Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pickers were diverted on to another plot after the theft was discovered . |
| 2 | The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage . |
| 3 | Dustin , with darkened eyebrows , oily black hair smoothed down on either side of a central parting , dark sunglasses and Italian gestures , wastes much of his talent in this frenzied , intermittently funny satire on Italian customs . |
| 4 | The projected future population growth rate for Wales is then broken down for each county . |
| 5 | Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient . |
| 6 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 7 | this is the er survival technique take your coat off supposing you in London tube and it 's broken down plus this thing 's not as useful , do you remember what happened , know how starts to get cold , take you w wearing a coat in winter take your coat off |
| 8 | He a attended courses , and on a couple of occasions he 'd travelled down with another officer to collect prisoners . |
| 9 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 10 | Only one copy of Section 1 needs to be filled in , but ideally separate copies of Sections 2 , 3 and 4 should be filled in for each course taught in the appropriate field . |
| 11 | The flying logbook is an official document which is carefully filled in after each flight , and after each month 's flying the entries are verified and then signed by the Flight Commander and the Squadron 's Officer Commanding as being correct . |
| 12 | As the media caught on to this aspect of the cult , it caused some skins to leave the movement and more violent people to join it . |
| 13 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 14 | The development strategy adopted in the Greater York study never envisaged that the settlement , or the district that got the new settlement would therefore get a corresponding reduction in the amount of land it had to provide to meet the needs of the Greater York area , the strategy we use to identify sites within the Greater York area that could be developed without compromising greenbelt objectives , and that the new settlement would be added on outside that area without a reduction in that that figure . |
| 15 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 16 | Or the quarry would have carried on with this slate mine . |
| 17 | No doubt he himself would have difficulties : but he thought that the Conservatives , without entering into any general undertaking , would support his Government , which would not embark upon any extravagant legislation ; and in this way the King 's Government might be carried on for another Session or even longer . |
| 18 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 19 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 20 | That the document containing the statement was produced by the computer during a period over which the computer was used regularly to store or process information for the purposes of any activity regularly carried on over that period , whether for profit or not , by any body , whether corporate or not , or by any individual ; |
| 21 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 22 | Inspection has come in for much discussion today as a major part of the Bill . |
| 23 | The various caveats expressed in 6.8.4 on the use of statistical techniques by sociolinguists are not as negative as they might seem , since recently the overuse of significance testing in social science research generally has come in for some criticism . |
| 24 | However , the NRA has come in for some criticism for not taking action . |
| 25 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 26 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 27 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 28 | Yet someone had come in by that door , very softly , and was now motionless just within it , hesitating to advance into the choir and interrupt the second office of the day . |
| 29 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 30 | The ladies ' K4 500m was slotted in at this point and although Dallaway/Davey/Eastwood/Thorogood were 8th in their heat they went into a semi final which acted as a repêchage . |