Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These programmes were identified by the government ( HMSO , 1977 ) as central to urban regenerative strategies , but neither programme was redirected successfully towards the cities in the last few years of the 1974–9 Labour administration . |
| 2 | I suggested that they had more than likely received a stern lecture in lieu of a death sentence ; in the world of Arabs , blame for unsanctioned sex is placed wholly on the shoulders of the female . |
| 3 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 4 | If 2342 scan lines from the MSS are placed together like the rows of a matrix then the distance from the first to the last scan line is just about 185 km . |
| 5 | The method depended on pouring molten gold with a melting-point lower than that of the pieces to be joined together into the interstices between them : on cooling the separate parts would be found to have bonded together . |
| 6 | If the point of the reference to Marx is to show that emergent English trade unionism had anticipated his conclusion that workers must take control of the means of production , that , to re-iterate his contemporaneous quotation from A Member of the Building Union : ‘ labour and capital will no longer be separate but they will be indissolubly joined together in the hands of the workmen and work-women ’ ; and again , this time from Bronterre O'Brien to the effect that the object of combination was ‘ to establish for the productive classes a complete domination over the fruits of their own industry … . |
| 7 | Three Chester students who set up their own company — called ‘ No Frills ’ — making everything from Jewellery to boxer shorts , took the BNFL award which is given annually to the operators of the best company . |
| 8 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 9 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 10 | A month later , Churchill told the Commons that the role of the ‘ overlords ’ had developed naturally from the functions of Cabinet-committee chairmen in the Second World War and that ‘ the co-ordinating Ministers have no statutory powers . |
| 11 | First there was a vague lightening of the sky ahead , then the drumming of the rain was less persistent , the lesser darkness in the heavens spread until it was over them , they could distinguish the greater irregularities of the ground , the last few drops of rain splashed down and a blissful silence spread around them broken only by the sibillations of the water draining away among the rocks and the splash of their sodden feet . |
| 12 | We were a long way from Orange , isolated in the farmhouse , and we knew how unpleasant the next month was going to be depended entirely on the whims of the staff . |
| 13 | This information will be given only to the parents of the individual child . |
| 14 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 15 | But he had not , perhaps , been taught overmuch about the battle-tactics of the Romans . |
| 16 | He is a double winner of the rally but that was some time ago and since then McKinstry has made the place very much is own , his sequence of victories punctuated only by the years in which he did not have a competitive car or the opposition included someone of the calibre of Mikael Sundstrom . |
| 17 | Miles flew by in the barren landscape , punctuated only by the carcasses of kangaroos on the line . |
| 18 | President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution . |
| 19 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 20 | Patched together from the remnants of the Docklands ramp which some yonks back had been acquired by Neil , Liverpool 's mini was a pretty unconventional affair — big transistors tweaked with smaller ones , no more then a few feet of flat bottom — and it rode like a ditch . |
| 21 | For example , in an ARTEP study of export zones in Sri Lanka , South Korea , the Philippines , Malaysia and India , Maex ( 1983 ) demonstrates that poor wages and conditions are explained better by the characteristics of the workforce in zone industries ( mainly young women ) , than by their location or the ownership of the plants . |
| 22 | It is a convention in Elizabethan drama that slander is always believed , which can be explained perhaps from the necessities of the limited time available , or is perhaps a truth about life ( how many of us instantly disbelieve bad report ? ) . |
| 23 | Even foreign tourists who had not yet caught on to the realities of life in Romania and perhaps were over-insistent in demanding from a minor bureaucrat of the tourist office why some essential and prepaid feature of their holiday had failed to materialize would be confronted by a shrug of the shoulders and the muttered words , ‘ Epocha Ceauşescu , as the only explanation . |
| 24 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 25 | It seems indisputable that in a minority of cases , the causes of the disturbing behaviour are located wholly outside the responsibilities of the school and that the school is impotent in what it can offer . |
| 26 | Willie carried on following the dots between the lines and then stopped . |
| 27 | The lease was not renewed but the partners carried on under the terms of the existing one . |
| 28 | The House of Commons did not itself govern , but government was carried on within the confines of its guidance and approval . |
| 29 | Politicking carried on within the coalitions during both world wars and the financial crisis , but in a muted , coded and generally responsible way . |
| 30 | The business is now carried on by the sons of the original proprietor who trade under the name of ‘ Joseph Wright & Sons , ’ and employ from six to seven hundred men . |