Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be seen that the Office machinery and data processing sector is particularly export orientated with an average 79% of turnover being aimed at overseas markets . |
| 2 | Foul weather with squally winds put paid to an immediate start on the building so it was several months before the engine strip-down could begin under the new roof . |
| 3 | Mary and Reggie said , " Do sit down and join us , " but just as the six had repelled Mary and Reggie , so now did Mary and Reggie seem surrounded by an invisible current : Keep off . |
| 4 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 5 | As he rushes hither and thither , his note-books become crammed with an amazing collection of miscellaneous information which is so diverse and uneven that it gives colour to and so in a way explains Robert Lowie 's famous definition of culture as a ‘ thing of shreds and patches ’ . |
| 6 | The Recital Room , which seats 220 , has since become established as an excellent venue for solo performances , recitals , chamber ensembles and jazz groups . |
| 7 | The third is the application of the second to concepts like ‘ pain' : words like ‘ pain' do not have meaning for us in virtue of standing for objects with which we become acquainted through an internal ostensive definition . |
| 8 | erm I 've arranged for an independent assessor to view this vehicle , and the view of that independent assessor is this is a straightforward claim against the insurance company , and I at the moment am pursuing that , so it 's a little bit of a conflict of interest that one , but that does give you some background on that particular case . |
| 9 | I 've heard of an old lady in Penzance who wants a companion … ’ |
| 10 | A brief traverse right gains a semi-rest , protection , and decision time for those who 've approached with an open mind about which route to take . |
| 11 | That is a stocking machine that we 've turned into an outer-wear machine . |
| 12 | Few there be , are there few that be saved , well what does the bible say about this , first of all it teaches abundantly clearly that all may be saved , God is not partial , God has no favourites , he does n't love you more than he loves any body else , he does n't love me more than he loves you or you more than me , he does n't love you more than he loves ah any other racial group or any other ethnic group , he loves us all the same God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus Christ , here in his love , not that we love God says the apostle but that he loved us , the old testament profit reminds us that he has loved us with an ever lasting love , who , this was one of the hang ups that the Jewish nation had , they thought that they were the cats whiskers , he chose them , but he in fact did n't love them any more than he loved the , the hitites , the parasites , the gergasites and all the other ites , he loved them all the same , God is not partial in his love because he is love , if there was any body that God did not love he would actually cease to be God because love is not something that , that God does , you and I do it no matter how loving you are , or how loving you think you are , you are not love , you choose to love somebody and you love them , there are times when that love goes very thin sometimes , perhaps because of events that have happened , it can actually come to an end where that love dies , you withdraw your love God ca n't do that , God loves us as we 've said with an eternal love , a love that will go on throughout the endless ages of eternity |
| 13 | green , they 've got like an orangey |
| 14 | All Safranes come protected by an eight-year anti-corrosion warranty and a 12-month unlimited mileage mechanical warranty with RAC membership . |
| 15 | You 've behaved like an absolute angel . |
| 16 | Erm it would cost for the four for the four nights of the con conference , that 's from the Wednesday night to the Saturday night inclusive , six pounds a night each will almost cover the cost and we 've fitted in an extra person on the floor at three pounds a night that would clear the cost completely . |
| 17 | Since the early 1980s , the receipts from direct taxes on income have fluctuated around an average figure some 10% above those from indirect taxes on expenditure ; we have returned to the broad pattern of the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 18 | In the 13 World Cups since 1930 , the world 's best players have gathered in an ever-expanding display of skill and enthusiasm for the game . |
| 19 | In these cases the fossils show that these features have developed through an ordered series of transformations leading to conditions in the jawed vertebrates . |
| 20 | For the most part , multidisciplinary psychogeriatric teams have developed as an enhanced version of the traditional service , with the consultant as the team leader and decision maker and all patients receiving formal psychiatric assessment at some point during their contact with the service . |
| 21 | Thieves have broken into an electrical shop and stolen several sophisticated radio scanners . |
| 22 | Firstly , different studies have pointed to an important role for somatostatin , present in paracrine cells in the antral mucosa , in the regulation of gastrin release under physiological and pathophysiological conditions . |
| 23 | And if voters have voted for an excluded candidate , why should they be permitted to switch their preference ? |
| 24 | The charges against Mr Perez have come at an inconvenient moment , not only for him but also for Venezuela . |
| 25 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
| 26 | Food : As we have seen in an earlier chapter , our physical condition has a great influence on our minds and our emotions — the reverse also being true . |
| 27 | As we have seen in an earlier chapter , by gentleman or noble person Spenser is thinking of a distinctive class of person , but his desire to fashion gentlemen nevertheless might be seen as directed at individual development . |
| 28 | ( Hereford cattle entries have slumped to an all time low of just fifty nine here at the show.The ancient local breed has been hit by competition from Continental cattle.But now the Hereford farmers are fighting back with a scheme to boost beef sales.Richard Barnett reports : ) |
| 29 | As a way of understanding these linked themes we have argued for an increased emphasis on ‘ the expressive order ’ : the understandings , interpretations and theories which people have of their social world and the way it is changing . |
| 30 | They have sifted through an extraordinary amount of information , and compiled a readable , thorough and ground-breaking account of the subject . |