Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's probably got a private cache of cheap cider or meths hidden somewhere under a paving slab to help him nod off at nights , and a pile of newspapers to keep him warm . |
| 2 | The fate map should be regarded rather like a train timetable — it tells you only what will normally happen . |
| 3 | Now it is known that ripening tomatoes ripen faster when placed together on a window ledge , because they produce ethylene gas which stimulates their neighbours to faster and synchronous ripening . |
| 4 | His name had been leaked inadvertently in a press interview which I had given and someone had traced his whereabouts . |
| 5 | In a book which was actually about statistics , A. L. Bowley once established four rules to guide designers of schedules and questionnaires.3 They are given below as a starting point for our discussions . |
| 6 | The point is , only one of the two can come out of his little door at any one time , not just because that would make impossible weather , but because the two little men are joined together by a metal bar : one has to stay in if the other one is out . |
| 7 | Its chairman was Sir George ( later Lord ) May , who had spent nearly half a century in the Prudential Assurance Company , broken only by a wartime interlude administering soldiers ' canteens . |
| 8 | Giant Tortoise … a visit to the beautiful island of La Digue can be booked locally as a day excursion by ferry from Praslin … |
| 9 | The probe map can easily be edited manually with a text editor to modifiy the positions of misplaced probes using additional information ( e.g. genetic map ) . |
| 10 | It showed three little girls in sandals and sundresses grouped together with a spaniel dog . |
| 11 | A single-ply coated roofing membrane , Sarnafil consists of selected polymers applied as liquids to a carrier material ( glass fibre or polyester ) , which are fused together in a gelation process . |
| 12 | While he had been kicking his heels yesterday he had spent an hour in a tiny bookshop in Curzon Street and had come away with a paperback edition of the Parsons Rosenberg and the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes 's anthology . |
| 13 | Services have been slashed already after a £3m pruning , with the final blow being the closure of public toilets , when Saltburn was the worst hit which infuriated the town 's fundraising champion Jackie Taylor . |
| 14 | The next afternoon Colin was carried downstairs by a man servant , and put in his wheelchair outside the front door . |
| 15 | Unfortunately for them the person who rented the place did n't know that the stables across the yard are let separately as a holiday cottage . ’ |
| 16 | LIVERPOOL 'S hopes of a European reprieve were shattered yesterday at a FIFA meeting in Switzerland . |
| 17 | Ancient Egyptians being carried home from a drinks party . |
| 18 | Three young swallows , palely coloured yet , perched precariously on a telegraph wire , wobbling , teetering , losing their grip , clutching again frantically . |
| 19 | PILOT error was blamed yesterday for a North Sea helicopter crash in which six men were killed . |
| 20 | Olivetti envisages that with time , it will be considered more as a brand name for systems integration , adapted for specific customer needs , rather than a rigidly defined product . |
| 21 | Filters were added directly to a PCR reaction and amplification was with the M13 primers ( forward and reverse ) , and then with the nested set of primers T3 ( 5'-ATTAACCCTCACTAAAG-3 ’ ) and T7 ( 5'-AATACGACTCACTATAG-3' ) . |
| 22 | On the way south from Shanghai to fly home from Hong Kong , Chris and John visited Guilin , where the scenery seems to have been lifted straight from a willow pattern plate . |
| 23 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 24 | The purpose is proved by question and answer if the defendant is driving or if he has to be interviewed later by a police officer . |
| 25 | Waste will be sorted centrally at a waste stream sorting plant ; easily recyclable materials such as metals , glass and plastics will be sent to reprocessing plants in the region ; organic material will be composted and sold for fertiliser ; heat generated by the decomposing material will be used to warm ponds to farm prawns and crayfish , and gas will be sold to a local power-generating company . |
| 26 | Nothing if not bold , Welles opens with a funeral procession in which the bodies of Othello and Desdemona are borne away by a line of figures dramatically silhouetted against a pale sky , while Iago is led away in chains to be hoist aloft in a metal cage . |
| 27 | New technology has produced phones so light that they can be carried unobtrusively in a shirt pocket . |
| 28 | ODT was designed originally as a desktop product , but the addition of MPX multi-processing extensions has made it more popular in multi-user environments : it requires an 80386 personal computer with 8Mb RAM , 100Mb disk and VGA graphics as minimum to run . |
| 29 | A kitchen tends to fall into one of three categories depending on its physical limitations and your life pattern : it may be designed purely as a work room when all the other family activities go on in other rooms ; or it may be a room where the work is done and some or all family meals are taken ; or finally it may bc the real centre of the house , where work is done , meals are taken and where the family congregates . |
| 30 | The main reason that CISCs are still in more use today than CISCs are that commonly used commercial operating systems such as MS-DOS for the IBM PC can not be emulated well on a RISC computer . |