Example sentences of "[noun pl] thrown [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , it was a way of coping with some of the contradictions thrown up by the rise of Fordism . |
| 2 | Frightened now , hemmed into the confined space with no escape , they ran in unison , a few steps one way , then the other , heads thrown back above the shifting bodies , yellow eyes ablaze . |
| 3 | Changing this would require a vast input of resources : the best way forward would be to capitalise on all the training opportunities thrown up by the existing system . |
| 4 | Natives put upon the scent found military accoutrements and other articles thrown out of the same chest , so that the drawings were clearly the object of the theft . |
| 5 | It has survived from the early 1930s because of its craggy independence , its non-institutional base , its ability to adapt to new social movements thrown up by the working-class and oppressed groups and , most important , its radical philosophy and perspective . |
| 6 | Trees might be planted or earthworks thrown up to the north of a house to disperse harmful ch'i emanating from that quarter . |
| 7 | ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’ |
| 8 | If it were to continue throughout the decade the structure of the game could change significantly , by forcing counties to employ only a small force of top-class full-time professionals supplemented with part timers and the many amateur cricketers thrown up in the recreational game . |
| 9 | While many indigenous workers moved up into better-paid , pleasanter and more skilled jobs , the immigrants were left the dirty , hard and low-paid work in the foundries and textile mills , as transport or catering workers or in sweat shops and small factories thrown up by the post-war boom . |
| 10 | They had been draped with canvas to protect them from the rain , and a watchman in wet buckram saluted civilly , then stepped back in haste to avoid the splashes thrown up by the hooves of the passing st'lyan . |
| 11 | Those assurances had been demolished by the revelations thrown up in the collapse of the Matrix Churchill trial , said Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown . |
| 12 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 13 | What is clear , I think , is that to refer to the whole debate as a ‘ scandal ’ is grossly to exaggerate the position , and it disregards the very great scientific problems thrown up by the apparently simple question of whether low-level lead exposure does indeed produce the alleged effects . |
| 14 | Full tax benefits for gifts to non-profit bodies thrown out with the General Revenue Act |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ he continued , ‘ the materials thrown out of the exploding star went to form further stars — like our Sun , and the planets — like the Earth . |
| 16 | Creatures thrown up by the sea , stalled on the sands , undecided , indecisive , neither hot nor cold , neither fish nor fowl . |
| 17 | A liquidator of the best men thrown up by the Revolution , a torturer , a racialist on a Hitlerian scale , a defeatist when war was going badly , and a mind of insatiable vanity and paranoid suspicion was exposed . |
| 18 | A week that had seen all her safe , conventional standards thrown out of the window , and irretrievably altered her life . |
| 19 | Some things do n't change : the ritual screams ; the garments and flowers thrown on to the stage ; and the suggestiveness . |
| 20 | There were four calls , and flowers thrown down from the boxes ; , then the cast had gone . |
| 21 | A melodramatic storyline of incestuous desire , Unrequited love and violent revenge ; a mythic framework of gods in conflict and supernatural mosters thrown up by the sea . |
| 22 | ESTATE agents valuing every house in Britain for the new council tax have had many of their estimates thrown out by the Inland Revenue . |
| 23 | Closer to the smoking fire , Blake could see that the colours of the flames varied with the different amounts of crushed rocks thrown on to the pyre . |
| 24 | Gourlay and Australian pair Ian Schuback ( the defending champion ) and Commonwealth gold medallist Rob Parrella saw their bowls thrown out of the championship when they failed to pass the compulsory green test . |
| 25 | SO Tory MPs thrown out by the electors in April are finding it difficult to get jobs . |