Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applicants must satisfy the general entry requirements for admission to a first degree course ( see page 51 ) , and will normally have completed successfully a Foundation Course in Art and Design . |
| 2 | Dissenters normally formed only a minority of townsmen but they were often an influential one . |
| 3 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 4 | Is a house being erected only a building when its roof is on ? |
| 5 | Along this trench , oceanic crust with ophiolites and " turbidites " coming from the south-east was probably consumed down a Benioff zone . |
| 6 | The bronze and heavy sky — ; I have heard suddenly a blackbird sing |
| 7 | The voice was sun-warm , rough smoothed down a notch with sympathy ; the accent had a home : Santos Angeles . |
| 8 | During this period I have learnt a great deal about what children like [ and dislike ] at parties and have gathered together a selection of games , songs and magic tricks which I can guarantee will make any party a day to remember , for both children and adults . |
| 9 | To aid his election campaign , Roosevelt had gathered together a body of men and women who became known as his Brain Trust , mostly from the universities . |
| 10 | So if I 'm late for work one day , you 'll know why , I 've probably fallen down a hole somewhere . |
| 11 | When he was out with a group of other kids , playing kick-the-can or soldiers , he would often sneak away , so that they would never find him , or think he had fallen down a hole or into a burn or a loch . |
| 12 | ‘ He could have been eaten or run over or trodden on or blown away or fallen down a hole or trapped , ’ said Grimma . |
| 13 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 14 | Word spread : Osvaldo had died of malaria ; he 'd been shot in the back by X. Ray ; he 'd fallen down a cliff . |
| 15 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 16 | I had six days — time to make myself an evening gown ( evening gowns are n't funny ) that drops to pieces ( how ? ) after I 've fallen down a flight of stairs . |
| 17 | In fact , one of the gardeners was dismissed only a fortnight ago because it was thought he was taking them . |
| 18 | When all were examined together a trend of increasing risk with lower social class was also found ( test for trend x=5.72 , p=0.02 ) . |
| 19 | A number of changes will have occurred : it will have lost ten to fifteen per cent of its weight through loss of water ; the cell structures in the meat will have broken down ; the proteins will have changed into individual amino acids ( developing the flavour ) ; the muscle filaments — yes , the noble carcass is no more than a collection of muscles , bone and fat — will have broken down a bit and become more tender . |
| 20 | I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months . |
| 21 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 22 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 23 | The tunnel at Woodhead was not yet completed so a coach journey over the moors between Woodhead and Dunford was necessary until December 1845 when it opened . |
| 24 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 25 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 26 | Better decisions result when the task and maintenance leadership roles are filled in a way that leads to coordination , thus overcoming the slowness , tangential discussion , loss of focus and other inefficiencies of groups . |
| 27 | 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so . |
| 28 | ( I 've filled in a couple to get you started . ) |
| 29 | Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment . |
| 30 | You might think , having filled in a claim for US$110 for the missing items , that would be it . |