Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holy Trinity 's young recruits are put on a ten-week course , followed by a residential weekend concentrating on ‘ the person and work of the Holy Spirit ’ . |
| 2 | The two songs were played back the next day by the tired twosome . |
| 3 | In the resonance technique a series of pulses of either compressional or torsional waves is transmitted down a long rod mechanically coupled to the specimen under investigation . |
| 4 | When the toggle keys are switched on a two-letter code appears in the Status Line ( see the screen on page 2 ) . |
| 5 | The last straw was located about 10 or 15ft from safety , at which handholds seemed to disappear altogether and aching feet were scrunched up the tiniest of ripples . |
| 6 | Because traffic counts are taken over a one year period , it 'll be 1993 before Gloucestershire 's new traffic figures are available . |
| 7 | As messages are passed down the autonomic nervous system , the blood vessels in erectile tissue everywhere — penis , walls of the vagina , ear lobes , nose ( notice the stuffiness ? ) — are engorging . |
| 8 | Two sovereigns of equal authority in their respective kingdoms were put on an unequal footing because one of those sovereigns held land from the other . |
| 9 | As Anglican church discipline was tightened and as the Oxford Movement spread its influence throughout the clergy the happy-go-lucky attitude of older Broad and Low Churchmen was put on the defensive . |
| 10 | The Netherlandish and Dutch paintings are hung on a dull green background , the Spanish and French on light grey . |
| 11 | In the main part of the building the paintings are hung on the first and second floors . |
| 12 | The readings were taken on the right arm of the seated subject after a minimum of 10 minutes ' rest . |
| 13 | Before the New World was discovered and Australian resources were opened up the only source of opals known was situated in the Libanka and Simonka mountains north of Kosice in eastern Slovakia . |
| 14 | The EEB declaration makes it clear that European environment groups ‘ believe that when decisions are taken on the respective competence of the Community , Member States and regional and local government in actions to protect the environment , the overriding objective must be to secure the highest quality of life for the Community 's citizens . |
| 15 | MAJOR-GENERAL Michael Skinner , who has died aged 60 , was Director General , Weapons , from 1986 to 1988 , when many important decisions were taken on the future equipment of the Army . |
| 16 | The Lincoln Red was at first known as the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn : it originated when eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Durham and Yorkshire Shorthorn bulls were put on the large , rugged , pied Old Lincolnshire short-horned draught cows which could withstand all the weather thrown at this east coast county by the cold North Sea winds . |
| 17 | Between the advertisements for Brylcream and Bile Beans was set out a forty-page prospectus for a ‘ new Britain' , consisting of a series of short articles putting forward proposals for a fresh approach to employment , social security , town planning , architecture , the countryside , education , health , the medical services and leisure . |
| 18 | In such studies records of a very large number of events are taken over a considerable period of time and memory for the events is subsequently tested . |