Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These had boiled down to the supposed constitutionally irregular remark that ‘ something must be done ’ . |
| 2 | He was hitting huge distances down wind but his shots to the green failed to bite and often rolled on into the rough beyond . |
| 3 | It is a shock to have the battle of Helm 's Deep decided by the Ents and Huorns , who were last seen marching on Isengard , but whose powers have never come out in the open before . |
| 4 | The audit needs to be carried out on a periodic rather than on an ad hoc basis , and , like any other rational evaluation , needs to be conducted in a systematic way . |
| 5 | Initially it was thought that there was an impairment in memory for visual stimuli but work carried out in the 1970s largely dispelled this notion . |
| 6 | Frisch is not exactly an existentialist , but his book is shot through with a certain emotionally short-circuiting ennui , a weary horror that life is nothing but a random yet poignant series of coincidences . |
| 7 | If preferred , calories can be averaged out on a weekly rather than a daily basis . |
| 8 | My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel : thunder shakes the firmament . |
| 9 | A small budget might be swallowed up with a few very expensive cases . |
| 10 | Although today these vital units of the railway system are being phased out by the modern fully automated control centres , there still remains the lonely , isolated signal box , often miles from anywhere , that on a dark winter 's night can conjure up strange happenings and instil fear even in the heart of the most level-headed signalman . |
| 11 | The larger pieces show a surprising link with her drawing which is not borne out by the smaller more elaborate pieces cast in bronze . |
| 12 | It 's stayed around about the eight just over eight percent , there has n't , there has n't been much movement . |
| 13 | Several grass-roots supporters want their concern about interest rates and higher mortgages to be brought out in the open tomorrow when Mr Lawson replies to the debate on the economy . |
| 14 | True , gay sexuality had featured with the Beats , with Kerouac 's ambivalent relationship with Ginsberg , his semi-love affair with Neal Cassidy ; and the subject had been touched on by the early underground , but rather in the way that Ezra Pound 's fascism had been treated , as an interesting eccentricity . |
| 15 | Yet last autumn Christie 's sold another ‘ canal houses ’ garniture , perhaps popped in by the Vietnamese just to test the water , for a mere Dfl28,000 ( £8,484 ) . |
| 16 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 17 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 18 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |