Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 2 | At the time of a prisoner amnesty in Albania in November 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] Western observers had estimated that political prisoners alone numbered up to 5,000 . |
| 3 | Its satisfactions are of their own kind , though they are satisfactions intimately bound up with the life of each individual reader , and therefore not without their bearing on his attitude to life . |
| 4 | Then his eyes finally flicked back to his secretary . |
| 5 | One does get the feeling , none the less , that many traditional teachers still think of film as being a classroom novelty useful to give their students a welcome treat : yet many students , watching the grey , flickering images uncertainly projected on to unsuitable screens by elderly and noisy equipment in stuffy ill-curtained rooms , may be forgiven for wanting a bit of first-rate formal teaching as a relief . |
| 6 | The M.wt. of proteins N-terminally deleted down to the 73rd , 205th and 356th residue were 69 , 56 and 27kDa , respectively . |
| 7 | This is not a very remote county , but some districts still lost up to one-fifth of their population in only 20 years , roughly equivalent to the 17.6 per cent decrease that occurred in the population of the Scottish Islands during the same period ( Dunn et al . |
| 8 | Presently a governor of two Suffolk schools , the task is increasingly time consuming , responsible , unpaid and costly in terms of petrol consumed ( no travel expenses paid ) , but still rewarding in terms of relationships within the schools carefully built up over the years . |
| 9 | As soon as it did , the air rushed out of the compartment , and the flight of steps automatically extended out beyond the craft . |
| 10 | Frankie 's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he clapped eyes on the room and its contents , especially what was laid out on the table . |
| 11 | Mrs Hnatiuk 's eyes nearly popped out of her head . |
| 12 | Celia 's big eyes nearly popped out of their sockets . |
| 13 | The panoramic vista over the Thames to Westminster is breathtaking.As I sit , gazing at the glossy art books carefully laid out before me , I become aware of a clipped , militaristic voice behind me . |
| 14 | Social order on the street had the characteristics of a truce , a lull in which warring parties tacitly held back from strife . |
| 15 | In many ways the CPVE conforms very closely to the goals originally set out for the GCSE . |
| 16 | Her aunt nodded and her eyes strangely spilled over with quick tears . |
| 17 | Then the ledge below , the rock edge ripping his hands , and his shoulders almost jerked out of their sockets as he fought his boots flat for a hundredth of a second against the cliff face . |
| 18 | From where she stood on the gravelled forecourt , she saw that the flight of steps ahead led up to the living accommodation at the higher level , no doubt to exploit the panoramic view , while below , built into the slope , were the garages and stores . |
| 19 | Canon Healey has asked that Hospitality members should write to him as soon as possible with nominations for the duties of matron and chief handmade to the pilgrimage , both roles previously carried out by Mrs McDermott . |
| 20 | Still fresh and green at the back end , it could provide a juicy supplement to the diet of a early calving cow , or for the smallholder 's animals newly brought in to the byre for the winter . |
| 21 | again after the war , in this country , they erm , the lighting manufacturers never got round to it , there are too many er , there 's , there was too much call for er lighting in offices , shops , schools and that sort of thing and er , so a lot of the idea did come from abroad at first , the er Fin |
| 22 | A more mundane application is to the reduction of interfering mains-frequency signals accidentally picked up in circuits designed to operate at even lower frequency , for example in direct-current circuits . |
| 23 | This chapter has portrayed the implementation process as a complex one , in many respects inextricably bound up with the policy-making process . |
| 24 | The technology has evolved from operations already carried out at coastal sites in Scotland in which lengths of oil and gas pipelines are made into bundles which are towed offshore at control depths for installation at oil and gasfields . |
| 25 | The town 's ambulancemen had four times just arrived back at their station when they were called out again to the Spa , bringing in contestants with injuries including a black eye , broken nose , concussion and a damaged foot . |
| 26 | Their activities thus linked up with more general efforts to protect the rural environment . |
| 27 | These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them . |
| 28 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 29 | The campaign showed few issues and , with the Conservatives overwhelmingly backed up in the popular press , was wholly one-sided . |
| 30 | At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry . |