Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that other young men came to stay too — I suppose it must have been a very welcome extra source of income — and I understand that Great-Grandmother Tallentire was criticized for allowing young men to stay in the house when she had daughters . |
| 2 | The official newspaper of the Communist Youth League had reportedly been criticized for publishing investigative reports against party orders , and its editors had been threatened with a period in the country . |
| 3 | His description is more sophisticated than that of the social anthropologically derived traditional community study which was rightly criticized for ignoring basal factors at the structural level . |
| 4 | A STORE boss was sacked for taking 60 weeks sick leave in just two years . |
| 5 | GILLES PETERSON , head of the Phonogram offshoot Talkin Loud , has been reinstated as director/DJ of London 's Jazz FM station , after being sacked for playing anti-war songs during the Gulf crisis . |
| 6 | By the generosity of the Duke of Devonshire , an area of land on the southern side of Burlington Lane , not far from the Southern Railway Station , was made available to the Chiswick Parochial Charities , and a number of Memorial Homes were erected for housing ex-service men and their families . |
| 7 | It is appropriately called ‘ Camelliifolia ’ and you can be forgiven for taking young plants as camellias . |
| 8 | Faced with France 's multicoloured vision of IT , observers could be forgiven for thinking other nations are still preoccupied with the small-screen black-and-white , version . |
| 9 | The relatively puny father-of-three could have been forgiven for having second thoughts when he was picked . |
| 10 | This is important because specific mechanisms have since been developed for subsidizing private operations in the inner area , but it should also be noted that all inner-area housing sites were already designated as housing land and there were no ‘ change of use ’ profits to be made on them . |
| 11 | Most books in the beginners'-instruction manual genre are flat and factual , with writing that is grammatically correct , but with little awareness that the final product is intended for living human beings . |
| 12 | Taiwan was delicately situated for preserving American lines of communication between Okinawa and the Philippines . |
| 13 | The Community 's " structural funds " — designated for restructuring uneconomic industries and supporting depressed regions — represent a potential source of funding for such a scheme . |
| 14 | Last year 110,000 people died and 254,000 were treated for smoking related illnesses , taking up 9,473 hospital beds every day . |
| 15 | Gen. Ricardo Contreras , head of the Army Intelligence Battalion ( BIE ) which in September had been exposed for tapping civilian telephones [ see p. 39092 ] . |
| 16 | At the same time it affirms that academic staff may not be dismissed for holding particular beliefs or following particular lines of inquiry , and that senior staff may not be dismissed to be replaced by more junior , and cheaper , staff . |
| 17 | We were based at Nigel 's chalet on the edge of Servoz , a small , sunny village just a few kilometres down the road from Chamonix , conveniently placed for visiting other resorts covered by the Mont Blanc skipass , including Les Contamines , Argentiere , Le Tour , Les Houches and Megeve . |
| 18 | He was referred by his General Practitioner whom he had consulted after experiencing recurrent episodes of upper abdominal pain and severe indigestion . |
| 19 | Enforcing rules when caught between opposing public constituencies causes difficulties for agencies which must work within the framework of an ostensibly activist legal mandate . |
| 20 | In an attempt to clarify the conformational and energetic aspects of B I -B II transitions within DNA oligomers we have undertaken a systematic modelling study using the JUMNA program ( 11 ) which is specifically designed for modelling nucleic acids . |
| 21 | Access methods , in general , are designed for handling small amounts of persistent data . |
| 22 | These were designed for hitting large formations . |
| 23 | Other sources of income should be approached for funding individual projects . |
| 24 | The movement was particularly strong in the north-eastern town of Suceava where it claimed credit for the closure in February of the local cellulose fabric plant , whose carbon disulphide emissions had been blamed for causing nervous disorders . |
| 25 | So some of the sulphur which has been blamed for causing environmental problems , may before long emerge in the form of ‘ Andricite , ’ plaster and wall-boards in our houses — courtesy of ICI . |
| 26 | Many of the difficulties experienced by users trying to cope with the idiosyncratic Shifting system could be solved through adding extra keys to handle the more commonly occurring characters such as the punctuation , mathematical symbols and Delete . |
| 27 | Healing information carried through resonating biomagnetic waves instantly begins to restore an even , harmonious flow of energy throughout the patient 's body . |
| 28 | It was n't long after that Sir Roger Casement was hanged for smuggling German arms into Ireland . |
| 29 | Burgess got himself caught for speeding three times in the same day , caused a deliberate rumpus with his inimitable flair for trouble-making , and departed under an engineered cloud . |
| 30 | And since the factory opened , Rajinder Anand has been fined for distributing large numbers of counterfeit audio-cassette tapes . |