Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VZV 140k DNA binding domain deletion polypeptides were expressed to high levels in E.coli and partially purified as described for the VT2 polypeptide . |
| 2 | Thus Marco Polo confidently assures us that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by dog-headed cannibals , while the Amazon women , whom he reported as living on an island near Socotra , turn up again , in identical form , in Columbus ' report on his second voyage to the West Indies , only this time they are inhabitants of Martinique . |
| 3 | I say that on behalf of the party he beat as opposed to the one that he put into third place — the Conservative party , which was marginalised in that by-election . |
| 4 | Now those of us who 've been involved on the Moat Highfields sub committee will have a need to know that when we were faced with really serious and horrendous problems , we found when faced with the reality and a great deal of detailed information , that an extraordinary amount of three party cooperation was achieved . |
| 5 | More local law societies disagreed as agreed with the question , but amongst respondents from medium-sized and larger firms there were slight majorities in favour . |
| 6 | Police said the raiders had taken £450 worth of sweaters but fled when disturbed by a passer-by . |
| 7 | The most depressing aspect he had found had been the neglect of the fundamental issue of liberty raised by MPs ’ proposals to prevent what they regarded as abuses by the press . |
| 8 | He refused to consider what he regarded as interfering in the judicial process and what they saw as moderating his policy of harassing the Free Church . |
| 9 | The latter were incensed at what they regarded as hitting below the belt and retaliated with vicious shootings at policemen regardless of whether they were the men responsible . |
| 10 | The first real scare came while flying over the Mediterranean . |
| 11 | But most worrying of all , the subordinate group may be unaware of its ‘ real ’ interests and subscribe to the inevitability of the status quo : a fact which Lukes ( 1974 ) recognised when calling for a ‘ three-dimensional ’ or radical approach to the study of power . |
| 12 | Thank you Chairman , yes , erm I know this in little be , that erm , that er rejected as shown as an achievement of an acceptable level provision while it |
| 13 | ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , written in 1927 , contains not only material quoted in Eliot 's 1926 survey , ‘ Lancelot Andrewes ’ , and recollections from Eliot 's own life ( some of which he catalogued when reminiscing in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ) . |
| 14 | All of this paled when compared with the crime of taking a position on ship-borne nuclear weapons , which displeased the administration . |
| 15 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 16 | ‘ They have a lovely day for it , ’ Lucy remarked while staring through the kitchen window . |
| 17 | THE couple who left their daughters , aged just nine and four , Home Alone while they jetted off on holiday were booed and jeered when arrested at the end of their trip . |
| 18 | The wish to defend European freedom and democracy was central to Britain 's attitude towards the EEC and , as I have said , comprised one of the chief arguments which I deployed when campaigning for a ‘ Yes ’ vote in 1975 . |
| 19 | Even less is known about the strategies ( the choice of technology , product or market ) they followed when faced with the increasing loss of markets at home and abroad . |
| 20 | Sometimes I felt I was being followed or watched whilst seated in a tavern or moving amongst the stalls in Cheapside . |
| 21 | The band , who have sold 13 million records , belted out hit after hit as the walls of the King 's Hall echoed with the beat of the music . |
| 22 | ‘ It is a lie , ’ he stormed when quizzed by a TV reporter . |
| 23 | Juvenile age classes showed a much greater range of variation than the adults , and that variation decreased with age until only those of the parental form survived as recruits into the adult population . |
| 24 | With UAPT 's area files , only information about the named subject of the inquiry and their spouse , and information about someone recorded as living under a closely comparable name very close by , is passed . |
| 25 | There were three Gifford Tates recorded as auctioned during the year : ‘ The Swanpool at Falmouth signed and dated 1938 … oil on canvas … £17,550 ; The Loire at Amboise … 1963 … £12,610 ; Helford Village , near Falmouth … 1973 … £21,200 … ’ |
| 26 | Of the 6111 recorded as working in the Royal docks , 5093 ( 83.3 per cent ) lived in Canning Town or Plaistow . |
| 27 | Some heavy-duty buckets ( which were suitable for most purposes for which such buckets were normally bought or used ) collapsed when left by the buyer for several days stacked in extreme heat such that the contents reached 70° Centigrade ( 156° Fahrenheit ) . |
| 28 | While he condemned as pride the solitary life-style which arises from self-reliance rather than faith in God ( 14.87 ) he countered his opponents with another Scriptural quotation from Osee ( Hosea ) 2:14 interpreted as referring to the relationship between God and the soul : " I will lead her into solitude , and I will speak to her heart " ( 13.83 ) . |
| 29 | Topping the list is Barbara Piasecka-Johnson , who does not really count : she inherited her $550m fortune from her husband , chairman of America 's Johnson and Johnson company , whom she met while working as a maid in his house . |
| 30 | The youngster fell while playing on a haystack at his grandmother 's farm . |