Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the 3% placed in welfare institutions or left at home with parents , classed as ineducable . |
| 2 | Growth that overhangs a pavement , footpath or anywhere to which the public have access renders you liable for damage or hurt to passers by . |
| 3 | Most women gain most of their knowledge of the criminal justice process from the media since few will have attended actual court cases or learnt from friends of what actually happens in the criminal justice system . |
| 4 | When I took it off afterwards , my hair was a mess , so I put on a turban or tied in back with a band , which is what I do every day . |
| 5 | A short selection of some of these complementary groups is given in table 8.5 , where a polymer containing groups or composed of units from column 1 will tend to form miscible blends with polymers containing groups or composed of units from column 2 . |
| 6 | A short selection of some of these complementary groups is given in table 8.5 , where a polymer containing groups or composed of units from column 1 will tend to form miscible blends with polymers containing groups or composed of units from column 2 . |
| 7 | Getting around the city on a sightseeing spree to the Tutankhamen Museum , the Sphinx monument or laden with bargains from the shops , is very cheap by taxi . |
| 8 | Singly or in small clusters , they lay in chairs on the terrace or sprawled on rugs under the trees , some unashamedly asleep , others nodding over books , all as immobile as figures on a set of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 9 | 149 ( 3 ) A term , at a rent or granted in consideration of a fine , limited after the commencement of this Act to take effect more than twenty-one years from the date of the instrument purporting to create it , shall be void , and any contract made after such commencement to create such a term shall likewise be void ; but this subsection does not apply to any term taking effect in equity under a settlement , or created out of an equitable interest under a settlement , or under an equitable power for mortgage , indemnity or other like purposes . |
| 10 | They are sold in packets or dressed in oil in jars , and are available from delicatessens and health food shops . |
| 11 | A fine draughtsman and noted expert in perspective , he was the first president of the Liverpool Society of Arts and exhibited in London at the Society of Artists . |
| 12 | Dickens ' timeless story , now coming up to its 146th Christmas , has been adapted with affection by David Holman and directed with dash by Gwenda Hughes . |
| 13 | ( Yeah — and i just called our national football association and called for tickets to USA'94 — no problemo — so i guess i will be travelling with a friend or three … ) |
| 14 | In accordance with a request from the Association of Charity Officers , it is confirmed that an amount of £5,000 from public funds provided through the Association of Charity Officers has been received by the Association and utilised for provision of physiotherapy equipment for the new Therapy Wing at Sussexdown . |
| 15 | He swung off the horse and stood in front of her , tired and dirty from travelling and all she heard was a sound like the crashing of waves on pebbles and she put her hands over her ears and swayed in pain at the roadside . |
| 16 | The Marquess was arrested at his flat in west London on Tuesday and taken to prison for failing to pay the maintenance arrears within the stipulated two weeks . |
| 17 | Based on the location of DNase I hypersensitivity sites and sequence homology to the promoter of the mouse NF-L gene ( 20 ) a number of deletions of the human NF-L gene were cloned in pUC and tested by transfection in HeLa cells ( figure 2 ) . |
| 18 | Many baby orangs are caught in the forests of Indonesia and taken by ship to Taiwan , where they are sold as pets , shop props and showbiz gimmicks — so many , in fact , that there is said to be a greater density of orangs in Taiwan 's capital city , Taipei , than in their own habitat . |
| 19 | At HP it would require a minimum three systems swaps and run in excess of $500,000 . |
| 20 | Mr. Corfe is unimpressed with a League plan to impose a levy on transfers and performance money , which would be held individually on behalf of each club and used for items like ground improvements . |
| 21 | The event was organised by Cleveland Council for Voluntary Services and Middlesbrough Rotary Club and backed by staff at Northumbrian Water , Thornaby . |
| 22 | Community care co-ordinated from Brussels and delivered into neighbourhoods by the corporate providers of the European Community would seem the final blow to the familial , private and intimately local ideal . |
| 23 | a set of seven open reeds blown by the mouth and secured in front of the face by a scarf round the neck . |
| 24 | ( as if such undesirables were not precisely the sort of candidates all too often put up by parties and elected by voters in both British and Irish constituencies ! ) |
| 25 | At a meeting on 8 October 1992 hosted by this department and attended by representatives of District Council Planning Departments and the Scottish Wildlife Trust , the Trust indicated that following a re-survey of sites in Lothian , an updated list of Wildlife Sites with relevant maps will be made available to district planning authorities in Lothian early next year . |
| 26 | They were shown a video about the department and introduced to members of the team who are setting up the service . |
| 27 | It first gained popularity in the ancient world where , in an effort to stop adolescent boys from masturbating , the foreskin was pulled over the end of the penis and held in place by a ring passed through a couple of specially pierced holes . |
| 28 | On defence and nuclear issues , Solanki expressed his " unhappiness and disappointment " that the Soviet Union had on Nov. 11 voted in a UN General Assembly committee in favour of a proposal sponsored by Pakistan and seconded by Bangladesh for a nuclear-free zone in south Asia . |
| 29 | These factors are analysed in this chapter and discussed in relation to types of production in the relevant chapters later in the book . |
| 30 | Published for consideration by the deputies and in Supreme Soviet committees on Oct. 16 , it was presented formally by Gorbachev and approved in principle without a debate on Oct. 19 , and was given final approval later the same day , with minor amendments proposed by committees , by 333 votes to 12 , with 34 abstentions . |