Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One distributor asked for more direct satire to be used and suggested catchlines like ‘ She was not as red as she painted herself . ’ |
| 2 | The judge asked for more psychiatric reports on Borgois before passing sentence . |
| 3 | Sometimes it made for unbearably funny moments . |
| 4 | It seemed , too , that the fusion thing had run its course and become fuzak , which made for too easy listening . |
| 5 | As agreed in August 1988 [ see pp. 36294-95 ] New Zealand and Australia on July 1 , 1990 , abolished all remaining barriers to trade and thus completed the closer economic relations ( CER ) agreement which provided for completely free trade in goods , services and other commercial dealings between the two countries . |
| 6 | This is the reverse pattern of results to that found for purely somatasensory defects by Semmes et al. |
| 7 | Although the squeeze on profits occurred during very different time periods , the falls were quite similar : profit shares declined to around 80 per cent of peak levels almost everywhere . |
| 8 | Farmers would be required to produce farm management plans , and those who moved towards more extensive systems would be rewarded . |
| 9 | But the kindergarten 's fervour for imperial federation declined during the First World War , when the strength of dominion nationalism became apparent , and they moved towards more informal notions of imperial co-operation . |
| 10 | The Times ( 15 August 1898 ) had given the broadest indication of the shock-waves produced by the push-bike when it delivered its editorial judgement on ‘ The Bicycle as a Social Force ’ , which bristled with otherwise unaccountable fears and allusions to deeper moving forces within society . |
| 11 | In more recent years , Whessoe has laid off a number of men , and moved into more specialist fields , but it is still one of only a few companies listed on the Stock Exchange to have its headquarters in the North-East . |
| 12 | In the 1950s Goodman moved into more social photography for William Hickey , as well as fashion for magazines such as the Gentlemen 's Quarterly , using trend-setters such as Douglas Fairbanks Jnr , Patrick Lichfield and David Hicks to model clothes . |
| 13 | In short , the album grew out of Morrissey 's fevered mind and moved into more journalistic areas . |
| 14 | They behaved with both unimaginable courage and contemptible cowardice . |
| 15 | When the Antwerp market began to contract , he diversified into more risky ventures . |
| 16 | But there is usually an effective distinction from the institutions of simple commodity production even where the cultural work is quite clearly a commodity it is almost always , and often justly , also described in very different terms — and from the institutions or power and administration , in which purposes and objectives are inherent . |
| 17 | It has been exported since 1817 , when it first went to the USA and Canada , soon spreading into Mexico and South America and readily adapting to environments which ranged from very cold uplands to hot , semi-desert plains . |
| 18 | It can be charted in the rise and fall of journals which , as early as the 1950s , moved from severely literary concerns into a mixture of politics , the fine arts and travelogue . |
| 19 | PIXE analyses of the reagents ( many of them ARISTAR quality ) used in both immunohistochemical staining and silver-staining procedures showed trace levels of contaminants , despite filtering through 0.2-μm filters . |
| 20 | The principal recommendation of the Working Party was that the number of mandatory design and furniture standards be reduced from fourteen to six couched in more general terms to permit greater freedom of interpretation . |
| 21 | Mr Friere , who used to call his gallery fiction/non-fiction , decided to change its name when the gallery recently moved to more spacious quarters on Prince St. |
| 22 | Business was so bad that they moved to more lucrative areas before the shows had even finished . |
| 23 | As freedmen and freedwomen rose to previously unimaginable positions of political power and wealth , some portraits were made which likened their subjects to deities . |
| 24 | But during the 1970s , inflation rose to levels unprecedented in peacetime and in consequence nominal interest rates rose to very high levels . |
| 25 | It 's erm , as you can see , it 's divisional guidelines for authorising costing needs to be and referred to under related documents rather than just divisional policy . |
| 26 | The hon. Member for Billericay ( Mrs. Gorman ) referred to more genuine equality for women . |
| 27 | In the second and third years , he concentrated on more sustained studies through arranging short and Terminal courses under Chapter III arrangements as well as continuing to provide many village lectures . |
| 28 | Psycholinguistic models also concentrated on how good people were at recognising speech . |
| 29 | Grey city streets enlivened by boldly patterned boardshorts and shirts present a feeble parody of a lost paradise : fashion and tourism have together unmoored a raft of signifiers from their origins . |
| 30 | In the late 16th century there was a short period when , rather than the usual 13 ribs , lutes suddenly sprouted anything up to 37 and made of very narrow strips of yew . |