Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BETTY BOO and Boy George make a very Hattractive pair … even if one of them needs to cover up a lack of locks more than the other . |
| 2 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 3 | Someone starts to wind up the pace . |
| 4 | If someone has taken out a PP which is contracted out of SERPS , the widow 's pension under SERPS or under the occupational pension scheme to which she belonged previously will be replaced by an annuity bought out of the fund of contributions built up so far . |
| 5 | What are the names of your children ? ’ ) , or night comes so abruptly it is as though someone has pulled down a blind . |
| 6 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 7 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 8 | An employee of the port authority , dressed in a grey uniform , will indicate a space at the main wharf either stern or bow-to which involves picking up a mooring to hold the bow or stern off the quay . |
| 9 | A discipline of competitive windsurfing which involves racing around a course marked by a series of buoys . |
| 10 | So far nobody has taken up the suggestion that since goalkeepers have become bigger , scoring would be made easier if the goals themselves were enlarged . |
| 11 | You know , nobody wants to take on a girl ! |
| 12 | Pittencrieff , which has built up a stake of 19.1 per cent in Aberdeen , has made its offer conditional on Aberdeen 's bid for Brabant failing . |
| 13 | Erm , under number one erm , is the Chairman aware that the er current talk in Whitehall which has given out the contracts for er new secure accommodation units in various counties that the current talk in Whitehall is that because Leicestershire does n't know its own mind because of the recent votes over secure accommodation that it 's unlikely to get one in the present er round and is n't that a damning indictment erm of the Liberal and Labour parties in this county . |
| 14 | But is there not a case for saying that we are currently witnessing the historic counter attack of Christian Democracy , which has summoned up the traditions of Eastern Europe to redress the balance of the West ? |
| 15 | Ingres Corp is claiming a world first for its Ingres/Enhanced Security relational database , which has picked up an Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria E3/F-B1 security rating . |
| 16 | This is because all possible fictions of scientific progress are virtual in present-day technology which has taken over the function of ‘ productive ’ simulation . |
| 17 | The minster leads into the largely undisturbed Georgian town centre , which has taken on a new lease of life under the guidance of the local Civic Society . |
| 18 | Hi-Tech and more sleekly designed kitchens look good with white tiled floors whether ceramic or vinyl , but again you could use cork and vinyl , or composition tiles or even linoleum which has taken on a new lease of life now that people have realised how well it can look inlaid with other colours . |
| 19 | The multitude of Madonnas for Italian worship in the Renaissance made this a fruitful theme for connoisseurship which has taken on the task of distinguishing authentic works from those by followers or copyists . |
| 20 | A £19.95 investment in a Blackjack putter is the catalyst which has brought about a change in fortune for Davies . |
| 21 | Successive reforms of local government administration , which have sought to make it more efficient , have produced a more rationalized but also a more centralized system , which has brought about a necessary decline in local autonomy . |
| 22 | The ACPO in Scotland , as also in England and Wales , has made a policy decision about sponsored events which has brought about the above situation . |
| 23 | You then have to ask yourself the question , If there is n't any Government , if there is n't any er local development pressure of any substance which has brought about the need for this policy , has there been some sort of quantum change in Government policy which has necessitated that we give emphasis to this particular issue . |
| 24 | Michael Heseltine enjoys grand gestures and has no intention of allowing the Labour Party ( which has brought in the architect Sir Richard Rogers as its adviser ) to make all the running where the debate on the future of London is concerned . |
| 25 | The Nutcracker suite in this charming 17th-century inn is so called because the low-ceilinged doorway has an exposed beam which has caught out the unwary and cracked a few heads in its time . |
| 26 | The new pressures that the situation will place on libraries has already been recognised by the Higher Education Funding Council , which has set up a review committee on libraries . |
| 27 | A spokesman for the Farmers ' Union of Wales , which has set up a farm and rural consultancy service , considered reports of widespread farm fraud ‘ greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 28 | Landlords who wish to take over public sector dwellings have first to seek the approval of the Housing Corporation which has set out the criteria for approval in some detail . |
| 29 | NCIS , which has drawn up a target list of 500 top-level criminals , co-ordinates intelligence on a regional , national and international basis . |
| 30 | This is the role of commercial group 's distribution services and it 's this department which has drawn up a new packaging policy and code of practice . |