Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , tenure in top positions is normally limited through a more explicit contractual term of office than is employed in the private sector , and self-perpetuating oligarchies can not form . |
| 2 | I 've just heard about a very good antique shop opening over at Warmly . |
| 3 | The information is used to affirm a unique individual profile , from which an individualised plan for the person is developed through a more equal relationship with the elder being assessed . |
| 4 | a unique individual profile , from which an individualised plan for the person is developed through a more equal relationship with the elder being assessed ( Key , 1989 , p. 69 ) . |
| 5 | And then of course , this was all blown when th the raids stopped for a quite a long time , all these bloody kids came back ! |
| 6 | But the approach eschews vague yet important notions of fairness and integrity , and makes them subservient to what can be criticized as a very narrow view of cost . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the British National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM ) has developed as a strongly formed collectivity in a very different way . |
| 8 | By contrast , the social survey was developed as a more generic method . |
| 9 | The equations were originally developed as a highly simplified model ( mathematically a very severe truncation ) of the equations of Bénard convection ( Chapter 22 ) . |
| 10 | The trustee company will also be paid an annual fee , normally calculated as a very small percentage on the net asset value of the trust . |
| 11 | As Neil MacCormick has observed : ‘ It remains a contested issue whether an aspiration to justice is to be treated as essential to or definitive of the legal enterprise in all its manifestations , or is to be distinguished as a specially urgent demand issued in the name of critical morality . ’ |
| 12 | Prost had come cheap — virtually free for the first year — and Niki had re-signed for a very large sum indeed . |
| 13 | A locum consultant failed to spot the result of her earlier test and arranged for a totally unnecessary exploratory operation . |
| 14 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 15 | The author craves to be forgiven for a very brief self-quotation in illustration of this from a work of his own : |
| 16 | There is an odd ambivalence directed to matters sexual in what is recognized as a staunchly Roman Catholic country . |
| 17 | It seems that human attention can only be sustained for a very limited time by any subject , even the prospects of its own destruction . |
| 18 | It would challenge the boundaries between subject areas : for example , why science is construed and taught as a totally separate area from social science , when it might be argued that the social effects of science ( particularly in our nuclear age ) should be given equal weight to the mechanisms of science . |
| 19 | It is merely intended as a very easy-to-fit deterrent which a car owner may use in place of an alarm or , as in the author 's car , the unit can complement an existing security system which previously had no visual deterrent . |
| 20 | This brochure is only intended as a very brief introduction to Carmarthen Bay & Teifi Valley . |
| 21 | The Via crucis ( composed some thirteen years later in 1878 ) was clearly intended as a far more imposing artistic statement , and listened to on that level it undoubtedly succeeds . |
| 22 | The couple wanted to thank friends and relatives for the ‘ tremendous support they had given during a pretty rough time ’ . |
| 23 | The constable was treated for a badly bruised nose at Broomfield Hospital , Chelmsford . |
| 24 | If a diabetic patient was in need of so-called ‘ balance ’ — namely , the appropriate injection of human insulin for the control of blood-sugar levels — equally so did Morse require the occasional balance of some mildly erotic fancy in order to meet the demands of what until recently he had diagnosed as a reasonably healthy libido . |
| 25 | If the resist is not exposed for a long enough period , it will not develop fully and so some traces will remain on the board . |
| 26 | But this is dismissed as a merely verbal error . |
| 27 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 28 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 29 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 30 | As Minister of Defence between 1955 and 1957 , Zhukov had vigorously pressed for a less onerous regime of Party supervision and for greater General Staff autonomy in military — technical matters . |