Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opposite will also apply of course , and labour only sub-contract rates are sometimes more related to market conditions than to the actual work content . |
| 2 | But it would seem that nutters are more accepted among soccer fans than among groups in other areas of youth culture ( cf. |
| 3 | Oil is now the least popular for central heating after the 1970's oil crisis ; it 's not used for room heaters except in the form of paraffin . |
| 4 | The pig has rarely been used in physiology laboratories because of its size and temperament , but the development by animal breeders of a minipig with better temperament may change this . |
| 5 | The prevalence of such findings tended to be lower in patients treated with gold injections than in those receiving sulphasalazine and NSAIDs . |
| 6 | Nash argues that the position of women has deteriorated despite development activities because of the concentration on production for profit rather than for the welfare of the population in many Third World countries . |
| 7 | A higher degree of commitment is demanded of church musicians than of any other leader of worship . |
| 8 | This means that over 20% of the world 's oil consumption is burnt in vehicle engines while in industrialised-countries the proportion is far higher . |
| 9 | The size of the smaller axes encountered , i.e. intermediate axes of the grains encountered at grid intersections as in point-counting , should be determined . |
| 10 | Steve estimated around £800 would have been lost in bar takings because of the club 's early shutdown . |
| 11 | It is therefore usually the case that even more archaeological sites are destroyed on river gravels than on the hilly or mountainous ground where stone is generally quarried . |
| 12 | Regarded by coffee aficionados as among the world 's finest , Lyons Kenyan provides a well-earned treat after an exhausting day Christmas shopping . |
| 13 | Success would , however , be less important to the prevention of disorders seen and treated by adult psychiatrists than to the problems dealt with by the criminal justice system . |
| 14 | Facet analysis underlies the structure , but is not emphasized by facet indicators as in a more conventional faceted classification scheme . |
| 15 | Over the next few centuries it shifted from one to the other of the latter two until , with the establishment in the tenth and eleventh centuries of an ‘ English ’ monarchy , it served only as a minor shire , more quoted in tax returns than in high politics before the advent of the Normans . |
| 16 | I might agree in terms of lowland farming where farms are more often controlled by investment groups than by single families , but hill farming has always been , and still is , a hard and often heart-breaking as well as back-breaking job . |
| 17 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |