Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 2 | A payment which has a dual purpose ( ie is part of the price arrangements between the vendor shareholders and Newco , rather than being a payment incurred wholly and exclusively by Target for the purposes of its trade ) may not be deductible ( see Watney Combe and Co v Pike [ 1982 ] STC 733 ) . |
| 3 | Well then there was a bar went right through , well half way through , and then i it a cradle fitted on , and then there was er a coil spring fitted in there and er a set of rubbers . |
| 4 | A recession brought on by the disruption of war and revolution lasted into 1908 but thereafter swift industrial growth coincided with a series of generally good harvests . |
| 5 | Formally , we could write a simple version of that model ( see , for example , equation ( 4.14 ) as where y t is the aggregate real output , is the natural level of output , v t is the unpredictable component of aggregate demand , is the variance of v , is the variance of the relative demand shocks , and is a function explained below , the value of which is positive . |
| 6 | However it is optimistic that most companies will be able to make the transition and that the industry 's financial resources , technical expertise and established market will keep it one of the highest rated in the world — at Moody 's , the industry 's average credit rating is double-A-2 , just below its double-A-1 average rating for phone companies outside the US , the highest rated group of all , and a rating matched only by global electrical equipment manufacturers , pharmaceutical companies and non-US electric utilities . |
| 7 | The ruling was said to be partly based on a case brought in a British court by a Maze prisoner who had alleged maltreatment by prison officers . |
| 8 | She 'd begun to wonder if I was a bit touched too . |
| 9 | Oh I 'm a bit baffled now . |
| 10 | This , this is totally normal conversation , I 've never got this done if Wendy had turned up , I 'm glad , cos we 've now got , a tape and a bit done tonight |
| 11 | If , like many people , you simply feel that you are ‘ a bit run down ’ or not as full of zest for life as you would wish , perhaps you could try ensuring that your diet contains all the nutrients essential for true well-being . |
| 12 | It was always considered necessary for a man to shoulder the main burden of work at a farm the size of ours , and I suppose the main reason why the place is a bit run down these days is because there was no man left to take over when Uncle died . |
| 13 | They , they 're a bit run down . |
| 14 | I 'm a bit run down that 's all . |
| 15 | It 's a bit blocked up at the moment but yeah it would |
| 16 | I asked Leppard to write them for me , because I felt that the standard cadenzas had become a bit worn out . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Just a bit worn out , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I think he 's going to the dentist or something , and he 's a bit frightened so he thinks , he thinks of that . |
| 19 | Apparently they 've been a bit disturbed once or twice , recently . ’ |
| 20 | I used to love the letters page but now it gets a bit bogged down in one debate — make it a bit longer and keep the ‘ one-off ’ letters/comments . |
| 21 | ‘ Eventually I got a bit fed up . |
| 22 | I got a bit fed up after we 'd toured Britain once , it got a bit boring seeing the same places . ’ |
| 23 | We 're all a bit fed up , but it 'll pass . |
| 24 | And there was lots of the we came to an end and if we were going to carry on with this further we the everybody was getting a bit fed up with it . |
| 25 | The the laws for I do n't know I mean I get a bit fed up . |
| 26 | So it would certainly be naive to think that whenever people felt unhappy erm it was er was some kind of pathology and that , that evolution could n't explain it , and it may just be that the women feel a bit fed up because of hormonal changes and it does n't awfully much , it 's just one of things you pay for being a mother . |
| 27 | ‘ I get a bit fed up sometimes , ’ she confessed to the older woman . |
| 28 | I get a bit fed up with that . |
| 29 | Well I certainly would n't , but I know somebody else was getting a bit fed up but |
| 30 | Getting a bit fed up with this weather . |