Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 2 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 3 | It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls . |
| 4 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 5 | As you 'll have heard , bass makers Warwick are branching out into the area of specialised bass amplification . |
| 6 | Ironically Pembroke , the most recently developed area , where today new routes are tumbling out of the sky as fast as the climbers , has become the place where descriptions — starred pitches probably excluded — still offend mightily under the grade descriptions act . |
| 7 | You may sense that your words are tumbling out into a kind of void . |
| 8 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 9 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 10 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 11 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 12 | That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house . |
| 13 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 14 | So all the excavations are filled in for the sake of tidiness , and all the bolt-holes and entrance holes are filled in to help assess what 's been left . |
| 15 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 16 | I hang my coat up and start to shout and tell those who are hanging around in the corridor to get outside until the bell goes . |
| 17 | Swingbeat New Editioners Bell Biv Devoe are hanging out in the lounge telling stories of how the helicopter in their latest video toppled off a windy roof . |
| 18 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 19 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 20 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
| 21 | The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals . |
| 22 | All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine . |
| 23 | It is in the interview that many of these aspects of the post are checked on with the candidate . |
| 24 | The disputes procedure , that has been in place for some time , and enables us to resolve disputes locally , if they can not be resolved locally , then they are referred up through the management systems . |
| 25 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 26 | They 've made him lie with his hands behind his head , which is a trick they probably picked from a Miami Vice afternoon repeat , except it looks stupid when the guy 's hairy legs are sticking out from the tail of his shirt . |
| 27 | Casual work is growing most rapidly in the service and retail sectors but even traditional manufacturing companies are catching on to the trend . |
| 28 | Volcanic bombs are just lumps of solid ( or sometimes plastic ) lava which are lobbed out of the vent , fall back to earth with a wallop , and that 's all . |
| 29 | The raffle or lottery is a form of random sample — in its simplest form the identical little numbered tickets are shaken up in a hat and drawn out one by one by someone with their eyes closed . |
| 30 | Sir Geoffrey is also required to examine the basis on which share deals which are carried on outside the Exchange can be handled by the new clearing house . |