Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 32 | These have to be broken down by the digestive system before they are absorbed as single units of mainly glucose and fructose . |
| 33 | Fibre is the indigestible component of our diet , almost always derived from vegetable produce , and it is those components of the diet that can not be broken down by the digestive system which in turn pass into the large bowel and contribute to the bulk of faecal waste matter . |
| 34 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 35 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 36 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 37 | So we 're going to keep we 're going to try and keep our costs on this obviously stripped down to an absolute minimum . |
| 38 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 39 | Not only that , but he must have swallowed the large Garry Dog I had on the line , which must have floated down in an unrestricted way to him . ’ |
| 40 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 41 | Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage . |
| 42 | Dealers were expected to get these cards filled in at the same time as fulfilling their quotas of business , but nobody had time . |
| 43 | Sparse eyebrows can be filled in with a sharpened eye pencil , but soften with a brush afterwards so there is no hard line . |
| 44 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 45 | If , however , you feel unable to do this , it would still help us if the questionnaire could be filled in for the largest course , and some indication be given of provision in other courses . |
| 46 | The Acting Reporter from Strathclyde , Gordon Sloan , who had filled in for the past year , would continue to look after the cases with which he had been involved . |
| 47 | That diary is filled in on every single day throughout that year — 1940 . |
| 48 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 49 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 50 | At the end of it , just before Myeloski had given in to the rough flight conditions , Duncan had come to realize how sharp the policeman was , how through his individual approach he had put together clues that most others would have missed . |
| 51 | The dancing was to good old rock and roll music , and even those who were just a twinkle in their father 's eye in the 6Os joined in with the jiving fun . |
| 52 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 53 | The idea boiled down to a single word , the most potent in the language . |
| 54 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 55 | They have caught on to the right idea , by saying , |
| 56 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 57 | Cords , white or beige , were worn early on in small numbers but in mid'71 black/bottle green/navy straight leg Levi cords caught on in a big way . |
| 58 | Fast on its heels came MacPublisher and Ready-Set-Go but somehow neither caught on in the same way . |
| 59 | I mean everybody knew what was going on , they might have had their own interpretations of what they 'd been told , but that happens , and as I said you know , every decision was voted on by the full lodge of the three quarries . |
| 60 | ‘ I would prefer the portfolio of the shadow Scottish secretary to be voted on by the Scottish group and the Scottish party . ’ |