Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But after an hour she had sewed enough and she felt a shift in the air .
2 Although judges were appointed by the authorities at the remaining levels ( circuit courts , judicial tribunals , and the Senate , which acted as a court of appeal ) , they could be dismissed only if they broke the law themselves .
3 Yet such a demand must be clearly formulated so that it challenges the stereotypes of women 's role .
4 The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink .
5 One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ?
6 The Seven Points to Remember were revised so that they mentioned the four types of diarrhoea ( previously described ) and stated that all four types should be treated with LGS .
7 It must be redesigned so that it illuminates the choices facing the country — not , as now , obscures them .
8 A bedcradle was placed so that it relieved the weight of the bedclothes from her legs .
9 The congregation raggedly joined in as he invoked every dark force in the universe .
10 Double and triple installations can be arranged so that they use a constant flow of water , which is introduced into the rinse sink , overflowing by weirs wash sinks , to discharge continuously via an overflow pipe fixed in the wash sink .
11 On the other hand , taking the issue costs of equity shares to the statement of total recognised gains and losses may be considered right as it reflects the nature of these costs as a permanent loss of capital .
12 He skirted the branch that lay across the path and carried on till he reached the feeding-place .
13 Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded .
14 According to Judge Abraham Sofaer , Brunei was picked especially because it received no assistance already , and would seem to be returning no favours ; it was never intended to get anything beyond appreciation .
15 Looking after a child is a full-time job , not something to be slotted in when you have a spare moment . ’
16 By 1870 the old city ramparts and defensive gateways had been torn down because they hindered the greatly increased flow of traffic .
17 No sooner had they sat down than they heard the distant ring of the telephone .
18 Charles Archer says , ‘ I had just been manning my gun and had sat down when we took the hit .
19 You may feel ready to embark on more strenuous exercise ; but do talk to your doctor before you get carried away if you have a history of heart trouble or high blood pressure , or any other health problems such as bronchitis or emphysema .
20 Peeping up at him , she just as quickly looked away when she saw the devilry in his eyes .
21 I just do n't know what was wrong with it , I 've work , Jason said Ja we a subject turned to what he wore in bed Ja and Jason said nothing , right but he said when it 's winter I wear my t-shirt and the pants and I cuddle up to my glow worm and we was all taking the mickey out of his glow worm , right so I 've come home and I read the paper and I 'll see glow worm in it , so I cut it out and give it to him and he stuck it up in the factory !
22 But now the ring leader Smyth Harper , 16 , has owned up that they invented the story for a laugh .
23 The auditors picked up that we had a pink purchase order form which was neither a commissioning letter nor a contract .
24 Next to his plate was a jotting pad and pen which he must have picked up as he passed the navigation station .
25 ‘ Things have really sort of speeded up since I became a Muslim .
26 The turn can be speeded up if you take a step back on the board and depress the windward rail .
27 His tutor was Cambridge boss John Beck who took a gamble on the lad who was nearly booted out because he had no bottle .
28 Er I 'd , I 'd picked out because I knew a lot about the client whereas here I know nothing about the client .
29 This is a paradoxical fact for those empiricists who think that new theories are derived from the facts in some way , but it is quite comprehensible when it is realized that precise experimentation can only be carried out if one has a precise theory capable of yielding predictions in the form of precise observation statements .
30 People who were incredibly enthusiastic at first dropped out because they thought the language barrier would be a major problem , even though they were assured that an English-speaking teacher would accompany the children .
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