Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there is also the crucial issue of political financing which we 've heard about already this morning , and which is such a vexed question in French Spanish , and Italian politics now everybody wants to see more money coming from an expanded , er , political membership . |
| 2 | For example , no further summit meetings were arranged for quite some time , and the notion of regular summits had to wait until 1974 . |
| 3 | Between 1909 and 1914 , partly as a result of the Act , partly in continuation of a preceding trend , loan sanction was given for significantly more houses to more local authorities than before . |
| 4 | Examples of this kind of manipulation are discernible throughout recorded history and occur at all levels of control , from the actions of the relatively insignificant leaders of quite small groups formed for almost any reason , religious or otherwise , to the governments of nations who become powerful enough to dominate the world . |
| 5 | I would say this is probably one of the most significant police/customs joint operations that we 've er undertaken for quite some time . |
| 6 | Everything would have combined to emphasize the fact that she was no longer part of the terrain her ancestors had occupied for so many generations . |
| 7 | It may be , too , that the small independents , squeezed for so many years , are starting to fight back . |
| 8 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 9 | Almost the biggest shock of the many I had sustained on my return home was the loss of the social cachet I had enjoyed for so many years . |
| 10 | With so much data being reported for so many pollutants and with the news media and control agencies employing diverse terms to describe air quality , some degree of confusion to the public is inevitable . |
| 11 | Thus the time-honoured name of Revenue Cutter was dropped after so many years of tradition . |
| 12 | Joanne , 13 , says simply : ‘ Mum has n't just looked after her own children , she has looked after so many others . |
| 13 | She hurried on into the high woods to see Kitty , her basket Wed with even more goodies than usual , a stock , indeed , which her father would ( rightly ) have called wasteful , far beyond alms . |
| 14 | The fact that precious substances have been sucked with so much gusto into the stream of mass consumption admittedly has small bearing on jewellery as an art . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps Dr Penry Vaughan is surfeited with so much glamour and finds your subtler style more to his taste . ’ |
| 16 | Are people not to be trusted with too much knowledge of themselves ? |
| 17 | Realizing that time was passing , the subject was dropped until later that evening when , after the dinner guests had departed , they were enjoying a nightcap with Wendell before going to bed . |
| 18 | Much of the expansion in manufacturing employment in the global system since the 1950s has come from relatively few industries , such as automobiles , electronics , textiles , household goods , and toys . |
| 19 | Anna Freud ( 1943 , 1960 ) , who had been one of the first to call attention to the emotional difficulties of small children separated from their mothers , attacked from yet another angle , affirming the emotional need , not only in the baby but in his mother , to be together during the first weeks of the child 's life , and criticizing maternity hospital practice that separated the two . |
| 20 | The displays of china and silver-framed photographs and the arrangements of feathers and dried flowers would have made the atmosphere claustrophobic if the immense windows had not let in so much light . |
| 21 | The Family Endowment Society widened the basis of its support in the 1920s because ‘ family allowances could be approached from so many directions with such an infinite variety of emphasis and application . |
| 22 | The sarcophagus can be decorated in as much detail as you like , and could be painted quite elaborately . |
| 23 | He became aware that the Boulton & Watt steam-engines installed in so many factories in the first quarter of the nineteenth century could no longer be coaxed to produce more power to meet ever-growing demands , and he came up with a very elegant solution which prolonged the useful life of these engines by many years . |
| 24 | This is a rich , satisfying casserole with more than a taste of the exotic , but which could be included in nearly any dinner party menu . |
| 25 | Any modules which are common to different projects should be included in as many packages as required . |
| 26 | This epilogue is included in still fewer manuscripts than the shorter prologue . |
| 27 | In more than one story Clifford Simak put forward the notion that the flesh-tones of dinosaurs might have been iridescent , rather than the drab grey-greens and browns depicted in so many artists impressions . |
| 28 | Such questions may not be addressed in quite this form or this order . |
| 29 | A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said : ‘ The hooded crow is a bit of a camp follower of man , and is attracted to anywhere that agriculture is going on . |
| 30 | As firmly as you may resolve to leave the sweet foods alone , when the " munchies " arrive , your resistance is often overwhelmed without too much difficulty . |