Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the dream that we all had about Great Britain acknowledging it 's theatre and funding it properly has suffered a lot of setbacks since the ‘ sixties ’ . |
| 2 | Over the years , Carry On has become a cult . |
| 3 | Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built . |
| 4 | Environmental Issues , which spotlights this and other surveys on page 11 , is well aware of young people 's interest in green matters and so has introduced a section specifically for them . |
| 5 | But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta . |
| 6 | King Hussein of Jordan no less has beaten a path to Costa Teguise , selecting Lanzarote , a land of unusual beauty , for his get-away-from-it-all home . |
| 7 | He did n't do badly in F. Ford , but F3 beckoned soon enough , a step which his biographer Eion Young rightly says proved a rite of passage from racing as a hobby to racing as a profession . |
| 8 | Is it , is that because the th the house you live in 's got a lot of green space round it ? |
| 9 | To the extent that social research more generally has retained an interest in social reform this has been redirected in various ways . |
| 10 | However , the SFO 's handling of its investigations has hardly been consistent and it already has set a precedent for the Barrowclough report to be published in full . |
| 11 | And what the manifesto is , is trying to do is to er set an agenda for about how the lot of private homes can be improved , and er fixing rent is one thing which the government er traditionally has had a responsibility for and which needs , er must be linked in with conditions because what we have at the moment is a situation where you get , in Oxford , a er a family living in one room being charged er over two hundred pounds a week by an individual landlord , and that 's clearly unacceptable . |
| 12 | But the problem with these groups is not that they 're wimps , but that they 're runts ; not that they 're vulnerable or soppy , but that they 're flimsy , What 's happened is that the perfectly valiant and appropriate refusal to grow up has become a refusal to grow , musically — to take on space , drift , experiment . |
| 13 | ‘ Sport was the love of my life and having to give it up has left a void , ’ said Rosemary . |
| 14 | Sir Ranulph , 48 , also has visited a London hospital for medical opinion about his foot , which is severely frost-bitten and may require a skin graft . |
| 15 | This volume also has appended a poem ‘ On the Ruins of St. Austin 's , Canterbury ’ , which was published in the Kentish Gazette of 9 July 1774 and said to have been written sometime after Dixon was seventy-three years old . |
| 16 | One primary school head teacher in whose school pilot testing of pupils was carried out has expressed a willingness to ‘ break the law unless the tests are drastically changed ’ and another school 's head ( probably illegally ) later suspended the tests in the face of parents ' objections . |
| 17 | In a rather different way , the estimation of the annual output of the Roman mint between about 150 and 50BC has enabled a picture to be constructed of the growth and then contraction of the liquidity of silver coinage during that period ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 18 | Er but obviously you know , the the the courage and the the strength of the the people who did keep it going , erm really has achieved a lot . |
| 19 | The next problem comes when we recognize that the work done so far has produced a piece of research which could easily keep a dozen people occupied for the rest of their lives . |
| 20 | It seems everyone is intrigued by Morse , whose past until now has remained a secret . |
| 21 | now has got a cost more in the initial |
| 22 | no one until now has produced a biography of Graham Gooch . |
| 23 | Initially Kidd had intended returning Down Under , but an attractive offer from Division Two side Sundays Well has prompted a change of heart . |
| 24 | Wilko seemingly has made a bid of ( I think the figure was ) 90,000 . |
| 25 | A woman who learnt to dive just three years ago has found a Viking relic which is more than a thousand years old . |
| 26 | TELEVISION footage of a youth soccer match at Wembley 18 years ago has prompted a search by a former Merseyside non-league player for a permanent record of the game . |
| 27 | To help you spend all those Christmas gift vouchers , TODAY has compiled a list of some of the most entertaining books to suit everyone 's taste . |
| 28 | TODAY has launched an investigation to uncover some of the methods used to make under-the-counter payments to players and managers . |
| 29 | A half-timbered house here has become a library . |
| 30 | In my opinion , Dale Spender here has made an error : the error of failing to distinguish between a bias in the language and a bias in the analytic system used by linguists . |