Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And already the thin strands of cloud , the outer rings of the immense , whirling storm , begin to drift over the southern islands — Po Toi , Sung Kong , Waglan Island , the Ninepins — and the wind and the waves begin to bustle about in the harbours . |
| 2 | Coal and nuclear power will be the most " readily available " energy sources when oil reserves start to run out in the middle of the 21st century , according to the latest projections by the World Energy Council ( WEC ) . |
| 3 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
| 4 | For example with education , it 'll be a terrible thing for education if the middle classes continue to contract out in the way that they are so we have a divorced system of independent education quite separate from the state system . |
| 5 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 6 | After several more rounds , things began to warm up in the ‘ Barge ’ public bar . |
| 7 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 8 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 9 | ‘ In no way will there be enough teams left to carry on in the age groups concerned . |
| 10 | The remaining diagrams of Fig.9.1 show how these phenomena continue to show up in the profile . |
| 11 | Tradesmen presenting inflated bills have no interest in countering the popular belief that slow payers tend to end up in the Hudson River wearing cement slippers . |
| 12 | Subsequently the council 's own officers told the inquiry that a pedestrian had been killed on Hollyhurst Road because he could n't find a safe place to cross , that ambulances struggle to get down Hollyhurst Road in emergencies , that residents cars are blocked in their drives and that buses have to drop off in the middle of the road . |
| 13 | Nearly all children want to go out in the snow and , if they are suitably dressed , they can have many mathematically rewarding experiences as well as lots of fun . |
| 14 | Increasing amounts of pesticides , herbicides and fungicides are used in agriculture and these chemicals tend to build up in the soil and are absorbed by our food plants . |