Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 2 | Built around the turn of the century , it had been designed originally as a soldiers ' barracks . |
| 3 | And the copyist left a blank in one other movement : the instrumental bass line of the song ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ — one of the ‘ new ’ songs , placed just before the Haymakers ' scene . |
| 4 | The characteristic styles of discourse and the linguistic comic devices of the French fabliaux are also related fundamentally to the tales ' narrative character . |
| 5 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 6 | Villages and timber plants are to be relocated away from the pandas ' habitat … |
| 7 | Creole is used variably by the parents ' generation , but not usually when persons from outside are present . |
| 8 | This prompted fears that US personnel might be drawn directly into the politicians ' nightmare — someone else 's war , the spectre of another Viet Nam . |
| 9 | All mortgages by companies of registered land must be registered both at the Companies ' Registry and the Land Registry . |
| 10 | ‘ After The Storm ’ once sounded remarkably like The Chameleons ' ‘ Swamp Thing ’ but now , possibly due to the time lapse or the injection of fresh young blood , it becomes a substantial pop song with trendy keyboards and influential , garbled guitar noises . |
| 11 | Such ideas , however , were not based entirely on the critics ' response to what was on display ; rather , they derived from opinions about O'Keeffe and her art that had been formulated by Stieglitz and his circle of friends and published before 1923 . |
| 12 | With a flourish he produced another motley collection of spinning components , this time cobbled together from the Chelonians ' technical stores . |
| 13 | Some surveyors may find such a loss of direct involvement personally unacceptable , particularly if not trained for the new role , but the growth rate of a firm is probably dictated more by the partners ' ability to manage the organisation than by their own capacity for surveying work . |
| 14 | His rendition of the approach journey from Kingsburgh fills in more detail than Johnson 's , with the revealing observation — still visibly understandable — that their guide navigated across the moors much in the same manner as , I suppose , is pursued in the wilds of America , by observing certain marks known only to the inhabitants ' . |
| 15 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
| 16 | Our makeshift seat had consisted of cases of wine while bottles of brandy were distributed liberally amongst the boys ' bedding , none of which had been declared to us , of course . |
| 17 | Parents could be involved sooner in the childrens ' educations . |
| 18 | A disgruntled father whose two sons have been on several skiing fortnights feels school trips are run primarily for the teachers ' convenience . |
| 19 | The fence was erected in order to reinforce a fence which had already been put there by the defendants ' predecessor in title , and it did not in any event enclose the disputed land … |
| 20 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 21 | Criminal prosecutions are commenced either in the Magistrates ' Court if the matter is to be tried summarily or , following a committal before a Magistrates ' Court , in the Crown Court if the matter is to be tried upon an indictment . |
| 22 | Thus , what was viewed as acceptable was determined largely by the centres ' main client group — elderly disabled people . |
| 23 | Population figures were obtained directly from the practices ' computer systems . |
| 24 | Apart from Culture Vulture — well beaten later in the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile Fillies race — and Central City , Oumaldaaya and Rose Indien had good winning form in late-season Newmarket races last year , and Wiedniu , the likely outsider today , is held in high regard . |
| 25 | The diagnosis was confirmed or excluded by applying the criteria mentioned above to the relatives ' medical records from hospitals or private physicians . |
| 26 | Most of these would have qualified even under the Webbs ' strict insistence that only " continuous associations " qualified as trade unions . |
| 27 | nursed deep within the waves ' turmoil |