Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 2 | US dollars thus became owned by the exporters to the US . |
| 3 | The sleek half-fish-half-insect-looking machine with its low snout , long canopy , slim double-tapered fuselage , squat trailing-link undercarriage and 110-degree V-tail immediately recalled memories of the shiny blue mounts of la Patrouille — though the ends of its tanks remain un-dented by the games of ‘ tap-the-tip-tank ’ which those characters played on boring transits . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Tories did remain committed to the principles of passive obedience , non-resistance and indefeasible hereditary right , but they were to argue that none of these had been compromised by the Glorious Revolution . |
| 5 | Convinced of the rightness of his policies and fearful of the consequences of economic decline , Mosley became attracted to the forms of activist mass politics in an attempt to rejuvenate society . |
| 6 | I have seen a couple of determined ones peck the leg off their defeated adversary , but most were unable , or did n't think of it , and got caught by the rats during the night . |
| 7 | FIREMEN had to release a baby yesterday after her leg became trapped in the bars of her cot . |
| 8 | In thinking about what Stalinism brought to his country , Kundera thinks of the support this despotism has received from the writers of his country , and of other countries . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what representations he has received from the chairmen of the north-west training and enterprise councils concerning the level of funding of training programmes . |
| 10 | Associated with cost is the gap that has developed between the ways in which essentially the same text is used by different groups of people . |
| 11 | A three-way dispute has developed about the costs of the venture . |
| 12 | The fundamental novelty about social anthropology , as it has developed since the days of Malinowski , is that the fieldworking anthropologist tries to understand alien societies from the inside rather than from the outside . |
| 13 | Negligence can be thought of as an early form of product liability and has developed over the years to its present wide scope , although this is tempered to some extent by the growth of insurance . |
| 14 | In Thailand , for example , there is practised an ancient art of war which has developed over the centuries into a highly exciting spectator sport . |
| 15 | Thereafter , male mortality rates in the last decades of life have been so much greater than those for females that a significant disparity has developed in the numbers of men and women in the older age-groups . |
| 16 | A number of dogs found poisoned on the shores of a small highland lochs may indicate that Scotland 's large deepwater lakes have been affected by phosphate and nitrate pollution . |
| 17 | For many seconds he just stood where he was , as still as a man who has gazed into the eyes of the Medusa . |
| 18 | First the millionaire star — who has soared into the charts at No 16 with his new single Sentinel — landed shaking with terror after the plane doors flew open at 5,000 feet on one of his first training flights . |
| 19 | The beautiful duet , sung by Freddie and Montserrat Caballe , has sprinted into the charts at No 5 … leaving Sarah Brightman 's rival duet with Jose Carreras trailing 13 places behind . |
| 20 | Penteli was an important quarry near Athens in Greece and recent research has distinguished between the products of the upper and lower quarries . |
| 21 | Active Memory Technology Ltd , the ICL Plc parallel processing spin-out , has fallen into the hands of receiver Price Waterhouse and is currently tying up a rescue bid from a mystery American millionaire tycoon . |
| 22 | Three years later , after a letter unwisely sent by Flavia has fallen into the hands of the bitterly ambitious Rupert of Hentzau , Rassendyll has a harsher temptation to withstand . |
| 23 | Poor kid , she looked so pathetic sitting there on the edge of the chair , all stiff and upright like some tragedy queen , thinking Woe is me , my precious Bob has fallen into the hands of this designing woman . |
| 24 | The dog 's owners have offered a reward for its safe return , but fear the animal has fallen into the hands of unscrupulous dealers |
| 25 | Security chiefs are understood to be deeply annoyed that information about today 's celebrations has fallen into the hands of the IRA . |
| 26 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 27 | But nationally the clear up rate has fallen under the Conservatives from forty-one percent to twenty six percent , and there is no excuse at all for a freeze on the number of police officers when we were promised an extra thousand . |
| 28 | The collection from Kenya came from owls roosting in an old well at the ruined town of Gedi , an old Arab town now being reclaimed by coastal forest , and the owls were roosting on ledges where stone has fallen from the walls of the well . |
| 29 | Of the six occasions when the government 's continuation in office has depended on the votes of an opposition party , five have lasted less than 30 months . |
| 30 | While I am far too gentle and decent a person to criticise any Opposition Member who has joined in the expressions of appreciation of this action , I have to say , in the kindest possible way , that if the defence policies to which the Opposition subscribe — I include all the Opposition parties — were implemented , we should not be ordering a rowing boat , let alone three frigates . |