Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact its name still adorns the large office block in Paddock Wood — they 're waiting for the Friends of Felix Dhjerzinsky to come and remove it — but below is enscribed the new and politically squeaky-clean name of ‘ English Hops ’ . |
| 2 | John Smedley knitwear was given the Red Or Dead once-over and became mock-boy scout gear , while Russian babooshka doll prints on stretch velvet should be everywhere next summer . |
| 3 | The Alliance for Progress reforms were absurd , given the enormous and very basic lack of educational materials available in the majority of state schools . |
| 4 | Her hand was retained and to her astonishment given the slightest but most certain squeeze . |
| 5 | It was not long — and far quicker than he knew — before she became aware of his scrutiny and soon after sensed the unusual and possibly intimidating intensity of it . |
| 6 | Only when the rich treated the poor as equally worthy human individuals would class harmony as well as material improvement be achieved . |
| 7 | I could list many individual examples of how the tax has treated the poorest and most vulnerable in society . |
| 8 | The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals ' report suggests that more flexibility should ‘ allow staff to be used considerably more effectively than under the present system , where research is considered the prime and often only road to reward and promotion and hence staff expect that the balance of their tasks should be broadly the same for all . ’ |
| 9 | The referendum was monitored by 12,000 members of the security forces , 490 delegates from the Catholic Church , 50 international observers and 300 foreign journalists , and was considered the cleanest and most peaceful poll ever held in Panama , but was marked by a high abstention rate ( the turnout was only slightly over 40 per cent ) . |
| 10 | But now , to the uncertainty about his future funding , was added a new and more terrifying threat . |
| 11 | Faced with the mounting cost of a war against the American colonies , the coalition government in Westminster had instituted a punitive and highly unpopular tax by the Stamp Act of October 1783 : all registrations of baptisms , marriages and burials would be charged at 3d. a time — and so there was every incentive for local clergy , working on 10 per cent commission , to get around the parish and bring in the strays . |
| 12 | The final question which arises is whether , in the exercise of our discretion , we should let mandamus go bearing in mind that the events with which we are concerned occurred as long ago as 1989 and then occupied no more than perhaps three quarters of an hour . |
| 13 | It was not considered an easy or even feasible task to prove this relationship , but the North East CAB area policy comment sub-committee nevertheless launched a pilot study . |
| 14 | If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well . |
| 15 | At best the programme was rated no more than moderately effective , being considered completely ineffective in respect of home-school links . |
| 16 | Although still recognisably human in shape , and with a skin covering of normal human skin , X-ray analysis had revealed a new and scientifically impossible internal network of industrial steel and plastics . |
| 17 | The first afternoon was spent mainly with the Superintendent and the second incorporated a full and relatively leisurely tour of the prison , seeing whatever I wished . |
| 18 | The years between 1973 , when Guinness first established a presence in Indonesia , and today have seen a long but seemingly inexorable growth in the Guinness brand . |
| 19 | Oliver had never seen a dirtier or more miserable place . |
| 20 | He 'd done no more than accidentally bump against some sailors aimlessly wandering from the passage next to the warehouse . |
| 21 | If the Greeks had , for instance , thought through the deepest problems of life and if Germans aspired to emulate their profundity , the Greeks had also possessed a rich and much admired language which was likewise not beyond emulation . |
| 22 | If cycling is to be made a safer and more attractive mode of transport , it is , as Hudson 's classic book has advocated , essential that planning principles are established and followed . |
| 23 | After he 'd made a quick and fairly superficial examination I locked the door . |
| 24 | The health authority has recognised that and has sought an alternative and more convenient landing pad . |
| 25 | Diplomacy could still be made an uncomfortable and even dangerous profession by the slowness and physical difficulty of communications and by the inconveniences of life in the smaller and more remote capitals . |
| 26 | Taft and Ross ( 1969:221 ) point out that ‘ The United States has had the bloodiest and most violent labor history of any industrial nation in the world . ’ |
| 27 | After landing , which included the formalities of a lecture on the dangers of picking up unidentified objects , we were transported the sixty or so kilometres into the capital town of Stanley , and deposited at our hotel on the waterfront . |
| 28 | So not only have they got the cheap labour , they 've got the cheap and highly effective machinery . |
| 29 | John Wilson , Cambridge coach , who was with the victorious Oxford camp last year , considers he has produced a fitter and more professional crew for the four-and-a-quarter-mile . |
| 30 | It looks as if you 've got a spare as well down there . |