Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FoE 's local branch had paid £2,000 for a stretch of disused railway land , which it then sold on in square-metre plots to 1,700 supporters . |
| 2 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 3 | According to the CIA report on the October 3 coup bid , when the dictator was imprisoned in his bedroom , he phoned his mistress , who passed on to loyal troops his message that the uprising could be thwarted . |
| 4 | It has been given new genetic information by injecting DNA into the nucleus and this will be inherited by all the cells in the body and passed on to future generations via the germ cells . |
| 5 | Such errors would not he passed on to future generations but would die out . |
| 6 | A similar course held at the beginning of the year in Brasov , attended by sixty people including teachers , nurses and doctors , was particularly encouraging as much of the material was , in turn , passed on to other colleagues for their use . |
| 7 | A practical means of identifying approximate levels of output uncertainty also requires that some basic recommendations are made about how this variability can be retained , used and passed on to subsequent operations and applications using the data . |
| 8 | These are then collected , distilled and passed on to social workers and others in basic texts , training manuals , child abuse courses and conferences ( cf Moore , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | The other kind of sex I learned about was the meaning of the four-letter words the boys chalked up on the playground wall , though the explanations were inadequate and puzzling , passed on by other children and received with incredulity . |
| 10 | The latter are sometimes necessary to clear either the after-effects of these infections or inherited traits passed on from infected forebears before other remedies can work to clear up the case . |
| 11 | They were found at the bottom of drawers , in filing cabinets , and stuffed in amongst other papers . |
| 12 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 13 | ‘ I feel that the trading standards officers have exceeded their authority by requiring Mr Wilson to conform with standards laid down for new stations and not established premises . ’ |
| 14 | Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity . |
| 15 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |
| 16 | Cuttings were made to ease the original gradients , causeways laid down in difficult places , and the roadway widened . |
| 17 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 18 | The extracellular matrix laid down by microbial cells in microbial biosensors will show a more random orientation of structural components , but these can also have a dominant influence on the flux of the product and the substrate . |
| 19 | The sounds , laid down by resident DJs Ali Cooke and Ralph Lawson with high-profile guests , are slinky house and garage , although the eclectic ‘ tribal-acid-funk ’ mix in the upper room might feature Nirvana , The Cult or Duran Duran . |
| 20 | Most came to terms with the constraints of the existing order but a radical wing refused to do so and dreamed of a society run on rational lines laid down by acknowledged experts ( themselves ) — a society they dubbed ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 21 | Second , I agree with the suggestion made by Martin Howe that there should be an express list laid down by national parliaments of protected matters which no Community law should be allowed to affect . |
| 22 | She lives with Roche above the city in a ‘ Californian ’ company house on the Ridge : this suburb , barricaded , fireproof perhaps , but lived in by prospective quitters of the country , supplies a further scene for the events of the novel . |
| 23 | payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter . |
| 24 | Inspector-Generals of Prisons drafted in from other fields with little knowledge of , or interest in , prisons , while ‘ high flying ’ young administrators see the prison department as one to be avoided ( Sharma 1985 ) ; |
| 25 | The water swirled in over small pebbles , widening into a narrow , deep , fast-flowing stream ; shaded from sunlight by overhanging branches . |
| 26 | In the opening scenes of The Quatermass Experiment stock film library footage is used of a V2 rocket blasting off , coupled in with sub-orbital shots of the Earth 's surface as seen from the stratosphere . |
| 27 | A tradition passed down by early historians of the Dominican Order would make Alexander already a teacher of theology at Toulouse in 1215 , when his lectures were attended by the order 's founder , St Dominic . |
| 28 | The shortcomings focussed on by alternative suppliers a |
| 29 | It was wound up in 1950 , as Europe moved on to other things . |
| 30 | People smiled , and the conversation moved on to other things . |