Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these cases the chambers are approached down a flight of steps . |
| 2 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 3 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 4 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 5 | ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children . |
| 6 | A KPMG spokesman said : " The environment has been pushed down the agenda of many private companies by other factors such as the recession and exchange rates . |
| 7 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
| 8 | The Pakistan skipper had been drawn down the pitch by Tufnell 's flight . |
| 9 | There and in its environs , this week , have been played out the shows of Kenneth Baker as Kenneth Branagh , Michael Heseltine as Alvin Stardust , and Geoffrey Howe as Geoffrey Howe . |
| 10 | This view shows the station still under construction and it will be seen that a temporary track has been laid up the ramp to Infirmary Road to enable materials to be offloaded . |
| 11 | Close inspection reveals that a strip of reverse grain timber has been laid down the centre in order to add strength — another old-fashioned idea and a good one , too . |
| 12 | Finally , in the Annex there are set out a number of terms which , according to the previous draft of art 3(3) , was to be an indicative list of terms which may be regarded as unfair . |
| 13 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
| 14 | Charges had been brought in the USA in July 1991 against BCCI 's founder , Agha Hasan Abedi , and BCCI 's former chief operating officer , Swaleh Naqvi [ see p. 38355 ] . |
| 15 | They must have been brought in the hope of some celebration to which the way had been lost . |
| 16 | Yet for years I have made free with opinions about floating the pound , shadowing the mark , sinking the dollar , and effect on the £ of entering Europe , devaluation , and the various devices that are wheeled out every year for the Budget . |
| 17 | This is why prosecutions are brought in the name of the Crown . |
| 18 | Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment . |
| 19 | Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress . |
| 20 | The crew will be volunteers from the Midlands and a special headboard will be carried on the front of the locomotive , one of the Ffestiniog 's unique double engines . |
| 21 | Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s . |
| 22 | However , a surge in voltage of this nature , short-lived or not , may be carried on the mains to other equipment in the vicinity . |
| 23 | decided that by using a temporary coupler from the motor to the drive shaft some preparatory work for making the change could be carried out a year before the main change , reducing the delay . |
| 24 | Project appraisal involves many calculations which must be carried out a number of times to produce a proper sensitivity analysis . |
| 25 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm mixed up a bit in it . |
| 27 | Putting the light on would be too risky , but the curtains were drawn back and by now their eyes had become accustomed to a darkness in which could be made out the shapes of furniture and smaller objects , a darkness of monochrome and black spaces and faintly gleaming edges . |
| 28 | The latter two allow the tool to be hung on a wall by two screws , which pass through the plastic sheath and convert it into a vertical holder . |
| 29 | The TV is regarded as the next generation of home sets , with a flat screen that can be hung on the wall like a picture . |
| 30 | Even punk , once the rhetoric about dole queues , anarchy and Sten guns in Knightsbridge had been exhausted , had become just one more uniform to be hung on the clothesrail of British pop culture , to be dusted down nostalgically on anniversaries . |