Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I 've pointed out the inadequacies of the underbidders , ’ said Mr Lilley blandly , in a reference to the Korean underbidder , Hyundai . |
| 2 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive in a hotel . |
| 3 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive at a hotel . |
| 4 | They 've called back the likes of former World finalists Jimmy Nilsen and Captain Mitch Shirra . |
| 5 | Writers like Saunders ( 1984 , 1986 ) have pointed out the problems of structuralism , but in their own work have often been guilty of endorsing profoundly capital logic accounts of social process . |
| 6 | Many times , Labour Members have pointed out the iniquities of the standard spending assessment , which is based on irrelevant data more than 10 years old . |
| 7 | A number of commentators have pointed out the inconsistencies in the approaches adopted by SSAPs 15 and 24 . |
| 8 | And we have speeded up the benefits of revaluation for those businesses who gain from it . |
| 9 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 10 | Once you have sorted out the distractions like that , you can have some amazing fun re-planning your house . |
| 11 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 12 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 13 | And I have averaged out the changes over all the various sections of the A sixty one . |
| 14 | We have set out the policies for customers , and that was what motivated the main changes this year in our telecoms policy . |
| 15 | In recent years other radio astronomers in Cambridge and New Mexico have pinned down the positions of previously unidentified galaxies with increasing accuracy . |
| 16 | The majors have swept up the independents in licensing deals , or in Norman Jay 's case , have started to employ a new breed of A&R man … |
| 17 | ‘ His men have rounded up the children from Ashbrook — ‘ t is one of my lord 's villages a mile or so from here , ’ he explained when Isabel made a small querying sound . |
| 18 | They have tightened up the rules on availabilty for work and only pay out to those genuinely entitled to the money . |
| 19 | They have tightened up the rules on availabilty for work and only pay out to those genuinely entitled to the money . |
| 20 | East Anglian surveyors Bidwells have taken up the cudgels on behalf of farmers not only at the timescale for completion of claim forms for area and set-aside payments and ewe and beef premiums , but also at the fines which could result from late or incorrect returns . |
| 21 | Wheelchair travellers used to cross the track on boards laid down for mail trolleys.But now the disabled are being forced to make an eighty mile detour via Shrewsbury to get to Hereford because British Rail have taken up the boards for safety reasons.We joined the Leominster Disabled Access group on a trip to Hereford . |
| 22 | well the the have a training roll and it may well be that the will be able to I mean I have n't spoken for example but they have taken over the functions of the old Manpower Services Commission training agency . |
| 23 | Officers have dug up the foundations of a garage in Goddard Avenue , Swindon , in a resumed search for Mrs Main . |