Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The time was now about nine-thirty , and I must have looked ghastly , for a young nurse who popped in with a set of pyjamas sized up the situation in a second and popped out again , running down the corridor calling for help .
2 So you actually write down questions so much going on you ca n't be expected to remember everything and if you 've got just you know sort of questions written down the page like what is your name , it 's simple as that it gets you to do , what ?
3 In one instance , a pupil 's dissertation was " lost " through an operating error but a number of pupils divided up the work , which was in final draft , took it to the computer room and keyed in the text in sections .
4 Publication of the standards is part of a series of initiatives taken over the last few years , including production of the ‘ Best Practice ’ management kit in 1985 , The Society 's model ‘ Office Manual ’ [ 1987 ] , the development of management training , and publication of the ‘ Quality Briefing ’ and ‘ Client Care Guide . ’
5 It is also worth noting that they were concerned with an attempt by a defendant in proceedings brought in the county court by a local authority to challenge the relevant decision of that authority .
6 Pollen analysis from samples taken on the spot have proved to be of prehistoric vegetation , while carbon dating of fragments of burnt wood have suggested a date of roughly 16,500 BC .
7 The discovery instead went to a professional astronomer , Konrad Rudnicki , who shortly thereafter found the comet on photographs taken on the large telescope at Palomar Mountain .
8 She was admitted for mobilisation , but tests requested the next morning on samples taken on the evening of admission showed a serum glucose concentration of 56.1 mmol/l .
9 The dismantling of the welfare infrastructure and the encouragement of the pursuit of profit has at times taken on the mantle of a moral endeavour .
10 Further minor straws in the wind were Archbishop Makarios ’ request for British help in Cyprus in December 1963 , which drew in most of the Strategic Reserve 's 3rd Division before a hand-over to the United Nations could be negotiated ; and the quelling of the military mutinies in newly independent Tanzania , Kenya and Uganda in January 1964 , at their governments ’ request , by Commandos brought on the aircraft-carrier Centaur from Aden and by units of the Strategic Reserve in Kenya .
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