Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of these assertions , though questionable , attest to the kind of currency James enjoyed in what is usually regarded as a purely Pauline sphere of influence . |
| 2 | They could be channelled into a more cost effective cancer prevention scheme . |
| 3 | The downside of the book is that it is written in a terribly deadpan style : ‘ At forty-five Picasso had become a successful man . |
| 4 | His observation , made in a characteristically matter of fact manner , was in no way intended as a put-down of his intellectual inheritors but simply as an indication of the fertility of that great harvest period . |
| 5 | Yet it emphasizes the close personal bonds which had existed between the dukes of Aquitaine and their vassals : the Pommiers were an ancient family , members of the ducal household , and it was to this kind of traditional relationship that appeal could be made by a largely absentee king-duke at periods of crisis . |
| 6 | But the ancestors of many of the modern bivalves arose during the Mesozoic , and unlike many of the animals in this book the bivalves were affected in a much lees dramatic way by the Mesozoic-Tertiary extinction events that extirpated so many other major elements in the marine fauna . |
| 7 | As a medley of ‘ traditional British music ’ including Rule Britannia , Greensleeves and The Lincolnshire Poacher was played over a crackly PA , Diana was forced to walk past a tacky display of plastic policemen 's helmets and twee musical boxes shaped like Shakespeare 's cottage . |
| 8 | Abetting him in this is his childhood friend Yohei , a woebegone young husband much harassed by a matronly dragon of a mother-in-law . |
| 9 | Just right of the start of Pothole Wall is a section of steep , dark coloured rock split by a wriggly crackline. — Gangue ( pronounced gang ) Groove , HVS 5b . |
| 10 | He was asked by a TODAY reporter — the first in his shop after it was revealed that Norman Lamont had spent £17.47 at a Thresher 's — what the Chancellor had bought . |
| 11 | The strategy involves several steps which can usefully be discussed within a fivefold typology . |
| 12 | The gammacamera ( GEC Maxicamera II ) was fitted with a nigh energy parallel hole collimator ( 400 keV maximum energy ) . |
| 13 | In this case , however , methodological issues are tackled from a largely user standpoint , whereas in the previous part they were viewed as substantive problems in their own right . |
| 14 | She even broke into his home and , dressed in a see-though negligee , waited for him . |
| 15 | The Class 40 , dressed in a never-never livery of rail blue with all yellow cabs , large BR logo and carrying a might-have-been number 40 445 , was facing south — held stationary by the unblinking red eye of a four-aspect colour light signal , newly erected at the Manchester end of Platform Three . |
| 16 | There are other instances where the use of a stretch of Creole embedded in a basically London English turn serves to " upgrade " the message content of the Creole stretch . |
| 17 | Obviously , questions of land are absolutely essential to an understanding of Cramlington which can be described in a brutally summary but not inaccurate fashion as the product of two private developers using the local state . |