Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [coord] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corresponding figures are for Party B 28.6% of the votes , four seats ( 33.3% ) , of which three are won in constituencies and one is additional ; for Party C 13.6% of the votes , one seat ( 8.3% ) won in a constituency and no more ; and for Party D 12.3% of the votes and one seat ( 8.3% ) , which is an additional seat . |
| 2 | No company which is fully owned by non-residents or which is controlled by non-residents is allowed to acquire a controlling interest in any other joint stock company . |
| 3 | Firstly , it is inadvisable to take remedies consisting of mixtures as no homoeopathic provings have been done on mixtures and it is not known whether the effects of these are different from the effects of their individual components . |
| 4 | Some posters were probably written by officials and there is no doubt that a few ‘ agents provocateurs ’ were active on the Beida campus , drawing out the activists so they would be recognised later . |
| 5 | Except that money , in Darcy 's Utopia , will count for nothing : just as it counts for nothing in Moscow today : where pockets are stuffed with roubles but there is nothing to buy . |
| 6 | In adding up the total output of the United Kingdom , for instance , there is no single physical unit of measurement that can be used : the millions of different types of goods and services are all measured in different units — for example , steel is measured in tonnes and cloth is measured in metres and it is , of course , impossible to add tonnes to metres . |
| 7 | Other evidence , such as the votive faience robes mentioned earlier , tells us that elaborate dresses were offered to deities and it is probable that statues of deities were clothed in these . |
| 8 | THE FUNCTIONS OF THE ER : — A large internal surface is provided for reactions and there is provision for rapid internal transport of materials |
| 9 | By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available . |
| 10 | The classrooms in which such learning takes place may look very different from those in which I sat as a child 50 years ago ( the walls are covered with paintings and there is a computer in the corner , the desks are informally arranged ) but the assumption that all learning is determined , ordered and mediated through the teacher is the common thread which links the schools of the 1980s with those of my pre-war childhood . |
| 11 | These are not the accounts given by spectators and it is difficult to imagine them offering such accounts . |
| 12 | Gas hotplates on ordinary cookers have hardly changed in decades but there is nothing ordinary about the new Discovery . |
| 13 | We still fall well short of that , I mean er it 's bad news that anyone is addicted to drugs but what is important is that we should actually know who is and so we can help them . |