Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its newly established corporate sales force is intended only to drum up demand among the Fortune 1000 . |
| 2 | Last night , the town hall 's planning department confirmed the letter has been received merely asking for advice . |
| 3 | These schemes and the benefits they provide , in general , are organised hierarchically according to employment status and occupational class ( James , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | An early contestant for the role of heir apparent , Aleke Banda , a minister in the 1960s , was restricted to his village for several years before being partially rehabilitated only to fall in disgrace again in the mid 1980s . |
| 5 | It was not the first time he had come home covered in blood . |
| 6 | Yet conventional categories can be modified also to allow for change in concepts and attitudes . |
| 7 | San Diego , California-based Metrosoft claims to be developing the first commercial multitrack MIDI audio software for NeXT workstations : MetroTracks can accommodate up to 32 virtual tracks , eight of which can be mixed simultaneously depending on hardware configuration , is compatible with most third party audio products supported by NeXT , cost starts from $600 and ships in September . |
| 8 | It consists of a boat-like main hull and two outrigger pontoons , or sideswimmers , which are lifted hydraulically to rest on top for road travel and which are extended and lowered to the sides for stability on the water . |
| 9 | This questionnaire , the driver behaviour questionnaire ( DBQ ) , was designed particularly to look at driving errors from the type of perspective Reason has adopted elsewhere ( e.g. Reason , 1984 , 1990 ; Reason & Mycielska , 1982 ) , however , it additionally provides an important insight into the frequency of various types of memory failure in driving . |
| 10 | As it was I just sat there fuming with frustration , gabbled one senseless sentence and went swiftly to where charity is supposed to begin , muttering ‘ Never again' all the way , but omitting to add ‘ till the next time ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'll take a quick break for some tea and then we should be ready to run it up in another hour , ’ he briefs Captain Tuck-Brown , who has come across to check on progress before going home for the day . |
| 12 | This naturally fostered closer links with archaeology ( Simmons and Tooley , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | It is argued in [ 110 ] that Euclid 's fifth axiom ( The whole is greater than the part ) was included specifically to eliminate from mathematics the paradoxes ( c. 450 BC ) of the infinite introduced by Zeno |
| 14 | By the time of this conference on 21 May , the immediate future of one of the six formations listed above had in fact already been determined . |
| 15 | Yet Burn 's Revesby shares with Soane 's Pelwall the distinction of being one of two houses Save and English Heritage have done most to save from demolition , and rightly so . |
| 16 | In France the Directive has not been implemented in order to further nature conservation — that it has done so results by default rather than by design . |
| 17 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 18 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |
| 19 | Early release was possible on the recommendation of an Advisory Board , made up of representatives from various agencies , but in 1987 , while 458 were released on expiry of their sentence , none at all appeared to have been granted early release on licence . |
| 20 | My encounters with girls were destined always to end in rejection until I 'd left my teens behind me . |
| 21 | CHEMICALS companies have made further cuts in capital spending this year and only a modest improvement is in prospect next year before a further fall in 1994 , according to an industry survey published yesterday . |
| 22 | The proportion severely disabled also differed with gender , women living alone being considerably more likely to be disabled than men living alone , at all ages . |
| 23 | Although the figure of the earth-mother pales in time ( receiving a last fitful refulgence in the West in 1950 when she was proclaimed bodily assumed into heaven by Pope Pius XII ) , she nevertheless remained a permanent part of the polytheistic pantheons which evolved first of all during the Neolithic period . |
| 24 | Yanto had hardly bothered to reduce speed as he had turned sharp left by Stone school into the narrow lane which would take them back to Berkeley . |
| 25 | The analysis was done as described in ref. 49 , with minor modifications ; mice and rats gave essentially similar results . |
| 26 | In situ hybridizations were done as described in ref. 1 . |
| 27 | Work left on unattended open display needs to be visited regularly to check on wear and tear or even sabotage by children loyal to another school ! |
| 28 | The cat had done well to run for shelter … |
| 29 | Mr. Livsey : Will the Secretary of State note that British Coal Opencast has decided again to try for permission to work the Bryn Henllys site in my constituency , after an inspector turned down that application about a year ago ? |
| 30 | Multipage and multiple spreadsheets have been made easier to use in version 5.5 by the inclusion of icons that let you move forwards and backwards between pages and spreadsheets — these are the double arrows in the third section down in the Tool Bar . |