Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [unc] " in BNC.

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1 He found that the proportion of over-70s registered for a proxy/postal vote varied from 0.7 per cent to 25 per cent in different parts of the country ; this variation has little or nothing to do with geographical or demographic factors .
2 She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters .
3 Internationally it entered into a de facto cartel agreement with Canada , whereby export prices were kept low enough to discourage new producers .
4 Mixing desk manufacturer Solid State Logic , which now generates approximately 50% of its sales from digital products as opposed to analogue , and digital video equipment builder , Abekas , also contributed to a 13.6% rise in divisional turnover to £70.1m ; profits rose 50% to £12m .
5 In a move to upgrade to open systems last year , Fernhart opted for a 4GL , Ingres-based rewrite , compatible with Unix 5.4 and including the Ingres 6.4 relational database .
6 We saw a class of very able children , with minimal impairment , who came for a P.E./music and movement session .
7 The move came after a 2,000,000-tonne shortfall in Soviet oil deliveries , which was normally 13 million tonnes annually .
8 Commodore sold a staggering amount of 64s over the Christmas/January sales period , the majority of which being the Terminator 2 packs ( which came with a T2 cart , but no cassette deck ) .
9 She hit her and at the same time as she hit her she virtually came to a er , a stop because of the fact she wa she started to brake as soon as she saw the the children appear er , but ne never the less contact was made but thankfully for her and for the child the the contact was a a at no significant speed , the child was just knocked off her feet and she got up and waved to Mrs and said I 'm alright and she ran off and she was away before Mrs had time , even to undo her safety belt to get out of the car .
10 Tail DNA from eight littermates was cut with Pst I and hybridized with a 3' C β probe .
11 Furthermore , none of the new SM1 type cDNA clones hybridized to a 5' end-labelled primer encoding the visceral-specifc isoform .
12 Yiddish yiddish served as a lingua franca for Jews .
13 At that time Clare , who was a British Horse Society riding instructor , was teaching freelance , and she heard of a 15hh palomino called Herbie who was being offered on loan .
14 And I would n't I I heard of a s very sleazy woman er near where I used to live , er I never met her , but it was all hearsay how many abortions she did .
15 Yes it was , began with a Gha Ja
16 Reigning champions Denbighshire soared to a 118runs win over Merionethshire at Gwersyllt to sound an early warning to their challengers .
17 When they came back to Britain they embarked on a 1,200-mile tandem ride across the Dolomites and the Alps to raise funds for the Alexandra clinic .
18 It has come up with five colour TXT systems each powered by a 40MHz Texas Instruments Inc TMS340 processor .
19 Among them are a portrait of the beauteous Dorelia with whom she took a passionate walking trip across France and who later lived in a ménage à trois with her brother and his wife .
20 I asked in a you-don't-have-to-tell-me-anything-about-Carol voice , with an I'm-on-your-side sort of sigh .
21 ( An example of this was the author 's uncle , S/L Charles Reif RAAF ( Retd ) , a graduate of 2 Flying Course , the second RAAF post-war aircrew course , who flew as a F/Sgt navigator/bomb-aimer with 1 Squadron in 1950 to 1952 .
22 Erm the J C one we 'll have to try and deal with that again as a separate issue but I do n't , I mean the amount of time we 're losing from high levels of sickness we talked about a c couple of meetings or so ago , about the absence levels with some people , we 've just got ta make sure we crack that on the head , we 're just haemorrhaging money , the fact that it is not just hours it 's money .
23 There is a $2,000 SunPC Accelerator DX equipped with a 25MHz 80486dx part to put Sparcs on a par with 80486 personal computers .
24 Paul Sansome kept the visitors in the match until Neil McNab netted with a 20yard effort in the 77th minute .
25 So what would be what would you try first if it started with a c sound ?
26 Each step of 1:50,000 is a rise of approximately 2.5C so that considering we started with a 3C a LM 1 is just over 5C , LM 6 = 17C , LM 12 = 31C , LM 30 = 73C ( all approximate figures ) .
27 Now , we can use the word lost in a nu , a number of ways .
28 The samples analyzed on a 1.2% agarose gel , the fragments purified and sequenced .
29 PCR was performed as described earlier , and the samples analyzed on a 1.2% agarose gel .
30 houses in them days , if you worked on a p work on a place , you had to live on a place , you see , if you got the sack you had to get out of 'em .
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