Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example ‘ the ’ is signalled by two fingers placed together in the shape of a T , touching the ear indicates ‘ sounds like ’ , patting your hand on your head means ‘ name ’ , and it is often helpful to indicate the number of words by fingers . |
| 2 | Many of the children with whom we work at school would not be accepted at the Petö Institute for reasons explained elsewhere in the report . |
| 3 | He shook hands and chatted briefly with some of the several dozen supporters gathered outside in the cold , but refused to comment on the national picture . |
| 4 | These sprays can be delivered either via spray heads positioned strategically in the tank or by rotating jets . |
| 5 | Voices called outside in the yard , and the girl glanced nervously towards the doorway ; with difficulty Mada Joyce pulled the door approximately shut on its rusted hinges . |
| 6 | HWIM 's evaluation was on the basis of the 15 highest scoring words found anywhere in the utterance . |
| 7 | Cars swept away in the torrent at Mochdre last night Pictures : GERALLT JONES |
| 8 | The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows . |
| 9 | This perhaps accounts for the expenditure on news media such as newspapers , teletext etc , and the continuous radio and television news programmes operated commercially in the USA , and planned for the UK. * the need to have an aesthetically pleasing environment , and to get rid of ugliness , pollution etc . |
| 10 | The third part , " Hiroshima Collection " , is a meticulously photographed series of artefacts from the 6,600 articles gathered together in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum . |
| 11 | Matters developed slowly in the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 12 | Most meteorites collected elsewhere in the world fell within the past 200 years , although some dates of fall range back a few thousand years . |
| 13 | Other commandos may have got ashore for — as mentioned earlier — some German guns were silenced beyond John Roderick 's objectives , but after landing no other commandos got away in the MLs . |
| 14 | The new law , passed by the US Senate on Sept. 20 [ see p. 39090 ] and the House of Representatives on Oct. 2 , made it illegal for the subsidiaries of US companies based anywhere in the world to trade with Cuba , and closed US ports to any ship which had called in Cuba within the previous six months . |
| 15 | Germans are uncomfortably aware that some parts of the Ruhr are just as dirty as anything the Communists left behind in the east . |
| 16 | ( ‘ Atlantic ’ ) , the holding company of a group of companies engaged worldwide in the financing of computer leasing , for a consideration of approximately £420m . |
| 17 | In the event it proved possible to release some of these funds as the proportional receipt of subscriptions improved later in the year . |
| 18 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 19 | In the past year , serious peace talks have begun for the first time to end Guatemala 's 30-year old civil war between the army and a number of guerrilla organisations grouped together in the URNG coalition . |
| 20 | Balloons featured elsewhere in the programme , with a competition for model hot-air balloons in the main hall of the Geological Museum . |
| 21 | They are now thought to be the oldest planked boats built anywhere in the world outside Egypt . |
| 22 | The spectra of π-allyl complexes of nickel and palladium shown in Fig. 5.7 include some bands seen only in the IR spectra , some seen only in the Raman spectra , and some seen in neither . |
| 23 | At the same time , some special factor is necessary to explain his extraordinary self-confidence and strength of purposes evinced even in the face of death — the death that he himself engineered and then suffered with such calm that the image of " the dying Socrates " became a new ideal . |
| 24 | ‘ You know , Ben , when I saw Peng Yu-wei stuck there in the mud , all my anger drained from me . ’ |
| 25 | In those days a new house was usually constructed out of wooden hut sections of which there was a plentiful supply as most of the troops stationed here in the war lived in wooden prefabricated buildings and when they left Orkney the buildings were dismantled and then sold . |
| 26 | Peter Mason , a member of the UDM 's national council , told Mr Clarke bluntly : ‘ The way you are running British Coal there will be no collieries left anywhere in the country . ’ |
| 27 | By asking some of the questions listed above in the section on criteria , it is possible to compare the different systems . |
| 28 | The tables given earlier in the book ( see pp. 12–19 ) recommend various ways of pressing the flowers and foliage mentioned . |
| 29 | His scheme for the amalgamation of Nigeria , which Lugard had been sent out to accomplish , differed completely from the one proposed by Lugard : Lugard 's scheme envisaged a strong governor , Temple 's a weak one , with the responsibility for local affairs placed firmly in the hands of the Residents . |
| 30 | Perhaps wisely they did n't react either , as farmers gathered noisily in the streets . |