Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The weather , geography , altitude , geology and the vegetation of both the surrounding land and wet environment have all attributed to an animals evolution over thousands of year . |
2 | It attributes the speedy exit to having its reorganisation plan in order and the cooperation of its creditors who are apparently agreed on a collections moratorium . |
3 | Kurt and Wolfgang 's main worry was that large-scale unemployment among people not accustomed to a winners-and-losers system , which capitalism is , would create lasting resentments with dire social consequences . |
4 | Words or phrases which appear only once , or in only one clause , can be defined in the clause in which they appear ; however , words or phrases which appear several times throughout the terms are best defined in a definitions clause . |
5 | ‘ Uncontrolled ’ means not controlled by a police officer or a traffic warden . |
6 | New recruits to Medau came forward after visiting the stand at the Royal Norfolk Show , and more joined after a Promotions Week in the Lowestoft area organised by Marlene McGee and Jane Fisk , with Come-and-Try sessions and demonstrations by Oulton Broad class members . |
7 | A total of 480 points is usually needed for an honours degree . |
8 | For instance , Ritchie Blackmore was a very fast player , but it was always based on a blues thing , never on ‘ How many notes can I get in the scale ? ’ |
9 | His narrow shoulders were habitually draped by a challis scarf , his hands adorned by two Russian wedding rings . |
10 | You 'd have thought modems would be quicker on the parallel port , but no ; the serial port was originally developed as a telecommunications device . |
11 | The gaming tables are long gone , and the building is now used as a cattle shelter . |
12 | Apartments No.3 and No.4 detailed below have access from the main hall of the villa now transformed into a games room with billiard and card tables . |
13 | Malcolm Beavers , a former inspector , has now retired on a police pension after contracting an infection when he dived into a polluted stretch of the River Aire at Selby , North Yorkshire . |
14 | The safeguards here may be very good , but they may not be so well understood by a police officer in another country who read about that suspicion . |
15 | This is sometimes known as a personnel specification and is an essential part of pre-interview preparation . |
16 | Their official car , following behind the royals , was stopped and then forced into a police compound . |
17 | His work in the Sahara was recently included in a Sports Council exhibition that nearly never happened due to a last-minute decision by sponsors Kodak to pull out half of their backing money , which was needed for other photographic projects . |
18 | The enclosed manual is chock-a-block with plane and armaments information , but is poorly written from a users point of view , and appeared to be the same manual as for the Amiga product ( a command summary card for the PC is enclosed , but the documentation remains poorly written and even confusing ) . |
19 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
20 | ‘ Last week a woman who lives near here was arrested for not paying her fine , and she was actually put in a police wagon headed for Mountjoy Jail in Dublin , ’ Mrs Knelle told me . |
21 | Just as the column began to move , a schoolgirl , pushing a baby in a pram , accidentally backed into a police horse . |