Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It 's very hard not to put your own views on to other people 's lifestyles . |
| 2 | Of the total 79 referrals received between October 1987 and March 1988 , the NSPCC team dealt with 50 cases alone , jointly investigated one with social services department staff and referred the remainder on for various reasons for example , secondary task work . |
| 3 | As the spring tides rose , flowing into summer , the Island began to blossom : pots of geraniums appeared on window sills and girls sewed new ribbons on to last year 's straw hats . |
| 4 | Spoon blobs of the choux pastry on to wet baking sheets and bake in a pre-heated oven for 15 min . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , why must you harp on about that ! |
| 6 | Because it 's a beta version , I do n't propose to harp on about any niggles , but will say this — if more DOS applications adopt its user interface and usability as well as its wealth of functions , the death of DOS may be further off than many of us have predicted . |
| 7 | Not all surveyors have the same ambition and aptitude , and unless training is the reason for putting appropriate surveyors on to certain jobs , it is advisable to select those individuals who have experience relevant to , and interest in , the particular project in hand . |
| 8 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 9 | Quigley et al. ( 1976 ) report on the tendency of deaf children to try to fit subject — verb — object patterns on to all sentence constructions . |
| 10 | The treatment of the short-sleeved belted chit on of light material is assimilated in the taste of the time to that of the heavy chit on ( figs. 73–4 , 76 ) , though the structure of the garment is quite different . |
| 11 | Pipe outlines of sixteen lifebelts on to non-stick paper — inner and outer circles , with a hole about 2·5cm ( 1inch ) in diameter . |
| 12 | The man in the light-brown coat spooned the henna powder on to fancy scales with tiny brass weights , then folded it into a sheet of brown paper tied up with string . |
| 13 | Next Friday , we 'll do our level best to keep er our hair on during another live edition of Central Weekend . |
| 14 | So can you choose one of those lines now , think about it for a minute and then have a look on at this . |
| 15 | Progressive rock believed in FUSION , the grafting on of new musics . |
| 16 | Its trade unions have a structural complexity similar to that in Britain as a result of ‘ the movement 's craft origins , the subsequent grafting on of semi-skilled and unskilled employees [ and ] flirtation with industry unionism ’ ( Cupper and Hearn , 1981 , p. 25 ) . |
| 17 | There are only three ways of controlling phylloxera : by grafting on to phylloxera-resistant rootstocks , the accepted method ; by planting into ‘ phylloxera-proof ’ soil of at least 85% sand content ; or by submersion ( flooding the vines ) for a period of sixty days in slightly permeable soils and ninety days in very permeable soils , sufficient to kill phylloxera but hardly practical for a working vineyard , especially when there is every likelihood that the parasite will return . |
| 18 | Grafting on to American rootstock led to a much needed rationalisation , whereby only the best sites in the classic regions were replanted and only noble vines were cultivated . |
| 19 | ‘ They spray the laminated surfaces on to small electrical equipment . ’ |
| 20 | but it 's not such a nice stool as this , it has n't got the knobs on like that . |
| 21 | Body position and movement also play an important part — although the fact that turns latch on to each other successfully in telephone conversations seems to suggest that these factors , like gaze , are perhaps not as important as might at first appear . |
| 22 | Call Ellie Botti on for further details . |
| 23 | In Brazil , Anticarsia gemmatalis NPV is used to control velvetbean caterpillar on around 1 million ha of soybean . |
| 24 | They moved their stand on to 79 , the second best of the first wicket this season , before Kellett was caught behind off Jon Ayling for 37 . |
| 25 | cos that first acts on at ten , at six o'clock |
| 26 | Could you really address Princess Diana as ‘ Your Royal Highness ’ after hearing her babble on for 20 minutes to a man who calls her Squidgy ? |
| 27 | The trouble had started in March when Mohawks on the Kahnesatake reservation in Oka , Quebec , 33 km south-west of the city of Montreal , erected a barricade on a highway to prevent the town council from extending a golf course on to sacred burial land . |
| 28 | No , no , look I must ring here , we have a bit on to that behind the tree , you can let that happen . |
| 29 | And they just put it on leg and just put a little bit on like that and just went ee ooh ! |
| 30 | A MAGISTRATE set bailiffs on to two companies for being £26,000 behind with business rates — without realising the firms were HIS . |