Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , following years of civil war , it remains a shadow of its former self , with its buildings devastated and only 10% of the farm 's 1000 acres under cultivation . |
| 2 | The Gauge Commission 's report said , essentially , that the broad gauge was technically superior but that there was much more narrow gauge track built and so conversion from broad to narrow gauge would be easier . |
| 3 | About 260 of Autobacs ' outlets are franchised and about 25% of the goods sold at these stores are own brands . |
| 4 | They concluded that while different professionals and agencies use quite different definitions of the problem , on the whole the system operates according to a ‘ rule of optimism ’ whereby , wherever possible , the most favourable interpretation of family , particularly parental , circumstances is made and hence situations of actual and potential abuse are kept to a minimum . |
| 5 | At first their efforts were disorganized and almost anarchist in inspiration : the movement ‘ to the people ’ in 1874 virtually ignored the political sphere . |
| 6 | But new solutions were still being developed and meanwhile students with personal problems had to seek each other 's help . |
| 7 | The veneer is cut up , dried , the defects are removed and finally stacks of plywood are glued in large presses . |
| 8 | mega bucks and the company had gone escalated and then opportunity of this guy , you know , saying what a super guy he was , what an entrepreneur and what he done is , you know , I 've had something head , you know , I 'm in charge and he put his feet on the desk there and he had a hole in his shoe and s spread across all the papers the next day was this guy with a hole in his shoe and this was a multi million pound corporate er corporate body , he could n't afford to buy a decent pair of shoes |
| 9 | This requires a detached intellectual process to illuminate how the culture is constructed and how modes of thought are translated into organized beliefs and action . |
| 10 | Leys over sixty miles long began to be discovered and soon lines of several hundred miles , such as Dion Fortune 's ‘ St Albans ’ cross , began to be described , while Kenneth Koop publicised the claim that Arbor Low stone circle in Derbyshire had over 100 leys passing through it . |
| 11 | He thinks the same as you , it should be banned and strictly sort of I do n't . |