Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the research into the tectonic evolution of basins overlaps with work on passive margin development , and although written for students of sedimentology the book by Miall ( 1984 ) provides a valuable introduction for geomorphologists on both of these themes . |
| 2 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 3 | Twenty employees from Columbia Gas attended the seminar , and were presented with certificates of completion the following month . |
| 4 | One hundred and ninety thousand people are injured in accidents at work every year — a figure that appalls health and safety campaigners . |
| 5 | The fact was , that he made the journey ; shabby and penniless , he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns ; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship , for Dad was a simple , trusting person , one might say , naive . |
| 6 | ‘ I know you can do it , ’ Biddy said unrelenting , and called for Nails after school every day on her motor-bike to subject him to another two-hour session on the aptly named Switchback . |
| 7 | Again Tennyson uses run on lines to emphasis the sudden and piercing cry from the boat and the wind that ‘ shrills ’ in the wasteland . |
| 8 | Children were screened for signs of xerophthalmia every 4 months . |