Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk .
2 Has the next generation of unemployed white youth followed in the footsteps of their elder brothers or taken a new route ?
3 West Dorset 's most famous resident was Thomas Hardy and any one who has read his books or seen the films , such as Tess , will already have a vision of the landscape — probably of stark rolling countryside with constant rain .
4 Bearing in mind that given a choice between the use of rail and car , the question of cost necessarily will come into that equation .
5 Because I knew , the fella that done the damage before I did the same thing , he said to me , he say you carry on you 'll get it back .
6 But there was more to Diana Spencer than met the eye .
7 Jones was handed the biggest fine in FA history on Tuesday and given a suspended six-month ban for his part in the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ .
8 In order to draw this out of him , he wrote a vastly elaborate commentary on the Lay , softening the blow of his harsher criticisms by inventing the personae of a whole group of scholarly editors who are debating the text in the way that scholars have disputed over Homer or Beowulf It would seem that Tolkien took a great deal of notice of Lewis 's invented editors , for he rewrote his Kay and incorporated a high proportion of their emendations .
9 Erm the council erm , the welfare and associate advi advice centres since nineteen seventeen eight however , until March of this year erm the staff the counter staff within the advice centre were divided into to two departments er , the information and community services department reported to committees and , as a result of the general move within the council and the service department to er neighbourhood erm offices and called the support services .
10 Although Henslow 's teaching was not part of the undergraduate curriculum , interested students were taken on field trips and given a good grounding in the science of the time .
11 He was made an honorary member of the club and given the promise of free beer for the rest of his life .
12 For example , during its mad dash his plunging horse had burst through some bushes and disturbed a she-bear with her cubs , but had gone on before the bear could react .
13 What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo .
14 But Mr Fallon said the Government had already funded Two Castles and given the council £27.8m in revenue support grant .
15 Signe wrapped her yellow oilskin arms around my neck and planted a kiss on me .
16 Lang has also played a part in the admission of rock and graffiti to the cultural fold and given a helping hand to the young unemployed with subsidies for their participation on archaeological digs .
17 The woman had lashed out in fear and given the bird a fatal blow , feathers everywhere .
18 This Act , however , allowed the establishment of forest reserves and marked a change in attitude to the nation 's forests which had hitherto been considered as inexhaustible .
19 and given them a dish of trifle I think a lot would have just eaten the trifle , had a cup of tea and taken the rest home .
20 He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon .
21 His patience exhausted , he called another agent and booked a dearer ticket .
22 One patient complained of heartburn and required the administration of H 2 antagonists to relieve it .
23 For an afternoon 's work , it was hardly going to be Tosca and given the raw materials no one would have minded had they chanted ’ What a Load of Rubbish ’ .
24 First , an enraged she-bear had barged through the undergrowth and taken the throat out of his horse with one swipe of her paw .
25 As well as acting as a surrogate mum to the hedgehogs , Christine has also given physiotherapy to tortoises and given the kiss of life to a pet rabbit , which everyone thought had gone to the great hutch in the sky .
26 They suspect that because they are not really wanted , they are put into estates , overcharged in the shops and given no recreational or community facilities .
27 I went up the shops and changed a pound .
28 Nevertheless , the results of the meeting , although not legally binding , carried considerable moral and political force and marked a formal commitment by the East European countries to Western-style free markets and convertible currencies .
29 Already his men would have heard his words and taken the appropriate action .
30 It would encourage newcomers ; especially if they 'd been on a few walks and seen the problems .
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