Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [pers pn] [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ordinary people are interviewed because they are representatives of the group which we are studying , and as such their characteristics , opinions , and so on are only of interest because they can be added together to present the general picture of the group itself . |
| 2 | In March 1239 Agnes de Amundeville , a forester of fee of Feckenham Forest , gave the king an annual payment of one mark at the Exchequer for recovery of her bailiwick : it had been seized because of a venison offence by her son Ralph , committed when he was keeper of that forest . |
| 3 | If Scott had been selected because he was second for both the War Office and the Foreign Office , now that the War Office is no longer required , then surely his claim is now reduced . |
| 4 | However , inroads into that exemption , have been made when they are part of a group . |
| 5 | The skills and disciplines to deliver each of these elements is available in Scotland , but will only be effectively utilised if they are part of our overall tourism strategy under one board and not , as now , with a variety of organisations working in partial isolation , and indeed often in competition . |
| 6 | The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army . |
| 7 | This means that industrial designs must either fall within the design right or be registered as a design to be protected unless they are copies of artistic works ; for example , sculptures . |
| 8 | Charges should be brought because they are charges upon which it is proper that the accused should be tried and , if found guilty , convicted . |
| 9 | In the recent Democratic primary for governor in Texas , one candidate , Mr Mark White , put out a gruesome commercial in which he strode triumphantly past photographs of the people who had been executed while he was governor in 1983–87 . |
| 10 | Arthur Quiller-Couch , in a lecture given while he was Professor of English Literature at Cambridge in 1916 , recalled the impact of this challenge on his contemporaries several decades earlier : |
| 11 | According to him an emphasis on processes makes such great demands upon the teacher ( an insight gained when he was director of the Humanities Curriculum Project ) that any proposal for curriculum development should be regarded as tentative , having the status of an hypothesis to be tested by teachers in their own classrooms . |
| 12 | This will result in limited choice for the consumer and a lack of innovation ( eg British Telecom phone equipment , which for many years was severely limited whilst it was part of the public sector ) . |
| 13 | Catherine Bramwell Booth , the eldest granddaughter of the Founder , had discovered when she was head of women 's social services fifty years before that the leader needed a thorough knowledge of Salvation Army policy and practice and a keen grasp of government legislation . |
| 14 | ‘ First , you will agree that Sir Ralph was not murdered because he was Constable of the Tower . |