Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the well-established results which Morton ( 1969 ) used in his influential model of the lexicon , which suggests that words become finally recognised when sufficient " data " about them have been collected from the environment . |
| 2 | These wadis are too long and , in many places , form too integrated a pattern for them to have been formed under present climatic conditions . |
| 3 | The bullets had followed each other too quickly from different angles for them to have been fired by the same person . |
| 4 | might have also mentioned that the number of scholarships and the funds available for them have been increased by 50 per cent and 500 per cent respectively . |
| 5 | I am particularly encouraged by the references to better facilities for pedestrians and cyclists , and to see that routes for them have been incorporated into all the major development sites where appropriate — and indeed given some prominence in the site maps . |
| 6 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | The second edition of this guide to medicines for older people and those who help care for them has been published by Age Concern England . |
| 8 | Long service awards for trio of Terriers THREE part-time soldiers with nearly 70 years in uniform between them have been honoured for long service . |
| 9 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 10 | We went to Doping Control , where pieces of paper for me to sign were pushed under my nose and there was a lot of shouting in Korean . |
| 11 | Until recently , there was an unwritten rule in some universities that a PhD candidate would get their doctorate only after their having been published in international scientific journals . |
| 12 | The traditional bloom process was still capable of meeting all needs , for a negligible outlay ; the exotic indirect process had been introduced as an act of state policy simply in order to make cannons , the need for which had been proved by the effectiveness of French artillery — against the English themselves — in the wars of the fifteenth century ; Newbridge , where the first successful gun had been cast in 1509 , was Crown property . |
| 13 | The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) signed an historic commercial agreement with the Russian Space Agency on June 18 , the basis for which had been established at the June summit between US President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin [ see pp. 38985-86 ] . |
| 14 | Where this is the case the applicant must file at court : ( a ) a written request for leave setting out the reasons for the application ; and ( b ) a draft of the application for which leave is sought on the appropriate form , with sufficient copies for service on all respondents ( FPCR , r3(1) ; FPR , r4.3(1) ) . |
| 15 | Outside National Parks and SSSIs prior approval is not required before a farmer goes ahead and implements a capital scheme for which grant is claimed after completion . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the deregulation of bus services has shifted demand away from traditional large buses towards smaller ones , the demand for which has been met to a great extent by importers . |
| 17 | If a body approved by the Secretary of State have provided or propose to provide a seamen 's canteen the need for which has been certified by him after consultation with the Merchant Navy Welfare Board , the licensing board within whose jurisdiction the said canteen is or will be situated may grant a licence under this Part of this Act authorising the person who is the manager of the canteen to sell alcoholic liquor in the canteen . |
| 18 | They probably succeeded those of the second-century vicus , some evidence for which has been gained in excavations . |
| 19 | Among 212 people between the ages of 16 and 65 , only 88 of whom had been disabled before 18 years of age , enquiry was made as to range and frequency of experience in sexual practices generally . |
| 20 | The newly formed independent human rights organization Organisation Marocaine des Droits de L'Homme ( OMDH ) ( see p. 36244 ) claimed on July 26 , 1989 , that there remained a total of 226 political prisoners in Morocco , 12 of whom had been condemned to death and 33 of whom were in indefinite solitary confinement . |
| 21 | The lands that they abandoned were gradually occupied by Albanians , most of whom had been converted to Islam . |
| 22 | Fifteen countries were represented by 30 women , each of whom had been invited on the basis of her contribution to theatre in her own country . |
| 23 | The report said that at least 50 people were being held without charge in " preventive " detention , and further stated that many hundreds of people were being held without proper trial , among them at least 90 political prisoners who were tried by special courts , over half of whom had been sentenced to death . |
| 24 | The human rights organization Amnesty International on Dec. 10 issued a report on Myanma listing some 200 people arrested in the country during the first seven months of 1991 , nearly 40 of whom had been sentenced to long prison terms after " blatantly unfair " trials . |
| 25 | The offences took place between 1977 and 1983 with boys then aged between 11 and 13 , some of whom had been abused by their parents before being taken into care . |
| 26 | Rostov was not sure what purpose his stateroom had served previously but it was obvious that it had been occupied by at least four persons , all of whom had been possessed of diverse tastes with regard to the minimal decoration which was permissible aboard a ship designed for deep space exploration . |
| 27 | The South Korean government announced an amnesty on Feb. 26 under which it would release 22 " leftists " , most of whom had been convicted of spying for North Korea , and 1,089 other prisoners . |
| 28 | Smith Opon Acak , all of whom had been detained for more than a year , appeared in court in January 1990 charged with plotting to overthrow the government , having " levied war against the government of Uganda " between Nov. 2 and 18 , 1987 . |
| 29 | Among those executed , several of whom had been detained before the " coup attempt " , were the former Air Force commander , Maj.-Gen. |
| 30 | On May 7 the government dismissed the country 's 14 regional commissioners , all of whom had been appointed by the Royal Palace and were regarded as loyal supporters of the King . |