Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 These trays take four or six PP3s ( depending on the model of detector ) which push on to snap terminals in the bottom of the tray .
2 FoE 's local branch had paid £2,000 for a stretch of disused railway land , which it then sold on in square-metre plots to 1,700 supporters .
3 Photocopy on to both sides of the paper .
4 This led on in later generations to a widespread belief among orthodox Christians that the Bible should be looked upon as a compendium of truths directly revealed by God , inerrant and totally consistent in all its parts , and thus the supremely authoritative source of information not only on points of doctrine but on any other matters on which it might touch .
5 Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them .
6 It has been given new genetic information by injecting DNA into the nucleus and this will be inherited by all the cells in the body and passed on to future generations via the germ cells .
7 A similar course held at the beginning of the year in Brasov , attended by sixty people including teachers , nurses and doctors , was particularly encouraging as much of the material was , in turn , passed on to other colleagues for their use .
8 The ten most frequently occurring ( from a corpus frequency count ) are ordered and can either be presented to the user , or passed on to further stages of analysis , depending upon the implementation .
9 Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal .
10 Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’
11 to sit down for five minutes after the tea , no the other one was , is that the biggest one ? , thanks , there you are
12 Her greatest luxury in life was to sit down with baked beans on toast and watch television .
13 Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity .
14 Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe .
15 The extracellular matrix laid down by microbial cells in microbial biosensors will show a more random orientation of structural components , but these can also have a dominant influence on the flux of the product and the substrate .
16 Second , I agree with the suggestion made by Martin Howe that there should be an express list laid down by national parliaments of protected matters which no Community law should be allowed to affect .
17 One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat .
18 Moving closer , Miles watched as strips of blubber were placed along with heated stones into canoes filled with water .
19 She lives with Roche above the city in a ‘ Californian ’ company house on the Ridge : this suburb , barricaded , fireproof perhaps , but lived in by prospective quitters of the country , supplies a further scene for the events of the novel .
20 Syrian troops allegedly crack down on pro-Iraqi demonstrators in eastern Syria .
21 Stage II is broken down into four sections of one week each .
22 To be useful , crime rates must be broken down into specific categories of offences .
23 The broad Shetlander identity can also be broken down into various sorts of identities .
24 The strong linear flavour emphasizes , of course , the flatness of the picture plane and this effect is further strengthened by the fact that the entire picture surface is broken down into angular forms of almost equal size , which are all dealt with in the same vigorous technique .
25 Ideally the calculations for increased prices should be broken down into different categories of material and related to the number of volumes purchased by the library in each of these categories .
26 The bulk pack being broken down into smaller units for re-sale to other parents with the school taking a percentage of the discount .
27 This can be broadly broken down for descriptive purposes as a program staff of 11 , and a support staff of 4 .
28 During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell .
29 Inspector-Generals of Prisons drafted in from other fields with little knowledge of , or interest in , prisons , while ‘ high flying ’ young administrators see the prison department as one to be avoided ( Sharma 1985 ) ;
30 We rode along like three troubadours from some romantic tale .
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