Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a year ago one of the still-functioning reactors was closed down after another emergency released a small cloud of radioactive vapour into the air . |
| 2 | Approximately one third of each group achieved a good degree ie a first or upper second . |
| 3 | Modification of such systems required a great deal of effort . |
| 4 | If any one of these employees committed a corporate crime , then this was added to any previous crime committed by any other employee , no matter how distantly related to the organizational site of previous offences . |
| 5 | About half of both sectors operated a whole school no smoking policy . |
| 6 | What price would the portfolio manager be prepared to pay for these shares given a holding period of 5 years ? |
| 7 | Like any bureaucracy given a green light , the Secret Intelligence Service grew like mushrooms in a wet field overnight . |
| 8 | Children of 5 years upwards should do well with this program given a little supervision from an adult or older child . |
| 9 | Pound and Rebka were able to scan across the very narrow line profile by varying the source velocity and in this way achieved a large gain in sensitivity for locating the line centre . |
| 10 | The fact that important elements in the Labour Party were thinking in these terms marked a major shift from the ideals expressed in the party 's 1945 election manifesto , Let Us Face The Future : ‘ [ we shall ] plan from the ground up , giving an appropriate place to constructive enterprise and private endeavour in the national plan ’ . |
| 11 | Margaret 's marriage to either candidate required a papal dispensation , for both were within the forbidden degrees , and Charles put pressure on the Pope to refuse a dispensation for Margaret to marry Edmund Langley . |