Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [art] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 8 it was reported that a newly discovered oil and gas field in the Fergana valley would provide Uzbekistan with up to 12,000,000 tonnes of oil per year — well above its domestic needs . |
| 2 | Where the terms of a settlement are so framed that a clearly defined person can benefit ( for example if the class of beneficiaries includes ‘ any spouse of the settlor ’ or ‘ spouse of the settlor 's children' ) or such persons could be added to the class of beneficiaries , then the settlor will be treated as having an ‘ interest ’ in the trust . |
| 3 | It is frequently argued that a locally based education , preferably with a rural bias , will somehow encourage young people to stay in agriculture . |
| 4 | It was strongly suspected that the softly spoken Irishman had been framed . |
| 5 | At the resumed talks it was agreed that Petur Mladenov , the State Council President and former Foreign Affairs Minister , would be elected President of Bulgaria ( his formal election being carried out by the Assembly on April 3 ) , but would be replaced when a newly elected legislature approved a new constitution . |
| 6 | It is now proposed that the rarely exercised power of the House to imprison be abolished and for a power for the Commons to impose a fine ( as can the House of Lords ) to be substituted . |
| 7 | But some weather researchers at the organisation think that the scientific value of the data could be reduced if a commercially minded company is at the helm in the US . |
| 8 | In addition , we have observed that a well characterised group of patients do not benefit from endoscopic therapy . |
| 9 | However , a LVF advantage ( for same " responses ) was observed when the auditorily presented memory set consisted of only a single letter . |
| 10 | The Report also recommends that the head teacher be asked to supply a report both in the above situation and where the governing body has directed that a permanently excluded pupil be reinstated against the head teacher 's wishes . |
| 11 | All the ugly sheds along the riverfront have been removed and the newly cleaned oatmeal brickwork and fish-scale roofs , complete with gilded dolphins , are seen to full advantage . |
| 12 | To meet these aspirations we must make the best use of our human , technological , material and financial resources and this must be done within the framework of a well planned and a well managed system . |
| 13 | I argued earlier that there are problems in attempting any rigorous theoretical definition of the ‘ manual work/mental work ’ , or ‘ manual/non-manual ’ , distinction but all the same this classification , conceived as a socially constructed principle of division , has a certain social validity , as least as it applies to male workers . |
| 14 | In 1972 at Buffalo Creek , West Virginia , 125 people were killed when a carelessly maintained dam burst ( Stern 1976 : 3 ) and at Willow Island , West Virginia , fifty-one people died when a cooling tower collapsed as a result of safety violations ( Kennedy 1978 ) . |
| 15 | Was it perhaps because the work did indeed look like typewriting ( by this time neither a highly paid nor a highly regarded occupation and mostly done by women ) and therefore an effeminate calling and beneath a man 's dignity ? |