Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Double.length shifts are usually provided , where bits shifted out of one register of the double.length accumulator are shifted into the other . |
| 2 | He was concerned that residents missed out on last year 's winter warming cash because they came under the Whitby weather station where temperatures are warmer than in Boosbeck , Lingdale , Stanghow and Moorsholm villages . |
| 3 | The picture plane is further emphasized by the complete lack of aerial perspective ( the far houses are , if anything , darker and stronger in value than the foreground house ) , and by the fact that occasionally contours are broken and forms opened up into each other . |
| 4 | A classical ballet has a style of dance based on certain accepted principles and rules laid down by french , Russian , Danish , Italian and more recent schools . |
| 5 | He was sprawled at an unusual angle , arms and legs stuck out in all directions . |
| 6 | The Council 's initiative to set up a multi-professional group to address the borough 's drugs problem was well conceived for it allowed , for the first time , the information and concerns picked up by various parties in relation to heroin to be pulled together . |
| 7 | They were doing a sort of Nordic cha cha cha with Dutch doll movements , hands and feet turned out at right angles and clockwork jerks of the head . |
| 8 | Make up morning — children and parents made up like Red Indians , clowns etc . |
| 9 | While the vagrants and beggars shifted around like floating fireships of guilt , capable of their own frustrations . |
| 10 | They spotted a fast-moving object on 26 April and messages went out to optical observatories to identify it . |
| 11 | If they are then housed for the winter the immunity acquired by the end of the grazing season has waned by the following spring and yearlings turned out at that time are partially susceptible to reinfection and so contaminate the pasture with small numbers of eggs . |
| 12 | Theological hawks and doves lay down with scientific lions and legal lambs . |
| 13 | The geochemical characteristics of specific formations can be quickly established and searches carried out for geochemical patterns associated with various styles of mineralisation . |
| 14 | From the large entrance hall , old oak doors and passages led off to other parts of the house , a large open staircase facing them . |
| 15 | Because the dots in the print-head of the dot-matrix printer can be addressed individually , lines and curves made up of single dots can be drawn . |
| 16 | ‘ The Open College of the Arts encouraged me to a course in music using electronic keyboards and things took off after that . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ After the collisions the plates were able to adjust each time — fairly quickly it seems — and things went back to normal until something else came crashing in . ’ |
| 18 | Companies were also bound to match wages and conditions laid down in federal ( and sometimes state ) awards for their industry . |
| 19 | As this Third Concerto was drafted on similar manuscript paper as the others ( and shares the same key as No. 1 ) , and portions ended up in two countries , the substantial music for it was thought to be discarded ideas for the Firsts , although all the thematic material used in it is found in music composed or published around his fifteenth year . |
| 20 | Although ‘ real ’ life was now so often only fantasy and incomplete memories , there were moments when people , events , sights and sounds came back into sudden , sharp focus . |
| 21 | With it came a sudden clarity of atmosphere , so that the trees and haystacks stood out in high relief , and the distant hills seemed to come nearer now that their outline was sharply etched on the horizon . |
| 22 | The muscles of his chest and forearms stood out in powerful relief as he stared incredulously down at her tense , frightened face … |
| 23 | The cherry and whites came back with 2 penalties . |
| 24 | JUST AS the world succumbed to the vile peace and love mumblings of ‘ Sgt Pepper ’ and San Francisco flower-in-the-hair wearers , former session hack Lou Reed , art bod John Cale and friends teamed up with foghorn-voiced German model Nico and made the album without which no-one from The Jesus And Mary Chain to Ride would have a clue . |
| 25 | Balloons were tied to the railings at each embassy and leaflets handed out to interested passers-by en route . |
| 26 | About his waist he wore an elegant ta lien , or girdle pouch , the border a thick band of russet , the twin heart-shaped pockets made of a soft peach cloth , the details of trees , butterflies and flowers picked out in emerald green and blue and gold . |
| 27 | Until Livingstone , various Right-On pet publishing and campaigning projects had been largely confined to tedious discussion documents and papers wrangled over at interminable meetings . |
| 28 | The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others . |
| 29 | The bombs fell on South Wales and reports came in of young men killed in the air , on land , at sea . |
| 30 | For there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel , and the hum and songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day ; and the merry jests and greetings sent down to those who were passing through the streets . |