Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has that formed a satisfactory basis for planning ? |
| 2 | Insurance , building societies , unit trusts , banks have each developed an ombudsman scheme . |
| 3 | This presupposes that given a low level of development of the productive forces , and a correspondingly low level of consumption by producers , a significant rate of growth not only depends upon the rate of investment but also upon an increase in the consumption of the direct producers . |
| 4 | The conventional method of recording orchestras was to place microphones throughout the ensemble ; Fine contended that given a hall with excellent acoustic properties , a single ultra-sensitive microphone should be capable of capturing the sound of a symphony orchestra with unprecedented clarity , balance and definition . |
| 5 | But our experience has shown that given a modest toolkit and a few carving gouges , persistence and enthusiasm for the project , almost anyone can achieve a highly satisfactory result . |
| 6 | One surprising factor is that given a new case is only around £50 there is nothing stopping you from moving everything into a new box if the old one is n't big enough to take a standard size motherboard . |
| 7 | My aim in this article is to show that given a relevance theoretic approach to utterance interpretation , it is possible to develop a better understanding of what some of these so-called apposition markers indicate . |
| 8 | If I was to tell you that given a perfect world that has the highest earning potential of all our companies |
| 9 | Well I think that when I said that I think that given a man and a woman of equal qualifications I was assuming that that had been taken into account . |
| 10 | If one were to do something that is statistically nonsensical — and when has that stopped a security analyst in his tracks ? — and make a sum of the percentage changes since the start , bookish securities have outperformed the UK market by 64% . |
| 11 | Clean changes were possible given a little patience , but moving from first to second was reminiscent of shovelling coal — sometime the lever slid into place , sometimes it jarred my whole body . |
| 12 | Several of the Tarvarians were leading strings of three or four remounts , all of them unsaddled , and Rostov and the others were each assigned an animal . |
| 13 | Ordinarily there are two marker beacons , the OM and MM , each situated a certain distance from the runway threshold . |
| 14 | When McLaren first showed its supercar , potential customers — and the press — were each given a copy . |
| 15 | With our wives we were each given a flat in blocks opposite each other . |
| 16 | They were each given a two year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £35 costs . |
| 17 | These are flying lanes , arranged more or less like the lanes of a superhighway , each given a name and a number , all clearly designated on maps , and designed by the International Civil Aviation Organization 's Air Navigation Commission to allow civil aircraft to fly in relative safety when far from land . |
| 18 | Gifts were part of the occasion too : 3,500 children gathered in the Town Hall on the morning of 1 August , 3,000 of them from the Baptist Sunday schools and the rest from the Lancasterian and Infant Sunday schools , and were each given a booklet commemorating the end of apprenticeship . |
| 19 | In a large establishment employees are each given a works number , which is entered in numerical order on the weekly payroll sheet or a separate payroll sheet kept for each department . |
| 20 | When the children were between four and seven years old , they were each given a task — a video-type game — and were assessed on their levels of cooperation and concentration . |
| 21 | For the first time since the Civil War , Industry and Commerce were not lumped together , but each given a separate ministry . |
| 22 | Was that considered a hard thing at the time ? |
| 23 | About an hour earlier they had each dropped an Ecstasy tab . |
| 24 | Towards the end of the afternoon Crane riding ahead as usual reported a smoke signal some miles to the west in the direction they were going . |
| 25 | ‘ I checked the files , because that rung a bell somewhere . |
| 26 | One six year old painted a picture of a strawberry in a murky green in spite of the bright red of the original fruit , and it is usually the red/green part of the spectrum that is affected , although blue/yellow deficiency may occur or there may even be a total loss of colour perception . |
| 27 | He did not explain why , and this placed a distance between them . |
| 28 | However , although theoretically this assigned a primary role to the struggles of colonial peoples ( a position which seemed to be at least partially vindicated by events in Turkey , Persia , India and China ) , Soviet foreign-policy considerations determined that discussion of colonial problems be suppressed at the 1921 Third Congress . |
| 29 | Each of the 300 occupied a slightly different ecological niche : some living among the rocks inshore ; some in the depths ; all ( as many cichlids do ) holding their developing young in their mouths for protection ( ‘ mouth breeders ’ ) ; and some highly specialized types earning a living by sucking the young ones out of the mouths of brooding mothers . |
| 30 | Yet each woman could , theoretically , have given birth to as many as 15 children spaced two years apart or 30 spaced a year apart . |