Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the wild animals to have died during the course of 1990 as a result of pesticide poisoning were foxes ( 12 dead ) , crows ( 20 ) and birds of prey ( 36 ) . |
| 2 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 3 | Intramural physician monitors adjusted the cyclosporin doses to maintain cyclosporin trough levels between 80 and 120 ng/ml thus allowing the investigators to remain blinded to the study treatment . |
| 4 | This beautifully illustrated book provides information on some of the best garden plants to grow based on the experience of these two renowned gardeners . |
| 5 | This disturbing event proved to be of great significance , since it taught me never to allow ideas to become rooted in the mind . |
| 6 | The last pitch was a real sting in the tail , but the perplexing moves up a short crack in a wall soon succumbed to brute force and determination and I swung exultantly over a final bulge on the monstrous , weathered holds to sit satiated on the plateau , soaking up the sun until Alec pulled over , grinning with triumph . |
| 7 | On June 18 Shamir continued his efforts to appear committed to the peace process , proposing in an interview with the Egyptian magazine Mayyu to invite President Hafez al-Assad of Syria to visit Jerusalem for peace talks , and declaring his willingness to talk to any " elected Arab representative " from the West Bank or Gaza ( but not Jerusalem ) . |
| 8 | One of the latest firms to have entered into an IVA , which allows the firm protection from creditors while it attempts to reorganise its finances , is Hook Harris , an eight-partner firm with three offices in the south of England . |
| 9 | ‘ One of the best things to have happened to the French this year . ’ |
| 10 | It 's now illegal for farmers to get rid of the straw stubble left over after harvest by burning it . |
| 11 | Those three weeks had thrown up a heartening variety of political allegiances in the tree-lined avenue but all happy agreements to differ evaporated in the wake of John Major 's sinister victory . |
| 12 | The company 's 1991 figures , to be announced this month , are likely to confirm him as one of the few 1980s entrepreneurs to have come through the recession unscathed . |
| 13 | The local skaters take it upon themselves to remove some dangerous panelling designed to withstand loose board , however the local council see this as an act of vandalism and feeling are strong amongst some councillors to get rid of the ramp . |
| 14 | They have to deal with the attitudes to change found within the organisation , attempting to amplify positive attitudes and reduce negative ones . |
| 15 | Hector Cattolica has produced some of the most dramatic illustrations to have appeared in the magazine . |
| 16 | Mann was also followed in Raviraj ( 1987 ) 85 Cr.App.R. 93 , where the unsuccessful contention on appeal was that the admission of an interview containing some answers and some refusals to comment amounted to a breach of the right to silence . |
| 17 | Cedomir Biga , a Serbian who died on 2 September while detained by Croatian police in Dreznik , was said by police to have died from a heart attack . |
| 18 | ‘ And it 's quite usual for people in the Services to get married on the station . |
| 19 | Some 3,000,000 workers nationwide were said by the organizers to have responded to the call . |
| 20 | Two nights a week she worked here and then on the third night she washed her hair and all her clothes to get rid of the smell of fried fish and went dancing . |