Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1991 it was disclosed that as a result of the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) Options for Change report , Kemble and Hullavington would close . |
| 2 | The problem of the prophecies was solved albeit in a way he had scarce expected . |
| 3 | Investors are reminded that as a consequence of the general nature of the investments held and of possible exchange and interest rate fluctuations , the value of their shares and the yield from them may go down as well as up and that past performance is no guide to the future . |
| 4 | In yesterday 's edition of The Northern Echo it was reported that at a meeting of Derwentside Council 's development control sub-committee Labour councillor Eric Turner criticised a fellow councillor , Derek McVickers . |
| 5 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Aug. 31 also reported that as a gesture of goodwill Iraq had allowed thousands of Iranians to leave Kuwait for Iran by crossing Iraqi territory at the border between Khorramshahr and Basra . |
| 6 | It is reported that in a number of countries that are regionally , culturally and socio-economically heterogeneous , malnutrition has been found to be more common among children born after short than after long intervals ( Rinehart , 1984 , p. 686 ) . |
| 7 | Others before Frank Kermode , in his suave and erudite but ultimately acidulous The Classic ( New York , 1975 ) , had protested that as a framework inside which real political decisions and actions could be taken , Eliot 's Virgilian-Dantesque perspective was not just useless but dangerous . |
| 8 | It might be objected that for a politician to act as a ‘ caretaker ’ might in itself enhance his chances in the subsequent Leadership election , simply by his being seen to fulfil the duties of the office of Prime Minister . |
| 9 | Imagination and reality fused and for a second the sense of foreboding intensified . |
| 10 | I am now installed and with a maid-of-all-work with me named Maria . |
| 11 | At the request of local residents the Parish Council has also asked for street lighting to be installed and for a speed limit to be introduced along part of this road . |
| 12 | In this last stage self evaluation is included and in a commentary on the White Paper on teaching quality ( DES 1983a ) , John Elliott 's characterization of three levels of professional development through self-evaluation was quoted as an argument against assuming that government policies of dealing out more doses of in-service education would improve teaching quality ( Slater 1985 ) . |
| 13 | The tallest Turk has resigned and in a fit of unparalleled generosity the Commander has ruled that his uniform should be sent instantly to a fast dry cleaners . |
| 14 | The forced march through Siberia becomes increasingly desperate and hallucinatory ( in fact Ypsilanti is , from the outset , clear in his own mind that they will never find the emperor ) : when the regiment comes to cross the tajga in July 1918 , the forest takes on the appearance both of a paradise regained and of a place of horror , endless in extent , haunted by marauding tigers and ghostly tribes . |
| 15 | In this society the means of production are communally owned and as a result oppression and exploitation disappear . |
| 16 | New figures show just 119 of the 15,767 properties controlled by the council , less than one per cent , fit to be let but without a tenant . |
| 17 | They decline to be interviewed but in a statement to us said , this year , productivity has increased while the accident rate has fallen . |
| 18 | The door did not lead into the shop as Wycliffe had expected but into a minute hall with the shop door on the right , and stairs leading up . |
| 19 | His head was shaven but for a topknot . |
| 20 | He has been replaced in the squad for the Test , beginning in Melbourne on Boxing Day , by Shane Warne , while left-arm paceman Bruce Reid was not considered because of a shoulder injury . |
| 21 | The owners of a department store which was evacuated because of a bomb scare have criticised the police operation . |
| 22 | The operation was cancelled because of a shortage of beds in intensive care where he will recover from his surgery . |
| 23 | The future of the National Book Sales was this week thrown into doubt after Book Marketing Ltd announced that the summer sale , due to run from 3rd July to 7th August , had been cancelled because of a lack of support . |
| 24 | The Broadway opening was cancelled because of a blizzard . |
| 25 | Speculation on whether the historic meeting would actually go ahead , however , was intensified when , on the same day , a planned visit to the South by a North Korean delegation — the first since 1985 — was cancelled because of a failure to agree upon minor procedural details . |
| 26 | It could never have been designed but for a revolution that has shaken up one of the world 's oldest industries |
| 27 | Mrs Hollidaye had pointed out how one could see creatures even more clearly when they were silhouetted as in a shadow cut-out . |
| 28 | The pines grew spaced as in a plantation . |
| 29 | Yellow Wolf told how he found one tipi containing two women shot dead , one still clasping her newborn baby with its head smashed as by a gun breech or boot heel . |
| 30 | We have never found it an imposition to provide , at the beginning of a term a sheet of paper for each lecture setting out prerequisite knowledge , the subject of the lecture and reference to textbook work which would probably not be treated except by a mention . |