Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [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 | The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago . |
| 3 | Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I do n't quite know why , but anyhow if they do feel old at 75 , then they ought to be shaken up a bit . |
| 7 | If they could be spaced out a bit , then it would probably be easier and less likely to be trouble . |
| 8 | If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores . |
| 9 | It follows also that gravity has a negligible effect on small animals , because their surface to volume ratio is so large : if , for example , a mouse was to be dropped down a 30-metre well-shaft it would be stunned , but would scamper away relatively intact because wind resistance acting on its relatively larger surface would counteract the pull of gravity . |
| 10 | Mr Bresslaw had collapsed once before , in October last year , and on that occasion he had to be carried on a stretcher out of a show business dinner . |
| 11 | ’ Is that a volatile load to be carried on a motorway ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Well it used to be carried on the back and . |
| 14 | No deferred tax asset should be carried on the balance sheet . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s . |
| 19 | However , a surge in voltage of this nature , short-lived or not , may be carried on the mains to other equipment in the vicinity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A bar will also be carried on the train . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They are planning a 100 per cent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line . |
| 24 | decided that by using a temporary coupler from the motor to the drive shaft some preparatory work for making the change could be carried out a year before the main change , reducing the delay . |
| 25 | Project appraisal involves many calculations which must be carried out a number of times to produce a proper sensitivity analysis . |
| 26 | This torture would be carried out every week until someone admitted to killing the boar . |
| 27 | ‘ We are of the same height exactly and , if necessary , the bodice could be let out a trifle . ’ |
| 28 | Phillips could be a strong candidate , though Lawrence knows that Pompey 's £1m rated Darren Anderton must be curbed down the right . |
| 29 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 30 | 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 . |