Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very hard not to put your own views on to other people 's lifestyles . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Quigley et al. ( 1976 ) report on the tendency of deaf children to try to fit subject — verb — object patterns on to all sentence constructions . |
| 6 | Pipe outlines of sixteen lifebelts on to non-stick paper — inner and outer circles , with a hole about 2·5cm ( 1inch ) in diameter . |
| 7 | ‘ They spray the laminated surfaces on to small electrical equipment . ’ |
| 8 | but it 's not such a nice stool as this , it has n't got the knobs on like that . |
| 9 | cos that first acts on at ten , at six o'clock |
| 10 | A MAGISTRATE set bailiffs on to two companies for being £26,000 behind with business rates — without realising the firms were HIS . |
| 11 | One can still argue , as I have argued myself in connection with the correlation of the north-west European Trias , that major events , such as marine transgressions on to one part of a continent , are likely to have more widespread effects in the rest of that continent . |
| 12 | And have there been any specific breakthroughs in organic chemistry you can put your fingers on in recent years ? |
| 13 | Even to the extent that regional organizations do succeed in moderating the pursuit of purely national goals , as the EC has done , such organizations may themselves develop into power blocs which transpose international conflicts on to another level , in a manner which recalls the imperialist rivalries of the earlier part of this century . |
| 14 | He evidently led musicians on with false promises : a long letter from the cellist Carlo Graziani details amounts owing and favours not forthcoming ( Giardini seems to have promised him a place in the Queen 's Band , though it is highly unlikely that he would have had such influence ) . |
| 15 | Mm , there 's a lot of people who 've erm , I mean a lot of s all the T V companies are putting programmes on for next week |
| 16 | The disadvantage of share schemes is , Mr Luder says , that ‘ it is all very well my being an employee of a subsidiary five tiers down of some major plc , and their saying ‘ Here is a dollar for a share option and you will be motivated if the share price rises ’ , but there is no direct link between cause and effect' . |
| 17 | In pure strength , apart from their flexibility , the lashings , sewings and bindings used by primitive peoples , and by seamen down to recent times , are more efficient than metal fastenings , indeed sledges are still made in this way . |
| 18 | It contains short biographies of many thousands of distinguished British and English people from the earliest of recorded times down to 1960 . |
| 19 | But then she did n't usually sleep so soundly out of doors , and she put her reactions down to recent stress . |
| 20 | Nadobenko , although a previous stage winner , had started the final stage almost seven minutes down on Lillywhite overall . |
| 21 | Featuring an exceptional collection of photographs , informative illustrations and maps , this book combines first hand accounts along with historical facts and figures relating to air combat over the past 78 years . |
| 22 | But not as many as you would have if you were using the treble clef because you 'd probably end up with a lot of lower this is wha , that is n't a particularly good example really because it has n't given a lot of lower notes but normally you 'd expect to see more notes down on these lines . |
| 23 | The BGS publishes a ‘ Catalogue of Printed Maps ’ which lists the availability of maps down to 1:25 000 scale . |
| 24 | So someone bought the bailiffs in for sixty two quid ! |
| 25 | Ca n't fit the notes in for that . |
| 26 | The AND gate output therefore becomes LOW and the integrator ramps down to zero . |
| 27 | A government deal to bring hours down to 83 hours a week was agreed last June … but nothing 's happened yet . |
| 28 | Er we got the hours down to eventually we got the hours down to forty four . |
| 29 | They say things are better for the bairns now since they brought the hours down to ten , but some of the pigs get over that . |
| 30 | Brig Cumming said a key element of the plan was to ‘ picket the people ’ in other words to set up communications lines so that all levels of the factions from top commanders down to local warlords and the actual troops manning barricades were aware of the nature of the convoys and when they were planned to pass through a specific area . |