Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 2 | In summary , we have successfully carried out TIPSS in 18 patients with control of bleeding from gastric or esophageal varices and portal hypertensive gastropathy . |
| 3 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 4 | She sensed that Edna had long given up hope of Celia herself having any children . |
| 5 | UB 's shares only nudged up 3p to 352p . |
| 6 | Much of the taxpayers ' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices , effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire . |
| 7 | Yet the first British census of Palestine showed that Jews only made up 11% of the population . |
| 8 | The ANC favours the much watered down form of regional government . |
| 9 | As he said it the bellowing roar came again , right on top of them , and a long drawn out scream in Russian . |
| 10 | Einstein licked his wounds after his long drawn out battle with Bohr about the uncertainty principle . |
| 11 | This could be a long drawn out affair of up to eight hours or more . |
| 12 | All the emotional turmoil and excitement of the outbreak of war , all the long drawn out details of my training , the thrills of flying and the fear of death , all the bustle and anticipation of the last few days had ended in this , in my standing alone on a slushy path in the late afternoon with absolutely nothing whatever to do . |
| 13 | I mean often actually producing pieces of writing is , is , is quite a , you know , sort of long drawn out sort of er iterative process I suppose in , in mathematical terms erm you know you kind of go through it again and again erm I mean that 's one thing you ca but obviously that 's quite time consuming er |
| 14 | He had married the daughters of several important Muslim chiefs and was in frequent communication with the " Mad Mullah " in Somaliland , supplying him with rifles and ammunition to help in his long drawn out war against the British . |
| 15 | The long drawn out war in South Africa did much to discredit imperial adventuring . |
| 16 | Although Bill Gates has apparently firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , they still are n't finalised , according to the company . |
| 17 | By resorting to a money-lender it became more difficult to conceal their embarrassment — than if they had merely run up bills with retailers . |
| 18 | But Kirillov has himself pointedly ruled out life after death : ‘ the laws of nature did not spare even Him ’ — Jesus , that is . |
| 19 | Given the claims made for Basquiat 's historical importance in the show 's catalogue , it is surprising that the retrospective has only signed up sites at the Menil Collection in Houston ( 11 March-9 May , 1993 ) , the Des Moines Art Center ( 22 May-15 August ) , and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama ( 18 November-9 January , 1994 ) . |
| 20 | Political parties have somehow got it into their heads that voters want to agree with them , so put up policies with which voters will agree . |
| 21 | The talks at Akkerman had apparently cleared up disagreements with the Turks , but the Shah , and particularly his son , believed that the Russian domestic crisis of December 1825 had created enough uncertainty in St Petersburg to justify a challenge to the Russo-Persian treaty of 1813 . |
| 22 | The Premier League favourites feared that ground re-development would have left Highbury with a ‘ graveyard ’ atmosphere , so splashed out £150,000 on a mural , depicting rows of cheering and scarf-waving fans . |
| 23 | Lindsey reckons that he is the most shot down pilot in the world , after all , until the appearance on the UK airshow circuit of Spanish-built Messerschmitt ‘ 109s ’ ( Ha 1112MIL Buchons ) in 1988 , Lindsey had the only German ‘ fighter ’ available . |
| 24 | In the past , Mrs Thatcher had easily fended off challenges from Tory ‘ wets ’ . |
| 25 | The networking company has signed an agreement with Hudson , Massachusetts-based Gradient Technologies Inc , which has already picked up support from the likes of IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 26 | No we 'd just picked up Christine from her friend 's house and I had sort of half a dozen people |
| 27 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 28 | Die Hard director John McTiernan is putting one together at Fox ( ’ Grab that Uzi , Maid Marion ! ’ ) , and production company Morgan Creek has just shelled out £1.2m for Prince Of Thieves , a reworking of the Sherwood Forest legend . |
| 29 | The markets have already pushed up rates by about half a point in anticipation of a Tory defeat . |
| 30 | It 's already sparked off comments about students and grey cells . |