Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels .
2 During the past two days we have heard a vast number of contributions and I pay tribute to the common sense and foresight of Labour Members who have not only pointed out the inequalities of the system that is still in being but the pitfalls that we see ahead of us .
3 He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them .
4 The researchers have therefore not only separated out the effects of gluons from those due to quarks , but have also learned something about the still little understood way in which these building blocks turn into conventional particles .
5 The claims so built up the expectations for ZETA after the first conference that the subsequent news was perceived as ‘ failure ’ .
6 But it was still unreal when he reached out and , bending over her , gently pushed back the wisps of hair that had loosened from beneath her headband .
7 This had not been appreciated by the defendants ' chairman who had considered the advertisement for some 5 to 10 minutes before approving it , but who had not sufficiently thought through the implications of it .
8 The blue top and bottom trims not only set off the looks of the tank , but also obviate the need for a layer of polystyrene under the tank .
9 It can be extremely frustrating for people who have to travel to London and face the expense of preparing a case — sometimes employing parliamentary counsel to put their case — knowing that decisions are not necessarily taken on the merits of the arguments but on political considerations .
10 and we 've already given up the essentials in your life the two nine one seven per year which of these will be left to be paid ?
11 She 's just picked up the children from a rendezvous with their father who had an afternoon 's access , and he 'd shouted at her and them in the street and threatened to take the children away .
12 Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma .
13 I have already set out the dangers of allowing a governmental authority to have the right to sue .
14 They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate .
15 Just read out the words on this sheet of paper , all right , Colley ? ’
16 The next one is er thinking about the conversations you did not record which of these was the main reason why they were n't recorded please just read out the numbers on the card .
17 The motel-supermarket-hamburger civilization has now been superimposed on what was left of nineteenth-century towns , and has further worn down the differences between one region and the next , but it is doubtful whether the mass mind or the mass man has yet come to pass , except to the extent that people always conform to a prevailing style while it lasts .
18 Yuletide always brought back the memories of little Matthew , taken by the plague , but not before the mite had shown Sir John the wonder with which every child greeted Christmas .
19 During subsequent interrogation it was revealed that Ann Lynn had made a rendezvous during the night with a Dutch cargo vessel , had stowed the contraband below for later disposal , and calmly taken out the anglers for a day 's fishing before unloading the loot .
20 But that recession also brought about the improvements in industrial relations which we see today .
21 So , if it is a male , we cut off its testicles ; if it is a female we cut out its uterus and its ovaries ; and if we are house-proud , we also cut out the claws of both sexes .
22 My Early Intermediates had unwittingly pointed out the parallels between Karen 's refusal to ‘ go behind Dennis 's back ’ and the recorded conversation about money and shopping I had played them .
23 The black comedy of the gallows scene in Verdi 's Un ballo in maschera is very Verdian and also very Karajanesque ; and though Karajan often made out the critics in Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben to be a nicer bunch than they probably are , I have yet to hear a more vitriolically gossipy performance of the ‘ Tritsch-Tratsch ’ Polka than the one Karajan conducted with the Philharmonia Orchestra in one of his last recordings with them in September 1960 .
24 I have now worked out the numbers of the 7 client based leaflets we have distributed over approximately 1 year .
25 Even ripped up the chairs with a knife .
26 Fishermen willingly co-operated with the students , passed on information about dolphin sightings , and even handed over the bodies of dolphins accidentally taken in their fishing nets .
27 Servants from these houses regularly flushed out the sewers with the water they used to wash clothes so the streets did not reek as they did in Southwark .
28 Countries near the Rim simply loaded down the books of dead mages with leaden pentalphas and threw them over the Edge .
29 Note , if you attempt to use option 1.3.1 to read out a package containing a module which is HARDCPY ( hard copy only available ) , or NOISSUE ( no issue ) or to which you have no access , an error message will be displayed and option 1.3.2 , 1.3.3 , 1.3.4 or 1.3.5 must be used to selectively read out the modules in the package which are available .
30 Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore .
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