Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hanson 's Peabody subsidiary is criticized for the effects of its coal mining activities on Navajo land in Arizona . |
| 2 | Associated with cost is the gap that has developed between the ways in which essentially the same text is used by different groups of people . |
| 3 | Jehan fumbled for the short sword which he kept tucked between the straps behind his saddle . |
| 4 | In the process , information will be gathered about the ways in which microcomputer based models can help to bring understanding of other points of view than one 's own . |
| 5 | If this is so , then these facilities are urgently needed , because it is intended to produce the revised OED in serial form , which means that forward cross-references could be rendered incorrect by revisions undertaken after the fascicles in which the cross-references appear had been published . |
| 6 | Among the men the discussion of politics , the destruction of game , or the dissipation of the ale house was substituted for the duties of their occupation during the former part of the week , and in the remaining three or four days a sufficiency was earned for defraying the current expenses . |
| 7 | The scheme of the 1954 Act is that if the lease is more than six months ( which is presumably the situation in your case ) and the premises are occupied for the purposes of your business , then the lease does not automatically come to an end . |
| 8 | I turned the light on , sorted through the keys for one that looked like it might match the door to the cellar . |
| 9 | The victims , according to the SMG , were being partly blamed for the actions of their assailants . |
| 10 | WORLD recession is blamed for the problems in our own economy but only a minority of people in the country accept that . |
| 11 | Slowish tempos are to some degree unavoidable , because of the textural detail in Mozart 's score ; and the conductor can not altogether be blamed for the ways in which the music is softened . |
| 12 | Drake , on the other hand , the piratical darling of Good Queen Bess , returned from a transglobal raiding adventure with a holdful of Indonesian spices , and paraded through the streets with his crew bedecked in the captured finery of the most astounding oriental silks and damasks ever to have been seen in England . |
| 13 | Previous sexual partners of the accused man may be interviewed about the details of their sex life with him . |
| 14 | I 've looked after the kids for them while they 've gone to vote , anything to get them here , that was the thing . |
| 15 | Anyway they 'd be pretty disgusting , mixed with the bits in his pocket . |
| 16 | This ‘ front-back ’ pattern of fungal distribution has been observed in many variations among a number of insect groups , supporting the contention that insects are inoculated with the spores of their respective fungi during copulation . |
| 17 | This from Werewolf who had come up the stairs behind me , his arms loaded with parcels . |
| 18 | In those few months my brain had become saturated with the things of my new life — even my mouth was full of RAF slang and jargon . |
| 19 | The other three were caught with the joints in their hands . |
| 20 | Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall , powerful figure standing just a few feet away . |
| 21 | The tetrahedron is contained within the diagonals of its six faces . |
| 22 | Some years before lie had resigned from the forces for their sakes and was personnel manager of an oil refinery in Perth . |
| 23 | Some of her own childhood seemed trapped in the pages on which she had dribbled chocolate and , years ago , marked specially loved pages with sweetpapers and scraps of hair-ribbon . |
| 24 | Something had blown through the room with him , a gust of exhilarating air trapped in the folds of his garments , leaving a breath of his own vigour behind . |
| 25 | FIREMEN had to release a baby yesterday after her leg became trapped in the bars of her cot . |
| 26 | At least there would have been some measure of impersonality about a restaurant , whereas here , trapped in the confines of her small office with Luke so close , there was a definite air of intimacy . |
| 27 | It is the investigator 's experience during this time that improvements in awareness and involvement have been varied within the industries in which NGA members are employed . |
| 28 | This is the first and largest of the famed Cinque Terre towns wonderfully perched in the hills above its beaches . |
| 29 | It seems not theoretically mistaken , but simply anachronistic , an error of praxis , for Goffredo Fofi to complain about the lack of writing which confronts the terrible realities of Italian public life in the 1970s , ‘ that tells who we are , that is immersed in the lives of everyone ’ ( Fofi 1985 : 13 ) . |
| 30 | And my mum , my mum was sat in The Weathers with me and I 'd talked to her and everything and I did n't even know that that |