Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , are they now being blamed for pollution only partly caused by their activities ? |
| 2 | Accordingly , if Mr. Lassman is correct , that kind of activity of going straight to the in-house computer and extracting confidential information from it could be committed with impunity so far as the three offences in this Act are concerned . |
| 3 | In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms . |
| 4 | That 's put you in your place , my girl ; Roman had n't even enquired how she was — their lovemaking had already vanished into limbo as far as he was concerned . |
| 5 | His distress could have been alleviated with treatment far earlier if he had been diverted into the hospital system straight from the police station , or direct from the court , rather than via prison . |
| 6 | As our currency has dropped in value so drastically in recent years , the demand should already have revealed itself . |
| 7 | ‘ But each stage will be reopened to traffic as soon as possible and local diversions will be signposted , ’ he added . |
| 8 | The man had come to life very considerably in discussing his job and a formidable personality was emerging . |
| 9 | An incident more affecting adult death education worth mentioning has come to light more recently . |
| 10 | ‘ The nearest I 've come to celebrity so far is sharing canapés with Samantha Fox on the Jonathan Ross show . |
| 11 | In some countries Marxists have come to power either constitutionally or through nationalist liberation movements as opposed to revolution . |
| 12 | Their plans have come to fruition rather sooner and more dramatically than expected . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the idea ( which many people have held at different times ) of a national ballet for South Africa has not come to fruition even now , four decades later , any more than the dream which John cherished when working in Germany of forming a national company there . |
| 14 | The killings have been surrounded by controversy ever since , but Government lawyers were arguing before the Human Rights Commission today that a British inquest has already ruled that the deaths were ‘ lawful ’ . |
| 15 | The results of the computer run using the real sites showed a five-point alignment , which would be expected by chance only once in 250 runs . |
| 16 | On a former World War One airfield at Rendcombe in Gloucestershire , 2 pilots and 2 wingwalkers prepared for stunt never before attempted in Britain , exchanging a 7ft baton at 5,000 feet , while one of them hung upside down . |
| 17 | Teams of journalists , just about to go home around l0 p.m. , were told to work through the night as fresh editions were prepared for issue as late as S a.m . |
| 18 | Gon na ask you to do an exercise now er it 'll it 'll take us to four o'clock before we start talking about assertiveness what I 'm gon na ask you to do is in one , two three , one two in two twos and a three I want you to put on paper one side one sheet of paper to sum up all the things we 've done about communication so far today and it 's going to other people on this course , and it 's going to be marked by one of them on this course . |
| 19 | In the case of the weak interaction the ‘ balls ’ must be very heavy , because the force is so feeble and has such a short range : it would be difficult to throw a rugby ball made of lead very far , very often . |
| 20 | If you bought some shoes described as leather and they turned out to be made of plastic then clearly you 've bought some shoes which are not as described . |
| 21 | National styles in music can be powerful , especially when the listeners of one nation are presented with music so powerfully impressed with what they perceive as the style of another . |
| 22 | As far as noise reduction is concerned , sealed double glazing units have about the same value as having the window reglazed with glass twice as thick as the original glass . |
| 23 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 24 | And if it be thought that Mr Hunte retains a soft spot for Pakistan ever since he and Garry Sobers had a stand of 446 against them at Sabina Park 34 years ago , we have ascertained that he made clear to the 1992 management that any further offence would be met with punishment noticeably more severe . |
| 25 | As you will remember from Chapter 2 Alexander himself suffered from asthma very badly as a child . |
| 26 | As road transport has improved , changing from horse-drawn waggons to motorcars and lorries , the larger market towns and cities have grown in size much faster than the small ones . |
| 27 | These have grown in number very rapidly in recent years as renewing the attractiveness of the centre through environmental improvement , including pedestrianisation , has been adopted as a competitive response to the growth of out-of-town shopping . |
| 28 | Lime ( to keep the pH near 6 and replace the calcium sold off in milk ) and basic slag ( to replace the phosphorus and other elements exported in animal bones ) can be applied by contractor relatively cheaply to all but the steepest fields . |
| 29 | The extreme ultraviolet is part of what physicists call the vacuum ultraviolet , wavelengths shorter than about 200 nanometres which are absorbed by air so strongly that experiments have to be performed in a vacuum . |
| 30 | Here , information on current consumer preferences can be transmitted by computer almost instantaneously from the marketplace to the factory , wherever it might be , and even design modifications or completely new designs can be electronically fed into CAD/ CAM equipment in the factory for instant production . |