Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In October 1991 it was disclosed that as a result of the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) Options for Change report , Kemble and Hullavington would close .
2 The problem of the prophecies was solved albeit in a way he had scarce expected .
3 Investors are reminded that as a consequence of the general nature of the investments held and of possible exchange and interest rate fluctuations , the value of their shares and the yield from them may go down as well as up and that past performance is no guide to the future .
4 In yesterday 's edition of The Northern Echo it was reported that at a meeting of Derwentside Council 's development control sub-committee Labour councillor Eric Turner criticised a fellow councillor , Derek McVickers .
5 The Middle East Economic Digest of Aug. 31 also reported that as a gesture of goodwill Iraq had allowed thousands of Iranians to leave Kuwait for Iran by crossing Iraqi territory at the border between Khorramshahr and Basra .
6 It is reported that in a number of countries that are regionally , culturally and socio-economically heterogeneous , malnutrition has been found to be more common among children born after short than after long intervals ( Rinehart , 1984 , p. 686 ) .
7 It is not easy to see the future for the art of jewellery ; it may even be considered that as an art it has not a future .
8 Others before Frank Kermode , in his suave and erudite but ultimately acidulous The Classic ( New York , 1975 ) , had protested that as a framework inside which real political decisions and actions could be taken , Eliot 's Virgilian-Dantesque perspective was not just useless but dangerous .
9 It might be objected that for a politician to act as a ‘ caretaker ’ might in itself enhance his chances in the subsequent Leadership election , simply by his being seen to fulfil the duties of the office of Prime Minister .
10 Imagination and reality fused and for a second the sense of foreboding intensified .
11 I am now installed and with a maid-of-all-work with me named Maria .
12 At the request of local residents the Parish Council has also asked for street lighting to be installed and for a speed limit to be introduced along part of this road .
13 In this last stage self evaluation is included and in a commentary on the White Paper on teaching quality ( DES 1983a ) , John Elliott 's characterization of three levels of professional development through self-evaluation was quoted as an argument against assuming that government policies of dealing out more doses of in-service education would improve teaching quality ( Slater 1985 ) .
14 The tallest Turk has resigned and in a fit of unparalleled generosity the Commander has ruled that his uniform should be sent instantly to a fast dry cleaners .
15 The Collected Poems , edited and with an introduction by Ted Hughes , was published in 1981 .
16 In 1917 Maxwell returned from France badly wounded and with an MC .
17 The forced march through Siberia becomes increasingly desperate and hallucinatory ( in fact Ypsilanti is , from the outset , clear in his own mind that they will never find the emperor ) : when the regiment comes to cross the tajga in July 1918 , the forest takes on the appearance both of a paradise regained and of a place of horror , endless in extent , haunted by marauding tigers and ghostly tribes .
18 In this society the means of production are communally owned and as a result oppression and exploitation disappear .
19 New figures show just 119 of the 15,767 properties controlled by the council , less than one per cent , fit to be let but without a tenant .
20 They decline to be interviewed but in a statement to us said , this year , productivity has increased while the accident rate has fallen .
21 The door did not lead into the shop as Wycliffe had expected but into a minute hall with the shop door on the right , and stairs leading up .
22 His head was shaven but for a topknot .
23 He has been replaced in the squad for the Test , beginning in Melbourne on Boxing Day , by Shane Warne , while left-arm paceman Bruce Reid was not considered because of a shoulder injury .
24 For example , supposing that the flow investigated becomes more complicated than might be expected because of an instability , this fact would be discovered not by a stability analysis but by the observation , in the laboratory or on the computer , that a complicated flow occurred .
25 The owners of a department store which was evacuated because of a bomb scare have criticised the police operation .
26 The team was chosen so far ahead that the monumental Rangers defender George Young was omitted because of an injury that cleared up weeks before the team left Scotland .
27 The operation was cancelled because of a shortage of beds in intensive care where he will recover from his surgery .
28 The future of the National Book Sales was this week thrown into doubt after Book Marketing Ltd announced that the summer sale , due to run from 3rd July to 7th August , had been cancelled because of a lack of support .
29 The Broadway opening was cancelled because of a blizzard .
30 Speculation on whether the historic meeting would actually go ahead , however , was intensified when , on the same day , a planned visit to the South by a North Korean delegation — the first since 1985 — was cancelled because of a failure to agree upon minor procedural details .
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