Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although sprayed on the outside of the banana plant , the pesticide had been absorbed into the fruit . |
| 2 | It 's no good to them , this land if sold in the on this particular piece of land , they 've sold all the viable access off to the residents of the have n't they ? so there , there 's no right of way really for them to get down there , and it should be cheap . |
| 3 | We would pick baskets of these , which would be taken home and bunched , and on the next morning taken to church to line the choir stalls and to be put in jam jars and attached to the outside of the pews down the two aisles . |
| 4 | Two or three people have been having problems with the listserv software here this week , and it 's been to do with personal mail addresses , as shown in the From : field of the header of every message each of us sends . |
| 5 | When used with the to infinitive , on the other hand , find denotes rather the discovery of a fact : ( 96 ) I measured the tail of the dead rat , and found it to be two yards long . |
| 6 | In this respect cause recalls the impression of an enabling condition associated with the verb help when used with the to infinitive . |
| 7 | Palmer ( 1988 : 199 ) proposes that when followed by the to infinitive , verbs of perception function as verbs of reporting , so that He saw the children to be eating their lunch means " He reported the children to be eating their lunch " . |
| 8 | The trading position of the British economy is one crucial factor here , not only as expressed in the ex post trade balance but also in the constraint posed on expansionary demand management . |