Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Office accommodation , with the possible exception of the Foreign Secretary 's residence , would be almost the same as that laid down in the competition . |
| 2 | It was enacted that the vill should not be required to pay the cost of service beyond the county boundary , that the equipment required of troops should not go beyond that laid down in the Statute of Winchester , and that service overseas should not be required as an obligation of tenure . |
| 3 | The defence and prosecution cases are each made up of an introduction , testimonies of witnesses , and a summary . |
| 4 | This resolution was offered as a substitute for that reported out by the Budget Committee , and if accepted would give the president virtually all the cuts he had asked for . |
| 5 | According to witnesses two of the alleged assailants made their escape together via the Docklands Light Railway , while another made off across the park . |
| 6 | There is a clock on the cooker ; another on the video ; another on the dashboard of the car ; another built in to the pocket-calculator ; yet another on the end of the pen she uses ; another on the device that switches the boiler on and off ; yet another on the outside of the tall building Steven passes in his car on the flyover . |
| 7 | And thinking of her gynaecologist , surely such a step could not be taken without his sanction and the idea of asking for this seemed out of the question . |
| 8 | Another came down near the Leprosy Hospital , St. Bartholomew 's , and pieces of wreckage from these two aircraft are still currently on display in the Malta War Museum . |
| 9 | This spilled over to a fall in the reservation prices . |
| 10 | And this came about through a sequence of catastrophes , movements of people , and trade . |
| 11 | This came about through the fact that although Mondrian made use of the Cubist grid-system of Composition , he had already begun to develop a new form of painting which finally culminated during the war in the purely abstract idiom of De Stijl and Neo-Plasticism . |
| 12 | George Tinsley , of the Tap and Barrel 's owners the North Yorkshire Brewing Company , said : ‘ This came out of the blue , it was a total surprise . ’ |
| 13 | But this came out in a stumbling , heavy voice ; he still could hardly believe it all . |
| 14 | A new style of official entertaining came in at the Palace and still survives . |
| 15 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 16 | As they left the turn the French paddled off at a tangent and tried to run the Romanians into the landing pontoon in front of all the VIPs . |
| 17 | ‘ I thumped one of them then another turned up with a gun . |
| 18 | But , on the stroke of midnight , Prince Charming turned back into a rat . ’ |
| 19 | This tied up with the number who had breeding stock and were therefore likely to be needed as assistants at a calving or lambing . |
| 20 | This tied in with the position and colour of the spot when it first appeared . |
| 21 | This tied in with the time factor where the pressure to get things done at the end of the day could lead to dangerous short cuts and a consequent drop in efficiency . |
| 22 | This grew out of a Loan Exhibition ( accompanied by lectures ) of scientific apparatus for the 1862 Exhibition at South Kensington , which turned out to be a pale shadow of the Great Exhibition of 1851- the death of Prince Albert adding to the gloom . |
| 23 | A log rolled and half fell out of the grate , making Robyn jump suddenly . |
| 24 | Within minutes another went off at the Planetarium next-door , followed by two more at the Imperial War museum . |
| 25 | shur shur shur shur shur shur shur , and this went on for a week an little teacher , Miss , she called out stop doing that ! |
| 26 | This went back to the development of working-class antipathy to Thomas Malthus , who was seen as giving scientific justification to ruling-class opposition to reform , for after all the aim of his famous moral restraint was to convince the working class to postpone marriage as long as possible . |
| 27 | Until the English clamped down on the custom my forefathers all used the prefix ‘ ap ’ in front of their names — the last king of South Wales , for instance , was Rhys ap Tewdwr . |
| 28 | A woman of about 30 lurched out of the Post Office in front of us and staggered down the road a few steps before falling — her exposed thighs and palms making a sickening ‘ slap-smack ’ sound on the pavement . |
| 29 | He half walked , half ran on without a word . |
| 30 | She blinked at Shiona and half sat up on the bed . |