Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister opened the debate , he made it clear that he had sensed right the mood of the House and of the British people . |
| 2 | In recent years there have been feminist theologians who , far from believing there to be a gap to be bridged between past and present , have emphasized rather the continuity to be found in the situation of women . |
| 3 | Dissenters normally formed only a minority of townsmen but they were often an influential one . |
| 4 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 5 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 6 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 7 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 8 | The voice was sun-warm , rough smoothed down a notch with sympathy ; the accent had a home : Santos Angeles . |
| 9 | On the pavement , Jo shook herself free and smoothed down the front of her leather mini-skirt . |
| 10 | Louise smiled a slow smile , and smoothed down the skirt of her dress . |
| 11 | Caroline tugged at the thin straps that held the red silk up over the generous curve of her breasts , then smoothed down the skirt as if her touch might somehow magically make it extend beyond her thighs . |
| 12 | During this period I have learnt a great deal about what children like [ and dislike ] at parties and have gathered together a selection of games , songs and magic tricks which I can guarantee will make any party a day to remember , for both children and adults . |
| 13 | To aid his election campaign , Roosevelt had gathered together a body of men and women who became known as his Brain Trust , mostly from the universities . |
| 14 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 15 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 16 | I had six days — time to make myself an evening gown ( evening gowns are n't funny ) that drops to pieces ( how ? ) after I 've fallen down a flight of stairs . |
| 17 | When all were examined together a trend of increasing risk with lower social class was also found ( test for trend x=5.72 , p=0.02 ) . |
| 18 | Erik Olin Wright , for example , has broken down the concept of ‘ determination ’ into six distinct relations : structural limitation , selection , reproduction/non-reproduction , limits of functional compatibility , transformation and mediation . |
| 19 | he has n't broken down the mileage into how it 's assigned . |
| 20 | Erm I 've broken down the costing into each of the sizes we will produce , the thirty three millilitres , the one litre and the two litre sizes . |
| 21 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 22 | He 's trampled on my alstroemerias and my dahlias , kicked out my cucumber frame and broken down the fence into the orchard . ’ |
| 23 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 24 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 25 | As the technique has developed so the range of applications in clinical practice has expanded . |
| 26 | We 've pieced together the fragments of leaks and rumours concerning the latest version of the 10-year-old operating system , due to release at the end of March . |
| 27 | There is some evidence of the pope 's personal position on several issues — his reluctance to declare the count of Toulouse excommunicate , his care to see that Simon de Montfort was given only the wardship of the count 's lands , and his snubbing of Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz for his inopportune intervention , three times ordering him to sit down . |
| 28 | The sheer volume of insignia required for public services means that insignia can be given only the appearance of precious metals . |
| 29 | The log is filled in every day by protection officers detailing their duties . |
| 30 | 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so . |