Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then those same genes either get passed on to the next generation or they do n't . |
| 2 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 3 | What has been er what has been pleasing is that a n a number of the people who 've come in on the last two or three years or so er are younger people , people in their er late teens or twenties . |
| 4 | I actually do think what we 've got down in the third session is an enormous help from the point of view of our future review . |
| 5 | Last year of course they did superbly , they beat Southend who were then in the fourth division , and look what 's happened to them , they 've gone up to the third division . |
| 6 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
| 7 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 8 | Road accidents in the North-East have fallen dramatically in the last ten years . |
| 9 | Prices have fallen steeply in the last year , and while this year 's drop will not be so dramatic , prices will continue to fall . |
| 10 | Adoptions have fallen steadily in the last 15 years . |
| 11 | Fitness requirements have altered dramatically in the last five years and the recent law changes make it even more imperative that players be fitter , more mobile and faster around the pitch . |
| 12 | Distinct approaches to data analysis in Britain and France have developed independently over the last 10 years . |
| 13 | In fact events have developed rapidly in the last few weeks and it was announced at a Committee meeting on Monday 1st June that we had every hope of opening the museum by the end of the month . |
| 14 | We have referred earlier to a third interpretation of normalisation which we see as being in line with the spirit of much that has been written , particularly in the earlier days . |
| 15 | But with the base set to close , the planes have flown out for the last time . |
| 16 | However trends in the activity rates of men and women have differed significantly over the last 15 years . |
| 17 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
| 18 | It is not surprising , therefore , that incomes have dropped severely during the last few years , with the result that we are now beginning to see signs of dereliction . |
| 19 | A thousand people have come here in the last year and another thousand are expected in the next year . |
| 20 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 21 | In complete contrast , the hard-up Blues , who are now some £5m in the red , are failing to make the most of a sound defence because , as I have written repeatedly throughout the last 12 months , they are seriously short of creative ability in midfield . |
| 22 | Now speaking to you , as chairman of the G M B parliamentary group I can tell you that we have met twice over the last few weeks on this issue of modernization and we are agreed on the need to avoid a damaging public row from which everybody yes including the unions , will lose . |
| 23 | Sales at Dillons and Ryman are marginally ahead , but Pentos Office Furniture and Athena have done badly in the fourth quarter . |
| 24 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |
| 25 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 26 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 27 | I have seen frequently over the last year and I have been very grateful for her friendship , not to mention the clothes she has lent me which her daughter has outgrown . |
| 28 | It is a wonderful feeling to be able to experience the strength , suppleness and stamina that you have built up over the last three weeks . |
| 29 | Building society mortgage arrears have risen considerably in the last few years . |
| 30 | The number and proportion of remarriages have risen sharply in the last two decades . |