Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had become obvious early on to paleontologists that the dinosaurs , living in a moist and warm environment , in a sparsely populated animal kingdom , had succeeded in evolving into the first vegetation-eaters with no competitors . |
| 2 | wean their foals abruptly and completely ( generally a foal is gradually discouraged from suckling as the next one is on the way , but wo n't leave its mother until it is two or three ) ; |
| 3 | He did this , presumably , to ensure that the solutions were thoroughly mixed before proceeding to the next dilution . |
| 4 | An Oxford University student has died after falling from a second floor window during a party . |
| 5 | A word of explanation may be needed in regard to the last two categories . |
| 6 | The equilibrium position for the excited phase is never attained because more torque can be produced by switching to the next phase as the step position is approached . |
| 7 | Looking at the total expenditure and the economic projections , ministers decided broadly and in a preliminary way what limits had to be set for spending in the next financial year ( then about nine months away ) . |
| 8 | Neither outcome being desirable , they communicated to the Chief Whip , Tim Renton , their belief that Mrs Thatcher should be dissuaded from standing in the second ballot . |
| 9 | His senses were fading as his whole existence concentrated on taking in the next breath . |
| 10 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |
| 11 | However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries . |
| 12 | Even the quest for fire , an element of nature taken for granted in the twentieth century , Whitaker felt could be held up as an artifact of wonder through the medium of Doctor Who . |
| 13 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 14 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 15 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 16 | The behaviour alleged under – above would amount to a matrimonial offence , while the circumstances covered by amount to the first recognition in England of a right of divorce by mutual consent . |
| 17 | This policy has allowed the preparation of the Phoenix on data processing and computer science , for instance , which was published without waiting for the twentieth edition . |