Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 42-year-old Smith certainly knows all about pressure after being sacked almost a year ago by Sunderland following a 3-0 defeat at Oxford . |
| 2 | But she lapsed into unconsciousness after being dumped down a 15ft embankment on the M50 where she suffered a series of blows , one of which broke her jaw , Dr Peter Acland , a Home Office pathologist , told Shrewsbury Crown Court . |
| 3 | ‘ We destroyed him because he betrayed The Law ! ’ said Hasan , in the kind of voice that suggested Hasan the Second , the Twenty-third Imam of the Nizari Ismailis , had only just popped out of the room for a cup of coffee instead of being stabbed nearly a thousand years ago . |
| 4 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 5 | It was not a weapon which was capable of being carried on a belt or in a sash . |
| 6 | The software installation routine , though it installs a basic system very easily , could do with being beefed up a little in order to make configuring the network simpler for the first-timer . |
| 7 | That did not prevent her from being thrown down a mineshaft to her death in 1918 . |
| 8 | They spent the rest of the morning checking over their equipment before being herded up a gangplank and on to the waiting troop carrier . |
| 9 | The 80-strong party were given a briefing on Sullom Voe 's environmental care programme at the Fraser Peterson Centre before being taken on a tour of the terminal site . |
| 10 | The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago . |
| 11 | All credit limits need also to be revalidated once a year . |
| 12 | And it only needed to be cut once a year . |
| 13 | Er , but that assertion needs to be examined just a little more closely because the British government are not without blame in relation to this matter , er the issues er affecting these forthcoming elections should have been resolved at the Edinburgh summit during the presidency of the British government . |
| 14 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 15 | The agreed price of the three acres of land was £180 and a proper conveyance was to be prepared by Theed Pearse the solicitor , who was also owner of the adjoining land on which the County Hospital was to be built nearly a century later . |
| 16 | The latter two allow the tool to be hung on a wall by two screws , which pass through the plastic sheath and convert it into a vertical holder . |
| 17 | With the exception of relief papers and thick fabrics like hessian or grasscloth , most of these special wallcoverings need to be hung on a smooth and level surface for a satisfactory result . |
| 18 | Flocks need to be hung on a good wall surface . |
| 19 | It remains to be seen how a rhino , which takes many years to evolve and which has evolved with a horn , will learn to survive without one . |
| 20 | The body needs to be brushed once a day for a few minutes before your morning bath or shower ( twice if you have cellulite ) . |
| 21 | If such a hole-to-block relationship is to be defined then a number of expert rules can be established as follows : 1 ) The domain of " hole " must have a " touching " relationship with the domain of " block " on at least one face to produce a blind hole . |
| 22 | SFA Rules require contract notes to be sent whenever a sale or purchase of an investment is made . |
| 23 | A constant stream of US dollar notes would need to be sent from America , only to be sent back a little at a time in individual parcels as above . |
| 24 | The Gary Hutchinson Memorial Appeal is aiming to raise between £12,000 and £15,000 to pay for an image transmission system which will allow those pictures to be sent down a telephone line so specialists at another hospital can advise immediately whether a patient needs to be moved for surgery . |
| 25 | I think in some ways it 's better , because girls are meant to get on better in the sciences in girls ' schools ; they 're meant to be pushed backwards a bit in boys ' schools . |
| 26 | If problems do not have to be referred up a scalar chain of command to senior managers for a decision , decision-making will be quicker . |
| 27 | I do n't quite know why , but anyhow if they do feel old at 75 , then they ought to be shaken up a bit . |
| 28 | However , the Takeover Code in the UK , for example , acts to enforce equal treatment of the shareholdings to be acquired once a critical small percentage of shares has been obtained . |
| 29 | For instance I have increased the skimmed milk allowance from 4 ounces to 10 ounces per day and I have allowed red meat to be included twice a week . |
| 30 | Then , feeling perhaps that things needed to be put on a proper footing , ‘ Veronica Totteridge . |