Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Begin won a slim victory in the Knesset for his foreign and defence policy , though having to concede an inquiry into the Beirut massacres . |
| 2 | Hohne , the EAT reached a similar conclusion in that when the employer moved from premises in High Holborn to Regent Street , the move itself did not constitute a fundamental breach because the new premises were just as easily accessible to Mrs Hohne as she travelled by underground . |
| 3 | For starters , they 've witnessed a marked shift in the make-up of their audience : though there 's a sprinkling of residual bagginess in tonight 's crowd , the lion 's share of the faithful fit the dishevelled , T-shirted stereotype of the diehard pop kid . |
| 4 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 5 | I 'd say offhand , they 've dropped a monstrous spanner in our works . ’ |
| 6 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 7 | Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | I 've endured a terrible journey in the back of a van for you . ’ |
| 9 | Well , I , I think Mr Chairman , they 've done a fair job in there . |
| 10 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 11 | But I 've noticed a few faces in the crowd and it wo n't be long . |
| 12 | Glen Lyons , consultant trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic , says : ‘ In the last five years I 've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of women suffering from hair and scalp conditions , particularly the speeding up of genetic hair loss . |
| 13 | I 'm pleased to say that in the course of the last six months we 've seen a strong recovery in profits . |
| 14 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 15 | And even before the pit closure programme started with the increased competition that was taking place inside the mines , the increased productivity erm we 've seen a steady rise in the number of back accidents , erm you know spinal erm related accidents . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've seen a big rise in unfurnished lettings over the past few months , ’ she says . |
| 17 | We 've made a concerted effort in recent years to make the articles in our association magazine , Business Credit , relevant to the day-to-day problems credit and financial managers face , and to present the latest techniques and applications . |
| 18 | Now scientists working at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford believe they 've made a significant discovery in how asthma is passed down the family tree . |
| 19 | Doctors believe they 've made a significant breakthrough in the fight against one of Britain 's fastest growing illnesses . |
| 20 | Although we 've advanced a great deal in the last fifty years , we still have a way to go and our self esteem is lower than men . |
| 21 | At the moment erm Shane I 've got a new enquiry in the system for a whole works , right , |
| 22 | but still I 've got a hundred pound in there , you have seventy one , seventy two pound worth , plenty stuff |
| 23 | It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years . |
| 24 | As I 've mentioned earlier , we 've we 've got a slight movement in the right direction . |
| 25 | Now , I 've got a retired accountant in Nottingham who spends his days trading gilts , but not what I 'd want to do . |
| 26 | So , you 've got a client who for whatever reason , is , is unable to er , afford the premiums , and providing they 've got a thousand pounds in the fund , they can elect to the , the plan made paid up , whereby the life cover is sustained by the fund and all the other charges , and it 's sustained until the fund runs dry . |
| 27 | Yes but I 've got a thousand members in my , I 'm district secretary , I 've got a thousand members at least |
| 28 | ‘ Oh I 've got a boring job in an office . |
| 29 | It 's no good having them , but I 've got a blue kitchen in my house , I wo I wo n't pay seven hundred quid anyway , that 's not bad for the money even if they were only six seventy quid |
| 30 | We 've got a major problem in the Health Service . |