Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before this , however , potential rivals had been either ignored or treated ruthlessly by the BUF . |
| 2 | Is it really necessary for you to have no claim if you are indeed made redundant or treated unjustly at the time when the contract finishes ? |
| 3 | But much of what they buy ends up being returned or hidden away at the back of a drawer . |
| 4 | The thirties was the decade when smart hostesses took to serving a great many dishes iced or frozen simply for the originality of the idea . |
| 5 | The next version , in line 6 , is the most unequivocally Creole , though typical of a " mesolectal " style because of the presence of is , which would be a or omitted altogether in the basilect . |
| 6 | Now it 's not immediately obvious from that time series that there 's a structural break , right , textile consumption has n't fallen dramatically , right , or risen dramatically over the post war period , oh sorry du during the er the war period . |
| 7 | Pulled from the river with her nightdress apparently wound around her head , she provided Magritte with an image which haunted his art and inspired the long and diverse series of compositions in which the head is concealed by a veil or an apple , metamorphosed into a plank of wood , or shown only from the back view . |
| 8 | Many wild and evil creatures are spawned in the mountains or drawn there on the winds of magic . |
| 9 | PERSONAL POSSESSIONS — items lost or damaged anywhere in the world ; |
| 10 | Another fundamental question resurfaced : was the MacQuillan killing a personal matter or linked entirely to the man 's business or political activities ? |
| 11 | If the card is lost or stolen anywhere in the world , we can usually replace it within one business day . |
| 12 | For this reason , when games theorists talk about the Iterated or Repeated Prisoner 's Dilemma game , they always assume that the end of the game is unpredictable , or known only to the banker . |
| 13 | All at once in the ante-rooms of the palace were sources of people who had not been seen or allowed anywhere near the place in recent years . |
| 14 | We found the most significant factor affecting the health of purchasing authorities was the outcome of subregional weighted capitation , in which inertia was overcome only where districts had gained or lost significantly under the formula . |
| 15 | This in turn led to the arm and gun junction boxes being redesigned horizontally next to each other rather than grouped centrally at the front . |
| 16 | Although repelled initially by the bishop of Troyes ( a town destined to become the capital of Champagne ) the eastern hordes were able to sweep on , virtually unchecked , until they reached Orleans . |
| 17 | Our hypothesis was that hypoxaemia occurred more often than suspected clinically from the presence of cyanosis and that selected clinical signs , including respiratory rate , would be useful to predict its presence . |
| 18 | Manchuria was known to be rich in raw materials , notably coal and iron ore , and capable of supporting a far larger population than dwelt there at the time . |
| 19 | These were sturdy little cars and although used mainly on the Norbury — Purley and Thornton Heath lines in the early days , they could and did work anywhere on the system . |
| 20 | Later documents will be perused rather than analysed thoroughly in the hope that any new information is revealed in the process . |
| 21 | And the needs of people with learning difficulties and their carers , above all , can not be defined and prescribed independently of the process of encouraging and helping them to welcome opportunities and change . |
| 22 | When I designed the L.game it seemed obvious from the rules I had written that the pieces could be picked up and placed anywhere on the board . |
| 23 | In this condition , the sufferer experiences either constipation or diarrhoea , often in association with excessive abdominal bloating and sometimes pains , usually cramp-like and situated either in the middle or lower part of the abdomen . |
| 24 | As the hand was finally pulled away , flesh stuck to the ring as if welded there by the heat . |
| 25 | For years she 'd built up a protective shell around herself , a barrier against which the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune had bounced and fallen harmlessly to the ground . |
| 26 | Plastic Lunch boxes , food storage containers , etc , may melt if stacked close to the heating elements . |
| 27 | I hope that this debate will be about the valuable contribution that Britain can make to the European community , rather than a sterile argument about whether the king 's prerogatives will be taken over by the Government and given away in the face of the people . |
| 28 | William Green came to live in Ambleside in 1800 , when he retired from surveying and map making , and painted there for the rest of his life . |
| 29 | Some bats can send out a stream of two hundred clicks in a single second , each lasting only a thousandth of a second and spaced sufficiently from the other to allow each echo to be heard . |
| 30 | The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor . |