Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chairman of the Museums and Galleries Commission , Graham C. Greene , has asked the Attorney General Nicholas Lyell to look into the matter of the permission , finally granted this year by the Charity Commissioners , but applied for in 1988 , to break the Trust of Thomas Holloway . |
| 2 | The ambiguity of something so ill-defined argued for on such different , and sometimes contradictory grounds , needs serious analysis . |
| 3 | If the interpretation of democracy argued for in this book is correct , or at least is found persuasive by its readers , then it should be clear that its principal practical implication is that democracy is still " unfinished business " on the agenda of modern politics . |
| 4 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 5 | I understand that the deep ditch that the boy and motorcycle crashed into on that fateful night is referred to as ‘ deadman 's ditch ’ , a horrific reminder of a foolhardy game that cost a young man his life . |
| 6 | So the challenge to keep abreast of technological developments in aviation was one I entered into with considerable enthusiasm when I was appointed Deputy Chief Inspector in 1967 . |
| 7 | Counties ranged in population from about 2 million ( Lancashire ) to less that 30,000 ( Rutland ) ; county boroughs ranged from over 1 million ( Birmingham ) to 33,000 ( Canterbury ) — less than the minimum population stipulated in 1888 . |
| 8 | On average , the loss ranged from between eight and 15 per cent between November and February according to the study , the most comprehensive ever undertaken , with monitoring from ships , aircraft , rockets and ground stations . |
| 9 | Cos we moved in in about nineteen I think we moved in in nineteen eighty nineteen eighty , nineteen eighty one we moved in . |
| 10 | Of the other offences adverted to in this chapter , the crime of threatening to kill is extended to threats to cause serious personal harm ( cl. 65 ) ; administering a substance without consent ( cl. 73 ) and assault to resist arrest ( cl. 77 ) are redrafted . |
| 11 | Their goals switched the spotlight back on the Ipswich title challenge as they moved to within seven points of their rivals and had their odds halved from 50-1 to 25-1 . |
| 12 | The price was that much redundant labour was squeezed out of industry , and unemployment rose to above three million . |
| 13 | In one subject intubation failed at the second study , and in the other five subjects basal acid output was 0 to 2.2 mEq/h ( mean 0.55 ) and stimulated acid output rose to between 0.1 and 1.2 mEq/h ( mean 0.68 ) . |
| 14 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 15 | In fact , Lee ( 1966 , 1974 ) suggests two related strategies ; one referred to as Developmental Sentence Types ( DST ) is designed to help the teacher or therapist classify pre-sentence utterances , while Developmental Sentence Scoring ( DSS ) is a method of quantifying the ‘ grammatical load ’ which is carried by complete sentences . |
| 16 | That was what Mary called currant pudding , and his mother referred to as boiled fruit suet . |
| 17 | Category II contained the 32% of authorities who referred to between 5 and 30 programmes or courses , and Category III , the 27% of authorities who mentioned 5 or less . |
| 18 | ‘ I just do n't hear about it at all from the sales force , ’ he said , adding that he 's heard it referred to by some as Windows for Warehouses — ‘ because it sits on shelves . ’ |
| 19 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 20 | The ‘ Large Penguins ’ referred to in English accounts should really be the Great Auk ( Alca impennis ) . |
| 21 | What Lorentz objected to in American actors both in Hollywood and on the stage was summed up by a director friend of his who spoke of how ‘ they have no humility ’ . |
| 22 | Otherwise , who else would subject themselves to being square-bashed , shouted at by petty officers , and made to do ghastly things in force ten gales ? |
| 23 | Trying to get in the ground the right way , I was stopped by a riot policeman 's shield and shouted at in Dutch : only the fact that I could reply in Dutch saved a potentially ugly misunderstanding . |
| 24 | The ocean cooled by about one degree down to depths of three thousand metres , an enormous amount of heat was extracted from the ocean . |
| 25 | She is likely to choose the room Amy Carter opted for in 1976 . |
| 26 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 27 | Poor Daisy , disapproved of from both sides ( for Joszef 's family had still not come round , though she had adopted their religion ) . |
| 28 | Her working-class male counterpart is not usually ridiculed or disapproved of in this way , as someone whose language is inappropriate . |
| 29 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |
| 30 | They dropped from between 4,000 and 9,000 per square metre of riverbed — a natural variation according to time of year — to about 500 per square metre . |