Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While with Hofmann he had so successfully completed an investigation for Allsopps & Sons of Burton-on-Trent that they offered him an appointment as chemist at the brewery . |
| 2 | The usual advice is to prepare the ground by digging two spits deep , but we are rarely given an explanation why , and for that very reason , therefore , we do not see the correct way to do it . |
| 3 | National Clamps said it had since sacked an operator . |
| 4 | If this happens , your job could still be just as much in jeopardy in the long run as that of an employee who has clearly and inexcusably committed an offence . |
| 5 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 6 | The result is a wild , and sometimes very scary , portrait of Manson , his teachings and his bad craziness ; a look from behind those piercing cold eyes as the listener to Moran 's opera is suddenly given an expressway journey to the back of Charlie 's skull . |
| 7 | And the fact that none of her so-called friends at the college — not even her room-mate — had cared enough to warn her that her handsome fiancé apparently regarded an engagement as no pressing reason to stop ‘ playing the field ’ … |
| 8 | when a young child or teenager is asked to do something , perhaps given an instruction by the parents ; |
| 9 | She was still feeling somewhat shaken an hour later — she was going to Prague — and with Ven ! — when suddenly she realised that she 'd barely moved since that phone call . |
| 10 | Parliament , it was said , could not have intended , despite the clearly expressed intention to the contrary , to have given the exclusion so limited an operation , for that would have been of very little assistance to the police . |
| 11 | I have personally received an assurance from the AAA General Committee that the management powers granted to road running will be similar to those given to cross-country , including control over championships and team selection etc . |
| 12 | Awed by this , we have naturally developed an awareness of the transcendent . |
| 13 | The question is : have they on those facts alone committed an offence ? |
| 14 | One building beneath the Cathedral apparently contained an apse with a floor of opus signinum , suggesting perhaps the site of a bath-house hypocaust since the floor was covered by a thick deposit of ash . |
| 15 | Perkin 's placing of the critical moment in the last quarter of the eighteenth century does not mean that a new demand for manufactured goods suddenly made an impact on the British economy around the time of the American Revolution . |
| 16 | I 've only seen an ice cream van about four times since I 've been here . |
| 17 | I 've only seen an illustration . |
| 18 | The administrators wanted to question both the manager and assistant manager of BCCI 's Brompton Road branch , so made an application to the court under section 236(2) . |
| 19 | Anne felt a stab of pain , although she told herself that she was not interested in John Redmond any more , yet eagerly accepted an invitation to Sunday tea from Sarah . |
| 20 | Two members of the Court of Appeal held that no concluded contract had been made on the telephone ; the plaintiff had merely made an invitation to treat . |
| 21 | Rhodesia had long presented an affront to Ghana and other Black African states , yet Nkrumah still valued the Commonwealth connection sufficiently to support Britain 's compromise proposals . |
| 22 | Magistrate Pamela Long made an order under the Children 's and Young Persons ' Act banning publication of details which might lead to the baby 's identity . |
| 23 | Indeed , the fact that he had apparently used an editor from a Manchester newspaper for some of his purposes was latched onto and quoted as a sign that he was ‘ suspect ’ and ‘ disloyal ’ . |
| 24 | It has been an open secret for several months that Hill Samuel was willing to entertain reasonable offers and several possible buyers have apparently shown an interest , but Brewin Dolphin is understood to have been given exclusivity in the negotiations earlier this month . |
| 25 | There 's a cat in your garden , there 's a pussy cat in your garden oh dear I 'll have to go without the swim I 've only got an hour and a half |
| 26 | Two I 've only got an ace , king . |
| 27 | The Pic du Midi has long had an observatory on top , a very substantial structure indeed and occupied since I 88 I , after the scientists who started it had got into the arduous habit of spending their winters up here in a small hotel . |
| 28 | None the less , research has shown that a surprisingly large proportion of the population has not only had an experience that could be called religious , but that , for many , this experience consequently affected their lives in some quite important way . |
| 29 | He was totally oblivious of mess and basically needed an army of servants keeping things organised around him . |
| 30 | This has naturally had an effect on the quality of education found in these schools . |