Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Following the first election , however , he was successfully petitioned against and had to withdraw , but he survived the petition that followed the second . ) |
| 2 | Just because the guy can drop names we have all heard of and used to know Bruce McLaren does n't give him the right to bore us every week . |
| 3 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |
| 4 | The tables for Enumeration Districts and electoral wards ( in Scotland , postcode sectors and Output Areas ) have had 1 randomly added to and subtracted from any non-zero count , apart from the basic head counts . |
| 5 | She nearly ran up again when the milling throngs of people in the hallway below turned as if drilled by some invisible sergeant and stared at her . |
| 6 | They were all so done up and seemed so aloof. , Yet , in fact they were really easy going and fine to get along with |
| 7 | Theology in the last sixty years or so has naturally built upon and extended aspects of the work of its nineteenth-century predecessors ; but it has also gone through some striking changes of direction , especially from the aims and programme of Liberal Theology . |
| 8 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
| 9 | Metaphor lay coiled in the name sunflower , which not only turned towards but resembled the sun , the source of light . |
| 10 | For only in the formal processes of the courts was there any common alternative to the use of force ; and in most European countries throughout the period of this book kings and their officers had the greatest difficulty in preventing might from proving stronger than right : disorder was endemic , justice weak — but none the less sought after and admired for being in short supply . |
| 11 | turns , there , gets the header , Notts go in front , it was brilliantly made by and had the easiest of jobs and what a comeback it is , because Notts trailed by two in twenty minutes and now they lead three two against the side second in the first division table , who 've been run ragged in the second half , by a storming Notts comeback , brilliant , header . |
| 12 | The improvement of the quality of work performed by criminal justice personnel through improved training has been much talked about and advocated since at least my own days as a trainee assistant governor almost thirty years ago , and probably well before that . |
| 13 | No Practice … shall be required to contest any legal proceedings unless a Queen 's Counsel ( to be mutually agreed upon or failing agreement to be appointed by the President of the [ Law ] Society for the time being ) shall advise that such proceedings should be contested . |
| 14 | The disgust which inheres in desire is not , as the Freudian analysis might suggest , necessarily generated by or focused upon the repressed constituent of the self ; it may be , but what I am pointing to here is an additional structural interdependence of desire and disgust . |
| 15 | The latter are also more in tune with the idea of internal markets and the future role of authorities , less identified with and dominated by the aspirations of providers . |
| 16 | Graduates are widely sought after and experience little difficulty in securing employment with excellent career prospects . |
| 17 | Crucial to the financial stability is the fact that Highlander is recognised as a non profit-making organisation , and as such it has successfully applied for and sustained a tax-exempt status from the Federal revenue agency . |
| 18 | Sometimes these forms are overtly referred to and talked about , for example in those communities which have clear notions of " correct " grammar and " standard " language . |
| 19 | Of the two , I found the former much the more useful ; its alphabetical list of foods is easily referred to and includes such ‘ new ’ foods as quorn , fromage frais , hummus and tofu . |
| 20 | Next week I 'm a mining man and the week after I 'll have a wife , one already arranged for and waiting . |
| 21 | Below the sandstones there is a thick sequence of tuffs and lavas , already referred to and believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 22 | Whether it is just looked at or heard , acted out or painted , a symbol arouses not only thought but delight , fear , awe , horror and the rest |
| 23 | Ethics is normally thought of as dealing with questions of action , asking how we ought to act , what it is , in various circumstances , our duty to do , and how we can know it . |
| 24 | In a conflict situation , have you ever behaved badly towards anyone else ; intentionally or unintentionally heaping upon them the blame you attribute to any of the figures you 've just thought about and identified ? |
| 25 | He has already played for and left both . |
| 26 | The business of the Council was soon dealt with and merged into general feasting when the King surprised everyone by announcing he intended to join the Queen at Kinghorn . |
| 27 | It seems to me that we are having to fight all over again to keep many things that we have already fought for and gained in the past . |
| 28 | The PR element normally deployed to and operated from Wyton during exercises : a typical example being Exercise Tapdance in September 1959 — ‘ I was particularly pleased with the efforts of our PR Squadron during the detachment to Wyton . |
| 29 | The effect is even more telling than the BMW , because while anyone with the necessary can buy one of those , these kiddies are not just paid for but born and bred as well . |
| 30 | Ursula returned to the hi-fi , removed the cassette they had just listened to and loaded another . |