Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew that if he kept under the trees , he should be able to crest the Monument yet remain hidden from the mysterious workers . |
| 2 | Today , eighty women sit scattered on the brownish-grey stony ground . |
| 3 | Severed human limbs , heads and trunks lay scattered over a wide area ; other human remains , accompanied by tattered shreds of uniform , hung grotesquely from the remaining tree branches . |
| 4 | A pile of boxes lay scattered like a demolished chimney . |
| 5 | The Government remain committed to the Anglo-Irish Agreement unless and until agreement can be reached on new and more broadly satisfactory arrangements . |
| 6 | After all , if ‘ the system ’ really was bent upon the form of totalizing control that according to Foucault psychoanalysis , for example , enables , it is worth recalling that psychoanalysis has never been adopted by the state as such and that its activities remain confined to a few very limited districts in a handful of prosperous cities round the world . |
| 7 | In both types of chromatography , portions of each component remain dissolved in the mobile phase . |
| 8 | Strategy and reform remain trapped in the ideological confines of New Right political thought . ’ |
| 9 | The distinctive nature of the ends is reinforced by the fact that the occupants are often physically con fined to the particular area for the whole of the football match . |
| 10 | Darley Anderson has sold television rights to Martina Cole 's bestselling Dangerous Lady ( which Headline bought in a two-book deal for £150,000 ) . |
| 11 | They arc shown as a dotted arrow . |
| 12 | This sense of purpose and of confinement to " legitimate " objectives is briefy conveyed in a single sentence describing events at Malmesbury : " They seized all the corn ; sold it at 5s [ 25p ] a bushel , and gave the money to the right owners . " |
| 13 | Although Robert Teeter remained as the nominal head of the Bush campaign , it was generally acknowledged that Baker would use his new post to exercise overall and ultimate responsibility for the campaign and attempt to provide it with a greater degree of coherence . |
| 14 | This means that you do n't have to wait for WSP to read all the text on any page and then edit out the unwanted bits , but can tell it exactly what you want read in the first place . |
| 15 | He joined the Scholars ' Movement in 1907 , was arrested , and some say imprisoned on the notorious island of Pulo Condor , where political prisoners were exiled . |
| 16 | He was caught in a massive police hunt launched after the four fled through a hole in a fence around the jail playing field . |
| 17 | also it looked like Ronnie ‘ the runner ’ Rosenthal was in excellent shape for Israel against France — he looked sharp as hell from the glimpes Ive seen of the israelian goals — is he still at Liverpool ? ? |
| 18 | Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme . |
| 19 | Fifteen different infectious agents wer isolated from the gastrointestinal tract of HIV infected patients at stage IV of the disease , the most frequent agent was cytomegalovirus ( Table IV ) . |
| 20 | It can be seen that the Office machinery and data processing sector is particularly export orientated with an average 79% of turnover being aimed at overseas markets . |
| 21 | But hope faded after the wrecked hull of their 27-ft vessel , the Peganina , was spotted . |
| 22 | This was the cause of his deafness , which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's OUR H-Bomb ! ’ screamed the Daily Express headline after the British test at Christmas Island , which put paid to the still lively hope that the nuclear club would not extend beyond the two super-powers . |
| 24 | Foul weather with squally winds put paid to an immediate start on the building so it was several months before the engine strip-down could begin under the new roof . |
| 25 | A high turnover of newcomers does not have a serious effect on the community if a substantial group of native families remain rooted in the same spot , but if over the years it is the oldest families that are emigrating then the parish structure will be unstable . |
| 26 | The author of those words lay slaughtered beside the gimballed plasteel chair . |
| 27 | The employer appealed to the EAT but the EAT agreed with the Industrial Tribunal . |
| 28 | He loved to dwell also on the analogies between plants and animals , remarking in 1843 that ‘ both kingdoms seem pervaded by a double representation of each other ’ . |
| 29 | What worries me , and probably a great many other people in Britain , are the other terrible truths that lie hidden in the small print on my statements . |
| 30 | Mary and Reggie said , " Do sit down and join us , " but just as the six had repelled Mary and Reggie , so now did Mary and Reggie seem surrounded by an invisible current : Keep off . |