Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top right-hand corner was decorated with small rose leaves interspersed with some ladies ' bedstraw , on which I arranged some geums and cow parsley centres . |
| 2 | Further investigations will be made into these childrens ' inability to count the number of sounds in a word by tapping them out and their failure to perform rhyme judgements : both tasks which have been thought , hitherto , to be essential to adequate sound-letter mapping . |
| 3 | What disruption carefully organised and constantly renewed bomb attacks would have wreaked upon this communications ' artery ( i.e. the Voie Sacrée ) , crammed to the most extreme limits of its capacity , requires no details . |
| 4 | As a group , women have historically been preoccupied with appearance- … ( which ) is capitalised upon by the fashion and beauty manufacturers , whose methods can be seen in any women 's magazine … |
| 5 | Worst of all there was very little interlocking between separate communes , a circumstance which was reflected in these peasants ' lack of political cohesiveness in the Dumas . |
| 6 | The spring , he says , is a particularly perilous time in adder-land : as they emerge from hibernation , adders are too groggy to slip away from potential threats but their fangs are filled with several months ' worth of venom . |
| 7 | Chambliss 's evidence is based on several years ' participant observation in Seattle . |
| 8 | Atlas Converting Equipment jumped 60 to 585p , buoyed by some directors ' share purchases . |
| 9 | School was so long ago that we had passed into each others ' mythology , like people who met distantly in another country . |
| 10 | He can play 18 holes , then put in several hours ' practice afterwards and still be in good shape . |
| 11 | This he argued in a sermon delivered on All Saints ' Day . |
| 12 | About 1300 journalists registered at this years ' show , and you have only to read the number of column entries and to hear the radio and to see the television to know that the content of this year 's Royal Show stands second to none in the technical content of agricultural exhibitions across the world . |
| 13 | Too beautiful to be sent into that thieves ' kitchen , the woman sniffed . |
| 14 | The unspoken concern of West Germany and France is that if sterling joined the ERM at its present exchange rate , a devaluation might still be required in several months ' time . |
| 15 | We provide a highly professional service , backed by many years ' experience , specialising exclusively in the overseas property market . |
| 16 | The cylinder index and any higher-level indexes : it is unlikely that any but the largest files will require more than one cylinder for these indexes , although a complete cylinder has often to be set aside for them , as is required by some manufacturers ' software . |