Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather , geography , altitude , geology and the vegetation of both the surrounding land and wet environment have all attributed to an animals evolution over thousands of year . |
| 2 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 3 | It attributes the speedy exit to having its reorganisation plan in order and the cooperation of its creditors who are apparently agreed on a collections moratorium . |
| 4 | Re-released by Old Gold in 1988 , the record sold well but was only aimed at a collectors and oldie jukebox market . |
| 5 | Polly thrust it back into her bag , embarrassed at being caught doing things more properly done in a ladies ' cloakroom , and furious at her own embarrassment . |
| 6 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
| 7 | In this context , if there exist differences in the unit cost and therefore the competitiveness of nations which are not connected in a customs or monetary union , then attempts to eliminate such differences ( reflected in associated balance of payments positions ) can potentially be made via trade restrictions or movements in relative exchange rates , although the effectiveness of the latter policy is by no means certain . |
| 8 | Kurt and Wolfgang 's main worry was that large-scale unemployment among people not accustomed to a winners-and-losers system , which capitalism is , would create lasting resentments with dire social consequences . |
| 9 | Words or phrases which appear only once , or in only one clause , can be defined in the clause in which they appear ; however , words or phrases which appear several times throughout the terms are best defined in a definitions clause . |
| 10 | Your child has just appeared at a Children 's Hearing and the members of the Panel have decided that your child should be placed on supervision to a social worker and that he/she should live away from home for a time . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd already gone on a beginners ’ sailing weekend , and although it was very rough — not beginners ' weather at all — I really loved it . ’ |
| 12 | Any spare cash is best put in a savings account where it will earn interest . |
| 13 | Firstly , piecing together the BBC TV environment of the early Sixties shows why Doctor Who was not devised as a Children 's Series . |
| 14 | ‘ Uncontrolled ’ means not controlled by a police officer or a traffic warden . |
| 15 | New recruits to Medau came forward after visiting the stand at the Royal Norfolk Show , and more joined after a Promotions Week in the Lowestoft area organised by Marlene McGee and Jane Fisk , with Come-and-Try sessions and demonstrations by Oulton Broad class members . |
| 16 | Maarouf Saad , the leftist mayor of Sidon , was fatally wounded in a fishermen 's demonstration and in further fighting the Lebanese national army — largely commanded , of course , by Christians — came into conflict with Muslim gunmen and the more radical of the PLO 's Palestinian guerrilla groups . |
| 17 | A total of 480 points is usually needed for an honours degree . |
| 18 | For instance , Ritchie Blackmore was a very fast player , but it was always based on a blues thing , never on ‘ How many notes can I get in the scale ? ’ |
| 19 | They were quickly spotted by a police patrol who ushered them off the motorway and down the A41 slip road . |
| 20 | The incoming fist of an opponent is blocked by a simple rising block and then quickly countered with a gyaku-zuki . |
| 21 | It is also regarded as a men 's club and its members all possess comfortable rooms . |
| 22 | Then I found a place that was clearly headlined as a singles " bar , and no one tried to keep me out Now I 'd read about these VD workshops in Scum and Miasma , both of which adopted a markedly high-handed line . |
| 23 | The BBC was forced to drop an independently produced film for Arena on lorry drivers when it emerged that it was partly funded by a hauliers ' association . |
| 24 | His narrow shoulders were habitually draped by a challis scarf , his hands adorned by two Russian wedding rings . |
| 25 | You 'd have thought modems would be quicker on the parallel port , but no ; the serial port was originally developed as a telecommunications device . |
| 26 | The gaming tables are long gone , and the building is now used as a cattle shelter . |
| 27 | Apartments No.3 and No.4 detailed below have access from the main hall of the villa now transformed into a games room with billiard and card tables . |
| 28 | Malcolm Beavers , a former inspector , has now retired on a police pension after contracting an infection when he dived into a polluted stretch of the River Aire at Selby , North Yorkshire . |
| 29 | Some nationalities are culturally orientated towards a standards and systems approach to operations and feel unhappy in their absence . |
| 30 | The safeguards here may be very good , but they may not be so well understood by a police officer in another country who read about that suspicion . |