Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authority had coincidentally tested the water for toxins on about the same day as the officer cadets had used it . |
| 2 | It includes for the first time in one volume additional indexes for porcelain painters , enamellers and silhouettists , incorporating the work of artists up to the present day . |
| 3 | Alternatively the other detector can take a lower-resolution spectrum of objects up to a 10 000 times fainter . |
| 4 | Triumphantly , he slapped a wodge of notes down on the polished mahogany counter , as if anxious to be rid of it , and snatching a 12 bore from the gunsmith , he strode out into the square . |
| 5 | Brilliant weather from the end of May through into June , particularly on the west coast , saw hordes of climbers up on the big mountain routes , particularly on Ben Nevis . |
| 6 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 7 | This is a country stuffed full of homes out of the Daily Mail Book of Bungalows . |
| 8 | There was the hum of cars up on the main road . |
| 9 | Some weeks later , I receive a note of thanks along with an engraved beermug . |
| 10 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 11 | She took a couple of steps on to the damp surface , lost her balance and collapsed to her knees . |
| 12 | There is limited parking at Belle Vue ( SE343197 ) beside the Calder & Hebble Navigation ( April 84 guide ) which ends at Fall Ing Lock , below which are a flight of steps down to a convenient platform . |
| 13 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 14 | She slammed the saucepan of potatoes on to the draining board . |
| 15 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 16 | and there 's not any reason why once your in you canne put another couple of lines in , and you can even put a couple of lines in on a different number if you want |
| 17 | I have n't shifted them , i n't it a mucky day ? considering all that frost and cold you 've got a lot of families out in the front door there ai n't we ? have you got any tapes of ours not finished off ? , or have we got to start a new one ? |
| 18 | Procedures for preparation of tax computations will have to be reviewed to ensure easy transfer of figures on to the new returns . |
| 19 | Indicative of things back in the eighteen . |
| 20 | I can see a dark figure , a barely visible silhouette against the backdrop of trees over on the grassy knoll beyond the car park . |
| 21 | ( D ) That this Agreement shall not apply in any case where a policy is underwritten on the basis that the Insured is responsible for the payments of sums up to a predetermined aggregate amount . |
| 22 | WARRING factions in Bosnia ordered a ceasefire yesterday and agreed to open three routes for the safe passage of civilians out of the stricken capital Sarajevo . |
| 23 | I must also say that I resent the tendency of the Act to line the pockets of lawyers out of the tragic situations of families and children in trouble . |
| 24 | Today synthetic diamonds are commercially available in a range of sizes up to the present maximum , the de Beers ‘ Synthetic Rotary Dresser ’ stones , which have a weight of 2 milligram , ( equivalent to a cubic diamond of 0.8 mm edge ) . |
| 25 | ‘ You buy me a pack of cigarettes out of the fifteen hundred . ’ |
| 26 | Staff Sergeant McRobb supervising the loading of vehicles on to a Royal Corps of Transport craft at the military Port of Marchwood near Southampton |
| 27 | I thought you would Chairman , take it later I see a lot of hands up on the other side . |
| 28 | Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity . |
| 29 | Except in most Western Hemisphere and in some other countries , the mortality of first born infants uniformly exceeds that of births up to the 4–6 orders , and in the majority of countries , the pattern is one of declining infant mortality from first through second and third order births . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're lucky you 're up this end of the Cages with us because there 's … ’ and here he dropped his voice into a horrified whisper , ‘ … there 's a couple of vultures down at the other end . |