Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Incidentally , taking the old man 's philosophy to its logical end , I presume that one would be expected to destroy an enemy machine even if one knew that , say , the pilot were injured or out of ammunition , and therefore unable to fight back . ’ |
| 2 | Well , Chair , erm , most of my money is under the Resources Management sub-committee , erm , that has been very thoroughly examined , I think the Resources P A G have agreed with me , on the other P A G , and John has written that on to search for saving what I would say , over and above the call of duty . |
| 3 | Most political scientists quickly came to argue that things had gone badly wrong : some groups were too powerful and the system as a whole was seen as out of control so that there was an overload of demands on government . |
| 4 | Coloured cards or strips can be used to indicate whether a room is vacant , occupied by staff , being cleaned or out of commission . |
| 5 | And that 's 4 weeks cutting , shaping and piecing together in the workshop using techniques , both old fashioned and up to date . |
| 6 | A skylight above the street door was closed and out of reach , but I tried to reach it anyway and was surprised when my fingers touched the ledge . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that recent developments have underlined the fact that the Shops Act 1950 is illogical , out of date , rarely enforced and out of touch with the reality of the 1990s ? |
| 8 | OUCH : Mel 's grazed but back on set Picture : STEVE KING |
| 9 | There was an oily cap on the top shelf of the wardrobe and a pair of much worn and down at heel working boots under the bed . |
| 10 | Burnard and Chapman go further-than this definition , by recommending that knowledge should be research based and up to date if it is to be the best for accountability in practice . |
| 11 | They still love them but feel so undermined and out of control that they become more aggressive and violent in an attempt to finally gain power . |
| 12 | Here she was , a trusting 25-year-old American , newly divorced and out of therapy , sent by her doctor father to Ireland to ‘ forget the bad things … a dead childhood , a dead marriage , dead dreams , dead me . ’ |
| 13 | But since the tax burden on earnings rose , there was probably some small rise in the net amount received while out of work , relative to pay received while working . |
| 14 | ‘ Poor darling , ’ Steve soothed and then he smiled in that boyish way that always cheered her up but was so terribly wasted and out of place this time . |
| 15 | Atco Qualcast , signalled as up for sale by BCI some two years ago , without takers , has been restructured at BCI 's expense by the very team now taking it over . |
| 16 | Fabia was up , dressed and down to breakfast by eight the next morning . |
| 17 | And there were reports from many parts of the Reich that ‘ a newsreel without pictures of the Führer was not regarded as up to standard ’ . |
| 18 | However by 1941 , almost the entire membership had either found war work or was employed in the surviving Edinburgh printing offices , and by then only 2 members were listed as out of work . |
| 19 | An error on the monthly computer tape supplied by Penguin to Whitaker Bibliographic Services has led to over 2,000 Penguin titles being wrongly designated as out of print . |
| 20 | There were between a quarter and a half a million people registered as out of work . |
| 21 | Numbers registered as out of work rose from just over a million in 1979 to over 3 million in 1983 . |