Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does n't always work and older beginners are soon put off by this attitude . |
| 2 | Despite everything , a lot of burglaries are still carried out via the front door . |
| 3 | For Tagalogs , it is a rather amoral possibility : violent individuals are respected , but there is a less than human quality about them and violent acts are often carried out under the cover of a real or assumed drunkenness . |
| 4 | German housewives are so fed up with their lives their 4,000-strong union is going on strike . |
| 5 | To Sulentic 's surprise , he has also found that the connection can be traced right into the central nucleus of NGC 43 19 — very much as we might expect if , as Arp has often suggested , high redshift objects are somehow shot out from the centres of otherwise normal galaxies . |
| 6 | Those that survive and hatch are then pounced on by water beetles , dragonfly larvae and many kinds of fish . |
| 7 | Operations are now carried out on special trolleys which are hinged to allow the head to drop below the feet , ensuring a continuing blood supply to the brain in the event of sudden loss of blood pressure . |
| 8 | Attitudes are still read off from attributes . |
| 9 | There were no French madrigalists but , beginning in the 1560s , the native polyphonic chanson was given new life by the immensely popular example of Lassus , whose chansons are often shot through with madrigalian techniques . |
| 10 | He confirmed the view that among perfectly ordinary people , who were neither Pharaohs nor priests , full brother-sister marriages occurred in a minimum of nine out of the 113 marriages he analysed , If the less certain cases are also included along with marriages between half-siblings , the proportion of incestuous marriages was of the order of 20% . |
| 11 | Chemical reactions are commonly carried out in open vessels such as beakers and test-tubes . |
| 12 | Other tales in The Silmarillion are better worked up into narrative , and yet seem to spring likewise from single scenes , single outcries . |
| 13 | And , Carol , I suppose your spare time activities are largely taken up with your family these days ? |
| 14 | Alan Cooke , who has the disadvantage of playing ‘ cold ’ in the doubles while his opponents are invariably warmed up from previous games , hit a cascade of winners in the crucial mid-match doubles . |
| 15 | Be warned , however , that while outputting slides is relatively cheap skilled operators are often charged out at up £50 per hour ! |
| 16 | Spontaneous precipitation from surface waters is actually fairly rare because most of the carbonate a ions are weakly bound up with magnesium ions in surface waters . |
| 17 | But governments seem unable to learn that the high taxes are inevitably passed on to the consumer as part of the cost of operating a business : Taxes have to be paid , and just as fuel and power bills are borne , tax liability forms part of the overall cost-recovery necessary for the survival of a business . |
| 18 | The toughest quality checks are then carried out on your finished carpet . |
| 19 | Psychological experiments of the rats-in-mazes kind are always set up in such a way that , even if the animals concerned had been capable of exercising individual judgement in such a way as to wreck the experiment , this fact would escape detection . |
| 20 | The molecules are consequently held back in the liquid phase and the vapour pressure is lower . |
| 21 | These molecules are then picked up by receptor proteins on the surface of the second cell . |
| 22 | These parsers build the parse tree by starting with a rule whose right-hand side is a sentence , S. The rules are progressively expanded down to the rules having the lexical categories that match the input . |
| 23 | Their calls are immediately taken up by the whole team and the spectators on the ground so that the forest rings with wild and terrifying shrieks . |
| 24 | Perhaps the changes to Illustrator are best summed up by stating that the program has simultaneously made itself more accessible to the average user and significantly more useful to the professional . |
| 25 | Today , when facing the outside world , the strategy of senior civil servants is also frequently one of hedging ; programmes are often put up to three donors simultaneously , so that the influence of one can be offset against the influence of another . |
| 26 | Power circuits on a modern installation are also wired up in one of two ways , as ring or radical circuits . |
| 27 | It has to be pointed out , to those who are sure that Eliot is a great poet , what vast tracts of human experience are never touched on in his poetry . |
| 28 | Nail clippers , combs , toothpaste and toothbrushes , razors and washbags are neatly laid out on tables in the cells to await the arrival of inmates , many of whom will not be carrying such items because they may not have expected to be remanded in custody . |
| 29 | The contents of the memorandum of association are statutorily laid down by s. 2 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 30 | As the beetle lumbers into the air , the stiff wing covers are usually held out to the side , a posture that inevitably hampers efficient flight . |