Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Wishart thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet .
2 I only y well you see the Romans did have a word you know they had a phrase , have you heard about that Roman phrase ?
3 It turned out , however , that the police had heard about possible sexual abuse before the father appeared in court on the physical abuse charges .
4 ‘ You 've heard about this Hawaiian jaunt of mine , presumably ? ’
5 ‘ Have you heard about this new senator everyone is proclaiming as the next President , John F. Kennedy ? ’
6 No good , has anybody heard about this magic word conservation lately ?
7 Walking is taught through this detailed control of all the different aspects involved in making single steps .
8 Amendments , etc. , can be traced through two Current Law Statute Citators , one for 1947–1971 , and one for 1971 onwards .
9 The list is endless , but for starters : liver diseases caused by alcohol ; drug-induced illnesses ; overdoses ; aids developed through promiscuous sexual behaviour ; heart disease and circulation problems in severely obese people who can not control their desire for fattening foods ; osteoporosis and other arthritic conditions caused by ‘ couch potatoes ’ who refuse to take exercise .
10 Whilst I have said 2 years as the expected time to be collecting Community Charge I think this should be qualified with 2 years plus , with income being received for some considerable time thereafter especially through Sheriff Officers .
11 I think , she remembered , as he walked a little behind her , it was a title received for some public work or other … .
12 The sentencing powers of magistrates are subject to certain general statutory restrictions in addition to the maximum penalties prescribed for each individual offence .
13 To die , to sleep ; To sleep : perchance to dream : aye , there 's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil , Must give us pause .
14 When we have shuffled off this mortal coil
15 Existing employees are refunded for two private survey fees ; new employees are allowed only one .
16 He has brought his largest paintings to Monde de l'Art , along with some works specially painted for this particular gallery .
17 But this is so only where the fence etc. was erected with reference to the highway and would probably not apply where the fence was erected for some other reason ( A.G. v Beynon , [ 1969 ] 2 All ER 263 ) .
18 However , the conflict between the NEC and Militant has not been conducted in terms of an argument over policy but has developed as another constitutional wrangle .
19 In advance , using the smokescreen of Tech-Green bureaucracy , he 'd arranged for this fictional shuttle-worker to be placed on a shift which involved taking a shuttle through the gravity well to Gaiah .
20 Video 8 , with its inability to dub audio separately , inserts both new pictures and sound , the latter being whatever was being picked up by the camcorder 's microphone while the title was being recorded — unless you have arranged for some other sound to be fed onto the tape !
21 In any case , lest anyone think the Royal Society of Chemistry had pandered to Elena Ceauşescu 's vanity , he assured the public that ‘ the fellowship was presented at a ceremony no grander than would have been arranged for any other spouse of a head of state . ’
22 Although gastrectomy specimens were carefully examined for possible endocrine cell abnormalities , quantitative estimation of endocrine cell densities have been performed strictly in areas corresponding to the site of biopsy specimens during gastroscopy .
23 This information may be summarised and need not be given for each individual instrument .
24 An allowance is given for each dependent child other than the applicant and the resultant net income is then compared with a scale which shows the parental contribution to school fees , the balance being met by the Scottish Education Department .
25 Figures are given for each local authority , showing numbers and proportions of residents aged under 65 , and 65+ , supported in each type of accommodation .
26 We report here 2 cases of opportunistic infections occurring after 3 months and 6 weeks , respectively , of IFN given for chronic viral hepatitis C in intravenous drug using seropositive patients .
27 Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Clearly , financial assistance will be given for one management-employee buy-out team per company and no more because that would be counter-productive .
28 ‘ This one was given for sheer hard work and physical labour . ’
29 Another reason given for increased central control — and one which I have heard frequently in Tanzania — was that there was a danger of confusing illiterate peasants if the media did not speak with one voice .
30 Ratings out of 10 for Cooking ( C ) , Setting ( S ) and Value for money ( V ) ; price given for average two-course meal for two with a bottle of house wine or equivalent .
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