Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The voice was sun-warm , rough smoothed down a notch with sympathy ; the accent had a home : Santos Angeles . |
| 8 | On the pavement , Jo shook herself free and smoothed down the front of her leather mini-skirt . |
| 9 | Louise smiled a slow smile , and smoothed down the skirt of her dress . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 14 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | he has n't broken down the mileage into how it 's assigned . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 21 | He 's trampled on my alstroemerias and my dahlias , kicked out my cucumber frame and broken down the fence into the orchard . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | As the technique has developed so the range of applications in clinical practice has expanded . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The sheer volume of insignia required for public services means that insignia can be given only the appearance of precious metals . |
| 26 | The log is filled in every day by protection officers detailing their duties . |
| 27 | 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so . |
| 28 | Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment . |
| 29 | You might think , having filled in a claim for US$110 for the missing items , that would be it . |
| 30 | She had n't filled in a card for Anna , but somehow it was too much trouble . |