Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 2 | Eddie McNally has won through in the men 's singles Section A with wins over G Byrne 21–15 and Richard Neilson whom he beat 21–14 to face the experienced Tommy Hopper . |
| 3 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 4 | One year , I remember , he gave us half an hour on John McEnroe being slung out of the Men 's Singles . |
| 5 | Built around the turn of the century , it had been designed originally as a soldiers ' barracks . |
| 6 | A cross-trainer ( multi-purpose ) shoe will be your best buy , according to a survey carried out by the Consumers ' Association , and as long as your feet are well supported and cushioned you should n't pay more than around £40 . |
| 7 | The survey carried out by the traders ' magazine , ‘ Checkout Ireland ’ , came up with the ‘ alarming result ’ that 80pc of retailers have been affected by crime . |
| 8 | Across the stretch of water are the three other islands , the Střelecký , where archers trained in their craft ; the Dětský or Jews ' Island , now given over to a children 's playground ; and the Slovanský which used to have a fine dance hall . |
| 9 | The characteristic styles of discourse and the linguistic comic devices of the French fabliaux are also related fundamentally to the tales ' narrative character . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the Sports-channel package consists of 17 weekly , one-hour highlight shows , with the national feed on Saturday mornings at 10am ( wedged in with the children 's cartoons ) . |
| 11 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 12 | FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man . |
| 13 | Villages and timber plants are to be relocated away from the pandas ' habitat … |
| 14 | It 's grown up over the years erm in fact I do n't think it counts as much , nearly as much now , as it used to . |
| 15 | Donita attributed it directly to the feminist line : ‘ Because this is the first generation that 's grown up with the women 's revolution . |
| 16 | He and Vivienne were also probably fed up with the teds ' meathead mentality . |
| 17 | The Consumers ' Assocation said : ‘ People are fed up with the banks ' incompetence , compounded by arrogance . ’ |
| 18 | Subsection ( 7 ) deals with cases where a deposit has been made out of a clients ' account or the like . |
| 19 | This equivalence is emphasized further by the women 's own tendency to compare their reactions to housework with their experience of working outside the home . |
| 20 | If anything had been brought in for you it had to be handed in at the screws ' table , and they had to sign the property book . |
| 21 | Creole is used variably by the parents ' generation , but not usually when persons from outside are present . |
| 22 | This prompted fears that US personnel might be drawn directly into the politicians ' nightmare — someone else 's war , the spectre of another Viet Nam . |
| 23 | The young Fusiliers had been patriotically offered up for the politicians ' errors ; they had even been bullied by the militant women brandishing their white feathers , and they went cheering , singing , promising to come home victoriously to the grime and love of their Lancashire womb . |
| 24 | Partly through Agitprop and partly through the Black Dwarf group a free-sheet was produced to be handed out on the dockers ' march . |
| 25 | Queen fans were devastated when Barcelona — a Top Ten hit when first released five years ago — was controversially elbowed out as the Games 's theme song by Amigos Para Siempre ( Friends For Life ) . |
| 26 | All mortgages by companies of registered land must be registered both at the Companies ' Registry and the Land Registry . |
| 27 | ‘ After The Storm ’ once sounded remarkably like The Chameleons ' ‘ Swamp Thing ’ but now , possibly due to the time lapse or the injection of fresh young blood , it becomes a substantial pop song with trendy keyboards and influential , garbled guitar noises . |
| 28 | Such ideas , however , were not based entirely on the critics ' response to what was on display ; rather , they derived from opinions about O'Keeffe and her art that had been formulated by Stieglitz and his circle of friends and published before 1923 . |
| 29 | And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench . |
| 30 | With a flourish he produced another motley collection of spinning components , this time cobbled together from the Chelonians ' technical stores . |