Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The late postoperative mortality , and we have defined this as death occurring between thirty and ninety days , was a mean of three point seven percent for the region as a whole and the inter-site variations for this ranged from one point seven percent to six point eight percent . |
| 2 | None of that existed before this year . |
| 3 | It was the duty of the ruling sultan , at least in principle , to extend so far as he could the area controlled by true believers at the expense of that ruled by Christian infidels . |
| 4 | Rural population growth has had a distinctive regional pattern , which is , of course , the inverse of that observed for rural depopulation . |
| 5 | London and Birmingham lost manufacturing , and little of this went to other cities . |
| 6 | An example of this occurred in early February when Foreign Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) , meeting in Brussels , agreed that the support given to Iraq by the PLO should disqualify it from further high-level contacts . |
| 7 | Some of these lived in shallow water sites and were gregarious like mussels . |
| 8 | Five male and six female hypertensives were never treated with antihypertensive drugs — four because pressure fell when a cause was removed ( one was given a renal transplant and three stopped oral contraception ) , four because patients refused , and three because no treatment programme was ever organised ( one of these died of intercurrent disease soon after diagnosis , and the other two both had predominant alcohol problems ) . |
| 9 | The first and probably the most influential of these grew from small beginnings . |
| 10 | The first of these consisted of two telegrams to the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | The most dramatic cloud of all occurred on 9 April 1984 somewhere between the Soviet Kuril islands and Sakhalin , a sensitive military area not far from where the Korean airliner was bombed from the sky . |
| 12 | Alone on a holiday and trying to come to terms with his grief , he reflects that ‘ the most cruel pain of all occurred at such moments , when I tried to face the still unacceptable fact that I could never tell her anything again . |
| 13 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 14 | There may be a vulva-vaginitis and the discharge is sometimes frothy like that found in trichomonal infection . |
| 15 | Was there anything like erm redundancy money or anything like that payed at that time when the place |
| 16 | Other hardware and software would be shared with that acquired for other projects . |
| 17 | As a predominantly middle-class cause , Spanish republicanism , and in particular its more reform-minded elements , suffered from the lack of a truly broad popular base , comparable with that enjoyed by French republicanism , within a numerous and vigorous lower-middle class and peasantry . |
| 18 | The regular pattern of the sixth century may be compared with that found in seventh century cemeteries which reveal a reduction in the number of combinations and the proportion of graves with weapons . |
| 19 | The extent of the reported inhibition is comparable with that found in other studies using similar amounts of calcium carbonate or calcium lactate . |
| 20 | One way to test this possibility is to ask direct questions about the incidence of these experiences in housework , and compare them with that reported by other groups of workers . |
| 21 | The definition of breakdown now adopted is in line with that used by other companies . |
| 22 | The relationship they found between work organisation and plant size was in line with that predicted by organisational contingency theory , namely that the small plants had very unbureaucratic , simple forms of organisation . |
| 23 | More demonstrably , however , there has in the past been evidence of some feeling in Parliament that the Comptroller and Auditor General should be given the power to audit all public money voted by Parliament , including that voted to nationalized industries . |
| 24 | In the Curragh Affair of 1914 some British officers appeared to claim to stand for a special national interest above that asserted by civilian politicians and their attitude would have been understood by professional soldiers in other countries . |
| 25 | The principles of exercise for coronary patients is no different from that applied to normal individuals trying to get fit . |
| 26 | Thorndyke 's approach to the study of discourse interpretation was rather different from that adopted in earlier studies . |
| 27 | But otherwise the meaning they carry is not of a radically different sort from that carried by lexical roots , and grammatical and lexical elements frequently interact semantically . |
| 28 | But the ethos of the system and the reality of democratic centralism lend to its political machinations a different flavour and bias from that found in any system plausibly termed pluralistic . |
| 29 | Here , it is assumed that the severity of any language problem is indicated by the extent to which a child 's language differs from that found among other children of a similar age . |
| 30 | Our study population may have been different from that examined in other studies in respect of different bowel habits ( less consistent diarrhoea in our patients ) . |