Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 2 | There , it percolates down through the rocks into aquifers ( underground water reserves ) , or flows as surface rivers back into the sea , propelled by the Earth 's gravity . |
| 3 | Then , keeping the thumb in place , he pushed the rim of a bowl in between the rows of teeth and poured its contents , a trickle of oil , right down into the throat . |
| 4 | I hated pushing the medicine dropper in between the rows of teeth , now permanently bared , and the hot dry lips , and watching the milk dribble out at the comer because it would n't swallow . |
| 5 | From the pastoral comforts of the Plateau de Bénou , the road twists abruptly down past the villages of Bilhères and of Bielle , another valley ‘ capital ’ this , with some fine fifteenth-and sixteenth-century house fronts , but particularly commendable as a slated roofs cape seen from higher up the road — this is Béarn , and grey slates arc what you expect on roofs , no longer Basque tiles . |
| 6 | Gone are the days when a couple furnished their house from top to bottom in a style that fitted in with the tastes of friends , neighbours , colleagues at work , or cronies down at the pub or tennis club . |
| 7 | An important point is that these large-scale convection cells fit in with the dimensions of plates . |
| 8 | The Committee took the view that lawyers are unapproachable because of the inaccessibility of premises and their unwelcoming nature , because the methods of work do not tie in with the needs of clients , and because of a lack of response to the needs of linguistic minorities . |
| 9 | The figures of the main characters of the Nativity are then placed on it along with the pots of cereals , now full of green sprouts which symbolize fertility and plenty for the coming year . |
| 10 | All in all , these , along with the changes in numbers and size of dendritic spines , are what one might expect if , when the chick pecks the bead and learns the association between the pecking and the bitter taste , there is a synaptic reorganization in IMHV and LPO to code for — or represent — this new association and the resulting change in behaviour — that is , to say ‘ do n't peck ’ instead of ‘ do peck ’ when the chick sees the bead a second time . |
| 11 | This information , along with the results of interviews with over 100 students , will be used to inform general SVQ policy and future development . |
| 12 | He also recorded in Lewis a home-remedy which used the roots of nettles boiled in water along with the roots of reeds , then fermented by the addition of yeast which ‘ they find beneficial for the cough ’ . |
| 13 | Even by the standards of ships that could set down upon the surfaces of worlds , the Tormentum Malorum was singularly sleek and streamlined for rapid departure or arrival through atmosphere . |
| 14 | ‘ For I am weary ’ , he wrote , ‘ with rowing up and down in the seas of questions , which the interests of Christendom have commenced , and in many propositions of which I am not certain that I am not deceived . ’ |
| 15 | She suspects that she may get rather more exposure to outpatient clinics and theatre sessions than her medical colleagues because they get bogged down on the wards with tasks that she is not allowed to do . |
| 16 | And he exults , like Richard III , in his abilities in deception , which have indeed supplanted his real self : It is difficult for a modern audience , which has lost that sense of reverence attaching to ‘ service ’ that animated Renaissance society , from the glorification of the vita activa down to the duties of bondsmen and tenants , to appreciate fully the shock that these self-revelations would have had . |
| 17 | They get tight down to the bones of things . |
| 18 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 19 | Under his direction , the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee maintained its traditional line that O'Neill was not responding to the legitimate demands of a disadvantaged section of the population , but giving in to the demands of rebels who would never be satisfied with anything less than the destruction of Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | Every fifteen days , when the spring tides are at their peak , vast numbers of grunion ride in on the crests of waves and deliberately strand themselves on the shore . |
| 21 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 22 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 23 | Supervision is the process of the laying down by the courts of guidelines for the development of legal principles . |
| 24 | Agricultural details were a nice reciprocal touch : the Hind helicopters , with which the Sandinistas were destroying the contras , had allegedly been shipped in by the Russians in crates labelled agricultural produce . |
| 25 | A case could be made for a deep psychic need in people the world over for the manifestations of monsters in varying horrific forms . |
| 26 | By night the lava lake presents an unearthly sight , with great slabs of dark , solidified crust shifting about slowly on the surface , allowing the bright lava underneath to gleam through along the cracks between slabs . |
| 27 | Mrs Buxton , aged 82 , plans to travel with the containers : ‘ We have been running as a charity for about 10 years and I usually go over with the donations to cities such as Krakow and report back on what is badly needed over there . ’ |
| 28 | As the lava cools down further , to a dull red , more and more chilled fragments remain on the surface , and these small particles soon agglomerate together , forming progressively larger plates or rafts which cover the surface of the flow , the hot lava itself only glowing through in the cracks between rafts . |
| 29 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 30 | If Deane been told to be target man and also lay the ball off for the likes of rodders and Speed then he 's OK this season , but £3 mil for a STRIKER ! ! |