Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [vb pp] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fewer birds are involved than in spring , but up to 75 have been seen passing down the Channel in a day , and once 200 ( 19 November 1972 , Selsey Bill ) . |
| 2 | Parties have been seen flying up the Channel , presumably on migration , twice in April ( 4th , 1961 , and 7th , 1969 ) , and once in March ( 30th , 1971 ) . |
| 3 | Regulations have been made setting out the circumstances and the way in which the name of an RFL may be changed on the register . |
| 4 | Numbers vary , but up to 650 birds have been noted passing up the Channel in a spring , and movements of 50 to 100 birds in a day are an annual event ; 234 flying east off Beachy Head on 15 April 1968 is the largest single movement noted . |
| 5 | Such birds as starlings , which mimic many sounds from their environments , have been heard sounding off like factory sirens , ice-cream van signals or even police cars in a hurry . |
| 6 | Falling over toys that have been left lying around can be fatal for elderly people and very serious for children . |
| 7 | Since the introduction of the laser more operations have been performed bringing down the surgery waiting list . ’ |
| 8 | White , yellowish and orange lights the size of a baseball have been reported moving around , sometimes performing aerobatics . |
| 9 | But then large portions of Jackson 's years as a recording artist have been spent picking back through complications he had no intention of creating . |