Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 2 | Situated right on the pretty little harbour front , the Gardesana enjoys superb views of the lake from its elegant public rooms and first floor restaurant , where an extensive buffet breakfast and excellent 3 course dinner with salad bar are served . |
| 3 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 4 | The practical accuracy of this result , which is central to the determination of the fine structure , constant , is believed to be limited only by the residual dissipative current due to hopping through localised states . |
| 5 | He permanently secretes a thick , transparent mucus about this body , which is clad only in an ancient blue-black robe . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've fallen in with a right bad pair there , chief . |
| 7 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 8 | Yet , between the upper strata of the landed aristocracy and the wealthiest members of the industrial and commercial society there were many links ; and gradually these two elements came to be joined together in a single ruling group … |
| 9 | Words themselves can be broken down into the minimal grammatical units known as MORPHEMES ( stems and affixes ) . |
| 10 | Fibre is a specialized form of complex carbohydrate , which can not be broken down by the normal human digestive system . |
| 11 | The building of the Berlin Wall seemed to show that Germany 's division could not be broken down by the forceful anti-communist line which he favoured . |
| 12 | The artwork is placed down onto the UV light box so that the ‘ Copper Track View ’ of the artwork is downwards , towards the light source . |
| 13 | This view represents the actual foil pattern layout and is the side which will be placed down against the UV light source . |
| 14 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 15 | From there on , the journey offered a scenic rest , broken only by the occasional derelict engine houses of long abandoned tin and copper mines , until St Michael 's Mount comes into view . |
| 16 | Where earlier in the day had prevailed an exercise in organised pandemonium — the sawing of wood for an extra set buttress , the clanking of lights being swung into position , and everywhere the ringing cacophony of cross conversation — now there is almost a deafening silence , broken only by the odd apologetic cough as the minutes tick towards 8.30 . |
| 17 | The two rabbits waited in silence , broken only by the continual nervous fidgeting of Fiver . |
| 18 | That nakedness was broken only by the slim white garter belt around her perfect waist and the pure silk stockings which encased her shapely legs . |
| 19 | Then , slowly , he looked round the kitchen and the sitting room at the flowers painted all over the pale green walls , like a meadow in summer , at the dark green ivy crawling up the stairs and the bears and tigers and dragons decorating every piece of furniture . |
| 20 | Work your way to the other end — the last trench is simply filled in with the barrowed top spit from the first row . |
| 21 | Needless to say Jeffery , and many others , have had little difficulty in showing how all such attempts have inevitably boiled down to the arbitrary moral predilections of the criminologists concerned . |
| 22 | The steam centre based in the Warwick Road , Birmingham is situated in between the main British Rail diesel multiple unit maintenance depot and re-fuelling sidings , complete with a large car-park for several hundred cars . |
| 23 | The elections to the three chambers of the Croatian assembly , all conducted on a multiparty basis in two rounds on April 22 and May 6-7 , were won overwhelmingly by the right-wing nationalist Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) , led by Franjo Tudjman . |
| 24 | The avenues explored in applying neural computing to these three applications and the results from these have been reported on at the regular monthly Club meetings . |
| 25 | There followed a rather more conventional period where his activities seem to have differed little from the other young gentlemen of his day ; he studied scientific works on medicine and the natural sciences and pursued a particular interest in taking thermometer readings under varying conditions , including some from the craters of Italian volcanoes . |
| 26 | Already the various structural elements in Nizan 's psychology are becoming apparent : a brooding sense of death nurtured in his formative months and years as an infant and as a child ; a childhood admiration for the values and life-style of his father , a man exuding certainty , conviction and power , a man involved in the practical problems of everyday existence ; a corresponding indifference for the seemingly hollow existence of his mother preoccupied with family duties , social functions and religious rites ; an implicit recognition that the path to be followed was to be located somewhere in the dynamic working-class origins of his father rather than in the passive middle-class origins of his mother ; a sense of loneliness as a child compensated by a deeply experienced relationship with his father , an idol , the source of knowledge and truth . |
| 27 | My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum . |
| 28 | That is not the case when they are added on to the normal uprating statement , as has happened today . |
| 29 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 30 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |