Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 2 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 3 | The test items developed for this project added further details to the picture . |
| 4 | However , it was withdrawn after several speakers said such a call would have little impact on Parliament . |
| 5 | However , it was withdrawn after several speakers said that such a call would have little impact on Parliament and might have an adverse affect on the reputation of the federation . |
| 6 | I could not understand how anyone could act as this man did towards another human being suffering as I then was . |
| 7 | It is true that by this choice she sacrificed a community life , which has for many women proved nourishing , but she also gained in personal freedom . |
| 8 | Figure 3.1 offers a possible starting-point for explaining why science has for many people ruled out religion . |
| 9 | The presence of residual pottery in stratified deposits has for many years bedevilled structural chronology , and has also affected the dating of the pottery itself . |
| 10 | David Beskine of the RA said ‘ This is not private land but open moorland over which the public has for many years had a right to roam . |
| 11 | My own company has for many years had the ambition to have our business spread in rough proportion to the pattern of chemical demand in the world market . |
| 12 | But , in spite of the considerable effort and investment , it has for many years failed to pay its way . |
| 13 | In the preface to his Hortus Britanno-Americanus ( written in 1749 but not published until 1763 ) Mark Catesby [ q.v. ] , the pioneer naturalist of the south-eastern states of America , said that ‘ Mr. Gray at Fulham has for many years made it his business to raise and cultivate the plants of America ( from whence he has annually fresh supplies ) in order to furnish the curious with what they want … |
| 14 | The Department of Agriculture in Scotland has for many years conducted individual farm assessments with appeal committees on which farmers are represented . |
| 15 | Perhaps for this reason the law in several areas of censorship has for many years remained quietly in the background , yet with an extensive array of legislation to be respected and always at its disposal . |
| 16 | Lybke has for many years presented his artists in an international context . |
| 17 | A graduate in sociology and education at Florence University , she has for many years contributed articles to Protestant and ecumenical newspapers and currently writes a monthly survey on television for the journal Confronti . |
| 18 | As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ? |
| 19 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 20 | The existence of such a large ( see 12:37 ) alien group in his borderlands has for some time made Pharaoh uneasy . |
| 21 | While the Scottish Wildlife Trust has for some time had a system for identifying second tier biological sites , primarily as a conservation mechanism , no such system has been created for geological or geomorphological sites , until now . |
| 22 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 23 | Suppose manufacturer A has for some years produced a razor which will not normally cut the user unless it is slid sideways across the skin . |
| 24 | Sally Harrower , Issue Hall , has for some years entered the Edinburgh to St Andrews cycle ride in aid of Lepra . |
| 25 | If so he wonders if the patient needs to cry and has for some reason stopped himself . |
| 26 | ‘ I want to know about any girls reported missing since yesterday . |
| 27 | Finally the news cracked through that Bakhtiar had indeed been confirmed . |
| 28 | He was not the friend Preston might have picked for that distinction had there been any rivals in the field . |
| 29 | We apologise for any inconvenience caused . |
| 30 | I apologise for any inconvenience caused . |