Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Daine had first come to the City , he had — I knew for a fact — taken over a large proportion of the vice business that had been run by Paul Muni , a mobster whose empire had fallen thanks mainly to the investigative efforts and single-mindedness of — you guessed it — criminologist Claude Rains . |
| 2 | Taken together these data link neurological outcome in early treated subjects closely to the quality of phenylalanine control throughout life . |
| 3 | In April , the French and the Scots embarked on a polite exchange of congratulatory diplomatic compliments , with the French claiming that they had attacked Boulogne only for the sake of the Scots . |
| 4 | On Nov. 7 it was widely reported that Nigerian Alpha jets had bombed NPFL positions in the Monrovia suburbs of Gardnersville , Mount Barclay and Stockton Creek the previous day , and had also attacked areas close to the rebel headquarters at Gbarnga , 160 km north of Monrovia on Nov. 5 . |
| 5 | So far we have considered primacy either as a manifestation of corporate tradition , or as a factor in Anselm 's relations with the pope , the archbishop of York , and other interested parties who might for one reason or another support or oppose Anselm 's claims . |
| 6 | TOP builder Wimpey was fined £4,000 yesterday over the death of a worker who fell more than 70ft to his death . |
| 7 | The questions to be resolved centre crucially on the relationship between political history , communist ideology and literary form . |
| 8 | I took a friend with me who had caught chub only from the river Dane where the average size was 1½lb . |
| 9 | He revealed : ‘ I have interviewed Taki again for an upcoming show , and he told me that he has been in Prince Andrew 's company on several occasions . |
| 10 | The fighters had conjured strength together in a dance on the eve of the attack , for striking in the darkness on the water filled many of them with foreboding . |
| 11 | The contemplation of God 's works could be a constructive diversion from the unhappy doctrinal disputes that had torn Christianity apart since the Reformation . |
| 12 | Defoe was much more impressed with the vitality of Lewes , or even Petworth , ‘ a large and handsome country market town , and very populous , and as it stands upon an ascent and is dry and healthy , it is full of gentlemens families , and good well built houses both in the town and the neighbourhood ’ . |
| 13 | To see how this is done look again at the description of reverse punch . |
| 14 | For all his doubts and self-irony , Palomar still wants to penetrate the secrets of the world and , to this end , what is seen acts only as a means of activating the thoughtfulness of language . |
| 15 | There must be a song about a guy named Colin somewhere in the great existence of music . |
| 16 | She would have turned heads anywhere in a navy blue backless dress which rose just above her knee . |
| 17 | Yet Eve had phoned Benny twice in the last week to say that life in the Dublin convent was intolerable and she would have to meet her in Dublin because otherwise she would go mad . |
| 18 | Just after the end of our period , in the late 1150s , the celebrated intellectual and letter writer John of Salisbury recounted his travels : ‘ ten times have I crossed the chain of the Alps since I left England first ; twice have I travelled through Apulia ; I have done business often in the Roman court on behalf of my superiors and friends ; and on a variety of counts I have traversed England , and France too , many times . ’ |
| 19 | The very title , Learning through Drama , pointed many teachers who had seen drama merely as a diversion offered in the name of self-awareness in a more positive direction . |
| 20 | The two hind feet hit me almost simultaneously but as I sailed backwards through the door I remember thinking quite clearly that the one on the chest had made contact fractionally before the one on the abdomen . |
| 21 | This is my 19th series of Wish You Were Here … ? and I 've seen television all over the world , yet I still think ours is the best . |
| 22 | According to reports in the media at that time , the resulting likeness was thought to be that of Abu Talb , a PFLP — GC terrorist who had visited Malta twice before the bombing and was subsequently arrested in Sweden while in possession of large quantities of clothing purchased in Malta . |
| 23 | As to ‘ harming no one ’ , I have presented arguments elsewhere to the effect that ‘ harm ’ , being a rule-dependent concept , is indeterminate unless and until moral principles or legal rules are brought into play to define with greater or lesser precision the legitimate interests and the general good . |
| 24 | They could not agree if Mr Lamont had made life easier for the motorist — presently snapping up more new cars than last year — or not . |
| 25 | The terms of the contract are not usually negotiable and offers are made subject only to an accountant 's report . |
| 26 | Two-thirds , however , claim also to have made much use of information routinely available and to have collected information especially for the purpose of the review . |
| 27 | Fang and Li had spent over a year sheltering in the United States embassy in Beijing , having sought refuge there in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre [ see p. 36722 ] . |
| 28 | Ledlow , Swanson and Kinsbourne ( 1978 ) carried out a similar study in that subjects were required to perform a same-different match to visually presented letters either on a physical or a nominal basis . |
| 29 | I am not entirely out of sympathy with what the right hon. Gentleman is saying on this , but I would remind him that we have seen disturbances recently at the prison at Full Sutton , near York , which is not even full ; there are still empty cells . |
| 30 | Again , as an example , take two parties agreeing to the painting of a house , where , in law , the contract finally made amounts only to an obligation to exercise reasonable endeavours to paint the house . |