Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one factor which might have altered this made little difference . |
| 2 | HBsAg positive individuals ( accounting for 3% of our cirrhotic population ) were excluded because at the outset of the trial hepatitus B virus immunisation was not widely available to theatre staff and it was not deemed acceptable to expose such staff to the risks of infection undergoing elective surgery . |
| 3 | The Doctor had expected this to provoke some reaction but the Chelonians remained resolutely silent , their eyes fixed on the big screen that showed a trundling view of their journey through the wastes . |
| 4 | Whilst recognising the need to introduce measures that would make Colleges more self-supporting , it was considered unrealistic to expect such measures to be effective immediately . |
| 5 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 6 | John Upson who trains near Towcester wo n't hear of defeat for Zeta 's Lad who has won five chases this season and whose success last time out in the Racing Post Chaser at Kempton was arguably the best National trial so far . |
| 7 | If it was , that meant there were livestock in the room and the landlady had done that to stop these things falling from the wall onto the blankets . |
| 8 | The Government have done little to encourage such schemes . |
| 9 | She let herself into the comfort and glow of the solar to hear her father 's querulous voice complaining , in terms in which surely he himself did not believe : ‘ My mind misdoubts me we have done wrong to have any part in this . |
| 10 | Joe and I had seen this happen many times before . |
| 11 | Recent initiatives such as the National Writing Project and the National Oracy Project have done much to foster such developments and to disseminate good practice . |
| 12 | The election of the Prime Minister has done much to dispel that idea and to show the general public that in my right hon. Friend we have a Prime Minister who is frank about his business background and honest about the employment difficulties that he faced as a young man . |
| 13 | The modular system , whereby the theory and practice of a particular specialty are co-ordinated , has done much to minimise these problems . |
| 14 | Though we must be careful not to attempt to deny the responsibility which ultimately lies with ourselves , it has to be said that certain employers have done much to encourage these sorts of trends . |
| 15 | No possibilities here to warm to any feeling of myself as " clever " ; the aching question instead was why the divine hand had seen fit to bestow these talents on me and not on the next child . |
| 16 | Can she have seen fit to pursue some errand of blessing elsewhere ? |
| 17 | ‘ One reason is because people who have been made redundant have more time to think up new inventions . |
| 18 | The government announced on June 4 that it had freed all remaining former South Vietnamese officials held in re-education camps , thereby fulfilling a key condition for the normalization of relations with the USA . |
| 19 | This question , said Mrs B , seemed to be of particular significance , but she had felt unable to make any sense of it . |
| 20 | With Iraq not currently exporting [ see p. 38598 ] and Kuwait only gradually returning to the market , OPEC 's other 11 member states had felt able to defer any reimposition of output restrictions , particularly in view of the serious uncertainty about Soviet supplies . |
| 21 | Dr. Hicks of Baldock had given the same opinion ‘ in words of less meaning ’ , and Gibbon of Bedford had not felt qualified to give any opinion at all . |
| 22 | ( A statement of special educational needs is a document which outlines the special needs of an individual and lists what resources should be made available to meet those needs in the educational setting . ) |
| 23 | Short term capital should be made available to meet those recommendations ’ . |
| 24 | This is not to deny that the opportunity has been made available to question these developments or to call a halt to them . |
| 25 | Ample time should be made available to discuss such matters . |
| 26 | The result was a stutter of no consequence for Rangers , who had done enough to win several games before Coyle struck for the second time . |
| 27 | Although standards for cycle track construction were set as part of the 1975 Act , it was felt necessary to provide some demonstration projects to give local authorities guidelines on costs , approaches to particular problems , and above all to demonstrate how an entire cycle route might be created . |
| 28 | The sergeant flicked up the plastic film and scrutinised the tweed jacket and brown trousers with a faint sneer : he would n't be seen dead wearing such clothes . |
| 29 | Got this got this quote , right , from the other garage |
| 30 | The younger members of the crew may have got some sleep that night but the older ones , who should have known better , arrived back at four o'clock in the morning , with half the town and a piper who , traditionally , concluded the night 's festivities on the pier . |