Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | While digesting my daily dose of Gulf wallpaper the other week , I chanced upon a Radio 4 telephone spat between an editor from ITN and Nicholas Soames MP , a Tory backbencher . |
| 2 | And throughout it all the music , first heard as an eerie sketch inside the hero 's head , skeletally indistinct and bone china fragile . |
| 3 | This is heard as an anticipation of the next chord , resolving by scale step . |
| 4 | Perceptions may change — her body can feel as vast as a mountain , and her own breathing be heard as an urgent sound coming from a different person . |
| 5 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
| 6 | That is , written and spoken language have to be taught through an awareness of Swedish Sign Language and the perspective this creates for the learning task . |
| 7 | Thus illegitimacy is no longer taken into consideration in determining the rights of succession of an illegitimate person , or the rights of succession to his estate , or the rights of succession traced through an illegitimate relationship . |
| 8 | In these cases the fossils show that these features have developed through an ordered series of transformations leading to conditions in the jawed vertebrates . |
| 9 | Much of this latter perspective has developed through an analysis of media of various sorts , especially television , magazines and film . |
| 10 | Both ships stopped for an hour while repairs were made to the launch 's engines . |
| 11 | Police violence against members of racial minorities became a national issue following the widespread broadcast on television of an amateur video showing white Los Angeles policemen brutally beating a black man who had been stopped for an alleged driving offence on March 3 . |
| 12 | Occasionally a reservation is received for an older work missed ( or turned down ) when originally published . |
| 13 | With planning consent now received for an improved access for the physically handicapped and an extension to provide a parish office and toilet for the disabled , tenders will shortly be invited for the building works . |
| 14 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 15 | It is not necessary to go to the lengths of the British Airways new Four Corners shops , where the travel element can hardly be distinguished through an Ali Baba 's cave of irrelevant merchandise , but only to set up efficient systems run by people who know what they 're talking about and who can make time to understand what their travellers want , like Trailfinders with their honest bucket-shop approach , or the STA chain with its expertise in student travel . |
| 16 | comes along , it 's a tremendous support , I 'd love to be a bowler on England 's side cos you get clapped for an whatever happens . |
| 17 | The design of a machine or device which is assigned as an aid for one person will not usually encounter the problems associated with elaborate design teams just described , but nevertheless some human factors sensitivity will help to provide a better product . |
| 18 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 19 | Look at what happened with Jim Harvey he did a lot for the club and Ian Muir was severely punished for an incident aimed at John King . |
| 20 | However , with 75 minutes gone , Hearts scored a quite superb ‘ goal ’ which was disallowed for an offence not immediately apparent . |
| 21 | The many aspects of his life — all of them creative — will be examined during an illustrated talk by Billy Martin of Greenmount Agricultural College at Carrickfergus Library ( 8 pm ) . |
| 22 | Ruling in the traditional Arab-Islamic style , he enjoys supreme power as long as he has the consensus support of the people who are consulted through an appointed Advisory Council . |
| 23 | The Bristol aircraft was eventually completed as an experimental airplane under the name Bristol Brabazon . |
| 24 | The decision has caused considerable controversy and been criticized as an excessive response to the problem , but Mayor Jean Baylaucq justified it on the grounds that the bears constituted a threat to animals and humans . |
| 25 | His car was crushed between an electrical equipment control box and a fence by the four-carriage diesel train on the Esk Valley line from Middlesbrough to Whitby . |
| 26 | In 1924 Madame Neel was the first European woman to enter Lhasa , the capital city of Tibet , and she had to travel disguised as an ignorant and grimy old country woman . |
| 27 | Cunningly disguised as an electronic novelty record , ‘ Autobahn ’ is in reality a tribute to the German motorway system and the ordered freedom it brings . |
| 28 | The angel , disguised as an old man , went from door to door begging for food and drink . |
| 29 | A mushroom disguised as an onion bhaji with flaking batter was a mouthwatering morsel , but not really a dish in its own right , more an interlude before the chicken à la British Airways , both accompanied by more Hellmans relatives . |
| 30 | Léonie only half-belonged in it , growing up in England with a dead English hero for a father and a mother disguised as an English missis with English ways . |