Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His letters of 1871 are scattered with remarks pointing up the contrast : on the one side " our German mission " and " old Germanic health " , on the other " that fatal anti-cultural Prussia " and " our whole threadbare culture " . |
| 2 | Throughout the centuries , the monks of Clonmacnoise had suffered from raiders sailing up the Shannon to plunder the monastic city . |
| 3 | Such figures help to explain why those sentenced by magistrates make up a very much smaller proportion of the sentenced prison population on any one day ( 10 per cent in 1990 : Home Office , 1991 a ) than those sentenced by the Crown Court ( 90 per cent ) . |
| 4 | And above all , why should Isambard come down here in person to visit him after supper , splendid and ceremonious in his brown and gold brocade , attended by servants bringing in a gilded chair for him , and a page carrying wine ? |
| 5 | It was written by Moshe Aumann of the Israel Academic Committee on the Middle East and its 24 pages are sprinkled with quotations stretching back a hundred years — from Mark Twain and Lamartine to Lord Milner and the 1937 Palestine Royal Commission — all of which assert that Palestine was a land of brigandage , destitution and desert before the mass immigration of Jews in the late 1930s . |
| 6 | There are quite a lot of photographs left showing jolly parties packed in boats riding up the lift . |
| 7 | Where the assignment involves an investigation , the assessment is likely to be based on students carrying out a series of instructions correctly and drawing valid conclusions from the results . |
| 8 | Next came the mountains , their lower slopes cloaked in rain forest which had once covered the coastal plain but was now restricted to tongues licking down the banks of the Belpan and Makaa Rivers . |
| 9 | Sir Anthony says : ‘ The Department were at fault in failing to appreciate that the instructions given to Spicers to carry out an audit of the partnership 's client accounts would not , at least as regards some important Barlow Clowes portfolios , have enabled any reassurance to be gained on the score of the concern that the partnership could not make the payments of income they had guaranteed without eroding clients ’ capital . |
| 10 | Critics of Indian prisons have continued for years to point out the incongruity of attempting to run an avowedly ‘ correctional ’ prison system with structures , rules and physical conditions created for quite different purposes . |
| 11 | where a special resolution has been passed by members to wind up the company ; |
| 12 | Each door and drawer is individually finished by craftsmen to bring out the full beauty of the grain . |
| 13 | A large percentage of recent spring birds have been recorded in parties flying up the Channel during the offshore movements of ducks , waders and terns , which are such a feature of spring migration in Sussex . |
| 14 | In 1611 he was consulted by Londoners setting up the Londonderry plantation , and showed positive interest in joining an oil-milling venture there . |
| 15 | According to him , the Black and Tans were a terror force , hastily recruited from ex-soldiers to carry out a policy of naked and bloody reprisals against the IRA . |
| 16 | Floriade also has a lot more to offer than the splendid horticultural displays ; there will be varying music festivals including a jazz festival , fashion shows and even an amphitheatre where an assortment of shows will be staged by countries form around the world . |