Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The particulars we had been given referred to an estate of 680 acres having four cottages and a stone house … |
| 2 | Much of this latter perspective has developed through an analysis of media of various sorts , especially television , magazines and film . |
| 3 | As a result , the number of days lost each year through strikes has fallen from an average 12.9 million in the 1970s to less than a million last year — the lowest figure since records began a century ago . |
| 4 | First , the length of time which couples spend in shared accommodation has fallen from an average of almost three years for people who married before 1955 , to around one and a half years for people married in the late 1960s ( p. 12 ) . |
| 5 | The famous hollow beneath Hautvillers , the Côtes-à-Bras , has filled with an accumulation of loess , or colluvial weathered calcareous deposits , clayey-silts and iron-rich flint pebbles . |
| 6 | Hartlepool MP Ted Leadbitter has responded to an attack on Hartlepool 's image in America 's leader business newspaper The Wall Street Journal by writing an angry letter to its editor . |
| 7 | And Lake 's recovery will be boosted by the arrival of Lisa , who has booked into an hotel close to the Los Angeles clinic where Lake is recovering . |
| 8 | THE SUSPENDED curator of the Smith Art Gallery and Museum in Stirling , Pamela Diamond , has resigned after an inquiry prompted by concern over falling attendances . |
| 9 | The five firm concentration ratio has varied around an average of 41% over this period , rising to a peak of 53% in 1978 before falling to 34% in 1980 , rising to 47% in 1983 before declining to 30% in 1990 . |
| 10 | The nearest he has come to an England place since was three years ago when he broke a thumb within 24 hours of being selected to face India . |
| 11 | One of the shortest reigns in Scottish political history has come to an abdrupt end . |
| 12 | French microkernel operating system developer Chorus Systemes SA has come to an agreement with Motorola Inc 's Semiconductor division for joint development and marketing of a combination of the Chorus Unix System V-compliant microkernel technology with the PowerPC chip Motorola is developing with IBM Corp . |
| 13 | French microkernel operating system developer Chorus Systemes SA has come to an agreement with Motorola Inc 's Semiconductor division to jointly develop and market a combination of Chorus Unix System V-compliant microkernel technology with the PowerPC chip Motorola is developing with IBM Corp . |
| 14 | ‘ The historic role of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party has come to an end , ’ Mr Nyers said , in a speech opening the party 's congress . |
| 15 | Thus the history of the HSWP as a state party has come to an end . ’ |
| 16 | The long trend of the 1980s has come to an end , along with the crash of the Tokyo stockmarket in 1990 and the collapse of warrants . |
| 17 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer once commented that ‘ religious people speak of God when human knowledge has come to an end , or when human resources fail … |
| 18 | The second of these cases raises no questions of interest , since the trust has come to an end and the beneficiary is owner absolutely . |
| 19 | Just after a relationship has come to an end , the contrast will be naturally felt all the more strongly . |
| 20 | The nightmare of his existence has come to an end . |
| 21 | A period of English cricket history has come to an end , and a new period has started . |
| 22 | Gaps were pinpointed which made this potentially excellent tool incomplete and hopes were fervently expressed that , as the funding from the Getty has come to an end , resources can be found to keep the system running and continued input assured . |
| 23 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |
| 24 | In brief , the period of modernism has come to an end and nothing ( for which read nothing like what we 've been used to ) has replaced it . |
| 25 | Others sip nectar during their brief lives to renew their energies and to provide sustenance for egg production , but none need to feed in order to build their bodies ; their growth has come to an end . |
| 26 | They signal to each other that one turn has come to an end and another should begin . |
| 27 | Additionally , there have been those employers who have moved from site to site , merely to enjoy the subsidies that come from siting ‘ new ’ jobs in areas of high unemployment , and have left as soon as the period of the subsidy has come to an end . |
| 28 | When Malaysia was admitted to the Security Council of the UN in December 1964 , Sukarno played his last card : he took Indonesia out of the UN , declaring ( in words made familiar by Hitler ) ‘ our patience has come to an end ’ . |
| 29 | This source of inspiration has come to an end . |
| 30 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where any premises have been let as a dwelling under a tenancy which is not a statutorily protected tenancy and — ( a ) the tenancy ( in this section referred to as the former tenancy ) has come to an end , but ( b ) the occupier continues to reside in the premises or part of them , it shall not be lawful for the owner to enforce against the occupier , otherwise than by proceedings in the court , his right to recover possession of the premises . |