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

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1 Timber which has been properly kiln-seasoned ( which needs expensive kilns and close supervision ) is in no way worse than ‘ naturally ’ seasoned timber and indeed is rather less likely to have picked up the infections of rot during the seasoning process .
2 I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive in a hotel .
3 I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive at a hotel .
4 And we have speeded up the benefits of revaluation for those businesses who gain from it .
5 An alternative explanation for Abu Nidal involvement was the suggestion that his group might have carried out the killings on behalf of the Iraqi regime ; this version depended on the suggestion that Abu Iyad , while publicly backing the PLO 's pro-Iraqi line , was expressing reservations about it to Arafat in private .
6 But attribution could only be meaningful if trade union representatives on company boards everywhere and always accepted wholeheartedly the duties of ownership along with the rights , so changing the role of the unions fundamentally and abandoning any pretence to industrial democracy .
7 The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times .
8 She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily .
9 ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children .
10 The claims so built up the expectations for ZETA after the first conference that the subsequent news was perceived as ‘ failure ’ .
11 Putting the light on would be too risky , but the curtains were drawn back and by now their eyes had become accustomed to a darkness in which could be made out the shapes of furniture and smaller objects , a darkness of monochrome and black spaces and faintly gleaming edges .
12 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 .
13 ( Have you noticed how the Christians on TV are usually the ‘ wet ’ ones , like Harold in Neighbours — it 's no wonder that people think ALL Christians are wet ! )
14 We have already seen how the operations of multiplication and division introduce the use of double-length operands .
15 We do n't start from scratch , a plug for the T & G , they started down this track with their own link-up campaign and in the G M B we 've pushed forward the frontiers of trade unionism into professional small businesses , legal offices and of course other commercial services .
16 This can be seen when the differences between night ( when it is dark , quiet and we sleep ) and day ( when we arrange our meals , our business , social and physical activities and it is a noisier , more ‘ active ’ environment ) are considered .
17 First larger vehicles were used so the tons per load figure was higher .
18 The fact that John had handed over the reins of power to Miss Doris and Mr Smith seemed a great honour but his stipulation that they should keep and maintain the name and reputation of the business so long as it was possible to do so proved a massive task for them in later years .
19 He , along with Spaak and the long-serving Luxembourg premier , Joseph Beck ( who chaired the meeting ) , were the driving force at Messina : they were , in fact , the three men who in exile had drawn up the plans for Benelux .
20 Peggy Wood speaks for the Past and Present Team : ‘ No sooner had we packed away the remnants of Past and Present 1991 , than things began to arrive in the cupboard for 1992 – and what a selection of lovely bits and pieces .
21 RTP North has demonstrated clearly the benefits of teamwork by winning our Branch Cup on four consecutive occasions .
22 When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself .
23 Hawes , for example , has tellingly demonstrated how the failures of curriculum change in Africa are deeply rooted in structures , resources and attitudes .
24 Tolby smoothed back the tufts of hair above his ears and tried to smile back .
25 Writers like Saunders ( 1984 , 1986 ) have pointed out the problems of structuralism , but in their own work have often been guilty of endorsing profoundly capital logic accounts of social process .
26 Their own family experience had spelled out the horrors of bigotry and racial hatred ; to these general and now somewhat distant things came the chilling reality of Adolf Hitler 's seizure of power in Germany .
27 Landlords who wish to take over public sector dwellings have first to seek the approval of the Housing Corporation which has set out the criteria for approval in some detail .
28 I decided to specialise in patio pot plants but nothing thrived , and I 've just discovered that woodlice have invaded the pots and even eaten away the linings of wall baskets .
29 They have tightened up the rules on availabilty for work and only pay out to those genuinely entitled to the money .
30 They have tightened up the rules on availabilty for work and only pay out to those genuinely entitled to the money .
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