Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 2 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 3 | There 's , there 's one , something about a dog or something , involves describing somebody like a dog or that 's had a bad temper , I forget , there 's all sorts of words . |
| 4 | Erm there 's another one that a lot of came up with one or two had heard a few before and they all groaned and then accused you of making them all up ! |
| 5 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 6 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 7 | And that has ruffled a few feathers at Shire Hall . |
| 8 | Jones has become increasingly loathe to change his side to accommodate individual clubs ' fortunes , and that has brought a first county call-up for young Hawarden Park batsman Darrell Bowden . |
| 9 | Well , I have done the photography for the front cover and er of this particular book , but countryside books , who are the publishers , were asked a number of years ago to republish the old Berkshire village book and that has started a whole series of countryside village books , which now cover , I think , about thirty five different counties . |
| 10 | That was a Day Centre for erm mentally handicapped people , and that 's got a reprieve . |
| 11 | The earlier Welsh campaigns of 1277 and 1282–3 had cost a sum approaching £150,000 , while the building of the castles had added another £80,000 to this throughout the reign . |
| 12 | The long-wave , world-systems and regulationist theories are broad frameworks to which several writers have contributed and each has given a new twist to the framework they use . |
| 13 | Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey . |
| 14 | Forty three per cent had been investigated , often extensively , before referral , and eight had had a non-curative cholecystectomy . |
| 15 | Investigations included barium meal , barium enema , endoscopy , ultrasound scanning , intravenous urography , spinal radiology , and laparotomy before referral , and eight had had a non-curative cholecystectomy . |
| 16 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 17 | Many practices have so far opted not to take the inducements to fundhold , and some have invested a considerable amount of time and energy into alternative methods of organising general practitioners ' input into purchasing decisions . |
| 18 | Recent studies showing predominantly presynaptic LTP have used 2.5mM Ca 2+ for slice experiments , and some have reported a high proportion of failures , suggesting low initial release probabilities . |
| 19 | There was growing public concern at the high toll of deaths and injuries among servicemen in peacetime , and this had become a significant factor in the worsening problem of draft-dodging . |
| 20 | We had instilled in all of us a very strong sense of timing , which had to be to the second , and this had become a habit . |
| 21 | We went along the river bank : two smugglers were being hanged near Billingsgate and this had attracted a large crowd to watch their last dance . |
| 22 | Over the centuries officers had had to nurse their wooden ships for structural reasons and this had provided a certain measure of protection against excessive sail-carrying . |
| 23 | Joseph had accompanied her willingly , but she had soon noticed that his manner was subdued and cool towards her , and this had added a vague new dimension to her unease . |
| 24 | It might be noted at this point that in recent years there has been a dramatic growth in the volume of business conducted in the interbank market and this has become a major source of liquidity for banks . |
| 25 | There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 . |
| 26 | ‘ We are already behind on our non-professional staff training programme and this has necessitated a review of training methods . |
| 27 | In February 1990 a European style option was made available on the FT-SE 100 Index , and this has generated a fair degree of interest among the investing public . |
| 28 | There has been a surge of field studies in the Himalayan-Tibetan region since the late 1970s and this has generated a large body of published work . |
| 29 | Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives . |
| 30 | GRIST regulations ( section 9 , DES , 1986 ) allow the curriculum component of advisers ' work to be a charge against DES funds and this has released a number of posts frozen by local government cut-backs . |