Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would almost make it only eligible for a speculative developer who reckoned he might be able to pull the right political strings to get the site suitably rezoned for a later sell-on . |
| 2 | Whitehall asked for a slower offtake of the gas , a guarantee that UK companies would share in the development of three platforms in 1990 , 1992 and 1994 , and that the natural gas liquids ( NGLs ) from Sleipner should go by UK pipelines to Flotta in the Orkneys . |
| 3 | At the 1890 Convention of Local Phonograph Companies in Chicago , delegates asked for a longer cylinder with a section specifically set aside for an announcement , but this did not come about . |
| 4 | LPS-specific monoclonal antibody was added in a solution of PBS containing 0.05% Tween 20 , 1% BSA and 0.05% sodium azide ( PBSB-Tween ) and incubated for a further hour at room temperature . |
| 5 | After 6 washes in PBS , the third layer HRP-conjugated rabbit anti-goat antibody ( Sigma ) was added , the plates incubated for a further hour at RT , washed 6 in PBS and the reaction developed with ABTS ( 2'2'-azinobis(3-ethylbenzthiazolone)sulphonic acid ) . |
| 6 | Perhaps it made for a safer relationship if , instead of arguing to a standstill , the party who felt herself misunderstood took her grievance elsewhere and satiated it in transgression . |
| 7 | And they Sought for a Better Sign from Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) , and there was a Sign ; ii . |
| 8 | Hill was eventually persuaded to drop this proposal to gain acceptance for what he regarded as the greater reform : that price should be independent of distance . |
| 9 | Former Z-Cars and Softly Softly star Frank Windsor starred in and as Headmaster , written by John Challen and featuring characters he created for an earlier Play for Today slot . |
| 10 | This occurred during the lower stages of barbarism . |
| 11 | She tried for a brighter smile . |
| 12 | The event smacked of an earlier era of Hollywood where tyrannical film moguls ran the lives of their contracted artists , vetting them for indiscretions and disloyalty . |
| 13 | This was the route by which his son rose into the higher nobility . |
| 14 | In the Netherlands , however , it appears that for much of the past 30 years , a substantial reduction in levels of imprisonment occurred with no greater rise in crime than occurred in Britain ; and that reduction occurred at a time of rising crime in Holland . |
| 15 | None of Kasmin 's artists wanted to leave , except Noland , ‘ whose work had gone off anyway , ’ so he moved into a smaller space in Clifford Street . |
| 16 | After a bat against the spinners , he moved into the faster net to face the English pacemen . |
| 17 | Willi changed into a lower gear . |
| 18 | As he got more excited as they got closer to Pollensa so Ruth sank into a deeper depression . |
| 19 | He wandered along the brighter corridors near Nettles looking for a good place to plant his seeds . |
| 20 | Kenny then excelled in the higher sphere and helped the Palace to gain the 2nd Division championship with the club 's best-ever defensive record , and to reach the top of the Football League in September 1979 . |
| 21 | Einstein has traced in his work the conservative influences of Ingegneri , a melodious master of Palestrinian polyphony , and Andrea Gabrieli , who excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and villanella , the Venetian gregesche and giustiniane . |
| 22 | Morley excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and kindred forms ; the supreme masters of the English school were Weelkes , who published his first book in 1597 , and John Wilbye ( 1574–1638 ) who began the following year . |
| 23 | ( Berkeley was familiar with perspective machines , one of which he described in a later work . ) |
| 24 | ‘ The Created God ’ described in a later chapter embraces all the needs and provides all the power . |
| 25 | Like did er er people begin to be asked to do different jobs whereas you described in the older days , you were very much sort of , pinned to one machine if you like ? |
| 26 | We shall examine the difficulties they encountered in a later chapter ( pp. 354 ff . ) . |
| 27 | The first meeting of the committee received a resolution from a conference held under the auspices of the society and the Canning Town branch of the guild which rejoiced in the wider powers given under the act , and urged the council to ‘ take steps to exercise any , or all of the powers given , and especially that steps be taken as soon as possible to establish a creche or day nursery in the southern part of the borough ’ ( Maternity and Child Welfare Committee Minutes 20 November 18 ) . |
| 28 | These two arrangements , which directly and indirectly committed Britain to major international financial responsibilities in which the operation of sterling as a reserve currency was an essential element , stemmed from a deeper commitment to the belief in Britain 's world role [ Clarke , 1982 ; Scammell , 1980 ; Strange , 1971 ] . |
| 29 | Twenty years earlier he fled from an elder brother plotting to kill him . |
| 30 | People living alone are particularly at risk if they smoke because , as I mentioned in an earlier chapter , it is a considerable fire hazard in the home . |