Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tallest Turk has resigned and in a fit of unparalleled generosity the Commander has ruled that his uniform should be sent instantly to a fast dry cleaners . |
| 2 | The forced march through Siberia becomes increasingly desperate and hallucinatory ( in fact Ypsilanti is , from the outset , clear in his own mind that they will never find the emperor ) : when the regiment comes to cross the tajga in July 1918 , the forest takes on the appearance both of a paradise regained and of a place of horror , endless in extent , haunted by marauding tigers and ghostly tribes . |
| 3 | organizes the games to be built and with a team of three — and — is responsible for the amazing new constructions which appear each year . |
| 4 | This serves as an explanation of changes already made and as a warning of those still to come . |
| 5 | Two days later , he was dismissed and as a consequence of his dismissal , his unemployment benefit was stopped and he received reduced rate income support of , I understand , £23.79 a week . |
| 6 | The 80486 translator floating point code is still being optimised and in a couple of weeks Charig says that time will be cut to between 20 and 30 seconds . |
| 7 | The 80486 translator floating point code is still being optimised and in a couple of weeks Charig says that time will be cut to between 20 and 30 seconds . |
| 8 | ( 1980 ) point out that statistical classification methods are by their very nature exploratory data-analysis techniques , dependent on the methods used and on a number of arbitrary definitions , and it is therefore inevitable that the results should be seen as a pioneering first attempt , rather than as a polished final product based on the application of well established proven methods . |
| 9 | One of the characteristics which distinguish " modern industrial " from " preindustrial " society is that in the former there is a wide circulation of " money " , where " money " means a general medium of exchange and a store of value which serves equally well as a reward for services rendered and as a means of purchasing commodities in the market . |
| 10 | Other parts of the digestive system may , however , also be affected and in a number of different studies constipation and diarrhoea as well as impaired gall bladder contraction in diabetic patients have been attributed to autonomic neuropathy . |
| 11 | Increasingly it is to be found and in a number of different forms . |
| 12 | Feigen was then asked by Hildenbrand on behalf of the museum to lend the painting for two months while the purchase ( at a price of $725,000 ) was being negotiated and pending a meeting of the museum board , which apparently was to take place on 21 October last . |
| 13 | Stuart Hall suggests that certain artistic and aesthetic practices prefigure a new conception of ethnicity , one which would be neither homogeneous nor normative , but always negotiated and in a state of becoming . |
| 14 | At least three uses of figures are notable : ( i ) Occasional figures , in a central or peripheral position ; conspicuous " in mosaics datable to c. 130-180. ( ii ) Elaborate figures , often numerous , well drawn and well executed but with a number of possible themes in any one mosaic ; predominantly in the west of the province , after c. 170-180. ( iii ) Figures in a scene ; predominantly in the south-east of England , after c. 160-170 . |
| 15 | A programme of restoration back to full working order followed and over a period of 18 months , it was stripped , restored and rebuilt to its present immaculate condition . |
| 16 | Coleen was not going to be rushed and after a lot of thought she decided to go to stay with friends in England to think things over . |
| 17 | … The principle which I deduce from the authorities I have cited and the other relevant authorities which I have considered , is that if the cause or matter is one which , if carried to its conclusion , might result in the conviction of the person charged and in a sentence of some punishment , such as imprisonment or fine , it is a ‘ criminal cause or matter . ’ |
| 18 | One Sunday afternoon we took a trancelike ride in the car out to Roxbury , and parked , and strolled the streets , and there she was , standing at her front door in a blue dressing-gown with her arms folded and with a look of amused reproach on her face . |
| 19 | Frequent reference has been made to a vote being taken and for a majority of meetings this will be by a show of hands for and against the motion , the Hon. |
| 20 | Roy and Judy are taken to make-up to have those nerves calmed and for a bit of pampering . |
| 21 | Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received . |
| 22 | But for the Munitions of War Act of July 1915 which enabled the Board of Trade if necessary to impose arbitrated settlements on unwilling employers , the union 's policy of patriotic co-operation must surely have failed and within a month of the passing of that Act the waters were muddied by another development which the union considered to be even more sinister — the demand from the " Reptile press represented by the Daily Mail , Times and associate journals " , for conscription . |
| 23 | She walked past the rowdy pub which had been described and up a hill of council houses fish boned with fake shutters , gardens spattered by gnomes , and windmills that whirled with weather . |