Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duke William could claim that he was going to oust a perjured usurper and also to remove from the see of Canterbury an archbishop not recognized in Rome . |
| 2 | ‘ Either by reason of excessive zeal to do well in your post or to assist yourself , colleagues or others , you used your employers ’ money in a manner which gained an advantage not received by your employer , ’ said the judge . |
| 3 | The miscalculations of Wilson in 1970 , Heath in February 1974 , Callaghan in 1978–9 and the patent inability of government to manipulate the flagging economy of the 1970s culminated in 1979 with the minority Labour government suffering the indignity of being forced to call an election when defeated on a motion of ‘ no confidence ’ by the combination of all parties in opposition in the House of Commons — the first time this had happened since 1924 . |
| 4 | Friends found leave to attend an election easily obtained , while enemies of the powerful would find their services in great demand with their regiments , at least until a vital election had taken place . |
| 5 | An inspection also found that the housing 's cold water tanks were of a type associated with Legionnaire 's Disease , so the council has decided to improve the tanks as well . |
| 6 | • In fruit-flies — an insect much used by geneticists — and in rodents there are various mutants that show abnormal rhythmic behaviour . |
| 7 | A job franchise in the haulage industry would typically be such that the franchise would invest in a lorry and anticipate an income closely allied to driving hours undertaken . |
| 8 | At this moment however , it ordered on the nightmarish , for the slabs were very bare and very steep with an exposure usually associated with climbing rather than walking . |
| 9 | The impressions gained are therefore not ‘ snapshots ’ but the distillation of an experience often spread over many years and with distinct phases . |
| 10 | My interest at the time was in describing the close bonds of friendship women often from , an intimacy rarely found amongst men and about which I spoke on Women 's Hour . |
| 11 | Exactly one week later , on 5 April 1988 , the Colemans arrived back in Nicosia , moving into an apartment just vacated by Ibrahim El-Jorr , the Lebanese-American DEA informant whom Coleman had met briefly the previous year and who was now to be his co-worker in Operation Dome , reassessing the Lebanese narcotics trade at the start of a new opium-growing season . |
| 12 | In January this year those photos of Wyatt with Fergie and her children were conveniently found in an apartment once rented by the Texan and ended up with a newspaper . |
| 13 | Widespread rumours that Llosa had drawn up a withdrawal statement , an eventuality not catered for by the Constitution , were ended on April 16 when he confirmed his candidacy in the second round . |
| 14 | An hour quickly passed in this nodding and talking . |
| 15 | The recent greening of the world means that the first clover of summer is greeted with an enthusiasm previously reserved for the cuckoo . |
| 16 | ‘ This is not Africa , ’ is an exclamation often heard . |
| 17 | So what more natural than , in describing an easel mysteriously deserted by a painter , that the tubes of paint littered on the ground should be mentioned one by one ? |
| 18 | Errors of omission — An entry completely omitted from all books . |
| 19 | In Phillips the driver of an excavator negligently damaged property belonging to the hirer . |
| 20 | The judge of the regality court of Lennox was James Graham , an advocate closely connected to the Montrose family and its interests , but much of the day-to-day business of his court was actually performed by Woodrop , who was Graham 's substitute , and Colquhoun , the regality clerk . |
| 21 | The presumptuous way in which it has laid claim to the English rose as representing the party is indicative of its misplaced self-assurance that the people of ‘ our country ’ , as they repeatedly refer to England , wish to be governed by Labour as much as it wishes to govern us — an illusion emphatically dispelled last week . |
| 22 | Consequently , while Parliamentary sovereignty is ‘ an instrument well adapted for the establishment of democratic despotism ’ , on a true understanding of the interlocking nature of the concept of sovereignty with the principles of the rule of law it is conducive to the promotion of liberty . |
| 23 | This restoration of the sense of life may well be an effect frequently produced by techniques of making strange , but Shklovsky makes it clear that in the end the object itself is not important , but merely a pretext for art . |
| 24 | It can both suggest that an effect previously believed to exist does not exist and that one thought not to exist does exist . |
| 25 | First class meant Amclub : everything on Amtrak was Am : Amcoach Amcafé an effect slightly undermined if you recalled Batman ant his Batmobile Batcopter and even Batrope . |
| 26 | Some investigators obtained conflicting results using copper chloride and iron sulphide potencies on cress seedlings , and some claimed effects with mercuric chloride on lymphoblasts ( a type of white blood cell ) in tissue culture , an effect not substantiated by others . |
| 27 | An action duly brought against a firm is an effective action against all those who were partners at the date the cause of action accrued ( and so , for example , an order for discovery will be in essence an order for discovery against all those persons ) , and this is irrespective of subsequent changes in the composition of the firm . |
| 28 | The effort is apparently different from DICOP , an action previously undertaken by Mitsubishi Electric Corp , Unisoft Ltd , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , Novell Inc , Unisys Corp , Seiko Epson Co , ASCII Corp and even DEC to produce a Japanese version of the COSE desktop . |
| 29 | The effort is apparently different from DICOP , an action previously undertaken by Mitsubishi Electric Corp , Unisoft Ltd , In C Olivetti & Co SpA , Novell Inc , Unisys Corp , Seiko Epson Co , ASCII Corp and even DEC to produce a Japanese version of the COSE desktop . |
| 30 | For example , a child may use an action previously performed as part of a game to signify that she wishes the game to continue . |