Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His opportunity to counter the French threat came in the Low Countries , an area which had witnessed English intervention against France almost half a century earlier . |
| 2 | Only a few exceptional women were likely to take advantage of equal education opportunities , though on grounds of utility alone , Mill argued that it was important for this small pool of female talent to be permitted free choice of occupation so that it might contribute to human development . |
| 3 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 4 | REIGNING Champion hurdler Royal Gait prepares for the defence of his crown when he makes his eagerly awaited seasonal debut in Ireland today . |
| 5 | For one thing , ICI now scrubs the wastes clean and makes money on the products and has also made good use of heat previously going up the chimney stacks . |
| 6 | Carmen would have made short work of Michael too . |
| 7 | After graduating from Sandhurst Military College with the coveted Sword of Honour he had first seen active duty in Korea where he suffered a serious leg injury while attempting to rescue a wounded colleague . |
| 8 | In some cases , membership of the list has stirred dormant support into life again . |
| 9 | Writers have produced extraordinary work in conditions more oppressive than mine . |
| 10 | Lots of writers have produced extraordinary work in conditions more immediately oppressive than mine — mine is after all a kind of open prison — and their example inspires me . |
| 11 | I am claiming I have got good proof about jobs not being advertised . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We 've had good weather for weeks now . |
| 13 | Gen. Humberto Garcete , C.-in-C. of the Army , had on Oct. 9 requested indefinite leave of absence so that he could face charges " on a equal footing with any citizen " . |
| 14 | Got nice sort of archway here to give a sort of a bit of interest to the erm the bri the stonework behind him . |
| 15 | The contract itself recognises usages as well as rules and it seems more likely to me that the rules may , in some cases at any rate , have developed out of and given partial expression to usages rather than that they should indicate the absence of usages beyond what is contained in the rule . " |
| 16 | For , in its guise as the Parliamentary Labour Party , British Empirical Socialism can not be said to have intended , when governing the country , to have replaced private ownership of industry wholly by public ownership . |
| 17 | This , with the already established Course I , will continue to operate until it has reached due completion for students currently in training . |
| 18 | It has brought outstanding success on waters where anglers were quite happy to catch a single fish in the course of a whole season 's fishing . |
| 19 | About 1770 there was quite an elaborate proposal to create at Versailles another school for diplomats with thirty-six pupils , while others were to be given practical training by travel abroad or work , in preparation for careers as consuls , in the main French ports . |
| 20 | Sarah Anne Burke was found severely beaten in her her bed at a council run residential home in Redruth early last Sunday , just three weeks before her centenary . |
| 21 | They have taken oral evidence from ministers more frequently . |
| 22 | Although the Shorter Oxford Dictionary says that it means that the person has drunk ‘ intoxicating liquor to an extent which affects steady self-control , ’ it is arguable that the person must have taken intoxicating liquor to excess so that he has lost the power of self control . |
| 23 | If these non-compliant patients who failed to tolerate four weeks of elemental feeding are taken into account , then just 45% ( 10 of 22 ) patients originally randomised to receive four weeks of elemental diet achieved complete remission on diet alone . |
| 24 | But just as the removal of trees from the lowlands has created considerable opposition from environmentalists so has the policy of planting them across the hillsides . |