Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Falklands War , for example , the Ministry of Defence quite blatantly manipulated press coverage in what it regarded as the national interest . |
| 2 | The Italian doctor who claims to have successfully given fertility treatment to a 58-year-old English woman has cancelled a trip to London because he received a death threat . |
| 3 | In the second most reported rape trial of the year , six youths were accused of the gang rape of two schoolgirls . |
| 4 | This month Versace opens his first , wholly owned flagship store in London , holding menswear , womenswear and accessories on four floors . |
| 5 | Groves , John & Westrup ( Underwriting ) Limited is a wholly owned specialist subsidiary of Sphere Drake Insurance Group plc , which has shareholders funds of just under £60 million . |
| 6 | The case of Malcolm Fairley , known as ‘ The Fox ’ , was the most widely reported court case of the year where the offence of rape was the main charge . |
| 7 | The widely reported price differential between US and European software packages , has come down some , Gates said , but will continue to exist , while diminishing further . |
| 8 | ‘ I know , ’ said David cheerfully teasing her , ‘ you think a church should be like an English Gothic cathedral or a little whitewashed village church with moth-eaten Peninsular War banners fluttering from dry-rotted lances . ’ |
| 9 | The problem is that the company has only limited ISDN capacity at the moment because of the way that it is implemented at telephone exchanges . |
| 10 | The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the whole of the UK was in October at a five-year high of 10.1 per cent . |
| 11 | Ceauşescu had naturally received expert advice on the process of relocating buildings in this way , and therefore must have known the consequences . |
| 12 | His success in eliminating London smog was balanced by the task of implementing the much disliked Rent Act of his predecessor , Duncan Sandys ( later Baron Duncan-Sandys ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Pain in the housing market should finally kill off the British obsession with housing which has so distorted resource allocation in the last 25 years . |
| 14 | David Mellor had a nicely turned music review in the Spectator the other week . |
| 15 | Similarly , prostacyclin inhibited platelet aggregation on rabbit subendothelium but only prevented platelet adhesion at higher doses ( Higgs et al , 1978 ) . |
| 16 | SO THIS is it : the long awaited , much trumpeted comeback album from Bob Dylan , foremost poet of a generation . |
| 17 | ( Viscount Milton caused a considerable rumpus when he razed a small market town to the ground and rebuilt the now much admired model village of Milton Abbas . |
| 18 | Fallow lands brought into cultivation reduced the range for grazing and restricted the distribution of much needed animal dung as fertiliser . |
| 19 | The only possible gaff was when he picked up than so called back pass at spurs . |
| 20 | Police hunting the so called Fishermead rapist in Milton Keynes have new leads following a nationwide appeal . |
| 21 | My Lords , will the er Minister say how much money has been spent on the so called cash protection for grant maintained schools and will she confirm that the one quarter of a million pounds almost a quarter of a million pounds being spent on advertising grant maintained schools is additional er to the scheme , to the first part of the question . |
| 22 | But is n't , is n't that the quote at the beginning of your book , er , unsigned quote , erm , does n't that say something about how , how , you know , long aired radio biography of someone is very political or sort of er , disregard all of the important things they really done , and I do n't know , I do n't know if it 's er , pertinent erm , but obviously , in Freud , Freud wanted to set out to criticize Wilson erm , so he , you know , he went in with it . |
| 23 | With regard to calcium , cell transformation leads to a much reduced calcium requirement for growth . |
| 24 | We believe that certainly for the time being , the combination of the fighter aircraft and rapier will provide an acceptable level er of air defence with a much reduced air threat to the U K er which now exists . |
| 25 | With a greatly reduced Government majority in the Commons , there is one individual the Prime Minister must retain on his side at all cost . |
| 26 | BEFORE RETURNING TO THE MUSIC , LET'S take time out to talk about the sound : does Denon 's painstaking work with these Savoy masters really represent an audible improvement or does it mean — as with some historic classical recordings that have been treated to ‘ NoNOISE ’ or ‘ Cedar ’ — merely reduced surface noise at the expense of the loss of the top end ( important ambient noise , feathery cymbals etc. ) and a tubby overall sound ? |
| 27 | IS THE much rumoured takeover bid for Rothmans International , the tobacco and luxury goods group , about to materialise at long , long last ? |
| 28 | Older methods of farming only caused surface damage to archaeological sites by ploughing , but modern intensive farming destroys sites much more quickly . |
| 29 | When the results for beech trees were disclosed , they were almost identical to those of the much criticised FoE survey of 1985 . |
| 30 | The Royal Institute of British Architects has a highly finished perspective view of the same front , and an elevation and perspective of the east front of the India Office . |