Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Great imperial systems propelled by steam have broken down into a myriad nationalities propelled by the internal-combustion engine and oil .
2 The water soaks into the ground and becomes sucked in to a sandstone strata , which holds it like a sponge under the city .
3 A GREY parrot had detectives baffled last night when it was handed in at a Liverpool police station .
4 Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean .
5 These words can be summed up in an acronym DOSES .
6 SECURITY is to be stepped up at a Darlington pensioners ' community centre following two break-ins .
7 Aachen , Germany-based Parsytec GmbH 's US subsidiary in West Chicago has announced Parix , the ‘ second-generation ’ parallel Unix-based development environment developed for its indefinitely-forthcoming GC Series of T9000 Transputer-based MIMD supercomputers by Amsterdam-based Associated Computer Experts BV : aimed specifically at scientists and research engineers , it can be used on any Parsytec system with 16 or more nodes , which is hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation as a front end ; a Parsytec 62-node MultiCluster I with Parix is from $100,000 .
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