Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of this , it examines trade-union policies and strategies formulated towards training and retraining programmes . |
| 2 | The interpellation ‘ you know ’ is not considered appropriate in standard written styles of the kind taught in schools and used in the ‘ essayist tradition ’ nor in certain formal situations , for example in a television interview . |
| 3 | He took a boat-shaped piece of pastry filled with crab and proffered his glass for a refill . |
| 4 | It is the provisional position of the female subject who is still dependent on discourses developed by men and saturated with their prejudices . |
| 5 | Kiranjit Ahluwalia , jailed for murdering her husband after suffering ten years of violence , has had her sentence commuted to manslaughter and has been freed from prison . |
| 6 | Kiranjit Ahluwalia , jailed for murdering her husband after suffering ten years of violence , has had her sentence commuted to manslaughter and has been freed from prison . |
| 7 | The rules developed in taxation and rating cases could not be applied more generally . |
| 8 | He was not spared one concrete-balconied construction , one flat-topped esplanade of shops , one lowly bungalow surrounded by pebbles and called The Palms , one swinging wooden board with ‘ rustic ’ letters cut in it announcing that the frosted aluminium-framed windows and crazy pavings dotted with fountain bowls and outsize cupids , and pergolas leading nowhere , were part of a residence called Ourranch . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the city of London saw various manoeuvres to promote Edward 's deposition : assemblies at the Guildhall included one which resolved to depose him in favour of his son , a decision reported to parliament and supported by a sermon from Orleton on the text ‘ Where there is no true ruler , the people will be destroyed ’ . |
| 10 | Germany 's 2.3 million public service workers are heading for their first strike for 18 years in support of a 5.4 per cent pay rise recommended by arbitrators but rejected by the government . |
| 11 | Physical exercise also has the capacity to be used to attempt to control emotional feelings , to work off the calories consumed in food and to control body size . |
| 12 | Above all , leaving the house up on its pier blocks which , a year before , Bob Shephard had supplemented with bell-shaped concrete piers filled with revar and crowned with metal ties holding the house down . |
| 13 | The sets , often exquisitely detailed illusion painted on flats or fixed on netting , date from the early 1950s , but the costumes have been made afresh from the original designs and the production is relatively new . |
| 14 | Military strategists noted that should a JSP-led coalition come to office and implement its stated defence policy ( particularly the application of the nuclear prohibition to US forces stationed in Japan ) , the effect on the balance of power in the region would be " incalculable " . |
| 15 | It was the fourth building in the area that the association considered for conversion and had studied in detail . |
| 16 | Immediately after the blast the victim 's car rolled down hill and struck another car occupied by a woman . |
| 17 | Pomeshchiks on small and medium-sized estates resented the privileges enjoyed by monasteries and looked hungrily at their lands , while the swelling needs of the Treasury drew the Tsar 's attention to the resources of the Church . |
| 18 | Branches cracked from trees and plunged into the turbulent waters behind Tallis , who clutched her cloak and cowl , holding them tightly against the tearing wind . |
| 19 | Information on possible risk factors for leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma reported at interview and recorded in the obstetric notes are summarised in table VII . |
| 20 | In addition , I have put the matter on the agenda for the Ministers of the Interior of our partners in Europe , because I want a European standard with tighter security applying to all cars made in Europe and sold in this country . |
| 21 | Since we covered as many miles in six months as many Caterham owners do in four years , that 's not an unreasonable failure rate for a car built by amateurs and speaks volumes for the simplicity , strength and quality of the materials Caterham employs for its cars . |
| 22 | He was , however , unhappy with remedies prepared from bacteria and felt that there must be plant alternatives to these which would be purer and more generally acceptable . |
| 23 | Cells in spermatogonial mitosis , MI , and MII , from a human testicular biopsy prepared by air-drying and stained with carbon fuchsin , are shown in Figure 1a — c . |
| 24 | Noticeably , Graves 's 1927 review of Malinowski and Rivers is immediately followed by a review written by Eliot and dealing exclusively with Christian books . |
| 25 | Indeed , his insistence that punishments should only reflect the harm done to society and have nothing to do with subjective intent would seem to imply that the accident-prone should be treated the same as those who cause harm by design ! |
| 26 | The Commission also confirmed that there would be no repeat of the row , earlier this year , over the local content of Nissan cars built in Britain and exported to the rest of Europe . |
| 27 | For example , the Police National Computer ( PNC ) has a Suspect and Stolen Vehicles file which lists cars seen at demonstrations or owned by people who the police simply wish to keep an eye on , as well as vehicles suspected of being stolen or belonging to criminals ( Manwaring-White , 1983:58–9 ) . |
| 28 | De Sede states that Sauniere came across ciphers written on parchment and concealed in a hollow , Visigothic altar pillar , whilst renovating the church at Rennes-le-Chateaux . |
| 29 | Unemployment benefit would be reduced , and savings made on pensions and housing support . |
| 30 | It is obvious how close these are to the characteristics attributed to speech and to print , respectively . |