Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fist fights at the team 's base camp at Dunblane Hydro , a bender in Perth where two players were caught pissing up a close next to the town 's ‘ Shanghai Takeaway ’ , a euphoric send-off at Hampden Park , followed by defeat against Peru , a disgraceful match with Iran , a drug scandal and a piece of eleventh-hour magic which nearly overwhelmed the beaten finalists Holland . |
| 2 | The session was short , the smile fading from the face of the accused as Mrs Balanchine described in detail how the car had come storming around a blind corner and swung in close to the wall where they were waiting to cross . |
| 3 | The couple is expected to set up a separate residence for themselves on or shortly after marriage ( that is , and has long been , a general European pattern ) , and the chief obligations of the spouses are to each other and to their children , and only after that to their own families of origin . |
| 4 | Finally , a unit can be added to print out a complete network diagram . |
| 5 | Successive government reports since the late 1930s had recommended setting up a national film bank , but it was only in the wake of the 1948 production crisis that the government seriously contemplated making funds available to the industry . |
| 6 | The word Resident normally implied , at least officially , a preponderance of diplomatic over administrative duties , but it was clear from the beginning that a Lugardian Resident was expected to take on a large number of purely administrative tasks . |
| 7 | If you have ever considered setting up a photographic studio then you will know that there is an awful lot to think about . |
| 8 | NORMAN Riddell , the chief executive of Capital House , the fund management arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland , has resigned to take up a similar position at Invesco-MIM . |
| 9 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 10 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 11 | The young lady thus addressed jumped back a prudent pace or two . |
| 12 | No woman should be expected to bring up a large family on her own . |
| 13 | A transitional season designed to bring about a 10-10-18 system in the 1994/95 season is accepted as being necessary . |
| 14 | ( d ) Restraint covenants Whenever it is intended to open up a new office the partners must as a matter of urgency consider the adequacy of the restraint covenants to which they have agreed to submit themselves and which they have imposed on their key employees . |
| 15 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 16 | At the meeting it was decided to carry out a detailed analysis of the needs of each church 128 in all , of which fifty or so are of prime artistic interest and to calculate precisely the costs involved . |
| 17 | In addition to the methods mentioned above , which were used specifically to evaluate the undergraduate information retrieval course , an attempt was made to carry out a long-term study on the use of the library with regard to reasons for use , materials used , success in carrying out literature searches etc . |
| 18 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 19 | Attempts are being made to set up a comprehensive " protection and control network " for pandas in China 's Sichuan province , according to officials of the Chengdu wildlife protection department . |
| 20 | A new bid is being made to set up a 25-stall weekly market on land at the rear of The Three Tuns Hotel , Murray Street , Filey , by Market Operators and Management . |
| 21 | A proposal by the BAPU parliamentary group to repeal Paragraph 1 , defining Bulgaria as a " People 's Republic " and as " a socialist state of the working people from town and country , headed by a working class " , was rejected on procedural grounds after a heated debate , but it was decided to set up a working group of government and opposition representatives to examine this and other possible constitutional amendments , with a view to submitting proposals to a forthcoming National Assembly session . |
| 22 | The Lord Chancellor originally intended that lenders should be self-regulating , but since publishing the white paper he has decided to set up a new Authorised Conveyancing Practitioners ' Board , with consumer representatives , to police lenders offering conveyancing services . |
| 23 | The Transport Secretary has decided to set up a new rail pension scheme to safeguard their interests . |
| 24 | ( B ) The conference had decided to set up a national assembly composed of 123 members based on the number of constituencies existing before 1969 with a speaker and two deputy speakers . |
| 25 | It was therefore decided to set up a Royal Commission to review the whole problem of criminal behaviour and of the means of dealing with it . |
| 26 | It was also decided to draw up a new party programme along social democratic lines in advance of multiparty elections in Slovenia in April . |
| 27 | The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground . |
| 28 | In terms of the analogies we have used so far , the Indian traditions are said to orbit around a different sun , or to be climbing a different mountain — or to identify with a family of monsters in the loch quite different from the one followed by the Near Eastern religions . |
| 29 | Since two different groups of headlines appear in E [ the last sheet but three ] it is obvious that an interruption occurred while E was printing ; and it appears probable that it came about because the printer abruptly decided to run off a small number of complete copies of the book for sale while the opera was being presented and then to finish the entire edition at leisure . |
| 30 | What worries me , said one Vice-Chancellor , is that the policy of the government is to leave the universities autonomous , as they are , with the implication that they are irresponsible , to stew in their own juice , while an attempt is made to build up a rival system , via the CNAA . |