Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A full report will appear in the December Fly/Past , but some of the prize ‘ lots ’ were either withdrawn or bids came nowhere near their allotted reserves . |
| 2 | Up to 4,000 spectators are expected and police believe around 500 journalists from around the world will cover the 3pm service . |
| 3 | One day in May I remember , the sun shone , the wind dropped and larks flew straight up from the fields , singing with astonishment when they felt the warmth in the air . |
| 4 | When part of the roof collapsed and flames rose half as high again as the manor house , the firefighters drew back and restricted their efforts to keeping the outbuildings of the farm damped down . |
| 5 | A canoe nudged a bank of reeds where herons and ibises perched and swallows swooped overhead . |
| 6 | It is through other black kids that some aspirations are fostered and others snuffed out by stories of racialism . |
| 7 | Often local wells would become polluted from sewage tanks , leading to outbreaks , and sometimes as happened in Upper Halling , homes were evacuated and wells sealed off . |
| 8 | The Rayner Review stated : ‘ Particular attention needs to be paid to all information collected or costs incurred primarily to meet demands outside central government … in general there is no more reason for govermment to act as universal provider in the statistical field than in any other . |
| 9 | Cleaning does not contribute anything positive in terms of product manufactured or meals served so results must be achieved efficiently at minimum cost and disruption to the main operation . |
| 10 | A FAMILY returned home from a holiday weekend last April to find their home ransacked and goods valued over £5,600 stolen . |
| 11 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 12 | Colours were then applied and copies taken off . |
| 13 | There were parts I would not have selected and others left out that I would have included , but as the whole thing had to be condensed into twenty minutes , I was reasonably pleased with it . |
| 14 | Evidently , corpora have increased in size as resources have expanded and techniques become more refined . |
| 15 | I am not persuaded that the jurisdiction of the visitor involves such exceptional considerations that this principle should be departed from and that some grounds be accepted and others held not to be available for the purposes of judicial review . |
| 16 | Such an idea led to isolated fragmentation of the forest , but in the 10 years up to 1977 over 11000 km of roads were built and settlers moved in . |
| 17 | Not much profit came from these transactions but friends were made and contacts kept up that were to prove useful in the peace . |
| 18 | Its civil jurisdiction was encroached upon , as contracts made and wrongs done abroad or at sea were brought within the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts by fictions , such as the pretence that such towns as Bordeaux were within the area of , say , Cheapside , so that many international commercial transactions were considered to be purely municipal . |
| 19 | We provide all linen for the Motel , and beds are made and rooms cleaned daily . |
| 20 | But there is no agreement on the way these costs should be calculated and estimates vary so widely as to make them practically meaningless . |
| 21 | In the grounds , beer tents had been erected and caterers brought in to provide coffee , snacks , lunches and other light refreshments . |
| 22 | Dinner is also the time when schedules are arranged and days planned out . |
| 23 | The mucosa was examined and lesions scored macroscopically according to the presence of petechiae or necrotic mucosa ( Table II ) . |
| 24 | The picture plane is further emphasized by the complete lack of aerial perspective ( the far houses are , if anything , darker and stronger in value than the foreground house ) , and by the fact that occasionally contours are broken and forms opened up into each other . |
| 25 | Body bags were being zipped and trolleys shuttled back and forth . |
| 26 | And lots of lean-to teashops with their sticky mud floors , mud walls with greasy pictures of gods and film stars ; the hole in the ground at the back where plates and glasses were washed and mouths swilled out ; grimy tables with uneven legs ; ants and wasps crawling around on the food displayed in front of the shop . |
| 27 | ‘ Priority ’ means that when the unscheduled but proverbial shortages arise , the Armed Forces receive the ration promised and others go without . |
| 28 | Her mother sat by the fire , her knitting lying in her lap , eyes closed and spectacles slipped down her nose . |
| 29 | He detailed his expenses , listed work accomplished and projects lined up . |
| 30 | A warning was given but residents had only a few minutes to get out before the blast rocked their houses . |