Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total amount of vegetables we each eat per year since 1982 has gone from 221lb to 204lb . |
| 2 | However , as a result of my 23 years in teaching , I know that people like that remain in post and nothing is done about it . |
| 3 | The only thing that occurs to me er er and now yo your veteran day from last year a a does any of that , how does you know , cos he does it , how does any of that sit with Rob or do we just say right well we do cos |
| 4 | It is really the Plan Five and Plan Six that that tend to be the bulk of our business , which , as I say , gives up to a thousand pound parts and labour , which is obviously a lot better than two hundred pounds . |
| 5 | The Chicken Plucker is a starting point because everybody loved Letter To Brezhnev , and some of the favourite lines from that appear in the show . ’ |
| 6 | " But I 'm not sure that we ought to leave Maurice , though , " she said , licking each linger in turn . |
| 7 | ‘ When we can , we give out sheets of paper and break each pencil in two so they can carry on . |
| 8 | Some advertise in the local papers — to my mind quite the most profitless form of contact or recruitment . |
| 9 | As experience with the procedure has increased a wide range of functional results has been reported ; some patients achieve virtually normal bowel function , whereas a few suffer from urgency and frequency of defecation and even incontinence . |
| 10 | Some discriminate against University graduates . |
| 11 | Some concentrate on local authority employment , others stress the council 's planning role . |
| 12 | Some concentrate on formal political institutions , others look at economic and social factors . |
| 13 | Some concentrate on the large-scale surface geometry model and structural analysis . |
| 14 | Some concentrate on occupation and are run as industrial units . |
| 15 | Some concentrate on their experience of the significance of the birth , death and resurrection of Christ as a fully revealed paradigm of human potential , others witness more immediately to an experience of the ultimate and ineffable reality which informs the story . |
| 16 | Some combine with , or are part of , a Janitorial Supply House . |
| 17 | In Sussex this species is largely confined to Chichester and Pagham Harbours , where a few remain to summer in many years , although totals of more than 50 are most unusual . |
| 18 | Surprisingly few remain in winter . |
| 19 | Some spiders hide in a handy crevice in the bark of a tree ; some hide beneath a leaf ; and other spiders build a funnel as part of their web and hide in that . |
| 20 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 21 | ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’ |
| 22 | Actually if you 've a complete number of repeats , it does n't matter too much whether it a full repeat or a half repeat at the edges , as both can be mattress stitched to give a continuous unbroken pattern effect . |
| 23 | In my experience , individual plants are not all that long-lived , though some develop into sizeable clumps within two or three years . |
| 24 | Do n't let me fool you into thinking that all the third category bureau are bad , some develop into excellent typesetting houses with none of the pre-conceptions of the old brigade , it 's just the majority who are dodgy . |
| 25 | The steward was out to extract some squeeze from her . |
| 26 | Most adults at one time or another suffer from bleeding gums . |
| 27 | A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way . |
| 28 | It is a change some make in private . |
| 29 | The vestiges of this remain in the legal requirement that spouses should support each other financially . |
| 30 | In terms of sheer size they are sometimes bigger than the countries in which they operate ; they are estimated to control over a quarter of world output ; and their ‘ inter-firm ’ shipments of goods from one country to another account for nearly one-third of recorded trade ’ . |