Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because women are largely con fined to jobs with low status and power , they will be relatively less able to engage in serious forms of white-collar and corporate crime . |
| 2 | The nouveaux romanciers themselves have been reluctant to embrace the term , which has tended to occur on those occasions when parallels are bring drawn with novelists in other countries , as at the New York nouveau roman conference in 1982 which many of them attended and which also saw the participation of several leading American postmodernists . |
| 3 | The criteria for reciprocal altruism seem fulfilled as the interactions seem based upon expectations of reciprocation . |
| 4 | The ( very ) old ‘ American bands get treated like gods in the UK while homegrown talent is treated like a joke ’ argument is met with a smile and a calm , ‘ Yeah , but we get the advantage when we go to America , ’ from Hugo . |
| 5 | I also get stopped by strangers on the street who tell me how much they enjoyed it . |
| 6 | First pieces of the sky fall on my house , then I get attacked by bits of the sea . |
| 7 | Appointing authorities sometimes get drawn into arguments about whether members of certain professional firms could be independent in a dispute because of their firm 's relationship with one of the parties . |
| 8 | We get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's come into my parlour or get sliced into pieces with the lasers . ’ |
| 10 | When this wall-nosed behemoth travels at speed through Kent , leaves get blown off trees in East Sussex . |
| 11 | The econometric work will be undertaken on a data set constructed by CURDS at the University of Newcastle which details the adoption dates of nine technologies in approximately 1500 firms in the metalworking and engineering industry . |
| 12 | Rain and rivers eroded the soft sandstones that had filled the lagoon basin , scouring them away so that today the reefs are exposed once more , high and dry , facing not the sea but desert covered with clumps of spinifex grass and stunted mulga trees . |
| 13 | I do n't think you get attached to birds like you do animals . |
| 14 | I do n't think you get attached to birds like dogs . |
| 15 | For connoisseurs of drawings , sheets are the things you find pressed between mats at art dealers ' shops . |
| 16 | Apparently Ziegfeld spied on rehearsals by watching through a peephole in the wall . |
| 17 | Pupils could use the computer to prepare for their visit and arrive provided with printouts of data-sheets or lists of questions . |
| 18 | Eight of the 12 EC governments remain opposed to attempts by the EC Commissioner for competition policy , Sir Leon Brittan , to impose greater competition on national telecoms authorities . |
| 19 | In the same way , external stimuli become incorporated into dreams in order to reduce their arousing effect . |
| 20 | But this has also ensured that when these structures become racialized , elders and women become mobilized around the defence of public proprieties while male youth become locked in struggles for territorial dominance . |
| 21 | A whole pine forest produces so much pollen that ponds become covered with curds of it — and all of it wasted . |
| 22 | Members of the national Parliament charged with acting as ‘ watchdogs ’ on behalf of the citizens become engaged in acts of total deception as they pass the problems of their constituents up the line to ministers who are no longer in charge . |
| 23 | White working-class and black women 's stories of employment difficulties and success are heard as case histories of psychic tension , and lesbian women 's attempts to redefine relations between women become assimilated to accounts of pre-oedipal intimacy . |
| 24 | SCOTVEC publishes a number of guides which are designed to help teachers , lecturers and other staff keep informed of developments in the National Certificate and to provide details of procedures for candidate enrolment and module registration . |
| 25 | I 've been generous in the latitude I 've given to speakers in talking to this proposal , but it is quite specific about the the review of er responsibilities |
| 26 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 27 | You 've heard from friends in Kuwait recently ? |
| 28 | ‘ I 've come for flowers for my mother . ’ |
| 29 | I do hope that you 've come to terms with pregnancy now . ’ |
| 30 | I 've come to terms with the blow and I 've a marriage to arrange . |