Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But surgeons at Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , were able to graft his corneas on to the eyes of another youngster who had been going blind . |
| 2 | We do not allow motor cyclists on to the roads without helmets , so why should we allow bowler-hatted men with batons to walk up the highways ? |
| 3 | When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups . |
| 4 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 5 | I , at seventeen , heard the heaviness in his lungs as he sighed , the heaviness in his voice as he fetched those few reluctant words up from the depths inside himself . |
| 6 | The vast majority of teachers are working extremely hard to achieve good results under the national curriculum and our aim is to get all schools up to the standards of the best . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |
| 8 | Have you any idea what it was like round here in those days ? — women and kids out in the fields till all hours , gleaning , stone-picking , hauling the wagons when they got bogged down . |
| 9 | Passengers poked their heads out of the doors like rabbits testing the wind and , deciding it was safe , hopped down on to the station platform where a sign read : " Cook , Queen of the Nullarbor . |
| 10 | To listen to ‘ a load of shit on shehadat ’ , as Cave called it , was part of the side-business of negotiating ; the Americans would do their best to try to steer their interlocutors back to the subjects at hand . |
| 11 | They built their homes out of the materials of the river bank itself . |
| 12 | Mrs Stych clutched her groceries more tightly to her bosom and tried to heave her high heels out of the roots of the Frizzell grass . |
| 13 | Since then the transformation of rural villages into non-agricultural settlements has taken place in a series of waves out along the lines of transportation from the major urban centres , particularly , in the first instance , London . |
| 14 | Steve laughed and directed his eyes back to the papers on the table . |
| 15 | In higher education a new central body is proposed to take control over polytechnics out of the hands of local authorities . |
| 16 | Grant casts his eyes around at the casualties of a drink-based evening albeit mainly non-alcoholic , and demurs , seeing that mild hysteria has set in . |
| 17 | ‘ Next , ’ said Amaranth , who had let drop the first two scarves on to the heads of the assembled press men , ‘ we have Gerald Kaufman , all vinegar and no chips . ’ |
| 18 | We attend the lectures along with the students from 10 — 12:30 each day ; we are both small group leaders which means we have six or seven students each ; we pray and share our lives together , help work through with people what changes God is making in their lives . |
| 19 | From this road it is possible to make small diversions down into the villages of Jardim do Mar and Paúl do Mar , although the roads in and out of them are more spectacular than the villages themselves . |
| 20 | And on your way upstairs , do n't forget the bannisters and those tricky areas in between the rails on your staircase . |
| 21 | ‘ Thirteen thousand feet up on the shores of Lake Titicaca . |
| 22 | Once you 've got the orientation right carefully line the pins of the chips up with the holes in the socket . |
| 23 | He will even attempt to take bones out of the mouths of our two German Shepherd dogs , Nikki and Sheba . |
| 24 | The Knights Panther is one of the oldest and most respected of the Knightly Orders , tracing its origins back to the times of the Crusades against Araby . |
| 25 | Barbarians , at the Dorman Museum until August 22 , takes visitors back to the days of woad , wonders and warrior queens . |
| 26 | Not far away is a miniature village ; a ‘ Noddy ’ train takes visitors back to the outskirts of Bridlington . |
| 27 | When he realised that the trousers hovered round his calves and that the shirt did n't do up it was too late ; I had put on my newer , better-fitting shirt , bloused my trousers on to the tops of my boots and was putting on his beret as he stood there looking like a circus tramp . |
| 28 | Attempting unsuccessfully to repeat his 1987 tactics , Ershad had declared a state of emergency on Nov. 27 , 1990 , ordering troops on to the streets of the capital , Dhaka , to restore order [ see p. 37856 ] . |
| 29 | Members should ‘ hitch hike ’ their ideas on to the ideas of others to generate new ideas . |
| 30 | Censorship is a recurring problem in libraries , and there is no issue in librarianship which is more likely to bring libraries on to the pages of the Press , frequently in a damaging and trivial representation of the library profession . |