Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes it difficult to place students in ‘ responsible line management roles which make up a valuable part of their training as chartered accountants in business ’ . |
| 2 | It can be useful practice to read through the first sentences of paragraphs which make up a published essay , to see how much work — of summary and of signposting — is being done by these " topic sentences " . |
| 3 | Pathologists who carried out a post-mortem examination on Mrs Henderson said she had developed a chest infection and died from complications due to her head injury . |
| 4 | ‘ Enjoy our disco-bats in their jungle gym in the sky ! ’ was the enticing offer stripped across the GG 's Barnum Room doors , the disco-bats being male acrobats who performed over a net draped just above the heads of the dancers . |
| 5 | Before getting down to their books they searched out a hollow straw and leaned flat across the spring to drink the water which was famed for its coldness . |
| 6 | Every three months they draw up a list of new jobs . |
| 7 | On his way up the paved path between walls of rose bushes he picked up a piece of old iron pipe with his gloved hand . |
| 8 | This is illustrated in the notes which make up a musical tune . |
| 9 | Queen Margaret , white-faced and with dark-ringed eyes , nodded slightly and Catesby prised loose the lid to reveal white , gauze cloths which gave off a sweet fragrant perfume . |
| 10 | The killing of Earnwine , son of Eadwulf , in 740 may have been a prolongation of older rivalries which sparked off a new cycle of vendetta . |
| 11 | Yeah good old laugh , I remember my scout motto , I promise that I 'll do my best and do my duties its going back a long , long way brother . |
| 12 | At a joint one-day Wedgwood and Sotheby 's identification and valuation event at the Westfries Museum , in Hoorn , Lynn encountered many Dutch visitors who brought in a variety of heirlooms or pieces they had collected . |
| 13 | By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other . |
| 14 | The Japanese interned those who surrendered without a struggle and killed all those French elements who put up a resistance . |
| 15 | Third , an option should be created whereby , if the directors themselves set out a full enough statement of their responsibilities , it would obviate entirely the requirement to describe directors ' responsibilities in the auditors ' report . |
| 16 | For many years I huddled over a calor gas stove in the winter and ate beans on toast . |
| 17 | Whilst they only fill a tenth of seats they bring in a lot more income , in Virgin 's case almost half . |
| 18 | Together with the freight stations they took up a considerable area of the city . |
| 19 | There are caves which seem to We went into the caverns and erm saw the petrified caves where they , the water drip on objects and however many years they build up a stone coating . |
| 20 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 21 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
| 22 | It was a good seven-hour jeep-lurch , even with Abu at the wheel , and for the last two hours we drove over a tyre-tearing track down a parched spit of land . |
| 23 | With some of the other interested officers I worked out a syllabus for training selected junior officers in the rudiments of seamanship and navigation using Venturous as a practical training ship . |
| 24 | A little later we saw another cow and then through my glasses I picked up a bull lying down in the distance . |
| 25 | The primary , but not exclusive , focus is on Scottish IT firms which make up a localised sample that could be comprehensively surveyed . |
| 26 | There are children and families who take up a great deal of teacher time and attention . |
| 27 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 28 | They say many of the prospective owners who put down a fifty thousand pound deposit are now looking to pull out . |
| 29 | Can I put the Home Secretary back on the right road by telling him that the reason why morale in the Northumbria police force is low and why chief constables generally despair is not because the right hon. Gentleman suddenly makes a generous offer of help in a crisis , but because all chief constables , including the new chief constable of Northumbria , want consistency of funding so that they can be sure that they will get the officers and resources they require over a number of years ? |
| 30 | Seeing the strangers he let out a shout , and headed towards them . |