Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |
| 2 | It was looked on as a very serious offence . |
| 3 | I am going to vote against the motion , I 'm disappointed with the liberal group not come in with a more constructive amendment or even a proposal , as I would say asked you to do . |
| 4 | At its most conventional , the use of word pairs is a substitute for creative poetic activity , whereas the parallelism of greater precision is a subtle relationship between or among the lines of poetry that can only be designed in by a relatively sophisticated artist . |
| 5 | Clive expressed his distrust and fear of being let down by a very detached attitude in all his relationships . |
| 6 | Questioned , Swayne stated that the animal had been let out at approximately 9.30 on Saturday evening and was crying to be let in at a little before midnight . |
| 7 | Furthermore , this ‘ coolness ’ is carried over into a somewhat dull performance of the final movement Precipitato — I can certainly think of several lesser mortals who bring a greater degree of excitement to the music than does Gavrilov . |
| 8 | There is a radioactive process — beta decay — which enables one of the protons to shed its charge , in effect becoming a neutron at the instant of fusing ( the electrical charge being carried off by a positively charged form of the electron , known as a positron ) , the proton and neutron fusing to make a deuteron and liberating energy . |
| 9 | ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug … |
| 10 | Mark Linton , formerly a professor at Stanford University , now principal researcher at Silicon Graphics Inc , has come up with a completely new toolkit that can be applied to X-Windows . |
| 11 | In Italy , everything for years now has been political , even art , but just as most of Italian life is kicking against the ever looser traces of the big political parties , the Biennale has come up with a wholly unreconstructed , wholly political , Board of Management , approved under pressure from the Christian Democrats by the Prime Minister Giuliano Amato on 15 January . |
| 12 | So it has proved , with that alert enthusiast Ashdown turning to the eminently qualified Anthony Lester , QC , who has come up with a rather different interpretation of events to that brought forward by the Law Officers . |
| 13 | And finally tonight Moseley rugby club have come up with a very different approach to pre-season training , I have to tell you it is not what you 'd expect from the lads from the Readings . |
| 14 | Lennie ( 1980 ) has come up with a more challenging suggestion . |
| 15 | No detergent is wasted either because Siemens has come up with a specially designed Ecovalve . |
| 16 | Recognising the problem , district councillors have come up with a much needed cash injection to ease the crisis . |
| 17 | We like your cleverness Has he given it more thought , he 's just come up with a really clever idea I think there |
| 18 | Before long Max finds himself caught up in a highly dangerous situation , where no-one is quite what they seem . |
| 19 | Sometimes vulnerable old people are caught up in a more general crisis such as a major road or rail accident , or other disaster . |
| 20 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 21 | All in all , state ownership and state intervention with prices has come out with a generally , but not totally , bad record . |
| 22 | Other weights used larger canes spaced out in a more formal pattern . |
| 23 | This was sorted out by a ravishingly beautiful air hostess who distributed boiled sweets to all concerned and reprimanded a tovarich for smoking . |
| 24 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
| 25 | The presence of a ‘ module header ’ does not restrict the generality of this definition , since it can be picked out from a very wide range of module contexts . |
| 26 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 27 | However , our descriptive task will be more difficult , as it involves dealing with greater complexity of variation than would be the case in more focused communities , and it has to be carried out at a very fine-grained level . |
| 28 | In other words , will workers in the future be increasingly herded together in large factories or offices belonging to even larger corporations or will there be a shift towards work being carried out at a more local level within small groups , perhaps operating as independent companies , partnerships , or co-operatives ? |
| 29 | Until fairly recently , forestry has often been carried out on a very big scale , with tens of thousands of hectares being covered and public access made difficult . |
| 30 | The instances of large numbers of birds having been shot or trapped for food , or rare specimens collected , is well documented , and in Sussex was often carried out on a very considerable scale . |