Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suite of National Certificate Modules listed below provides a means of studying European issues within a sociological , political , historical and geographical context : |
| 2 | Botswana , Malawi , Zambia and Zimbabwe have joined together to form an ivory marketing cartel . |
| 3 | Mistrust even more two leaves that have been joined together to fabricate a bifolium . |
| 4 | In May 1916 all the main peace organizations joined together to launch a petition calling for peace by negotiation . |
| 5 | Becker 's case was notable because he was captured by the widely-circulated photographs , but he argued that he had intended only to fire a warning shot . |
| 6 | In one case the doctor 's name appeared in a promotional brochure as medical adviser to a company marketing an electrical device that was claimed successfully to treat a range of conditions including migraine , arthritis , insomnia , and depression . |
| 7 | Of course it is considered better to have a boy , but the birth of a girl is celebrated with the same joy by the women in the family . |
| 8 | From a boat it can be squeezed enough to get a grip on it , and when it hits the water it sinks in a big brown cloud . |
| 9 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 10 | Their principals have come together to form an association called the Standing Conference of Directors and Principals of Colleges and Institutes in Higher Education , whose 67 members are shown in Figure 5.1 . |
| 11 | Leading lights in the EISA bus world have come together to agree an extension to the specification called EISA with Enhanced Master Burst Addendum , which defines enhancements compatible with existing EISA products that enable the input-output performance needed for emerging high-end server applications . |
| 12 | Leading lights in the EISA bus world have come together to agree an extension to the specification called EISA with Enhanced Master Burst Addendum , which defines enhancements compatible with existing EISA products that enable the input-output performance needed for emerging high-end server applications . |
| 13 | These series are being grouped together to provide a set of price indices for agricultural , industrial and consumer prices . |
| 14 | The demand that , as a science progresses , its theories should become more and more falsifiable , and consequently have more and more content and be more and more informative , rules out modifications in theories that are designed merely to protect a theory from a threatening falsification . |
| 15 | Political activity here would undermine the credibility of a claimant only if it was designed merely to enhance a claim or to construct one that did not exist . |
| 16 | ‘ Because it is permitted only to charge a profit of sixty pfennigs if soda is served with whisky . ’ |
| 17 | However , international efforts to halt acid rain pollution ( in part caused by sulphur dioxide ) and to reverse the damage to the ozone layer were expected soon to have an effect , so that overall global warming would increase rapidly from the middle of next century . |
| 18 | Funds are being provided by the Suffolk Water Company and the National Rivers Authority to help prevent the fen drying out because of local water extraction and the European Community is expected soon to approve a £1.9 million grant for the scheme [ see ED 71 ] . |
| 19 | All the systems considered above contain a cross-term , in which the rate of change of one variable is directly decreased by a term that is the product of two other variables . |
| 20 | If a related question ( eg ‘ Have you received any training or instruction in setting up or keeping accounts ’ ) resulted in a negative answer , then this could be pursued further to find a way of improving the situation ; for example by arranging for accounting instructions to be held at the EPH , or by ensuring that newcomers received formal or informal training in accounting procedures , and so on . |
| 21 | ‘ Think of it this way , ’ he urged , ‘ we are all mourners following a funeral procession and some of us , those of us more directly concerned with the departed , have dropped behind to tie a shoe-lace . |
| 22 | Getting no response , she went on a shade breathlessly , ‘ I 've come here to do a catalogue raisonné , and help make the arrangements for mounting an exhibition of his sculpture . ’ |
| 23 | I 've come here to do a job I very much want to do , but I refuse to stay and … ’ |
| 24 | Voluntary to my mind suggests that the payer being aware of all relevant circumstances including the true state of the law or perhaps having a doubt but not caring which way that doubt is resolved consciously makes a decision to pay . |
| 25 | Gastric secretions were then aspirated continuously using a suction pump , with suction applied for 50 out of each 60 seconds and secretions collected in 15 minute aliquots . |
| 26 | She was of course famous for her powers of observation ; she was better than any of us at using the mirrors which she had had installed everywhere to keep an eye on everything that was happening , or was about to happen and might need averting . |
| 27 | The alternative justifications for higher order adjustment costs considered there require a number of assumptions at least as great as for the quadratic cost case . |
| 28 | The earliest example I 've come across involves a banjo player named Patti , who recorded two numbers like this in Brunswick 's New York studio in June 1932 . |
| 29 | One morning after breakfast and a prolonged peering into the mirror , Arty broke and screamed at Phil , who had come across to borrow a newspaper . |
| 30 | Although the Security Council had voted unanimously to send a mission to investigate the killings , this had been frustrated by the Israeli government 's refusal to co-operate . |