Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The language of special education had long been tucked under my belt , but now I was faced with filling in timetables with terms such as ‘ DD ’ time — departmental duties , to the uninitiated — in other words , time when I was not actually in direct teaching contact with students . |
| 2 | The town 's ambulancemen had four times just arrived back at their station when they were called out again to the Spa , bringing in contestants with injuries including a black eye , broken nose , concussion and a damaged foot . |
| 3 | ‘ We filled in loads of forms and kept reminding the council but nothing happened . |
| 4 | ‘ We filled in loads of forms and kept reminding the council but nothing happened . |
| 5 | It would contain a model ‘ Table A ’ trust deed clearly specifying the minimum procedures to be followed when a fund is dissolved , and lay down rules on surpluses . |
| 6 | The new regulations lay down rules concerning aspects such as living space , water supplies , lavatories and lighting . |
| 7 | People could fill in forms in shops or supermarkets , choosing random numbers which would be scanned and fed to a central computer with the results announced live on a weekly T V spectacular . |
| 8 | It is sometimes argued that the loss of lambs is partly the shepherd 's fault : that greater care for the flock would cut down losses to predators . |
| 9 | Before the heaviest snowfalls he would need to read the advance signals in the weather and move the sheep down into groups round the storage points , making them more accessible for feeding and , he hoped , cutting down losses in drifts . |
| 10 | Severums ( above ) are popular on the problem pages but the Oscar ( right ) brings in 10% of queries . |
| 11 | It will be clear from the description of the functions of the Court of Appeal and House of Lords that they make law to meet the needs of cases arising before them and lay down guidelines for judges in courts below . |
| 12 | But just suppose — if they do send in dragoons with guns to take the men away — we are helpless , then , you know we are . |
| 13 | I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle . |
| 14 | is different from the cost per mile down South on tickets as well . |
| 15 | The professional codes set down benchmarks for services by engineers . |
| 16 | Bangkok is well supplied with ‘ shooting galleries ’ where pushers go down lines of addicts giving them all a fix with the same needle . |
| 17 | Taking a ( sampled ) waveform as its starting point , the function fills in gaps between samples with a replica of the original waveform , contracted in time . |
| 18 | The project 's battle to break down barriers between communities has finally been won in spite of an atmosphere of very insecure funding . |
| 19 | Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development . |
| 20 | When not leading the armies to war he dwells at the court of the Everqueen and keeps the peace in Avelorn , slaying marauding monsters and hunting down bands of Beastmen and Goblins . |
| 21 | The QBE query is formulated by filling in templates of relations . |
| 22 | Both carry notebooks with them to jot down ideas for sketches . |
| 23 | In the Mathematics and Science Orders , the government set down ranges of levels for each key stage . |
| 24 | Alix brought a chrome bowl out of an open cupboard , set it down ajangle with instruments of torture and turned on the generator for her machines . |
| 25 | Eager to hound down deals with users of the major databases , the company is laying low with Accell/TP on its Unify 2000 database for the time being . |
| 26 | ( a ) Facing Eyemouth sea-front , turn left along esplanade , joining beach at Dolphin Hotel ( which is to left ) ; leave beach by prominent path up on to cliff-top , and then keep along top of cliffs ignoring left forks , with caravan site on left and soon diverting out to headland ( with cannons ) ( b ) . |
| 27 | Most modern fish breathe in water with gills , but many species living in foul , swampy water supplement this by gulping air at the surface . |
| 28 | Um Hamed came through the court , covered in her black veils which brushed against climbing bougainvillaea blossoms , sending down showers of petals . |
| 29 | She bumped along furrows between vines , spattered cobalt-blue with spraying . |
| 30 | ROPEMAKERS in Ken-dal , Cumbria , have turned down orders for hangmen 's nooses from America and Malawi . |