Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They attack high-protein leaves , more acidic ones having less available protein , the optimum pH for the fungus ( pH 5 ) being reached when the material is mixed with the ants ' acidic faeces : then the fungus can break down the hydrolysable tannin/protein complexes . |
| 2 | The entrance was an inferno of petrol fires as flames flared and flickered across the water , sending a black column of heavy smoke mixed with the MLs ' white smoke-screens slowly rolling north-west on the still night air above the wrecked boats . |
| 3 | ARSENAL keeper David Seaman and midfielder David Hillier are fit to face Manchester United today after being substituted in the Gunners ' 3–0 crash at Leeds . |
| 4 | The silent war between the United Company of Undertakers and the Worshipful Company of Upholders did not last long , for by 1748 the imprimatur had been dropped from the Upholders ' blank funeral invitations and we no longer hear from the United Company of Undertakers again . |
| 5 | The grossed up amount of the debt should therefore be included in the taxpayers ' total incomes for higher rate tax purposes . |
| 6 | I have argued that the limits of sovereignty are contained in the courts ' central commitment to representative democracy : a purported statute which attempted to subvert democracy could derive no legal authority from the doctrine . |
| 7 | The investors will also request that the managers warrant information contained in the accountants ' due diligence report . |
| 8 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 9 | They went along with populist solutions to problems that if not actually created by the Nazis , had certainly been worked on and exaggerated to the Nazis ' own advantage . |
| 10 | So far the exercise has been confined to the managers ' professional body , the Institute of Health Service Management ( IHSM ) . |
| 11 | By Oct. 17 rioting had broken out as people protested at the authorities ' slow response . |
| 12 | Alfred Snr would have looked at the Quakers ' current predicament without much surprise . |
| 13 | Last year , Scotland 's 16 health boards were reconstituted so that no trade unions or local authorities had the right of membership , and they are now dominated by the Tories ' natural allies — business people — under the cloak of rhetoric about bringing in commercial nous ( see box ) . |
| 14 | However the voting might go in these circumstances there could be no PR of wet , damp and dry votes , because there would be no means of knowing how far these had been attracted by the candidates ' presumed wetness , dampness or dryness . |
| 15 | It was based on information from RAMM ( the Road Assessment and Management database ) , and the bridge inventory held by Transit NZ , supplemented by the valuers ' local knowledge and expertise , particularly in respect of depreciation . |
| 16 | This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war . |
| 17 | For Newcastle , having built up a two-goal lead could have been caught by the Bees ' stirring comeback . |
| 18 | And in fact the coffee rooms not only were not profitable but I think at one time were even subsidized by the directors ' own pocket which just how balmy some people can be . |
| 19 | Derwentside 's Laura Jackson was selected for the girls ' 14–16 years 100m freestyle but had to withdraw through injury . |
| 20 | The parties of the centre-right coalition suffered substantial losses in nationwide local elections on Oct. 18 in what was widely seen as the voters ' initial verdict on the austerity measures . |
| 21 | Without cutting back the vines , too many of these pellets would be wasted , wedged in the vines ' dead or dying foliage . |
| 22 | The incumbent President , Arístides Maria Pereira , was defeated in the islands ' first free presidential elections on Feb. 17 . |
| 23 | Through these activities the newly acquired language is transferred to the pupils ' own world and enables them to talk about their own experiences . |
| 24 | Bonuses , rebates , and discounts related to the buyers ' past purchases from the supplier have also been frowned upon by the authorities . |
| 25 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
| 26 | However , one could have done without the editors ' patriotic digs at Australian journalists who are certainly no more chauvinist than British fans with typewriters ( or indeed television cameras ) . |
| 27 | He speared a full-toss into Stewart 's pads , out of the dark Press-box window , and what somebody calculated as the 27th appeal of the innings was answered to the Pakistanis ' exquisite satisfaction . |
| 28 | This Tank Girl-style posse is only seven months old , but already it has grown beyond the founders ' wildest dreams . |
| 29 | By the spring of 1937 the Largo Caballero government had gone some way towards taming the process of social revolution and absorbing the militias into a regular army built around the Communists ' own Fifth Regiment . |
| 30 | Victories in three primaries , including the battle of New York , were a turning point that have given the Arkansas governor an unassailable lead in delegates needed for the Democrats ' presidential nomination . |