Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one instance a picture lent from Czechoslovakia to Cologne was prevented from returning because of a claim to title made by the former owner 's heir . |
| 2 | Thus , although incoming variants of both vowels appear to have originated in the same hinterland Scots dialect , each has assumed a diametrically opposed social value in its new urban setting . |
| 3 | The number of journalists who claim to have sat on the same sofa and had private speech with His Majesty is legion . |
| 4 | If the spontaneous origin of life turned out to be a probable enough event to have occurred during the few man-decades in which chemists have done their experiments , then life should have arisen many times on Earth , and many times on planets within radio range of Earth . |
| 5 | I mean frankly David , if you look at the number of games we 've had so far this season , it would be totally impractical for both teams to have played on the same pitch . |
| 6 | As the requirements of our living spaces alter , and more efficient central heating and draught-proofing keep our homes warm throughout , it 's tempting to get rid of a few doors or even eyeless to give our homes a more spacious feel . |
| 7 | Changes in the ways employment , training and welfare policies operate need to be brought about so as to get rid of the many disincentives that exist for women wishing to return to training or employment . |
| 8 | It used to make me really mad because some of me brothers and sisters used to get put in the same homes together , but I was always on my own . |
| 9 | If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether . |
| 10 | However , parallel cousins who may in reality be half-siblings are also likely to have lived in the same household . |
| 11 | Do n't believe everything he says , mind , but he claims to have lived in the same house all his life . |
| 12 | The calculation behind the memorial was naturally that most of the women would leave to get married within a few years . |
| 13 | Ice motion causes the meteorites to become concentrated in the same sort of way that mountain streams concentrate deposits of gold or other heavy minerals in ‘ lenses ’ or into layered structures . |