Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the use of continuing our race if it is to go on in darkness ? ’ |
| 2 | For the exasperated livestock farmer , with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house , for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby , and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site , the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics . |
| 3 | One corner of this shop is partitioned off for brake work , brake testing , metalling of axle-box and other bearings and for dealing with passenger communication apparatus , etc . |
| 4 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 5 | Further evidence of Starfield 's commitment to quality is provided by the fact that every guitar which comes into the country is checked over by repairer Martyn Booth before being dispatched to the shops . |
| 6 | The huts provide water and toilets , and cooking is done by bottled gas which is flown in by helicopter ; there 's no electricity , of course . |
| 7 | Secondly , if the company is insolvent when the charge is registered out of time , it is vulnerable to challenge by the administrator or the liquidator . |
| 8 | It 's about ordinary people in an ordinary world and the most special thing that can happen to anybody is to fall in love , and the worst is to fall out of love . |
| 9 | He 's struggling along at present with fifty or so sheep , growing a bit of food for himself along with his winter feed for the beasts . |
| 10 | Directly in front of the house beyond a huge weeping beech tree so big it 's propped up with telegraph poles in concrete . |
| 11 | Distribution is broken down by region : — |
| 12 | Moser ( 1978 ) typically deals with the way information is broken down in interpretation from sentences and context into meaning , and one can only presume that she proposes a similar process for the reconstruction of the message in the second language . |
| 13 | Therefore , in looking at this diagram , one needs to realize that to the southwest er and just east of er Strensall erm the area is filled up by greenbelt . |
| 14 | After his Mirror Group Newspapers is floated in April , Robert Maxwell is stepping down as chairman of Maxwell Communication Corporation , and making his son Kevin chief executive . |
| 15 | There are two safer bets : Lord ‘ Derry ’ Irvine , Labour spokesman on legal affairs and long-time favourite for the Woolsack , who is backed by John Smith ; and Peter Archer , the former Solicitor General , who is stepping down as MP for Warley West . |
| 16 | That one 's broken down by business size , and all of them are available on cheshire or self-adhesive labels . |
| 17 | The film tantalises us — and Evelyn , who is hanging on to Ninny 's every word — right to the end . |
| 18 | In backing a Petrakov plan , Mr Gorbachev risks popular unrest as well as revolt within the Communist party ( and perhaps the resignation of his prime minister , Mr Nikolai Ryzhkov , if economic policy is rammed through by decree rather than through his government ) . |
| 19 | Our red-haired chanteuse is propped up in bed . |
| 20 | John is tucked up at home : they want to talk about him . |
| 21 | Next day John is tucked up in bed at his flat in Tufnell Park . |
| 22 | The aqueous solution is shaken up with ethoxyethane ( ether ) in a separating funnel and allowed to separate ( see figure 6.27 ) . |
| 23 | In a sense Lecercle ( whose own name doubtless encouraged him to consider the surplus meanings language provides ) is sticking up for parole , the language as she is spoke ( or written ) . |
| 24 | This should be supported by the health service as part of the programme of development that any large organisation must adopt if it is to remain up to date and use its resources cost effectively . |
| 25 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 26 | Erm she is struggling out of dependence on others into independence is n't she ? |
| 27 | What with Windows World upon us , Unix System Laboratories Inc , possibly a victim of show envy , is branching off into show business . |
| 28 | What with Windows World upon us , Unix System Labs , possibly a victim of show envy , is branching off into show business . |
| 29 | Software Partners/32 Inc which has laboured long in the DEC vineyards is branching out into Unix for the first time . |
| 30 | How the materials of buildings change is examined in On Weathering : The Life of Buildings in Time by Mohsen Mostafavi and David Leatherbarrow with examples drawn from Alberti to Le Corbusier ( £26.95 ) . |