Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |
| 2 | With great reluctance , Reagan bowed to pressure from his advisers and compromised the Kemp-Roth principle somewhat by agreeing that the first cut should be delayed for a few months and reduced to 5 per cent in the first year with 10 per cent cuts in years two and three . |
| 3 | The tape crackled for a few seconds and then hummed as he replaced the receiver . |
| 4 | You believe we were attacked for the same reason and probably by the same person . |
| 5 | Thicken towards the end of cooking if necessary with plain flour mixed with a little water and a few drops of bottled gravy browning . |
| 6 | To return to the offending nettle ( Urtica dioica ) or , it too had its uses : Martin Martin noted that in Skye ‘ the tops of nettles , chopped small , and mixed with a few whites or raw eggs , applied to the forehead and temples by way of a frontel , is used to procure sleep ’ . |
| 7 | If rest and relaxation are approached with the same openness and with the same willingness to learn as the changing of negative emotional states and our health , they can be used to heal us and to strengthen our health and emerging state of mind . |
| 8 | I 'm convinced politics come under the same heading but I 'm not too sure about thumbs . |
| 9 | Ideally , walls on halls , corridors and staircases ( if any ) should be decorated with the same colour or treatment unless they are in quite different parts of the home and can not be seen , one from another . |
| 10 | But the question is not pursued with the same tenacity and intensity as when a child dies in tragic circumstances . |
| 11 | The ‘ offset ’ policy extends the bubble concept so as to allow interfirm trading of emission permits among activities not located in the same plant or not owned by the same firm . |
| 12 | Sean Ashby ( Browning Starlets ) was pegged in the same area and his 3–13–4 catch was made up of gudgeon , roach and perch . |
| 13 | To make chocolate buttercream , add 15g ( ½oz ) cocoa powder to the mixture , and for a coffee flavour add 5ml ( 1tsp ) coffee — either first dissolved in a little water or the ‘ Camp ’ variety . |
| 14 | Furthermore , several pairs of the reaction primers can be mixed in the same tube and allowed to ‘ analyse ’ different point mutations at the same time ( all the different products of the polymerase chain reaction are deliberately designed to be different sizes ) . |
| 15 | rebuilt in the same style and all the treasures are still there . |
| 16 | If a complete unified theory was discovered , it would only be a matter of time before it was digested and simplified in the same way and taught in schools , at least in outline . |
| 17 | I know , but what I mean is that when they see the city centre , the people who are walking up and down the city centre , they see all the national charities , they do n't necessarily feel that they 're organised in the same way and therefore that they should be participating , and the whole palaver of getting a licence and applying is actually quite difficult , it 's not a simple , it 's not something , we get numerous telephone calls in the office saying ‘ Well can I go out next Saturday and rattle a tin for such-and-such ’ , and you say ‘ Well , you ca n't ’ , and it 's left much too late , so that people do n't know about the way you get licenses to rattle tins in city centre . |
| 18 | Whether a church is to be rebuilt on the same site or the land sold for development , listed building consent must be obtained . |
| 19 | The number of journalists who claim to have sat on the same sofa and had private speech with His Majesty is legion . |
| 20 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 21 | Several weeks later he was approached by the same man and a colleague in a Dungannon street , when he was ‘ explicitly asked to work for and provide information for them . ’ |
| 22 | Where time permits , leave the final draft of any report you have written for a few days and then read it again with fresh eyes . |
| 23 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
| 24 | I did n't want anyone to feel that this diet was a ‘ prison sentence ’ to be endured for a few weeks or months before old habits could be reintroduced . |
| 25 | WOLVES are inviting Hungarian side Honved to celebrate the opening of the new Billy Wright stand , named after the former Wolves and England captain , at Molineux next December . |
| 26 | It is built of the same materials and shows the same Moorish features of decoration and construction ( 415 ) . |
| 27 | Even the dust and horse-smell seemed to be still with him and he reminded you of Lamarr Dean and Early and almost everyone of them you ever saw : all made of the same leather and hardly ever smiling unless they were with their own look-alike brothers . |
| 28 | ‘ You can imagine a series of plastic films with the same chemistry , made of the same material and same thickness , and yet each one having different properties , ’ said Roger Appeldorn , of the 3M Company of America . |
| 29 | The new scheme , upheld by the Divisional Court in the later case , was made under the same statute and did not appreciably hold a different balance between ratepayers and transport users . |
| 30 | We think there was problem with the materials when it was built There are other bridges in the county built with the same system but engineers say they 're safe ) |