Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In your shoes I 'd have expected him to come prepared with a big stick . ’ |
| 2 | And it 's these developments that the borough council wishes to see embraced by a new policy . |
| 3 | Her willingness to talk verged on a compelling need and after all his previous attempts to gain her confidence , which had made little headway , he knew he must not let such an opportunity pass him by . |
| 4 | In a broader sense , de Gaulle 's attitudes towards Germany and towards the empire ( which he wanted to see reconstituted in a reformed imperial federation ) were fundamentally at odds with the dynamics of the postwar world . |
| 5 | As agreed , he swung a punch to my chin so that I should rise in an elegant arc of slow motion to fall sprawled in a dramatic contortion on the bar room floor . |
| 6 | The sort of sites you 'd expect to see allocated in a local plan . |
| 7 | In view of the predicted climatic perturbations due to smoke produced by a major nuclear exchange , Dr Carty questions whether the burning of oil from Kuwait wells might contribute significantly to climatic cooling ( Chem . |
| 8 | Marcus Browning was the hit man … that 's three goals in three games for him … but it was n't enough to save United from a 2-1 deafeat … |
| 9 | Scientific examination has shown that they are made of bronze similar to that used in genuine Italic figures from Italy and the patination appears to have developed over a long period , suggesting that they are not modern copies . |
| 10 | Over recent years much work has been done to promote more positive images of women in mathematics , but this does not seem to have developed into a comparable awareness concerning race or class . |
| 11 | that it 's a good idea for when people are intending to get stoned in a heavy way to have a baby-sitter , so there 's no reason why the baby- sitter could n't sit there with a tape recorder . |
| 12 | Bolger claimed success for Richardson 's strategy when in mid-1991 the inflation rate was shown to have fallen to a 25-year low of 2.8 per cent , compared with 7.6 per cent a year earlier . |
| 13 | Spokesman Brian Adams explained : ‘ The historical society is one of the oldest clubs at Queen 's but for a long time it seemed to have fallen into a plodding routine . |
| 14 | In the United Sterling case the basis for dismissing the motion was that there was no evidence that the defendant was given any special information which he ought to have regarded as a separate part of his stock of knowledge which an honest employee would have recognised as property of the employer . |
| 15 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter . |
| 16 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter ( UX No 414 ) . |
| 17 | Presidential elections were held last May and the opposition candidate , Guillermo Endara , is believed to have won by a large majority , but the elections were annulled by the general amid renewed protests . |
| 18 | By then hundreds of customer-nominated staff , lucky enough to have won in a quarterly draw , will have been presented with Ovations cheques which can be exchanged for a wide range of goods in a special catalogue . |
| 19 | Acquired in 1919 by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society as a gift , it is thought to have originated in a 16th-century collection of maps bound into atlas form . |
| 20 | She claimed to have come from a different school but her story somehow did n't ring true . |
| 21 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 22 | Mr. Bickerstaffe goes on to repeat : ’ We would like to have argued for a higher minimum wage , for example , but the party has said no , there are others — pensioners and so on . |
| 23 | Indeed their background as Greek intellectuals would have made it nonsensical to them to have said of a particular item in our world ( a particular human being ) that he was ‘ God ’ . |
| 24 | The move to the Inn on the Lake seems to have met with a favourable response from students ; the pub has been described as a ‘ nice place to work ’ . |
| 25 | One should not expect it to have operated in a unified or uniform manner . |
| 26 | If the South is redefined to include only the four regions of the South East , South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands , then the net movement of people from North to South can be seen to have risen from a low point of only around 10,000–20,000 a year in the early 1970s to a peak of nearly 70,000 by 1985–86 ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 27 | The death toll of 15,000-30,000 Kurdish and other refugees , and 4,000-16,000 Iraqis killed by disease and starvation since the war , was believed to have risen by a further 30,000 between the completion of the report and its publication . |
| 28 | Ideally , I would have liked to have baited on a little and often basis , say a couple of dozen lobworms and one mashed loaf every day . |
| 29 | Hale is unlikely to have approved of a further development which took place in connection with this legislation . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State put before us a whole catalogue of countries that have ballistic missile capability , and a substantial number of them appear to have embarked on a nuclear weapons programme . |