Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should the defendant have foreseen damage caused by a falling tree ? |
| 2 | They bought the scrap Herald for just £25 and salvaged the chassis , engine , gearbox and axles. then , using plans bought from a man in Sheffield , they set out to build the bodywork from plywood and aluminium . |
| 3 | Divergent influences may modify or dispel values imbued as a result of parental influence . |
| 4 | The view from Frystetjorn was unforgettable — brightly painted houses set on a patchwork hillside , orchards heavy with bright red apples and the village of Ulvik , its white church being caressed by the sunshine . |
| 5 | Sometimes luck plays a hand , for example when a late 18th-century oil-painted wall decoration was discovered by conservators repairing damage caused by a leaking roof at Hopetoun House , near Edinburgh . |
| 6 | The study , using data supplied by a nationwide survey of 1,000 people , shows that more and more people are tackling increasingly advanced jobs as the area becomes demystified . |
| 7 | Home income schemes involved using funds obtained via a mortgage to be re-invested to pay off the loan and provide additional income . |
| 8 | They have an open client-server architecture and manage heterogeneous workstations , servers and host computers linked via a local area network . |
| 9 | When we focus on differences between Japan and the West it has been common to paint pictures based to a large extent on our general impression of how relations at work offer such sharply contrasting attitudes to work . |
| 10 | Shaw produced images described as a woman 's navel , a breast , a thigh , and Jesus , on an 8 mm movie film , This he did by spitting on the lens . |
| 11 | 7 ) Describe and explain some of the factors which will determine the choice or combination of forecasting methods used by a company for constructing sales and market forecasts . |
| 12 | " Proceeds " in s.5(4) covers money received from a third party who had cashed a cheque for the accused : Davis ( 1989 ) 88 Cr App R 347 ( CA ) . |
| 13 | It was this depth of breeding that encouraged such lively bidding for the Woodhayne stock which sold to 1200gns for Woodhayne Citrine , a Gulliver sired cow offered with a heifer calf by Mavesyn Midas . |
| 14 | The Liverpool Stipendiary Magistrate dismissed summonses brought against a Liverpool Constable for selling tickets in an unauthorised lottery … the Constable had got into financial difficulties owing to a serious illness of his wife and the ill-health of his two children . |
| 15 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 16 | Agreements between trading parties made within a governmental framework fall within Article 85 . |
| 17 | If your parent has savings invested with a local authority , from which tax is deducted at the basic rate , she can only get some of this tax back if the tax , together with any other tax that is paid ( e.g. under Pay As Your Earn ) , comes to more than the proper tax on her total income . |
| 18 | The Magician is aimed firmly at those who are using Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and who need a faster screen redrawing speed combined with a better colour display . |
| 19 | The new law " on procedures for resolving matters connected with a union republic 's secession from the USSR " was passed by the USSR Supreme Soviet and signed by President Gorbachev on April 3 . |
| 20 | Many such phenomena have arisen within my remembrance , at which all the world has wonder 'd for a season , and has then forgot them . |
| 21 | Above the noise of the wind and rain there came a long tearing sound followed by a heavy thud . |
| 22 | ‘ I had some sort of idea about a telescoped vision , ’ Minton told Nevile Wallis , ‘ like those newsreel films taken with a magnifying lens of state functions and so on , where you get that curious distortion . ’ |
| 23 | In addition , the Act regulates indemnities imposed on a person dealing as a consumer ( s4 ) and on terms in guarantees which exclude liability for negligence in manufacture ( s5 ) . |
| 24 | In our corpus we have attested need used as a modal in all of Jacobsson 's ten types except ( 7 ) , ( 9 ) and ( 10 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Has Donald gone for a doctor ? ’ |
| 26 | Suppose there is a single trade union , representing workers employed in a number of perfectly competitive firms in a particular industry . |
| 27 | The Status software programme was designed to avoid the kind of accident that took place at Three Mile Island in the US , where shift workers faced with a breakdown in equipment switched to substitute systems , unaware that they had been taken out of service by a previous system . |
| 28 | On a more serious note , has chemistry changed as a subject very much over the last , dare I say , twenty five years ? |
| 29 | There is no Chinese-box style articulation of segmentary groups ; each small cultivating community situated on a river bank has a high degree of autonomy and is generally hostile towards its neighbours . |
| 30 | Then they signed to Virgin and the Mighty Lemon Drops syndrome struck with a vengeance , ensuring that , up until ‘ Every Beat Of The Heart ’ meandered chartwards , policemen would n't even speak to The Railway Children let alone arrest them . |