Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could almost imagine oneself back into the Middle Ages but for the fact that technology has marched on through the centuries to replace rough-hewn bows of Yew with fibreglass ones , equipped with very advanced sights . |
| 2 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 3 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 4 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 5 | ‘ We pulled out all the stops to produce extra stock needed to meet the charter flights , so the paint could be flown in over the weekends . ’ |
| 6 | Oh yes we the boys were taught along with the girls , yes we were , we were all on , just in the one room . |
| 7 | A possible framework for comprehensive assessment is offered through the concepts of quality of life and risk : two related , multidimensional concepts which can be translated into statements of purpose and scope as well as broken down into the factors which constitute quality of life and risk . |
| 8 | Reconsider this planned essay with the introduction broken down into the parts as suggested . |
| 9 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 10 | Alcohol is broken down by the chemicals called enzymes in the liver through which blood circulates once every four minutes . |
| 11 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 12 | Instead we leave the pictures to be stripped in at the printers , and get a better image as a result . |
| 13 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 14 | It is a top-down approach in that the entities are identified first , followed by the relationships between them , and then more detail is filled in as the attributes and key attribute(s) of each entity are identified . |
| 15 | Erm , I like it there to be filled in by the managers older by about two years or so . |
| 16 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 17 | This serial number will be filled in by the lexicographers and will represent the order in which the Project Director requires the forms to be actioned . |
| 18 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 19 | President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution . |
| 20 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 21 | ‘ Even though PDAG is not to be abolished until next April , it seems members have already given in to the Tories . |
| 22 | Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ? |
| 23 | Even foreign tourists who had not yet caught on to the realities of life in Romania and perhaps were over-insistent in demanding from a minor bureaucrat of the tourist office why some essential and prepaid feature of their holiday had failed to materialize would be confronted by a shrug of the shoulders and the muttered words , ‘ Epocha Ceauşescu , as the only explanation . |
| 24 | ‘ It was voted on by the clubs but there has been no ratification of that by the management committee . |
| 25 | They have been spied on by the paparazzi , betrayed by trusted servants , embarrassed by indiscreet friends , and have had to endure a constant torrent of innuendo , gossip , lies and half-truths in newspapers , magazines and books — none of which are they able to repudiate . |
| 26 | Were they picked on by the police , the people in the , cos that seems a pretty severe sentence . |
| 27 | Willie carried on following the dots between the lines and then stopped . |
| 28 | She watched it keenly through opera glasses from the third row of the empty stalls , and I do n't know how the poor actress carried on under the circumstances . |
| 29 | The lease was not renewed but the partners carried on under the terms of the existing one . |
| 30 | 5.15 Re-letting boards To permit the Landlord at any time during the last [ 6 ] months of the Contractual Term and at any time thereafter [ unless the Tenant shall have made a valid court application under Section 24 of the 1954 Act or otherwise be entitled in law to remain in occupation or to a new tenancy of the Premises ] [ ( or sooner if the rents or any part of them shall be in arrear and unpaid for longer than [ 28 ] days ) ] to enter upon the Premises and affix and retain anywhere upon the Premises a notice for re-letting the Premises and during such period to permit persons with the written authority of the Landlord or [ its ] agent at reasonable times of the day to view the Premises It is not unreasonable for the landlord to be entitled to erect a re-letting board at the premises within a reasonable period prior to the termination of the term unless the tenant proposes to apply for a new tenancy of the premises , provided that the board is in a position so as not to interfere with the tenant 's or any undertenant 's business being carried on at the premises . |