Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking to steal a march on watchful eyes I set off from the Cross Inn ( not long established as the only hotel and bar ) at 6.15 a.m. and headed for Port of Ness and the Butt of Lewis . |
| 2 | The lads I put on to it had to look behind every one of those bloody paintings for a wall safe . |
| 3 | Last night a benefit concert was set to take place at the Bristol Bierkeller , featuring Extreme Noise Terror , perhaps Britain 's foremost thrash band , now legendary for turning out songs which clock in at under one second . |
| 4 | Quick-growing root vegetables such as radishes and carrots which grow out of sight can be compared for size when they are pulled at various times . |
| 5 | He is plagued by demons which go back to his childhood and his torment intensifies as a train hurtles him away from or maybe towards a crime . |
| 6 | It reproduces by releasing single-celled spores which drift off in the sea and grow into new plants . |
| 7 | When ripe these pear-shaped fungi are filled with dust-like spores which pour out of the small central opening at the slightest movement . |
| 8 | But the security and long-term attractions of many of the investor/developers , as opposed to the property traders which hold on to little of what they develop , makes many of the downgradings a nonsense . |
| 9 | In turn , this creates even more secret cabals which go off on their own and carry out unauthorised operations , firmly believing that their plan is the only way to make progress . |
| 10 | I welcome my hon. Friend 's robust attitude , but is it correct that it is still possible to export calves which end up in crates that would be illegal in this country ? |
| 11 | The state also has authority to determine disputes which arise out of the operation of its laws . |
| 12 | Unlike a bus , its wheels are guarded by lifeguard trays which drop on to the rail when the hinged gates under the front of the tram are swung back upon impact . |
| 13 | Around the main harbour are the resort 's bars , restaurants and shops which spill out onto promenades , but perhaps more magnetic is medieval Malcesine . |
| 14 | Every few weeks he will have to spend a weekend at home near a telephone on call to handle any emergencies which crop up in the area . |
| 15 | The surface of each of the dendrites which branch out from the neuronal cell body is covered with synapses — perhaps up to ten thousand in all — arising from the other neurons which thus make contact with them . |
| 16 | In some cases , where large aa lavas flow from land into the sea , this is true , and great quantities of steam are generated , while the lava is broken up into small glassy fragments which pile up in thick heaps at the front of the flow . |
| 17 | The fact that trajectories which wander out of the region may later return ( after wandering chaotically near the strange attractor ) is of no concern ; we are concerned only with trajectories that remain forever within the small region , and a strange collection of these is removed . |
| 18 | This is overlain by further sandstones and silty red-beds which pass up into the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone . |
| 19 | Instead of being built on a mound , natural or artificial , and surrounded by a moat , Dunbar 's rose in lofty towers on a series of pointed rock-stacks which thrust out of the sea , these linked ingeniously by covered stone bridges . |
| 20 | In the attic they uncovered an exciting collection of 19th century Cambridge University calendars year books which fit in with the fact that Mr Edelson was closely connected with Trinity College . |
| 21 | Any Radio 4 fans who settle down to ‘ The Archers ’ had a bonus on August 2nd if they stayed tuned in after the programme , because it was followed by a programme called ‘ Performing Miracles ’ and featured Sheila Dicks . |
| 22 | In the accompanying story Madonna describes fans who hang around outside her New York apartment as ‘ not very bright ’ . |
| 23 | Thus the papers are relieved by the new , softer , explicitly pacifist and green hip-hop , like De La Soul ; or by reformed characters ; or by rappers who turn out to be pillars of the community ( Run DMC funding Sunday schools , or KRS-One starting a Stop The Violence campaign ) . |
| 24 | We offer four £5 book vouchers to readers who come up with the wittiest gag about scientists and engineers . |
| 25 | On the supply side , services would be provided by hospitals still directly managed by health authorities , hospitals and community units who opt out of health authority control and become self-governing NHS trusts , private and voluntary suppliers of services . |
| 26 | The rest are occupied by morose couples , mostly women , pairs of widowed sisters or spinster daughters with ageing mothers , and two Golden Wedding survivors who gaze out of a window across the green expanse of Parkers Piece , having run out of conversation years ago . |
| 27 | The relationships you build up with our clients and the advertisers , with the clients you 're working in their own er their offices for three weeks so you get to know people . |
| 28 | They both played spies — ‘ spies who meet up in that ludicrous wonderland of revue ’ . |
| 29 | A travel company from Thailand has contacted the People 's Committee about the possibility of bringing in tourists , and the governor of the province , An He , is keen to talk to the few foreigners who pass through about his hypothetical Riviera . |
| 30 | It is for the benefit of the inspectors who come up from Paris for the biannual audits . |