Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Its newly established corporate sales force is intended only to drum up demand among the Fortune 1000 .
2 Some pages had apparently been torn out and separately burnt ; the brittle fragments of black ash had floated down to lie on top of the debris under the grate , old twisted matchends , coal dust , carpet fluff , the accumulated grit of years .
3 Last night , the town hall 's planning department confirmed the letter has been received merely asking for advice .
4 These schemes and the benefits they provide , in general , are organised hierarchically according to employment status and occupational class ( James , 1984 ) .
5 An early contestant for the role of heir apparent , Aleke Banda , a minister in the 1960s , was restricted to his village for several years before being partially rehabilitated only to fall in disgrace again in the mid 1980s .
6 It was not the first time he had come home covered in blood .
7 She had dropped off to sleep in spite of herself , and now it was a black night with a wind getting up that was making the beech trees creak and rattling a shutter on one of the upper windows .
8 Yet conventional categories can be modified also to allow for change in concepts and attitudes .
9 Moving the smaller oval into place is much easier than you might expect because of the way guidelines appear as the point that you have picked up come into alignment with important features on other object .
10 San Diego , California-based Metrosoft claims to be developing the first commercial multitrack MIDI audio software for NeXT workstations : MetroTracks can accommodate up to 32 virtual tracks , eight of which can be mixed simultaneously depending on hardware configuration , is compatible with most third party audio products supported by NeXT , cost starts from $600 and ships in September .
11 The Stone of Destiny was in alien hands , but in other respects the coronation ceremony on 25 March 1306 was carried out according to tradition .
12 It consists of a boat-like main hull and two outrigger pontoons , or sideswimmers , which are lifted hydraulically to rest on top for road travel and which are extended and lowered to the sides for stability on the water .
13 This questionnaire , the driver behaviour questionnaire ( DBQ ) , was designed particularly to look at driving errors from the type of perspective Reason has adopted elsewhere ( e.g. Reason , 1984 , 1990 ; Reason & Mycielska , 1982 ) , however , it additionally provides an important insight into the frequency of various types of memory failure in driving .
14 ‘ But I will not have forgotten how to listen in Greek ? ’
15 As it was I just sat there fuming with frustration , gabbled one senseless sentence and went swiftly to where charity is supposed to begin , muttering ‘ Never again' all the way , but omitting to add ‘ till the next time ’ .
16 ‘ We 'll take a quick break for some tea and then we should be ready to run it up in another hour , ’ he briefs Captain Tuck-Brown , who has come across to check on progress before going home for the day .
17 This naturally fostered closer links with archaeology ( Simmons and Tooley , 1981 ) .
18 It is argued in [ 110 ] that Euclid 's fifth axiom ( The whole is greater than the part ) was included specifically to eliminate from mathematics the paradoxes ( c. 450 BC ) of the infinite introduced by Zeno
19 By the time of this conference on 21 May , the immediate future of one of the six formations listed above had in fact already been determined .
20 Yet Burn 's Revesby shares with Soane 's Pelwall the distinction of being one of two houses Save and English Heritage have done most to save from demolition , and rightly so .
21 Today I no longer work in the grant-aided sector and a great number of women who were my colleagues and contemporaries have moved on to work in broadcast or cable television .
22 In France the Directive has not been implemented in order to further nature conservation — that it has done so results by default rather than by design .
23 In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land .
24 In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association .
25 The Northumbrians were instructed not to establish as king anyone who was illegitimate ( a slighting reference perhaps to Aldfrith and his descendants , or , for all that we know to the contrary , to other rulers — Aethelwald or Alhred ) nor to conspire to kill a king who was the Lord 's anointed , and any bishop or priest who was involved in such a crime was to be expelled from the Church and any layman excommunicated .
26 The Doctor remembered why , long ago , he had decided not to go into politics .
27 They had already decided not to go for Display PostScript — the on-screen imaging model that matches the printer language — but to concentrate on enhancing QuickDraw .
28 I understand this has been given some serious consideration , but it has been decided not to proceed at present .
29 A Design Change state indicating that it has been decided not to proceed with work on the Design Change .
30 Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee .
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