Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Artificer commonly goes clad like the Yeoman : the Yeoman like the Gentleman : the Gentleman as the Nobleman : the Nobleman as the Prince : which bringeth great confusion , and utterly overturneth the order which God hath set in the states and conditions of men . |
| 2 | Even MTV has jumped on the bandwagon with The Real World , a show that chronicles the lives of seven kids rooming together in a SoHo loft . |
| 3 | Two months after Apple Computer Inc released a Catalan version of its System 7 , Microsoft Corp has jumped on the bandwagon and announced Catalan editions of MS-DOS 5.0 , Windows 3.1 , and a spell-checker and dictionary for Word for Windows 2.0 . |
| 4 | Everyone has jumped on the bus without paying and now the whole transport system is going under . |
| 5 | AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job . |
| 6 | Robins has jumped to the head of Stuttgart 's hit list after helping Norwich top the Premier League following his summer move from Manchester United for £800,000 . |
| 7 | An expansion led by companies will prove more sustainable : in the past year business investment in new machinery has jumped by a healthy 16% . |
| 8 | Lakes may take in water from many miles away that has percolated through the soil or through aquifers over decades . |
| 9 | The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published . |
| 10 | Grenada was the last tiny but bitter dreg in the constitutional cup which the United Kingdom has drained in the past thirty-five years ; and bravely , though not without a grimace of disgust , did we swallow it . |
| 11 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 12 | SAATCHI and Saatchi , the world 's largest advertising agency group , has plunged into the red after providing for £78million of reorganisation and redundancy cost . |
| 13 | SAATCHI and Saatchi , the world 's largest advertising agency group , has plunged into the red after providing for £78million of reorganisation and redundancy cost . |
| 14 | It has plunged into the red , to the tune of £1.2m for the year to August 1992 , and will not be paying a dividend . |
| 15 | AT&T Co has plunged into the desktop personal computer videoconferencing business with the launch of its Visual Solutions product line , committing that the products and services for business will be based on globally accepted standards for video calls over digital phone lines — under the framework of the Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy , companies worldwide have agreed the Px64 series of standards for video transmission over digital phone lines . |
| 16 | It is the same principle as the female body receiving the male sperm , and , after it has conjoined with the egg , nourishing it and gestating it so that its form can grow from fundamental simplicity to the complexity of a human body . |
| 17 | The persons liable to pay the tax are the trustees of the settlement and when the interest that is terminated has subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include it . |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received on the subject of Scottish government ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on the future of the Scottish regiments and battalions ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received on the contracting out of hospital ancillary services ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received on the proposed council tax . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what representations he has received on the conduct of children 's homes in Gwynedd . |
| 23 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received on the subject of taxation of child care ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent representations he has received on the Fenchurch Street line . |
| 25 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what recent representations he has received on the subject of the introduction of a statutory payroll levy . |
| 26 | Yesterday saw Hopkinson in sad , frustrated mood , attacking the ‘ complacency ’ among many field sportsmen and bewailing the lack of support he has received over the past seven years . |
| 27 | Much of the publicity that drug usage has received over the last two or three years has been counter-productive . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received over the level of the retirement pension . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received about the home improvement grants scheme . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received about the level of parliamentary representation from England ; and if he will make a statement . |