Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But the anchorage where the destroyer headquarters ship with its rear admiral 's flag once lay , and where up to a dozen destroyers might be swinging with the tide at their buoys , was now empty water .
2 More probable is a trade sale to existing mining companies or back to the generating companies , which is quite a common practice in the rest of the world .
3 Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding .
4 Figures show that out of every 1,000 skiers , 35 are involved in an accident — yet one in ten of us do n't bother to take out insurance .
5 And you ask us to believe that out of a dozen car-parks and hundreds of side streets you could have chosen you picked this place by chance ?
6 Both are members of the Penygroes RFC and I 'm pleased to report that out of the two games played , Penygroes won both , with scoring 6 tries , making the results 28–17 and 26–15 .
7 He added that out of the 26 councils in Northumbria Water 's area only five no longer wished to collect payments for water .
8 The incidence of high rates of non-returners is borne out in a Far Eastern Economic Review report which suggested that out of the 50,000 scholars sent abroad since 1978 , at the start of the reform decade , only 20,000 have returned .
9 While the perils of ‘ publish or perish ’ have yet to perturb Indian authors , seminar participants also voiced concern about the fact that out of the 350,000 practitioners of western medicine in the country today , only 4% read journals .
10 Its interest for us is that out of the 781 families surveyed , " printing and cognate occupations " represented more than any single trade " .
11 We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her .
12 Just beyond the church is a track which leads back out of the bay and on towards the soaring cliffs of Fair Head .
13 By midnight it 's really rocking and on into the early hours of the morning we adjourn to one of the best discos in Faliraki , Set Disco , where 18–30 Social members can get special discounts .
14 From here I walked on to Men Scryfa , an iron age monument and on to the Nine Maidens prehistoric stone circle .
15 One by one we clambered out of the boat and on to the slippery rocks of an inlet .
16 For those who wish to take a car close and then walk to the top of the hill without too much difficulty , take the A836 to Loch Loyal near Lettermore and climb straight into the corrie Loch Na Creige Riabhaich and on to the main summits .
17 Place a little white royal icing into a piping bag with a fine writing nozzle and pipe decorative loops on to the large balloon where the different colours join , and on to the smaller balloons .
18 ‘ Well , it wo n't hurt there for a bit till I can get down , ’ murmured Peggy , and struggled up higher and on to the topmost branches .
19 They set off from Turnu Severin , on the River Danube near the Yugoslav border and pedal through some of the highest passes almost to the Moldavian border , in what was formerly the USSR , and on to the Negreni villages .
20 A sole unit that blended good adhesion both uphill and down with the shock-absorbing characteristics of the chamfered heel of the K-SB3 was Berghaus 's Trionic , which appeared in late 1983 .
21 and down with the local tyrants , it 's down with the system as it stands or
22 There are more ways to step up and down from the specially-made benches than you could possibly imagine , and , for the puny-armed , the well thought out choreography incorporates upper body work , too .
23 Robyn followed as a determined Melissa led Luke , whose expression resembled that of a prisoner about to be given his last rites , across the field and in through the french windows .
24 First , the sight of one of the huntsmen galloping at full speed up the drive , over the bridge and in through the ornamental gates , throwing himself off his still cantering horse , and running into the house through one of the entrances below the main staircase .
25 By the 14th Serafin is being steered back across Whitehall , out of the pale sunshine , and in through the threatening corridors of the Cabinet Office towards these peaceful quarters at the rear , where rooms have already been quietly set aside for him .
26 it flies down their garden and in between the two houses it acts like a wind
27 The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October .
28 Organised for children aged nine and over by the Young Ornithologists ' Club .
29 from Kingston to Lynn to Yarmouth the coast was strewn with wrecked vessels , cliffs had slipped into the sea and disappeared into the brown tide and over in the low-lying lands of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire the salt-waters swished and groped where no man remembered ever to have seen them before .
30 ‘ What if this tree gets hit by lightning ? ’ she asked , peering up and up through the twisted branches .
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