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

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1 Our piloting suggests that there is very little information here which could not be filled in out of the heads of appropriate teachers on these courses , so filling in the questionnaire should not cost a great deal of time for each person .
2 Clearly , the predisposition of the parents is carried down partially to the children .
3 It is perhaps interesting to note that Baines in his History of Lancashire tells us that there are no mines at work in this Parish , nor any minerals found , except some fine specimens of copper ore which are picked up occasionally near the brooks in Rusland !
4 He was shaking hands now with the woman , who was the exact antithesis of her niece , being thin and bony ; even her arms , showing bare where she had her sleeves rolled up almost to the armpits , looked fleshless .
5 Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own .
6 The new science centre would be a clearing-house for developing and funding projects to be carried out primarily in the republics of the former Soviet Union , the announcement said .
7 Furthermore , is it not rash to say that it is to be carried out only in the patients ' best interests ?
8 In the traditional mental test , for example , questions are given orally and are supposed to be carried out mentally by the pupils .
9 erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years .
10 In recent weeks his perky figure has turned up twice in the winners enclosure on Northern tracks and when Dance of Words went in for Mick O'Toole last Friday night at Downpatrick this was his seventh winner since his return to Ireland .
11 Animals in all stages of misery are turned out on to the streets , left in remote areas , even just left behind after the family holiday .
12 Something else had moved out there in the trees , possibly a bird .
13 He 'd got off lightly with the men earlier .
14 The spectre of reanimated union power was inevitably trotted out again in the Tories ' election campaign .
15 Normally this duty was spelt out explicitly in the instructions he received at the beginning of his embassy .
16 It would seem that these few packets were handed out mainly to the neighbours of the field workers rather than to those villagers who actually needed the ORS .
17 Then salts are actively transported back out of the tubules into the blood , against the concentration gradient , leaving behind in the tubules a very dilute urine , which is voided to the outside .
18 She looked very sweet propped up there on the pillows ; and very clean and tidy , as seriously ill patients often do .
19 The page numbers of relevant sections should have been noted down together with the names of other potentially useful books and articles which the author has written .
20 They had stayed up there with the princes until it had become dark , early , of course , in Egypt .
21 But you see , today , I mean , if you go in Newmarket today that 's all tied up round in the windows where we did n't have it in the window , no not at all .
22 The dismissals were announced the day after Girija Prasad Koirala , the general secretary of the Nepali Congress Party , had delivered a message to the King warning him that unless substantial powers were quickly turned over to the new government , crowds would be called back on to the streets of Kathmandu .
23 As pointed out above regarding the verbs of perception , nevertheless , the passive is by its very nature resultative .
24 But what has saddened me especially was the repeated rumour which I and some friends heard in the 1950s and early 1960s : that Leslie 's plane had been brought down not by the storms nor by enemy action , but by human error on our own side .
25 In an affected small bowel you will see the grey background with these tiny little curved rods present the whole area of the er , the villi is covered by the organisms which are er stuck down effectively by the processes which you ca , you ca n't really see them in the transmission micrograph , but they are attached to specific receptors on the surface of the entrocite membrane .
26 That 's the real reason ye 're holed up here in the mountains … ’
27 A colony of bats has set up home along the banks of the River Thames .
28 Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury .
29 It was a spirit summed up not by the hoards of identically painted Clios or the new 16-valve Chamade ( both in the UK next spring ) but by Laguna , the electric-blue and polished-silver roadster show car .
30 The attitude of many Romanian health professionals was summed up recently in the words of one doctor in Constanta who said ‘ Health Education is the only ‘ vaccine ’ we have to fight against HIV . ’
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