Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups formed last year will carry on working at four other tasks : cellulose losses , tow motor ( forklift truck ) costs , maintenance store stocks and quality information . |
| 2 | The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean . |
| 3 | Not only do we need to build up a collection of RBGE staff publications , but we should also ensure that external researchers given significant access to RBGE facilities agree to deposit copies of their publications , reports and theses within the Library as a condition of use . |
| 4 | Thus whereas the bare infinitive allows for the incidence of its event to a support situated within the confines of event time , the mechanism of incidence provided for by the verb form itself is inoperative when called upon express an incidence to a support situated prior to the time contained in the event . |
| 5 | Howard 's accounts received such widespread attention at the time and are still read two hundred years after his death because he so precisely ‘ set down matter of fact ’ . |
| 6 | Nevertheless I could not believe that Parliament intended such a construction because it will produce what I regard as such unfair and absurd results . |
| 7 | But , even at this stage , there are many hurdles to overcome , as a conference of City experts highlighted last week . |
| 8 | You will notice all five fingering patterns placed one after the other . |
| 9 | The former reflects the effects of contracts formed last period currently in their first period , and the latter reflects the effects of contracts formed two periods ago now in their second period . |
| 10 | The analysis of local politics became instead an analysis of ‘ urban ’ politics , a change given academic respectability towards the end of the 1970s , when the Political Studies Association changed the name of its Local Politics Group to the Urban Politics Group . |
| 11 | It concluded that the support given varied inversely with the degree of natural handicap ! |
| 12 | For example , support given some years ago to a postgraduate in Theoretical Chemistry , Mark Bayley , led to offers of collaboration between Bristol , Yale and a German University . |
| 13 | The number of contracts undertaken each year is approaching 10,000 deriving from thousands of customers in 50 countries , but 14 top customers in the UK and Europe still account for 70% of all business sales . |
| 14 | There is , according to Quinn , no single moment ( or relatively short period ) in which all the different aspects of the company are considered together and then each part given precise goals for the foreseeable future according to some tight , analytical , holistic master plan . |
| 15 | Plans mooted some months ago by Wimpey Asphalt to infill Ratho Quarry during their expansion operations led to an outcry by local residents and Edinburgh climbers . |
| 16 | It should be apparent from the brief description given that a contract audit is capable of providing a means for improving the management and control of a contract . |
| 17 | Many member states regarded these aims as too ambitious and the targets as too high . |
| 18 | It is arguable that this is a practical necessity given limited time and resources , but it is also arguable that a discontinuity in teaching methods and learning experiences is likely to result . |
| 19 | Or ring the numbers linked to the offers : calls prefixed 0839/6 cost 33p/per minute cheap rate , 44p/per minute other times . |
| 20 | While American war plans placed great reliance on these bases , the advance of the USSR to nuclear status was leading to reappraisals of the vulnerability of the British Isles to Soviet air attack . |
| 21 | There was the inevitable council estate , the houses painted pale green , blue , pink , as in some child 's drawing , and then , round a bend in the lane where you might have expected open fields , half a dozen houses of 1950s or '60s provenance , lavishly appointed , glamorously gardened , with big garages and big cars outside them . |
| 22 | The narrow street that led into the town was lined with tall , thin houses painted pale fruit colours — apricot , rasp-berry and greengage . |
| 23 | Joint studies in 1953 did produce agreement that the Zagros mountains ( in Iran ) provided the best line of defence given appropriate support on the flanks from Iraq to Pakistan . |
| 24 | Does he agree that the cut of £19.9 million from £262 million in the 1992-93 budget is a dramatic reduction given that the proposal for the programme of building and house repairs in Northern Ireland agreed by the Government was already the lowest in the history of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive ? |
| 25 | In all these examples the women worked away from home and for the most part received independent wages . |
| 26 | One of three hotels under the same management , the Hotel Belvedere is an elegant period building situated opposite Lake Maggiore 's lakeside promenade , close to the boat pier and within easy reach of the Pallanza town centre and its attractions . |
| 27 | Finally naked , they gazed at one another in the muted light from the lamps placed either side of the bed . |
| 28 | Several cars , headlamps painted deep yellow or with brown paper covering all but a central strip of the light , started up and resumed their journey in the wake of the No 18 . |
| 29 | Mind you , there wo n't be too much muttering about top-roping from other Scottish climbers given that almost every ascent of Fated Path ( on the same crag ) has been top-roped prior to leading , despite that route having fixed protection all the way up ! |
| 30 | With a large stock the order of main classes may not be particularly important , although most users would appreciate disciplines placed adjacent to related disciplines . |