Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a bit less pissed off about selling Batty now since a ) we did n't loose on Saturday ; b ) Rocky played well ( I bet he 's been given a run in the 1st team and a confidence boost with it ) ; c ) I heard Batty saying things like ‘ he did n't have to sell the club ( rovers ) to me ’ , with no hint of remorse at leaving Leeds . |
| 2 | It stands in a field completely cut off from human habitation . |
| 3 | An out-of-condition horse ie a horse just brought up from grass and worked too hard , too soon ; |
| 4 | Once this extensive consultation process was over the government circulated amended versions of the draft statutory instruments for a second more limited round before setting them in their final form . |
| 5 | Older historians may still question the validity of oral data ; but , Briggs argues , ‘ you 've got to be critical of all forms of historical evidence ; they all have their pitfalls , but oral evidence is especially useful for recovering attitudes ’ — a point amply borne out by City Lives . |
| 6 | Students were a group already singled out for special attention in the effort to keep out the ‘ bourgeois liberalism ’ which had influenced their predecessors at the turn of the century . |
| 7 | Against that must be weighed the costs of absorbing new members into a Community already weighed down by the process of bargaining over policy among 12 member states . |
| 8 | A BUSINESS almost cleaned out by burglars has put up a reward for information leading to conviction of the culprits . |
| 9 | A process so hedged about with medical mystery and old wives ' tales that no man was allowed to share in it now became an experience he must not miss for the world . |
| 10 | A gold ring from the port of Mochlos shows a goddess sailing on a boat with a shrine apparently built on to the afterdeck conveying a portable shrine from one coastal site to another . |
| 11 | Her mother 's friends , Lizzie Braithwaite and Maria Colclough and Ethel Lord were incensed by it , having used the act of sex all their wedded lives as something to bargain with , employing their very contempt for it as a punishment regularly meted out to husbands who lusted after the nasty performance far too much . |
| 12 | The distinction of the Son from the Father was a theme vehemently taken up by the Roman presbyter Hippolytus . |
| 13 | THE AUDEN GENERATION by Samuel Hynes Pimlico , £12 THIS literary history of England in the Thirties ( a decade often looked back upon nostalgically as the most recent time when literary giants still stalked the land ) is more than the usual glib account of the rise to fame of that precocious composite poet MacSpaunday . |
| 14 | ‘ We have a tail already locked on to Tweed . |
| 15 | His tie was badly knotted , his shirt had a crumpled look — everything about him suggested a man hastily summoned out of bed . |
| 16 | Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry . |
| 17 | There 's a bed already made up in there . ’ |
| 18 | Apparently , though , it was not etiquette , a reality laughingly pointed out to her by Glyn when they had started going out with each other on a regular basis . |
| 19 | Munro 's Tables created a challenge enthusiastically taken up by climbers ever since , the ascent of all the 277 Munros being a prime objective of those who find enjoyment in hillwalking . |
| 20 | Racial , linguistic and cultural homogeneity in a nation virtually cut off from outside contacts , and the growth of national economic and political integration , in part counteracted the authorities ’ attempts to perpetuate rigid status divisions . |
| 21 | It is ironic that the most interesting group of pre-Romanesque churches in Europe should be in a country largely taken over by the Moslems . |
| 22 | This is the second Bonded Machine that has been bought by Wellco from Bonded Developments Ltd , a company jointly set up by Stoddards and Pickering Staplina . |
| 23 | Two hundred and fifty workers at a factory recently taken over by an American company have been given their redundancy notices today . |
| 24 | He is the son of the phallic mother who has overcome her and fused with her to become a living equivalent of the perfect primal mother , not through self-castration ( the depressive alternative ) , but through manic self-assertion : a sentiment nicely summed up in the ritual of Cybele and her son Attis : ‘ a feeding on milk , as though we were born again ; after which rejoicing and garlands and as it were a return to the gods . |
| 25 | And in a market actually made up of thousands of distinct locations , an average house price is something that exists only in the statistics . |
| 26 | In the community tank where the decor consists of numerous caves made from rockwork , with a good depth of gravel to act as a filter medium , and where the fish tend to dig less than in a tank especially set up for breeding , then undergravel filtration will be adequate once the biological action in the gravel has become firmly established . |
| 27 | Suddenly the trench became ‘ nothing more than a track hardly traced out amid the shell holes ’ . |
| 28 | A former PFL senator , Jorge Borhausen , was appointed to the newly-created Cabinet post of Secretary to the Presidency , with responsibility for rebuilding relations with Congress , a task previously carried out by Justice Minister Jarbas Passarinho . |
| 29 | A chap just turned up with my lost golf clubs . |
| 30 | If all these measures fail , it may be necessary to use a pole with a rag securely tied on to it or clearing rods similar to those used for clearing drains . |