Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All independently of each other going round to the , well I say independently , but they obviously get fed a lot of information from head office where we have a telesales operation . |
| 2 | But when companies are fined for breaking the health and safety laws , they only get fined a pittance , compared to what damage is caused to employees through companies ' neglect and law breaking . |
| 3 | Their effects can not be isolated from the HLCA system ; in essence it has been the availability of substantial levels of grant plus the guarantee of HLCAs on the increased numbers of animals which can be kept on the agriculturally improved grassland , which together have constituted a substantial incentive for such capital improvements . |
| 4 | personally have had a horse actually had things thrown at it by saboteurs ! |
| 5 | If a more powerful lord had been shot , with a vast estate , many men might have been thrown out of work and so have borne a grudge against the gunman . |
| 6 | Several studies ( Berzonsky , 1971 ; Morag Donaldson , 1986 ; Huang , 1943 ) have provided empirical support for this argument , and in doing so have produced a much more optimistic picture of young children 's ability to explain . |
| 7 | The simple fact of the matter Mr Mayor is that vehicles coming in have got a very er simple alternative route and when they come down the hill they can turn left , go by the golf course knows very well , go round the roundabout and go round the roundabout and come in , alright they 've got to join a queue there but they 're in a queue anyway . |
| 8 | Second , by embracing collective entrepreneurship , the Japanese especially have found a different way to achieve competitive advantage while maintaining high real wages . |
| 9 | I 'd say when you go to this afternoon er ring the doorbell and say er just get handed a crash helmet and say this is for coming after . |
| 10 | It started with a piece of foolishness that could have got me into a deal of trouble had I not have had a wise check in time from the inspector . |
| 11 | to achieve the immediate objective and thus have taken a significant step towards achieving the overall aim |
| 12 | After her decision to stop working with a model , she wrote : ‘ Through the long time of working on studies , I finally have attained a certain background in technique which allows me to express what I want without a model . ’ |
| 13 | We just have used a simplified version of that . |
| 14 | Sociologists have often pointed out that the various processes and outcomes of racial discrimination referred to above have produced a very distinctive location for black people in the British class structure . |
| 15 | Key teachers who can , with training , perform a multiplier role on return to their institutions , which already have shown a commitment to introducing CALL . |
| 16 | It was only water that was let into a confined space but we had a Sports Association which had a section for the swimming and er I way remember bought a couple of old single decker buses from somewhere , I do n't know where and he had them fitted out and rigged up at Stoke Bathing Place , especially for us to go there and change and w we did have quite a good strong section , we used to hold our , an annual what you call a regatta , or , no not a regatta but er in the St Matthew 's Swimming Baths a festival , a swimming festival a gala , yes |
| 17 | ‘ If I ever go to a funeral in an out-of-the-way place , I always get pushed a discoloured glass of potheen . |
| 18 | Once Buckthorn disturbed a snake , and leapt into the air as it whipped between his paws to vanish down a hole at the foot of a birch . |
| 19 | Following on from the exhibition of Italian drawings 1780–1890 seen in Washington , Minneapolis and San Francisco in 1980 and 1981 , the same team of organisers and curator The American Federation of Arts and Roberta Olsen respectively have mounted an ambitious sequel , ‘ Ottocento : Romanticism and Revolution in nineteenth-century Italian paintings ’ . |
| 20 | He taught me a lot and was also a good type of person for whom I always have had a very high regard . |
| 21 | We make ourselves known in the village w erm you see we 've got the peace movement at the moment and last year er we always have put a wreath . |
| 22 | Erm , may I make a comment on neighbourhood watch , I went to er a job the other day , it was a theatre , I was off duty and er I got tapped on the shoulder by my local neighbourhood watch co-ordinator who said , nine months ago I resigned , I wrote a letter to headquarters , I wrote a letter to the divisional commander , and I wrote a letter to the local constable , and nobody 's replied to me and they still keep sending me papers are you gon na get your act together , now I I have brought this up before , we never ever have let a neighbourhood watch scheme lapse , it 's nothing to do with you , this is all before you came |
| 23 | The better off have escaped an increase in higher income tax rates , the upper limit on employees ' National Insurance contributions remains as does mortgage tax relief . |
| 24 | The better off have escaped an increase in higher income tax rates ; the upper limit on employees ' National Insurance contributions remains as does mortgage tax relief . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , therefore , the Government 's claims regarding who is better off have become an issue of intense dispute . |
| 26 | Certainly , that expansion could never have occurred in a society organised into villages of co-operation ; nor would industries run by trade unions as workers ’ co-operatives and organised nationally have provided a basis for it , for the accumulation of capital with which to finance the crucial , secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution : that is , the establishment of a capital goods sector of the economy . |
| 27 | And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much . |
| 28 | The depute procurator-fiscal , Sandra McRobert , told the court that the major police operation began after Say phoned a relative and a neighbour , telling them his wife had left him and that he intended to commit suicide . |
| 29 | You have to have a licence to have a C.B. and when you get your licence you also get given a rule book which tells you all the things you are and are not allowed to do and say when using the C.B. One of the rules is that you are not allowed to swear down the C.B. as anybody can listen into your conversation and hear you swearing . |
| 30 | Since the late 1970s both have enjoyed a more generous helping of autonomy than any other Spanish region . |