Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [conj] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bought four years ago from Johnson Matthey , it has since trebled turnover and is now making healthy profits . |
| 2 | Dr Bromley was fined £750 and is also now likely to face a disciplinary hearing before the General Medical Council and could be struck off . |
| 3 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 4 | Eurodisney share offering is no Mickey Mouse operation : Eurodisney 's share offer has drawn crowds but is not one for widows and orphans |
| 5 | I 've never had veal that is n't , only cow , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 6 | The head twists out as if the skin is wearing an old fashioned collar that 's too tight for comfort . |
| 7 | Two months of treatment has failed to clear up the trouble , so Molby has had surgery and is not expected to return to action for another six weeks . |
| 8 | This process of taking information which is normally destined for the screen and sending it somewhere else is called redirection and is usually done with the > symbol . |
| 9 | For example , there is a sugar called lactose that is naturally present in milk ; fruit sugar ( fructose ) and glucose occur together in many fruits . |
| 10 | It 's called Jardea and is often found in water . |
| 11 | Diarrhoea after cholecystectomy is a well recognised factor but is usually considered to be rather rare and to be caused sometimes by bile acid malabsorption of obscure origin . |
| 12 | Marilyn is no longer called Hunter but is now Cleland having Steven Cleland on 13th April in Seamill Hydro . |
| 13 | It is in fact the commercially provided infrastructure that is most lacking , and many people live a long way from a shop , although this is to some extent made up for by mobile shops . |
| 14 | Forster shows Charlotte as someone who has never known love and is emotionally dried out because of it . |
| 15 | The pop star 's revenge , FEARGAL SHARKEY , formerly wobbly-voiced member of THE UNDERTONES who sought the kicks of teenagers , and wobbly-voiced failed solo star who advised listening to dad ( wonder why his career went down the toilet ) , has swapped allegiances and is now A&R man at Polydor . |
| 16 | Ambache has always supported BASW and is still a member . |
| 17 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |
| 18 | This is again a comprehensive and thoroughly investigated article and is probably the first extended account of Situationist cinema in English . |
| 19 | The latest revelation about the Government 's courting of minority parties came amid persistent speculation at Westminster that , on the Europe question , Mr Major has lost control and is effectively running a minority Government . |
| 20 | ABC is committed to expanding its European division ; that is why they have acquired Name and is why they intend to expand it ; |
| 21 | The problem is , however , that to examine their ‘ impact ’ on the ( differentiated ) public requires a long-term culturally and historically informed analysis that is far from easy . |