Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I think we have given rather a gloomy vision of what being a parent is
2 Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains .
3 Associated American Artists has gathered together a representative group of this work in a show called ‘ Rufino Tamayo — seventeen years at the Mixografia workshop ’ .
4 Diana had gathered together a small staff who were learning the ropes as fast as she was .
5 They have therefore gathered together an impressive group of sixteen experts and devised cast-iron vetting rules .
6 If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing .
7 His measures had welded together an invincible voter coalition .
8 The defendant can already count himself lucky to have received only a two-year sentence , having regard to the amount involved and to the position of trust which he held .
9 Thus far , Kirov had received only a vague brief about his current project .
10 J. Sainsbury , Britain 's biggest food retailer argues that discount shops have received only a temporary boost from the recession .
11 The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal .
12 Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning .
13 The listener was given only a limited picture of life outside the capital and one which was seen through urban eyes .
14 ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’
15 Dadda he had told , though even to him he had given only a vague location , but he had n't said a word to his grandmother and he was sure Peter would n't have told Uncle Leonard and Auntie Midge .
16 Government proposals to solve the unrelieved surplus advance corporation tax problem suffered by companies with overseas operations were given only a guarded welcome .
17 Once more , we are given only a masculine point of view .
18 If the presidency was given only a nominal role , for example , the Maronites would still hold the most honoured post in the country while more executive power could be given to the Sunni Muslim premier .
19 Each month lots were drawn for the names of the next families to leave , and the fortunate ones were given only a short time to make their final preparations .
20 This tough process , it was realised , did not accord with their own equal-opportunities policy , in that candidates for paid advice workers ' posts were given only an oral interview , even though their job description may have been identical to that of a voluntary advice worker .
21 Church-state law experts said a role for the Pope in the Anglican church was unlikely to provoke a constitutional crisis , if he was given only an honorary position .
22 Filled in a new rent rebate form .
23 When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible .
24 Pat Palmer is asking everyone to co–operate — if you have not yet filled in a pink form or given verbal class details to your Area Organiser will you please forward these details to the Office by early August so that we can have a comprehensive up-to-date class list ready to meet all enquiries for the new season .
25 Pat Palmer is asking everyone to co-operate — if you have not yet filled in a pink form or given verbal class details to your Area Organiser will you please forward these details to the Office by early August so that we can have a comprehensive up-to-date class list ready to meet all enquiries for the new season .
26 The video formed a central part of the event , then staff filled in an extensive questionnaire on working practices and an attitude survey .
27 By July , Wolfgang had been rewarded for his efforts with a formal appointment to the post he had filled in an honorary capacity — on and off — for the past three years , that of konzertmeister .
28 One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare .
29 In 1956 the Marlboro cigarette , formerly considered rather a ladylike thing to smoke , acquired its cowboy , with a tattoo on the back of his hand and the message : ‘ A man 's cigarette that women like too ’ .
30 By the early nineteenth century three ‘ large carrying establishments ’ had made their headquarters here , of which Sutton & Co. carried on a great trade with Hull and Gainsborough , Liverpool and Manchester , the Cheshire salt works and the Potteries , and with Birmingham , Dudley and the Black Country .
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