Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly from among the lichen and lank chickweed drawn up by the gloom of the canopy , comes the first flash of pink . |
| 2 | Each one can be thought of as a chemical factory which , in the course of delivering its primary product of usable energy , processes more than 700 different chemical substances , in long , interweaving assembly-lines strung out along the surface of its intricately folded internal membranes . |
| 3 | Legislation to tackle joyriding drawn up in the wake of last summer 's Tyneside riots comes into effect tomorrow . |
| 4 | They resembled whales lined up outside the headmaster 's office — huge humps sprawled over many kilometres . |
| 5 | Yeah we 've got loads left over from the funeral . |
| 6 | With so much media space currently devoted to the heinous depredations the naked ape has inflicted on his habitat , it seems an inappropriate moment to celebrate the career of an artist whose entire work reflects his abiding faith in mankind ; an artist who gloried in presenting humanity dressed up in the paraphernalia of a glamorous performer , or as an honest victim of other men 's rapacity , so as to elicit for him the onlooker 's sympathy . |
| 7 | I 've managed to overcome the problems and I get around quite quickly — but I 've got chunks knocked out of the back of all my necks where the slide catches ! ’ |
| 8 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 9 | Similarly , Protagon have had tests carried out on the performance significance of being able to adjust string tensions . |
| 10 | A couple are planning to drive their vintage Rolls Royce through the Alps to help children caught up in the war in Croatia . |
| 11 | She has been appointed a ‘ Goodwill Ambassador ’ by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees after her work to help children caught up in the conflict in Bosnia . |
| 12 | In an effort to avoid delays brought about by the technical procedures of the district courts , police court decisions were not subject to appeal and lawyers were barred from appearing in trials . |
| 13 | The Consumer Concerns survey carried out by the National Consumer Council ( NCC ) in 1979–80 revealed a quarter of all respondents encountering problems walking in the previous year , over half of which were considered serious . |
| 14 | The chlorine is picked up as aerosols droplets containing salt for example from breaking waves taken up by the atmosphere , carried over the land , rained down again , gets into the rivers and ends up back in the sea . |
| 15 | The Bank of England 's main concern was to head off potential operational difficulties caused by settlement and clearing problems facing banks forced out of the area . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The statutory curriculum to be followed by the nation 's five to 16year-olds from September reflects guidance drawn up by the county 's PE teachers two years ago . |
| 18 | We 'll have Anne tied up in the libraries for two or three days going through the periodical indexes , that 'll be another hundred plus whatever the xerox charges are . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not science , ’ says Alex Perge of the Department of Energy 's nuclear waste office , which has been studying the possibility of dumping tonnes of slightly contaminated soil left over from the Manhattan nuclear project . |
| 20 | Her dark , tousled head popped out of the collar , a grinning Jill-in-the-box : ‘ Pretend the ball is one of Swallow 's . ’ |
| 21 | The result of this is likely to be that close work will present few difficulties , but more distant visual tasks such as reading sentences written up on the blackboard will give problems . |
| 22 | Sandblasting of the Great Slab area at Stanage to remove graffiti painted on over the August bank holiday has had the beneficial side effect of totally cleaning the afflicted area of chalk and rubber marks , and has also increased the friction . |
| 23 | It was n't what I wanted — even then I did n't feel it was right to get Ebert thrown out of the force for something he 'd said in a heated moment . |
| 24 | But such paradoxes were unlikely to convince businessmen brought up on the economic theory of the ‘ wage-fund ’ , which they believed to be a scientific demonstration that raising wages was impossible and trade unions were therefore doomed to failure . |
| 25 | Different special certificates can be obtained ( at a price of £1.50 ) to show banks , social security and building societies , for claiming from friendly societies , and for claiming insurance taken out on the life of the person . |
| 26 | Kate , still frightened she might be recognised , had chosen to have meals sent up to the apartment from the nearest restaurant . |
| 27 | We had money left over from the Cow and Gate appeal and we are going to buy special waters and rehydration equipment for babies who have suffered from dysentery and diarrhoea . ’ |
| 28 | Had IBM known back in the early 1980s what it knows now , it would have opened up its VM operating system , which also has its roots in development , but , coming from the button-down IBM world has many more security and management features than Unix started out with . |
| 29 | In order to drive the model servos from the serial port of a computer a protocol converter is required to translate messages squirted out of the port into pulses that the servos can understand . |
| 30 | On Jan. 29 President César Gaviria Trujillo made a fresh offer , extending an earlier decree to include crimes committed up to the time of surrender , and on Jan. 30 the Extraditables , maintaining that the police had in fact killed Diana Turbay , announced that they were reconsidering their latest declaration of war and would abstain from violent action for the moment . |