Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had tried , but the rehearsals had gradually taken on the menace of trials of endurance . |
| 2 | It must have had the throat of a raven because it cuckooed its way up and down the valley for weeks on end . |
| 3 | I believe that the hon. Gentleman and his friends have misused those reports in the past , but cutting down the scope for reports from the inspectorate has nothing to do with my proposals . |
| 4 | Here , boards can speed down the course within feet of the beach in consistent summer trade winds of up to 45 knots , and it looks set to become the ideal venue for breaking records . |
| 5 | Those whose task it is to lay down the law on matters of ethics and morality need to ensure that their views are based on a wide knowledge of human institutions and their history . |
| 6 | I stare at it , thinking down the depth of years to that frozen day by the river . |
| 7 | ‘ Someone help Caroline , please , ’ Miss Fazackerly cried , rushing up and down the line of children like a sheep dog . |
| 8 | Once you have run FDISK you should then run FORMAT to lay down the pattern of tracks for each logical drive . |
| 9 | Japan has announced that it intends to scale down the use of driftnets in the run-up to the UN ban which takes effect at the end of the year [ see ED 53/54 ] . |
| 10 | A new drug which could slow down the onset of Aids in people infected with the HIV virus is undergoing trials in America . |
| 11 | An obvious extension of this is that they should attempt to break down the isolation between practitioners in different countries . |
| 12 | Indeed , it was found to be difficult sometimes to keep down the number of journals to a manageable size . |
| 13 | Rothstein argues that patron-client relationships are well suited to the peripheral capitalist development that has taken place in Latin America because they are a way of paring down the number of recipients of industrial gains , when these gains are few in number . |
| 14 | Students may by now feel competent to generalise , and they should be encouraged to write down the number of patterns in a 4 × 2 grid , and test their answer by drawing . |
| 15 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 16 | It was later reported that both sides had scaled down the number of troops along the border . |
| 17 | By monitoring their movements 18 hours a day , stopping and searching their cars and raiding their homes , the RUC believe they have already cut down the number of attacks on Catholics in North Belfast . |
| 18 | TRANSPORT links in Livingston are to come under scrutiny in a bid to cut down the number of cars on the roads . |
| 19 | The reasons for keeping down the number of updates to an inverted file are discussed below , and the form of a dual serial-inverted file system is shown in Fig. 8.4 . |
| 20 | The Dr'gasians were damping down the fire amid clouds of smoke and steam . |
| 21 | Base surges spread out radially in all directions from the base of the rising ash column , rolling down the volcano at speeds of nearly a hundred kilometres per hour and covering an area of more than 230 square kilometres . |
| 22 | Your mum guessed it was Bristol , she went down the list of codes in the telephone book . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Bowstead says that location is quite far down the list of priorities for companies choosing a printer and that P&W is well to the fore in providing services such as pass-the-press which allows clients to check the product during the printing process . |
| 24 | It was notable in one respect , in that it saw the development of Nicholson 's romance with the stunningly attractive former model , Mimi Machu , who appeared in Psych-Out well down the list of credits under the pseudonym of I.J. Jefferson . |
| 25 | This unity in the Spirit bridges the gap between Jews and Gentiles once they become Christians ( Eph. 2:15 ) and breaks down the hostility between men of different col-ours and backgrounds . |
| 26 | An additional plus for the Anatom is its lining , which has in-built Antibac , an antibacterial system which slows down the growth of bacteria on the skin , an unusual but welcome concept in shoe technology . |
| 27 | As no one wanted me in the cabin , my poor mother , who hated coal dust , had to sleep with me on deck while thousands of ‘ natives ’ ran up and down the gangway with baskets of nutty slack on their heads . |
| 28 | Except in thin-shelled populations , adults usually lay down a row of teeth along the lip of the aperture . |
| 29 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 30 | Walk down a row of houses in a pit village today , and ask where the people 's ancestors came from . |