Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be traced up the boulder strewn fellside easterly of the beetling Kernal Crag , along and over Thriddle Scar ( in which were ancient workings but little other than trials ) across ground with pits , trials and trenches , made by early miners along its strike , to pass below the northern margin of Levers Water . |
| 2 | Durham County Council has given assurances that a close watch will be kept on the parking situation , especially at the weekends and if it was warranted , yellow lines would be placed down the west side of Lakeside . |
| 3 | Chairs must be placed down the room , back to back , one less in number than the players who gallop round them in time to the music . |
| 4 | Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress . |
| 5 | Well it used to be carried on the back and . |
| 6 | No deferred tax asset should be carried on the balance sheet . |
| 7 | Will he ensure that sufficient facilities are made available north of Manchester and Liverpool to allow people and freight to be carried on the trains ? |
| 8 | They might very well , for example , relate to the sorts of implements that may be carried on the procession which even if they are not offensive weapons at the beginning of the procession may become so during its course . |
| 9 | The crew will be volunteers from the Midlands and a special headboard will be carried on the front of the locomotive , one of the Ffestiniog 's unique double engines . |
| 10 | Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s . |
| 11 | However , a surge in voltage of this nature , short-lived or not , may be carried on the mains to other equipment in the vicinity . |
| 12 | As the wind begins to build , the boom should continue to be carried on the centreline and you should not attempt to sheet the main using the vang : because the boom is so long , the mainsheet is a more effective control . |
| 13 | A bar will also be carried on the train . |
| 14 | The station was filled with hissing steam engines ( well , it was some time back ) and one decided to belch , steam and whistle just as we passed , thus managing to blow the youngest daughter 's mind , who demanded to be carried on the spot — and at frequent intervals during the rest of the adventure . |
| 15 | They are planning a 100 per cent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line . |
| 16 | Phillips could be a strong candidate , though Lawrence knows that Pompey 's £1m rated Darren Anderton must be curbed down the right . |
| 17 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 18 | The books were , deservedly , enormously successful and stories in the genre have continued to be written down the years and show no sign of drying up . |
| 19 | Putting the light on would be too risky , but the curtains were drawn back and by now their eyes had become accustomed to a darkness in which could be made out the shapes of furniture and smaller objects , a darkness of monochrome and black spaces and faintly gleaming edges . |
| 20 | No I think it could save lives , because it means that we have immediate access er to what 's going on and so on rare occasions , life and death decisions can be made down the telephone . |
| 21 | As far as the extent of this limited edition being only 200 is concerned , my only reservations are outlined above : namely that a guitar is designed to be used and not coveted wholly as an objet d'art to be hung on the wall , which I suspect is exactly where the bulk of these models are likely to end up . |
| 22 | The TV is regarded as the next generation of home sets , with a flat screen that can be hung on the wall like a picture . |
| 23 | Even punk , once the rhetoric about dole queues , anarchy and Sten guns in Knightsbridge had been exhausted , had become just one more uniform to be hung on the clothesrail of British pop culture , to be dusted down nostalgically on anniversaries . |
| 24 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 25 | We will take your pledge to the Earth Summit where it will be hung on the Tree of Life itself . |
| 26 | For those of us not lucky enough to have a workshop , it 's an invaluable portable work bench which can be hung on the garage wall , and fits in the car . |
| 27 | If paintings or prints are to be hung on the walls it is important to work out beforehand where they are going to go , and to make sure that battens are fixed in these particular areas . |
| 28 | Bit of that that we do in year ten eleven can that be transferred down the line so that there 's a similar type of thing |
| 29 | Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has developed new technology that could save lives : it 's called image link and it allows images from hospital scanners to be transmitted down the telephone line to a consultant at the Infirmary . |
| 30 | For the next couple of days , the Britannia will be anchored up the coast , where Prince Charles will work on a BBC film about the environment and talk to government radicals with whom it was considered impolitic for him to spend time during his official itinerary . |