Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Office accommodation , with the possible exception of the Foreign Secretary 's residence , would be almost the same as that laid down in the competition . |
| 2 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
| 3 | It was enacted that the vill should not be required to pay the cost of service beyond the county boundary , that the equipment required of troops should not go beyond that laid down in the Statute of Winchester , and that service overseas should not be required as an obligation of tenure . |
| 4 | The defence and prosecution cases are each made up of an introduction , testimonies of witnesses , and a summary . |
| 5 | It 's an insult to feminism and I 'd like to know how much that cost out of the rates . |
| 6 | This resolution was offered as a substitute for that reported out by the Budget Committee , and if accepted would give the president virtually all the cuts he had asked for . |
| 7 | According to witnesses two of the alleged assailants made their escape together via the Docklands Light Railway , while another made off across the park . |
| 8 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 9 | There is a clock on the cooker ; another on the video ; another on the dashboard of the car ; another built in to the pocket-calculator ; yet another on the end of the pen she uses ; another on the device that switches the boiler on and off ; yet another on the outside of the tall building Steven passes in his car on the flyover . |
| 10 | And thinking of her gynaecologist , surely such a step could not be taken without his sanction and the idea of asking for this seemed out of the question . |
| 11 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 12 | Another came down near the Leprosy Hospital , St. Bartholomew 's , and pieces of wreckage from these two aircraft are still currently on display in the Malta War Museum . |
| 13 | This spilled over to a fall in the reservation prices . |
| 14 | All of this added up to an ‘ inaccessible market ’ . |
| 15 | And this came about through a sequence of catastrophes , movements of people , and trade . |
| 16 | This came about through the fact that although Mondrian made use of the Cubist grid-system of Composition , he had already begun to develop a new form of painting which finally culminated during the war in the purely abstract idiom of De Stijl and Neo-Plasticism . |
| 17 | This came about in an equally haphazard fashion . |
| 18 | The answer to this came out of a completely different approach introduced by a British mathematician and physicist , Roger Penrose , in 1965 . |
| 19 | George Tinsley , of the Tap and Barrel 's owners the North Yorkshire Brewing Company , said : ‘ This came out of the blue , it was a total surprise . ’ |
| 20 | But this came out in a stumbling , heavy voice ; he still could hardly believe it all . |
| 21 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 22 | ‘ I thumped one of them then another turned up with a gun . |
| 23 | She turned up ten days later , stranded on a coral reef in the Bahamas with most of her gear missing and her starboard bilges half ripped out by the savage coral heads . |
| 24 | Most of the true species are single-flowers , and seldom bloom beyond the one initial burst — this showed out in the early English crosses . |
| 25 | Some hit out at the IRA . |
| 26 | This tied up with the number who had breeding stock and were therefore likely to be needed as assistants at a calving or lambing . |
| 27 | This tied in with the time factor where the pressure to get things done at the end of the day could lead to dangerous short cuts and a consequent drop in efficiency . |
| 28 | This tied in with the position and colour of the spot when it first appeared . |
| 29 | This grew out of a Loan Exhibition ( accompanied by lectures ) of scientific apparatus for the 1862 Exhibition at South Kensington , which turned out to be a pale shadow of the Great Exhibition of 1851- the death of Prince Albert adding to the gloom . |
| 30 | A log rolled and half fell out of the grate , making Robyn jump suddenly . |