Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 32 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 33 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 34 | ‘ It has all worked out for the best , yes ? |
| 35 | But she has long scored highly on the qualities of being decisive , resolute , and principled , a perception helped by the Falklands war and the comparison until 1983 with Michael Foot , the Labour leader . |
| 36 | Finally it will be bundled with a Windows-based graphical client , something that Pick has long shied away from , but which it now accepts that is on a number of users ' ‘ tick-boxes ’ . |
| 37 | ‘ Remember , Glenn has only lost twice in seven years , once to lose his title to Jeff Lampkin and the other at heavyweight to Lennox Lewis . |
| 38 | Knowing my luck I 'll only be able to afford a weekend break in Bognor Regis , especially as my measly wage has only gone up by fourpence in the last two years . |
| 39 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 40 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 41 | It is not unknown for barbel to pull a rod into the water with a speed and viciousness that has to be seen to be believed , even when the angler has only glanced away from his rod for a few seconds . |
| 42 | Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles . |
| 43 | Pietr only found out by accident , when she applied to have the child aborted . |
| 44 | It 's as if my mind has suddenly broken through into a new area , a space , a vast capacity which I never dreamt I had . |
| 45 | But in the last ten years , Britain 's butter consumption has suddenly fallen by about half , and margarine has reached a pinnacle of acceptance . |
| 46 | The most tantalising of opportunities has thus opened up for Mr Takeshita : the chance to be prime minister again . |
| 47 | FRANK BRUNO has astonishingly leapt ahead of British rival Lennox Lewis in the race to get first crack at the world heavyweight championship . |
| 48 | Well there seems to be a slight mismatch there , and perhaps some of this mismatch is also a part of , with the confusion I have of the various shifting policy of York , in term in terms of their requirement , there has been in the in the not too recent recent past York were saying they had an additional requirement beyond need which they termed their concealed requirement , although it might not be a concealed dwellings , as we might otherwise describe them , of one thousand six hundred , and that has progressively come down to seven hundred as presented at this enquiry . |
| 49 | If the company does prove its case , it is still not clear whether it would escape the sanctions threatened by the US against European telecommunications products and services — mainly because the US has not firmed up on what action it will take . |
| 50 | There are , however , good reasons to believe that the Earth 's radius has not increased significantly during the past 500 Ma or so . |
| 51 | My remarks about the Attorney-General were strong because he has not faced up to his responsibility to enforce the law . |
| 52 | There is also considerable evidence that even people entitled to , for instance , free glasses , must still contribute significant amounts to the cost , because the value of the benefit has not kept up with the cost of glasses . |
| 53 | It is worth adding at this point , in the context of discussion of the cost burden of the elderly , that according to further calculations by David Thomson ( 1987 ) based on Family Expenditure Survey data , the share of national resources going to the elderly has not risen proportionately with their numbers over the past two decades . |
| 54 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 55 | But the main reason why interviews prove ineffective is that the interviewer has not been properly trained and has not prepared thoroughly for the task . |
| 56 | Seaton has not grown much over the years due to lack of building land , though there are now new terrace-type cottages in the centre of the village . |
| 57 | Possible conflicts were discussed within TI , he admits , and ‘ we decided in principle that TI would come first ’ but , as yet , he has not disagreed vehemently with anything the ASB has produced . |
| 58 | Indeed , no accepted curriculum subject has not featured somewhere in the proposal documents . |
| 59 | Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’ |
| 60 | However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise . |