Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The role of documentation and the devices for handling information in a museum context often remain hidden to visitors , who are nonetheless bombarded with information from the moment they enter any large museum or art gallery — in the form of signs indicating the way to the cafeteria , ground-plans of the premises , or , more obviously , labels and information panels associated with the gallery displays . |
| 2 | Because women are largely con fined to jobs with low status and power , they will be relatively less able to engage in serious forms of white-collar and corporate crime . |
| 3 | Just as the Fourier transform defined by equation ( 11.11 ) involves analysing the signal F(t) in terms of an infinite set of imaginary exponential terms , that is , in terms of infinite sets of sine and cosine waves , so the Laplace transform defined by equations ( 11.18 ) and ( 11.19 ) corresponds to analysing the signal in terms of an infinite set of functions of the form where s is complex . |
| 4 | But there are some instances documented in the literature where people are quite clear that support given to in-laws is really being given to the blood relative . |
| 5 | The nouveaux romanciers themselves have been reluctant to embrace the term , which has tended to occur on those occasions when parallels are bring drawn with novelists in other countries , as at the New York nouveau roman conference in 1982 which many of them attended and which also saw the participation of several leading American postmodernists . |
| 6 | If you seem caught in half-truths and mysterious delays , avoid analysing the situation because it will only up your anxiety levels and create even more confusion — Mercury will right itself eventually . |
| 7 | The criteria for reciprocal altruism seem fulfilled as the interactions seem based upon expectations of reciprocation . |
| 8 | Housemartins like tremolo notes on the fence wire wait for heat and the fulmination of flies that lie numbed in crevices all around me . |
| 9 | It falls to the floor , an ugly little lump of metal , and the boys sit transfixed for minutes before they eat again . |
| 10 | So why does a company with such a history of agility and skill remain tied to pots and pans even though they act as such a drag on its performance ? |
| 11 | The crown did possess vast estates but lands wee assigned to temples and to individuals . |
| 12 | Here every waiter 's a stand-up ( sit down ) comedian , one in five people you meet is a serial killer , joggers have an attitude , and a bunch of pinko liberal vegetarians from England can play the legendary CBGB 's club and get treated like gods . |
| 13 | The ( very ) old ‘ American bands get treated like gods in the UK while homegrown talent is treated like a joke ’ argument is met with a smile and a calm , ‘ Yeah , but we get the advantage when we go to America , ’ from Hugo . |
| 14 | I also get stopped by strangers on the street who tell me how much they enjoyed it . |
| 15 | Smoking , drinking and spicy food all contribute to halitosis , but the biggest cause is build-up of plaque on teeth and gums , especially when fibres of food get trapped between teeth . |
| 16 | Predators are the ones who take opportunities , and prey … well , they just get torn to pieces , Miss Swift . |
| 17 | First pieces of the sky fall on my house , then I get attacked by bits of the sea . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh yes — get shot of babies and land in the middle of a crowd of boys . |
| 19 | He saw friends drown in rivers and get shot by bandits . |
| 20 | Indeed , in April 1988 civil service manpower targets were dropped and a new regime of running-costs control imposed upon departments . |
| 21 | ‘ I know supporters get frustrated at times so do we . |
| 22 | Appointing authorities sometimes get drawn into arguments about whether members of certain professional firms could be independent in a dispute because of their firm 's relationship with one of the parties . |
| 23 | Older horses get locked into habits . |
| 24 | The waster , played by Steve Punt , is a nineties version of Neil the hippie — less ideological , but more funny : ‘ You should think yourself lucky if you get invited to parties . |
| 25 | Get rid of mice . |
| 26 | They both go round and try and get rid of cling-ons . |
| 27 | We get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper . |
| 28 | Section 10–3 is concerned with the process by which decisions get translated into actions . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's come into my parlour or get sliced into pieces with the lasers . ’ |
| 30 | But my purpose in dwelling on this theory is to demonstrate how ideas are spread by the action of persuasion on uncritical acquiescence and get converted into solutions , which are assumed to be valid everywhere , like American Express traveller 's cheques . |