Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As he progressed over the cobbled stretches of roads that give the race its title ‘ Hell of the North ’ , he was cheered on by police and public alike . |
| 2 | Her wig is made up of bottle tops , left over from ordinary twentieth-century life , trodden into the dirt underfoot , pressed on to noticeboards . |
| 3 | IMPACT : An arrow shows where the stricken Jumbo plunged on to flats in the complex visited by a shocked Queen Beatrix ( inset ) yesterday |
| 4 | On the chaise longue lay her brown wool skirt , neatly brushed , and beside it her pink striped blouse with a white collar that needed to be fastened on with studs . |
| 5 | Relief supplies flown in by planes from RAF Lyneham played a vital part in keeping people alive . |
| 6 | The most important section of the book , however , is on introducing and sustaining quality programmes , and preconditions for this are examined along with guidelines for phasing in the quality programme . |
| 7 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 8 | Each of these problems could in turn be broken down into sub-problems . |
| 9 | ‘ It can be broken down into sets of signals , each signal with a specific function . |
| 10 | Broken down into sections for easy replay and reference this video will guide you through every stage of your pregnancy . |
| 11 | Within the agreed timetable the task must be broken down into elements or stages which are themselves ‘ milestones ’ . |
| 12 | As we shall see later the social anthropologist 's view of society as a network of person-to-person relationships almost takes it for granted that all human interactions can be broken down into elements of binary exchange of this kind . |
| 13 | Moreover , erm the world can be broken down into elements , into simples , which you can perceive or grasp conceptually as what they are quite independently of the system as a whole to which they belong . |
| 14 | However it was broken down into sub-categories and these revealed non-completion rates of around 25% for those entering with ONC/OND or with no qualifications compared with a 15% non-completion rate for those with ‘ standard ’ qualifications . |
| 15 | The drawing suggests how the problem might be broken down into components . |
| 16 | Series were deemed to be longer plays , broken down into episodes for convenience of presentation . |
| 17 | Nitrogen cycle — The process in which ammonia is broken down into nitrites and thence to nitrates by aerobic bacteria . |
| 18 | If blanket assertions regarding business methods can be broken down into categories then a claim of confidence may succeed . |
| 19 | Course are being broken down into modules and a variety of new teaching and learning styles have to be employed . |
| 20 | All utterances that were more than 10 words in length were broken down into clauses of less than 10 words thereby producing a total of 115 utterances with an average of 7.07 words and 26.56 phonemes per utterance . |
| 21 | To summarize , the organic compounds found in cells are built up and broken down by enzymes . |
| 22 | Having been synthesized it has to be transported to the part of the cell in which it is required ; there it will remain for its lifetime of hours , weeks or months until it is due for renewal , when it is pulled out of place in the cell and broken down by enzymes as quickly as it was previously synthesized , its building blocks ( the amino acids ) being recycled in the synthesis of other proteins . |
| 23 | In the process of hatching , the inner impermeable shell membrane is broken down by enzymes secreted by the larva and by its own movement . |
| 24 | Briefly , these factors are : the total population of the area and the number of registered library members ; trends in book publishing — i.e. the number of new books published per annum , broken down by subjects ; the length of life of stock on the open shelves ( depreciation rate ) ; the risen costs of books and binding on the previous year 's fund ; and the range and condition of the existing stock . |
| 25 | That is they can be broken down by bacteria to inert residues . |
| 26 | In other words , they can be broken down by bacteria and so removed from the environment . |
| 27 | Marsh grasses , like the tall , coarse Spartina genus , are broken down by bacteria to form detritus , food for shellfish . |
| 28 | Filter bacteria : Almost every natural substance can be broken down by bacteria . |
| 29 | These gums are highly polymerized pentoses that have to be broken down by bacteria , which release nutrients roughly equivalent to the yields from fruits . |
| 30 | The final , most outstanding feature of tropical forest — not so obvious to the casual visitor , but exceedingly important — is the sheer speed at which detritus ( leaf litter and dead animals ) is broken down by insects , fungi , and bacteria . |