Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] and [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , during its mad dash his plunging horse had burst through some bushes and disturbed a she-bear with her cubs , but had gone on before the bear could react . |
| 2 | It would encourage newcomers ; especially if they 'd been on a few walks and seen the problems . |
| 3 | Brad , bass player with The Mary Chain , has fallen down some steps and broken his ankle in three places . |
| 4 | Baked stuffed apple ( one or two ) filled with I ounce dried fruit , a few breadcrumbs and sweetened with honey or sweetener , served with plain low fat yogurt . |
| 5 | He quickly devoured a few fragments and stuffed into a bag a lot of miscellaneous food which Irina was evidently leaving behind . |
| 6 | I did n't at first but since people have said I 've looked at some pictures and seen some sort of resemblence … |
| 7 | Children with considerable learning problems were removed from mainstream classes for a few months and taught by a specially appointed additional teacher . |
| 8 | With great reluctance , Reagan bowed to pressure from his advisers and compromised the Kemp-Roth principle somewhat by agreeing that the first cut should be delayed for a few months and reduced to 5 per cent in the first year with 10 per cent cuts in years two and three . |
| 9 | She walked a few feet and stabbed at the earth with the fork . |
| 10 | Narrower strips , perhaps 50 m wide have been suggested as appropriate in Amazonia , such strips being gardened for some years and replanted with trees as well ; seed and mycorrhizae sources are close by . |
| 11 | So in 1972 a new secretary was appointed for the task , Anthony Gray , who worked away for some years and helped set it on its feet again . |
| 12 | As a full stomach makes it even harder for a baby with RDS to breathe he was n't able to feed for the first few days and relied on the drip . |
| 13 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 14 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 15 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 16 | Indeed , the whole idea of ‘ saving life ’ is rejected by some philosophers and replaced by that of ‘ postponing death . ’ |
| 17 | The Greeks and the Jews have been such peoples and produced such thinkers . |
| 18 | But men have had such experiences and done nothing further about them , either because they have decided that there was less to the experience than they at first supposed , or because they could not endure the ethical and spiritual demands which were implied in the unspoken , ineffable moment of divine knowledge . |
| 19 | Nominations must be of a Member of the Parliamentary Party in the House of Commons , who must be proposed and seconded by other such Members and supported by 200 members in aggregate in not less than 20 Local Parties ( including , for this purpose , the Specified Associated organisations representing youth and students as provided by Article 13 . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of these Rules , a body corporate may carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships provided that before commencing any such business such body corporate shall have been recognised by the Council as being a suitable body to undertake the provision of such services and provided that at all times while carrying on such business it remains so recognised . |
| 21 | The Minister will have to explain to me and everyone else how a scheme with such benefits and based on more than 10,000 members can be matched by a privatised scheme covering only 461 employees . |
| 22 | I have heard of such things and met men who have been paid from such purses and eaten from such pots . |
| 23 | Romeo Venetiaan , President of the Peace Commission of the government of President Ronald Venetiaan , described the decision as a " distinct development " and promised development aid to the interior jungle regions controlled by these groups and inhabited by an estimated 50,000 indigenous people , effectively disenfranchised and living in largely autonomous village communities . |
| 24 | The Sandford Report on the national parks explicitly recognized these conflicts and called upon central government to alleviate some of the special problems of such local communities . |
| 25 | The meeting was unable to reach a consensus on requests by some members that the government of Bosnia-Hercegovina be exempt from the arms embargo applied to the area [ see also p. 39240 ] , In a compromise , the final declaration noted these requests and called on the UN Security Council to continue to consider the question . |
| 26 | He stoutly resisted these demands and campaigned for the retention of the tramways . |
| 27 | Religious nonconformity remained strong in these areas and combined with the anti-landlord , anti-aristocratic feeling which was the basis of historic liberalism . |
| 28 | The outer casing is removed from these seeds and used as a food dye ; it is used extensively on washed rind cheeses . |
| 29 | The committee shared these sentiments and adopted as the major focus for its library proposal the theme " The Challenge of Change " . |
| 30 | Today , it admitted to the crimes and executions plotted in these corridors and carried out by its men under Stalin . |