Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the time the Israelites first passed that way , towards , probably , the end of the thirteenth century BCE , that tower , now exposed to view by the archaeologist 's shovel , would have been hidden deep beneath the ground , buried beneath layer after layer of the remains of a series of settlements . |
| 2 | As a BCP politburo and secretariat member until mid-1988 , he had been widely regarded as the person most likely to lead political reform in Bulgaria , but he had been dismissed abruptly from the party leadership in July 1988 [ see p. 36304 ] . |
| 3 | The distribution has been examined principally within the context of wind blown dune sands ( Bagnold & Barndorff-Nielsen , 1980 ; Christiansen , 1984 ) for which it was claimed the hyperbolic function encompassed the extreme values of the size distribution tails better than the log-normal plot . |
| 4 | The march of the matriarchal society may have been stopped here in the United Kingdom , but it is but a temporary halt , a moment in time . |
| 5 | The young wheat is streaked by silver lines of water running between the ridges , the sheep are gathered together on the slopes . |
| 6 | Footsteps are heard all over the building causing surprise and apprehension and expectancy in those visitors who have heard about the phenomena but have n't experienced it . |
| 7 | The second band , with its very long progression of vibrational peaks , is assigned to both the quartet and doublet states formed by removal of an electron from the π u level , while the third and fourth bands are assigned respectively to the quartet and doublet states formed by removal of an electron from the level ; both levels are expected to be strongly bonding , as suggested by the lower vibration frequencies of the ions . |
| 8 | The syllables making up an instruction are placed immediately after the syllables of the previous instruction , without regard for the boundaries between words . |
| 9 | The supply of all product to shops is in direct response to retailers ' orders , which are placed either with the distribution centre or with the company 's sales force on their monthly calls . |
| 10 | Marks are placed both in the text and in the margin . |
| 11 | The best example is creme caramel , where the dariole moulds are placed straight into the oven set at 85°C , and a perfect product results without any fear of honeycombing . |
| 12 | If 2342 scan lines from the MSS are placed together like the rows of a matrix then the distance from the first to the last scan line is just about 185 km . |
| 13 | Many of the industries are placed close to the docks ; they are port oriented . |
| 14 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |
| 15 | I regard rule 7.23 as restating , by way of convenient compilation , rights of appeal which are given elsewhere in the Rules . |
| 16 | I regard rule 7.23 as restating , by way of convenient compilation , rights of appeal which are given elsewhere in the Rules . |
| 17 | Each word and its anticipated variations in pronunciation are given explicitly in the lexicon , as in the HWIM system , while the acoustic input to the lexical access process may be described in terms of broad- , mid- , or fine-class descriptions . |
| 18 | The journey , however , proves to be a descent into hell , for Comala turns out to be a ghost town which has been devastated by the oppression of his father , the tyrannical landowner Pedro Páramo , and whose few remaining inhabitants live in despair , convinced that they have been banished forever from the grace of God . |
| 19 | In this way , Gaussian , log-normal , sigmoidal , and sinewave data are treated just like the program 's other functions of X. Transformed equations , power-fit , exponential , hyperbolic , and others are also discussed in an appendix . |
| 20 | The Labour policy of ‘ ensuring that lesbianism and gayness are treated positively in the curriculum ’ was raised in such a way as to play on parents ' fears for the safety of their children . |
| 21 | Thus , for example , an account of some episode of social conflict is constructed in which the discrete personalities of the protagonists are regarded as irrelevant to the outcome , and they are treated simply as the bearers or supports of certain political ideologies or economic forces . |
| 22 | And they are treated harshly by the form of the electoral system . |
| 23 | The Museum , although having a modern exterior , was originally built around a Moorish bath-house Commemorative plaques of the Rock 's historical past have been posted all over the streets and buildings . |
| 24 | All the mail handled at Aberdeen carries the city 's postmark and the letter bombs could have been posted anywhere in the area . |
| 25 | Sachs compared subjects ' performance with a variety of target sentence positions varying from 0 syllables delay ( for a sentence which had been heard immediately before the recognition test ) to 160 syllables delay ( for a sentence occurring relatively early in the passage ) . |
| 26 | Periodicals ( or serials as they are sometimes known ) are listed alphabetically by the title as it appears on the title page of the periodical . |
| 27 | Prejudice ( encompassing Racism and Equal Opportunities which are listed separately in the Arrangements document , but can be presented as forms of prejudice ) |
| 28 | As had been realised already in the model experiments , a rotor ship would not make full use of a wind blowing directly from astern . |
| 29 | Carlson was aware of conflicting reports : that Bourbollon had been assassinated earlier in the day ; that he had committed suicide rather than face capture by freedom fighters . |
| 30 | Resources are developed both in the regions and by WACC staff ( also through Media Development and Action ) . |