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

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1 The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land .
2 Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor .
3 In the Brazil nut , Bertholleria excelsa , and Eschweilera spp. , the hood is pressed down on the fertile stamens and bears only staminodes with nectar at their bases : only a strong bee can lift the hood — species of Xylocopa and female euglossine bees .
4 LIFESPAN RDBI data transfers can be broken down into the following phases :
5 Er and that showed er in fact when we reported to members in July of this year , we were seeking from them er an indication as to the priority of the phasing because prior to that and in fact it 's reflected in the structure plan , we simply have a a scheme for A fifty nine , A sixty one relief roads , they 're not broken down into the two schemes .
6 Broken down into the different crops , the figures put soft wheat at 75.68m tonnes ( compared with 72.9m tonnes last year ) , followed by barley , 44.6m tonnes ( 45.7m ) ; maize , 27.4m tonnes ( 22m ) ; durum , 9.3m tonnes ( 7.1m ) ; rye , 3.1m tonnes ( 3.3m ) ; oats , 4.4m tonnes ( 4.6m ) ; sorghum , 0.51m tonnes ( 0.45m ) ; and triticale 1.5m tonnes ( 1.1m ) .
7 The privacy and identity that they possessed by living in family homes separated from other families , even when members of co-operatives , would be broken down under the new arrangements .
8 But the evidence suggests that the fragile though real co-operation between liberals and workers of 1905 had broken down by the pre-war years .
9 We 've plunged in with the practical details rather than training itself .
10 Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge .
11 In this case we were lucky and the route had been re-equipped with new bolts placed in between the old bolts .
12 The dots are filled in with the appropriate names like this :
13 Abercrombie 's broad-brush strategy was now filled in with the complementary prescriptions for design at the local scale , both central areas and residential districts .
14 Mike needs to be filled in on the latest developments . ’
15 He had indeed caught on from the bad vibes the driver had been giving out — the nervousness , the pale sweat-beaded face , the rapid eye movement towards the back seat — that something was bothering the guy .
16 Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s .
17 The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ .
18 Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs .
19 One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ .
20 Other sounds caught in between the meaningless words .
21 A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road …
22 But Coun. Robson said residents felt they had been let down by the original developers of the site and by Leech .
23 The Foreign Secretary stressed , however , that aid on its own can never ensure reform is successfully carried through in the two countries .
24 Sometimes we went to the Cours Mirabeau and watched the debris from the daily market being picked over by the local dogs .
25 Parents will no longer accept being fobbed off by the so-called experts .
26 Investment analysts have come up with the following forecasts for earnings growth :
27 I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed .
28 This philosophy of helping elderly people return to or stay in their own or small-scale homes will be picked up by the new centres .
29 Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry .
30 It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community .
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