued in favour of a broader ‘ social cost accounting ’ approach to settlement policy . |
| 20 | Sorauf argues that fundamental changes in American society and politics rather than money made candidates and interest groups chief actors in the campaign finance they own turned to money as a result of their enhanced power . |
| 21 | Two points about Dunleavy 's framework can usefully be raised : ( a ) He tends to assume that what applies in the case of high-rise flats or town-centre redevelopment applies in other areas of policy-making ; ( b ) He places a heavy emphasis on the nationalizing of urban policy change , arguing ( 1980a , p. 98 ) that within ‘ broad limits the decentralised authorities implementing policies have moved in step with a precision that cries out for explanation ’ . |
| 22 | POLICE have appealed for help after a car stolen from Wrexham was later used as a getaway car by burglars who raided a newsagent 's shop at Mynydd Isa . |
| 23 | POLICE have appealed for help after a car stolen from Wrexham was later used as the getaway car by burglars who raided a newsagents shop at Mynydd Isa . |
| 24 | POLICE have appealed for information in a bid to identify an elderly woman found wandering along a busy road . |
| 25 | Both sides have agreed in principle to a referendum on the future of the territory , and the United Nations has been trying to achieve agreement on its details but , despite concessions by Polisario , little progress has been made . |
| 26 | This section provides that the terms which the parties have agreed in respect of a disposition of an interest in land must be incorporated in one document either by being set out in the document or by reference to another document . |
| 27 | A partnership is not a distinct legal person ; rather it is a group of individuals who have entered into business with a common aim — profit . |
| 28 | In this book we have spoken of life as a series of dialogues : between carbon and water ; between proteins and nucleic acids ; between competition and co-operation . |
| 29 | TWELVE Chinese claiming to be fleeing persecution following the Tiananmen Square massacre have arrived by boat on a South Korean island , reportedly seeking to defect to Taiwan . |
| 30 | I have negotiated with government on a number of business issues , so I think I have certain special skills to bring in , but they 're not necessarily the skills of someone used to dealing with huge budgets , because my company is quite small . |