Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distribution of frequencies in this ‘ microwave background ’ is just like the distribution of frequencies given off by a hot gas . |
| 2 | That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance . |
| 3 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 4 | Cords , white or beige , were worn early on in small numbers but in mid'71 black/bottle green/navy straight leg Levi cords caught on in a big way . |
| 5 | He was lounging on the sofa when she returned to the house , his long legs propped up on a low onyx table , while he flicked his way desultorily through the pages of a paperback . |
| 6 | John asked , lips drawn back in a sarcastic sneer . |
| 7 | Martin charging down on Dobson ; Martin , eyes glaring and lips drawn back in a feral snarl ; Martin , arm raised and baton coming down again and again on Dobson 's head ; Martin , growling savagely at the yobs , daring them to interfere ; Martin , turing angrily as the sergeant pulled the baton from his hand ; finally , Martin , white and shaking , as he looked down disbelievingly at the unconscious Dobson . |
| 8 | For a long time he remained motionless like this , his body arched backward , his teeth clenched , his lips drawn back in a silent rictus of ecstatic agony . |
| 9 | She was still in a state of shock , her eyes locked on to an imaginary spot in the centre of the windscreen . |
| 10 | To my left , steps led up to a hummocky cliff edge , on which reposed the fragmented remains of a Franciscan friary . |
| 11 | Lots of Union Jacks waved out of a race-day crowd of 500,000 . |
| 12 | The process begun under Edward I was continued in July 1333 when , at Halidon Hill , outside Berwick , the English showed that they had learned to coordinate the use of ‘ traditional ’ cavalry with the ‘ new ’ archer force , the combination on this occasion being that of archers and dismounted men-at-arms drawn up in a defensive position which showed what successes a measure of flexibility could bring to an army led by men willing to experiment . |
| 13 | The charity already has plans drawn up for a ten-bed hospice at Middlesbrough to care for terminally ill people and contractors are currently submitting tenders for the work . |
| 14 | Local housing programmes drawn up by an intercommunal co-operation body and covering at least five years were to be established in the 13 cities with more than 350,000 inhabitants . |
| 15 | It also recommended that children whose needs could not be met within the resources of the ordinary school should have a record ( which came to be called a ‘ statement ’ ) of their special educational needs drawn up by a multi-professional team . |
| 16 | Six metal beer kegs loaded on to a Swiss bound goods train which had stopped at Strasbourg on the same day the vagrant had claimed to be there . |
| 17 | Interviews and observations carried out during a long-term follow-up study in fifty classrooms revealed that the classroom practice of nearly 50 per cent of the respondents had not changed in any perceptible way as a result of their attendance at such courses . |
| 18 | The ‘ best ’ rooms have chimney-pieces picked out in a canny false-stone effect ( in fact no more than mortar ) or else ornamented by rubbed and painted bricks . |
| 19 | He would juggle them with his tongue for us children and told us a tale of getting his glasses whipped off by a passing branch . |
| 20 | Recommendations arising from assessments carried out by an educational psychologist , or from medical records containing information from ophthalmological examination , or from an ophthalmic optician prescribing low vision aids , will need to be translated into practice in the day-to-day classroom situation , and specialist help from an advisory teacher is invaluable here . |
| 21 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 22 | The elm paddles of the iron wheel were renewed and the mechanism was modified to operate on the ‘ undershot ’ principle because a lowering of water levels brought about by a local flood alleviation scheme made impracticable the restoration of the original ‘ breast-shot ’ arrangement . |
| 23 | Clearing slips are collected by LIFFE officials and the details entered on to a computerized matching system . |
| 24 | He says they 're the items left over from a large number of burglaries . |
| 25 | Among those projected are galleries housing ethnographic material currently in the Museum of Mankind , including material from the Americas to be displayed in four rooms carved out of a large space at the end of the existing North Library . |
| 26 | The class had seen their friends carried off to a certain death . |
| 27 | Equally , Lyell has the long succession of faunas and floras brought about by a continual , one-by-one extinction of species and their replacement by new ones . |
| 28 | She laughed , and showed me how one of the windows led on to a tiny balcony and a view over ancient pasture-land ; across the lane spread the branches of a great oak tree . |
| 29 | This might be because two schools were below average size for a secondary comprehensive ; the instruction to offer tests to pupils in the lowest sets rounded up to a complete set could have resulted in more higher ability pupils being included than was the case in larger schools with more sets . |
| 30 | But what you 're actually going to find is that what they 've divorced themselves from is the assistance and the technical help that comes from the County Council , and whilst you may have your teachers trained up to a certain point you therefore have at that particular time you you have them fully trained , and then you say oh well I do n't need any training for the next couple of years so I can step back and save on that area . |