Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters , which has just celebrated its centenary , of the thousand-odd portraits undertaken professionally each year , hardly any are commissioned by their subjects . |
| 2 | Loretta was aware that she had consumed rather more Rioja than she had intended , certainly enough to make her glad that Bridget was driving . |
| 3 | Moreover , although the Party probably enrolled rather more members among workers , intelligentsia , and artisans than either the Mensheviks or the Bolsheviks in this period , the prime constituency towards which it turned — the peasantry — remained very difficult to organize . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it is just because the fibre tubes can be crushed locally that wood can be nailed and screwed without splitting , provided we do not abuse the wood too much . |
| 5 | So a snarling , spitting , clawing prey is given rather more respect than it may appear to deserve . |
| 6 | I 've never heard so much talk about health as we do nowadays . |
| 7 | I 've never heard so much rubbish in my life and what I 'm gon na try and do is speak to the policy of Percent for Art . |
| 8 | ‘ An informer is an informer , ’ Tim Skerritt said , repeating what he had heard so many times in the village that day . |
| 9 | I find difficulty believing that they will be able to do that , simply because the detailed assessment that has been done to date , as we 've heard so many times is is incomplete . |
| 10 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've heard so many stories about him and all the good he did , and my dad was delighted when he found I was working with Sarah because she was his granddaughter . ’ |
| 12 | I frankly ca n't deal in the time allowed with what Mr said , I have never heard so many inaccuracies and misconceptions in a speech , it was the most comprehensive political suicide speech I 've heard yet in this council . |
| 13 | Never in her life had the penguin heard so many words . |
| 14 | Within another mile they had both witnessed so many stretchers , so many bodies and so many limbs no longer attached to bodies that no one had the stomach for jokes . |
| 15 | And Seal Sands Lock , the place where she had come to be healed so many times in the past , offered her no comfort now . |
| 16 | ‘ This only aroused so much attention because of the press reports that we were meeting the Broederbond . ’ |
| 17 | Editor , — No other part of the body has aroused so much passion and misconception as the foreskin , mainly because both surgical and personal considerations are concerned . |
| 18 | Mischief or discontent , a hard master or some family tragedy that made home hateful to them had shuffled together these jacks and knaves . |
| 19 | The theoretical explanation of the universality of electric charge is that the electric current of the charges particles involved in an electromagnetic process must be conserved so that charge can not be created or destroyed . |
| 20 | He said relationships between inspectors and schools have broken down several times . |
| 21 | It has been argued that continuous agriculture could be maintained if a closed nutrient cycle could be achieved , the canopy not perforated so that leaching would be prevented and the forest floor would not deteriorate , and if nutrients were added to equal those exported as crops and the diversity of species maintained . |
| 22 | It is surprising that in his time and ever since , his culpability has received so little attention . |
| 23 | The course was n't advertised because the WSR has received so many requests from people wanting to ride on the footplate that it was able to pick out only serious enthusiasts . |
| 24 | The RSPCA has received so many calls for advice on ostrich farming that its now drawn up guidelines to ensure they 're farmed humanely . |
| 25 | We have received so many messages and letters that it is just not possible to acknowledge them individually . |
| 26 | Maggie had never received so much attention . |
| 27 | Perhaps the reason that tail shapes have wrongly received so much attention in the past is that they are the most obviously visible difference between boards . |
| 28 | The causes of economic and employment decline in the cities have been the subjects of the most extensive studies — no other area of urban research has received so much attention . |
| 29 | The reason that it has received so much attention is not primarily that it is of practical importance ( although it has applications , e.g. Sections 26.2 , 26.5 , 26.6 ) , but rather that it has become a context for the development of ideas about the consequences of instability and evolution towards turbulent motion . |
| 30 | Though this must be one of the main reasons why Germany has received so few Nobel prizes since the war , nothing more can be done about it . |