Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery . |
| 2 | A discharge from the urethra can sometimes be demonstrated during the medical examination , but , since the urethral opening in the female is hidden between the folds of the labia , such a discharge will not be apparent to the woman herself ; even if she examines herself , the natural moistness of this part of the body will tend to mask any contribution from the urethra . |
| 3 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 4 | Council representatives heard about the experiences of two representatives — Tony Fox FCIB , Worthing , and David Dimmer FCIB , Bristol . |
| 5 | Very many people heard about the riots in the area last year , and heard the authorities ' explanations for them , but this programme attempted to find the root causes of the problems . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you 've heard about the traces of tranquillisers found in the deceased 's blood ? ’ |
| 7 | Yet he also makes clear that a number of the best poets in his anthology were unbothered by developments in London : ‘ Some homely writers had clearly never heard about the requirements of polite taste ’ [ ECWP , p. xxvi ] . |
| 8 | All three groups , being sea-dwellers , have left behind abundant remains and the details of their separate dynastic fortunes can be traced through the rocks for hundreds of millions of years . |
| 9 | The bronze sheeting was held to the cap , cheek-pieces , neckguard and mask by fluted strips of bronze riveted through the edges of the foil to the cap of the helmet . |
| 10 | Hanson 's Peabody subsidiary is criticized for the effects of its coal mining activities on Navajo land in Arizona . |
| 11 | Professor Bourdieu 's work is of great , great value and is one of my main sources of inspiration for the sociology of culture developed through the pages of this book . |
| 12 | Associated with cost is the gap that has developed between the ways in which essentially the same text is used by different groups of people . |
| 13 | It also , and this is new , includes ‘ the type of company and its principal business activities , ’ the type to be ‘ given by reference to the classification prescribed for the purposes of this section , ’ while the principal business activities ‘ may be given by reference to categories of any prescribed system of classifying business activities . ’ |
| 14 | Penteli was an important quarry near Athens in Greece and recent research has distinguished between the products of the upper and lower quarries . |
| 15 | The situation had been compounded during the elections in the previous month when the Nationalist had taken seventy-three seats out of a total of one hundred and five , and out of those , forty-two of those elected were in jail for various offences related to their opposition of the British presence in Ireland . |
| 16 | Jehan fumbled for the short sword which he kept tucked between the straps behind his saddle . |
| 17 | There are regular guided tours of the state rooms of the chateau , whose contents and decoration were mostly arranged during the restorations of the nineteenth century and are not very remarkable , with the exception of the tapestries . |
| 18 | The complicated ballot sheet was also relatively easily altered for the purposes of electoral fraud . |
| 19 | Commonly , rectal distensibility is determined as rectal compliance and calculated as the changes of volume and intrarectal pressure ( ) . |
| 20 | A summary of the limits of cover under the special scheme arranged for the holidays in this brochure is shown below . |
| 21 | It had apparently been arranged for the drugs to be delivered to a warehouse in Bristol . |
| 22 | Neighbourhood Watch A meeting has been arranged for the residents in Baberton Crescent and the scheme should be operational in a short time . |
| 23 | Neighbourhood Watch A meeting has been arranged for the residents in Baberton Crescent and the scheme should be operational in a short time . |
| 24 | Patterson had arranged for the solicitors in Bloomsbury to ring him immediately the jiffy bag arrived , so that end was covered and I was pretty sure that 's where the Airborne messenger was heading without further interruptions . |
| 25 | Had she arranged for the sets to be changed three times during a dinner party , she would have seen to it that everybody noticed . |
| 26 | A cheese ‘ n ‘ wine evening has been arranged for the co-ordinators of the existing neighbourhood watch branches in the Village Hall on Monday , 28th September at 7.30 pm . |
| 27 | A cheese ‘ n ‘ wine evening has been arranged for the co-ordinators of the existing neighbourhood watch branches in the Village Hall on Monday , 28th September at 7.30 pm . |
| 28 | At the Apollo 16 landing site ejecta from the crater South Ray was examined for the effects of exposure and it is estimated to have been exposed on the surface for about 2 Ma . |
| 29 | If the plant material needs to go in a press , a small one is probably adequate for your needs , and will not be too heavy to carry , and if it should be pressed between the pages of books , then take a supply of blotting paper and telephone directories with you . |
| 30 | However , I do still have a squashed , rather brown and mildewy rose pressed between the pages of a book somewhere , so I suppose that could be classed as my first attempt ! |