Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Antarctic waters El-Sayed and Weber ( 1986 ) reported that up to 70% of chlorophyll a in the water column was contained in particles smaller than l um . |
| 2 | Lewis at his meeting with Hall on 4th August agreed that up to £5,000 could be spent on premiums , and Hall in his letter to Hunt on 21st August at first suggested fifteen premiums , five for each design , with the offices treated equally . |
| 3 | It cost £7 , and how he afforded that out of army pay , I shall never know . |
| 4 | A joint meeting in Hanoi on Jan. 17-19 , 1990 , noted that up to August 1989 seven joint search missions had been conducted in Vietnam in a bid to seek information on MIAs . |
| 5 | Observers of inner-city youth noted that along with smoking and clothes , talking about sport was the main amusement of lads on the street-corner . |
| 6 | In Britten 's War Requiem the tenor solo ‘ It seemed that out of battle I escaped ’ ( see Example 91 ) is accompanied by an unchanging sustained 4 minor chord , indicated to be played ‘ coldly ’ . |
| 7 | A one-way system meant that out of season hold-ups were rare , but in the peak summer months when the holidaymakers poured in by the dozens in their hire cars the village often became jammed . |
| 8 | She knew that in between Formula One obligations he had , amazingly , managed to keep his construction interests afloat . |
| 9 | I thought that out of sight was out of mind and put my handbag inside a shopping bag , which I zipped up and then left in my shopping trolley . |
| 10 | We agreed that without our set we felt as out of touch as two visitors from outer space . |
| 11 | It suggested that up to 20% of the school population might have such needs at some time in their school career ( previously around 2% of children had been legally classed as ‘ handicapped ’ ) . |