Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that my hon. Friend is right , in that it makes sense to believe that if young people from both sides of the community are taught together in the same classrooms , they will value equally both traditions and will be more likely than some others to find common ground in later life . |
| 2 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 3 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 4 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 5 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 6 | At the Council in the Marches of Wales the offices of Secretary , Clerk to the Council , and Clerk of the Signet all came to be grouped together in the same hands . |
| 7 | It 's easy to get carried away by the many tools at your disposal so beware of using them just because they 're there . |
| 8 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
| 10 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 11 | A rather different example is newspapers , where typesetting , printing , and publishing are all commonly carried out on the same premises by one company . |
| 12 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 13 | Suspension cost Ince an England cap in the humiliating defeat by Norway in June because he had been booked previously against the same opponents and also against Poland . |
| 14 | Some farmers cured their own bacon but most of the curing was done commercially by a few firms established for the purpose . |
| 15 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 16 | There are well-kept paths , a trimmed lawn , vegetables , flowers , and fruit , but the flowers and vegetables are grown together in the same beds , the soil is never left bare , and many of the plants she encourages would be condemned as weeds by most gardeners . |
| 17 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 18 | The corporate plan is therefore built up along the same lines as the organisational hierarchy . |
| 19 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 20 | An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them . |
| 21 | Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances . |
| 22 | They are all made up of the same shapes-triangles , squares and rectangles . |
| 23 | The former is a collection of the more interesting statistics published by the state , and the latter is made up from the same sources , but is presented in a more varied and readable form , including charts and diagrams . |
| 24 | James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion . |
| 25 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
| 26 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |
| 27 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
| 28 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
| 29 | Even that will be used up within a few months , when further recourse to the IMF will be inescapable . |
| 30 | In this way , the small proportion of white cats that can hear will become more common and the defect could , in theory , be wiped out after a few generations . |