Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loved his home in Ireland and got on with the people . |
| 2 | A hand feeling blindly for throat or arm or hair landed in the middle of Gabriel 's face , and Garvey 's fingers clung on like a starfish , pressing it out of shape . |
| 3 | People who live in towns donlt understand what goes on in the countryside.It 's hard for us to explain why this great tradition should be preserved , but it is n't the barbaric activity it 's made out to be . |
| 4 | People who live in towns donlt understand what goes on in the countryside.It 's hard for us to explain why this great tradition should be preserved , but it is n't the barbaric activity it 's made out to be . |
| 5 | Now she 's selling , but nobody wants to carry on with the music.Debbie Kelly reports . |
| 6 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |
| 7 | The whole was created beneath the sea and laid down as a series of overlying strata which emerged as an elevated dome , the cap being subsequently removed by erosion . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , never for a second was there any lifting in the murderous artillery blanket laid down by the cannon of the opposing sides , now nearly 4,000 strong . |
| 9 | They were extremely grateful to the Government for stepping in with a £140 rebate because they saw their aunts , uncles , friends , cousins and others elsewhere in the country paying a great deal less . |
| 10 | A multilateral treaty relationship may be broken down into a series of bilateral relationships . |
| 11 | Kummar has tried to show how engineers in private industry have had their work increasingly fragmented and broken down into a series of simple individual steps . |
| 12 | The first group firmly believes that any document can be broken down into a series of discrete specifications which can then be used to automate the production process be embedding encapsulated versions , often called tags , within the source material . |
| 13 | Just as a graph can be plotted by defining the co-ordinates through which the line must pass so any shape can be broken down into a series of co-ordinates . |
| 14 | The project is broken down into a series of well-defined jobs of short duration whose cost and time can be estimated . |
| 15 | The project is broken down into a series of well-defined jobs of short duration whose cost and time can be estimated . |
| 16 | The visit may need to be broken down into a series of short and varied experiences . |
| 17 | The cosy harshness was broken only by a pair of plastic houseplants and by prints of country scenes on the walls . |
| 18 | The couple 's recent past is filled in by a series of ‘ flash-ins ’ , influenced by the French nouvelle vague . |
| 19 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 20 | Behind him his wife 's voice went on , chiding gently about the fruit that had remained untouched on her locker , the meals returned uneaten . |
| 21 | These simply and securely fit on to the 178mm ( 7in ) diameter disc using a Velcro-type fastening . |
| 22 | She was smartly dressed in a grey two-piece suit and posed elegantly on a pair of high heels . |
| 23 | With luck , these two new Windows-based spreadsheets should help Lotus hang on to the 40% of the market it currently controls . |
| 24 | Many of the returnees resisted , and had to be carried on to the aircraft by police amidst scuffles , but officials said that " minimum compulsion " had been used , in contrast to the violence which had marked the only previous forced repatriation attempt in December 1989 [ see p. 37121-22 ] . |
| 25 | As a mere formality , Minton , like others , was then reappointed on to the staff . |
| 26 | The school ca n't market successfully without the staff 's active commitment to the idea . |
| 27 | Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London . |
| 28 | You can learn how to communicate better with the people in your care by : |
| 29 | Without such a review there is a serious danger that existing documentation problems may simply be automated along with the data , thus perpetuating rather than resolving them . |
| 30 | The government also cracked down on the media , closing the Lagos daily newspaper The Punch for three weeks from April 29 and detaining the paper 's deputy editor , Chris Mamah . |