Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This resolution was offered as a substitute for that reported out by the Budget Committee , and if accepted would give the president virtually all the cuts he had asked for . |
| 2 | And thinking of her gynaecologist , surely such a step could not be taken without his sanction and the idea of asking for this seemed out of the question . |
| 3 | The cure for this turned out to be to burn the drain-holes with a red-hot skewer which , of course , gives a clean edge to the hole . |
| 4 | It must be remembered that for all its world status and the great influence it has upon the rest of the airworthiness authorities of the western world , the FAA is after all made up of fallible human beings . |
| 5 | A professional career as such seemed out of the question ; his only ambition in life was to be an artist . |
| 6 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
| 7 | The year of 1980 turned out to be a great one for British sprinting . |
| 8 | And that 'll get the inside of that sorted out for a wee while again young William . |
| 9 | and these people , you know , er had a deputation and all this business and I think some of that rubbed off on the children and , and you 've |
| 10 | He made an arrangement which , he claimed , would make him far richer than generals and admirals who led armies and fleets , a Trust Deed by which his assets were assigned to Trustees who made all the payments to creditors on the lines of that set up for Emma Hamilton . |
| 11 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 12 | A certain amount of research into the effects of ageing went on in that period ( and not only in Britain ) but much of it was forgotten when the crisis of ageing and labour shortage seemed less acute in the 1960s — the ‘ age of automation ’ ( Bagrit , 1965 ) , of greater availability of female and immigrant labour and of youth . |
| 13 | Whilst the FADS of old went in for five-man random obscurity and ‘ playing bizarre rhythms as fast as possible ’ , their forthcoming album boasts structure , recurring themes and even the odd polished pop song . |
| 14 | All of this added up to an ‘ inaccessible market ’ . |
| 15 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 16 | She has a best of 54.14 set back in 1990 — before the arrival of daughter Aoibhe , now 16 months old — and over the hurdles her best is 59.90 . |
| 17 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 18 | A welcoming party of six walked down to the shore as the boating party disembarked not without difficulty ; Johnson , after his six or seven hours on the Atlantic , found the rocks ‘ irregularly broken , and a false step would have been very mischievous ’ . |
| 19 | The first three teams from each of these went through to the final at East Sussex . |
| 20 | Over in Cheltenham , 6 teams of 4 turned out for the day 's main event , won by the team from the St James Hotel . |
| 21 | ‘ The best scores from weekly magazines came from City Limits and New Stateman & Society ; the Literary Review scored well ; the TLS and London Review of Books were disappointing , and the worst scores of all came in from the Spectator and Time Out . |
| 22 | Tessa first of all sat down on the edge of the bed , with her knees together , her feet crossed and slightly to one side , her back straight , and her cup and saucer at chest height , as she had learnt in Social Situation Training . |
| 23 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 24 | Khrushchev decided he liked Eisenhower , ‘ a reasonable and modest man ’ , and the much discussed ‘ Spirit of Camp David ’ meant that a lot of smiling went on in public . |
| 25 | As the Select Committee of 1930 pointed out in their Report , ‘ the evidence before the court is restricted to what is directly relative to the proof of the charge and excludes many weighty considerations that are thrown into the balance when the Home Secretary is advising on the Prerogative of Mercy ’ . |
| 26 | This lady of 42 came along with the diagnosis of uterine fibroid which was leading to severe haemorrhaging at the time of her period . |
| 27 | V7799 , was one of five shot down by 7/JG26 . |
| 28 | It was their tree ; although distant from Nana 's house , it was one of several passed down as part of the family 's inheritance . |
| 29 | The World Cup limited the domestic appearances of the leading players so that an unusually high number of 103 turned out for the six first-class teams . |
| 30 | A family of four slept on through what could have been a tragedy in this farmhouse near Thame . |