Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minerals may simply be absent or present in negligible amounts , either naturally , through exhaustion by previous crops , or leached out by climatic conditions . |
| 2 | In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ . |
| 3 | No Yugoslavs who have come into the hands of Allied Troops will be returned direct to Yugoslavia or handed over to Yugoslav Tps against their will . |
| 4 | If this is done , then the work of individual teachers within the school contributes to the general pattern of pupils ' development , rather than being wasted because it is not adequately prepared for , or followed up by other teachers . |
| 5 | Many of these woods have been abandoned or grubbed up for agricultural use . |
| 6 | The fact that , for various reasons , Crosland opposed suggested ‘ transbinary ’ mergers — including Lancaster and the University of Warwick , Brighton and the University of Sussex — strengthened the feeling that the new public sector was being protected or singled out for special development . |
| 7 | Feelings do not have to be ‘ justified ’ ; they do not have to be rational ; they should never be judged as OK or not-OK , or covered up with positive thoughts and affirmations . |
| 8 | I like to sprinkle them over miniature salads and , mixed with fromage frais , either stuffed into small peaches or rolled up in smoked salmon with a tarragon aspic . |
| 9 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 10 | Whether hand-written or e-mail typed , these records are informal , frequently out of context or mixed in with other subjects and meant purely for internal consumption . |
| 11 | Friends of the Earth water campaigner Linda Stupples said : ‘ The report fails to discuss the real options and blindly assumes the consumer either has to pay up or put up with polluted water . |
| 12 | Although pupils with little or no sight will , with training , be able to cope with a variety of environmental situations and even obstacles such as odd chairs , waste-paper baskets or sharp-cornered pieces of furniture scattered or left about in unexpected places , these are an unnecessary and possibly harmful source of trouble for those with visual problems . |
| 13 | Before sunset ( and particularly if a shower is expected ) each row can be raked into a large number of small cocks , or rowed up into narrow swathes . |
| 14 | Class sizes are generally larger than PTRs , because not all teachers actually teach ( heads , for instance , spend most of their time on administrative work ) , because marking and preparation duties restrict direct contact hours with pupils , and because sometimes classes are combined or split up for various periods . |
| 15 | We are told that Russia will disintegrate , or split up into separate republics , but we have no reason to fear this . |
| 16 | First , problems are so complex that they are normally factored , or split up into separate problems , each of which can potentially be tackled by a sub-organization . |
| 17 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 18 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 19 | Having photographed these averagely attractive , effectively anonymous members nestled amongst feathers , emerging from a bunch of Iris buds , tucked up with a wad of £10 notes , or wrapped up in black fishnet material , the stage is ostensibly set for the viewer to compare these peculiar juxtapositions with those more commonly seen in the media where the female body is used instead . |
| 20 | This Board held that in the particular circumstances — the contracts having been neither framed nor carried out in British India — the profits derived from the contracts did not there accrue or arise . |
| 21 | But throughout his unrelenting , Rabelaisian first novel , Jonathan Meades is hard on his brainchildren , ludic with his fictional strategies , and generous with his lexiphanic complexities : wide-ranging , courting the surreal , and buoyed up with diabotic turpiloquence , Pompey reads like something by John Irving with Tourette 's syndrome . |
| 22 | These data buttons have been chosen and laid out with great logic , giving the player instant and sensible choices for altering patches , or the parameters which go to make up those patches . |
| 23 | His last customer took the smile with him as he unwillingly left the warm room and limped back with chattering teeth to the unwelcoming flat at the top of the stone stairs . |
| 24 | Then I skidded and slanted through into Public Baths Surf . |
| 25 | ‘ Let the Council clear it up , ’ he said , and doubled up in silent mirth at the thought of flouting authority . |
| 26 | As for the Lost Boys , they were cast from a politically correct mix of ethnic groups and blimp shapes , and zipped around in funky MTV gear and Mohican hair-dos , spouting street jargon . |
| 27 | payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter . |
| 28 | Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself . |
| 29 | The examining teams are selected by the chief examiners and made up of practising bankers — members who are interested in keeping up to date and ‘ putting something back ’ into the profession . |
| 30 | A share is not a sum of money … but is an interest measured by a sum of money and made up of various rights contained in the contract , including the right to a sum of money of a more or less amount . ’ |