Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other museums take note ; only by use of technical knowledge such as that displayed here is it possible to build an honest and complete picture of the origin and subsequent vicissitudes of any object . |
| 2 | Grant ( 1986 , p. 203 ) argues that the spillover into the courts of cases such as that cited above is ‘ the direct and inevitable product of the worsening state of central-local relations ’ . |
| 3 | On the other hand , it may be suitable in creative writing classes where such activities are common but where an exercise such as that proposed here would have the added advantage of providing an insight into Hemingway 's method . |
| 4 | ( However , in a symmetrical series such as that quoted above certain transpositions of ‘ R ’ can be the same as forms of ‘ O ’ . |
| 5 | This explains the abundance of deltaic sediments in the stratigraphical record of the continental areas , but one must also expect that such sediments will either not exceed a critical maximum thickness , such as that suggested above , or they must have been deposited in a tectonically subsiding trough . |
| 6 | Statistical studies , such as that published recently in the British Medical Journal , show that there is no association between the consumption of lightly boiled eggs and illness . |
| 7 | In the case of the UK these figures are supported by surveys such as that carried out by the Inner London Education Authority which showed that over 22% of the children it its schools spoke a language other than , or in addition to , English at home . |
| 8 | Evaluation such as that carried out in Example F is likely to misrepresent what has been achieved in the teaching unless it takes into account pupils ' initial performances and the relative difficulty of what they are learning . |
| 9 | The counting of published papers is a crude method of measuring the productivity of research workers , but it has been used in some studies , such as that carried out by Vlachy 232 . |
| 10 | I know people are looking for another upset here because Sutton are a decent team , but we 're not bad ourselves . ’ |
| 11 | A linguistic survey such as this carried out in 1980 was able to benefit from the experience of earlier sociolinguistic work ; many problems had already been anticipated . |
| 12 | Current trainer John Hyland is keen on the dog taking his chance in the St Leger after Shy bowed out of the Irish |
| 13 | After that come more advanced techniques which students need to perform for the next grading . |
| 14 | The detectives who were not detectives after all stepped forward to meet him , one of them shaking hands , the other slapping him on the back . |
| 15 | It 's true that no one came in , but I think someone must have lifted the latch and set the door ajar , and then after all drawn back and closed it again , hearing the voices within and not wanting to interrupt . |
| 16 | On the page opposite there is a cartoon of Pissed dressed up in a suit lying face down in the gutter clutching a bottle of lager , and Mickey Aspel coming out from under a manhole cover saying ‘ George Best ! |
| 17 | But , in the end , Steven did n't mind at all when discerning folk puked up all over the loathsome Lost Boys and complained of dangerous levels of heartwarming brought on by an excess of Robin Williams . |
| 18 | It contains the practical experience of the members of MAS built up over a number of years of carrying out a wide variety of MAS assignments . |
| 19 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 20 | er there 's a bit of stew in there , would you like some of that heated up in microwave ? |
| 21 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 22 | Or perhaps it 's sort of some dressed up character . |
| 23 | Right , and we 've got part of this linked in with the stuff you might have done on Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis in the sense that er people talk about different things because they might be relevant to their actual lives . |
| 24 | Issuance of Treasury bills therefore amounted to only £100 million per week , with the largest part of this taken up by the banking sector . |
| 25 | Three out of 10 aged over 15 admit to it , with half believing marijuana should be legalised . |
| 26 | The White Paper of 1975 mentioned above had simply referred to the virtual impracticability of asking social service departments to commit themselves to major investment in a programme for mentally ill people . |
| 27 | Even when whole batches of these ended up on sale rails Laura was not given to tergiversation . |
| 28 | Because there had been a recent spate of thefts from boats in the area the Club had formed its own teams of vigilantes who patrolled the moorings and by chance one of these noted down the camper 's registration number . |
| 29 | One of these involved particularly fleece fighting during an assault on the villages of al-Beidah and al-Sakhrah , for which the Iranians used both boats and helicopters to bring in their troops . |
| 30 | Some of these remained conveniently imprecise ; but in his keynote speech , Neil Kinnock sketched an angle of attack with high potential appeal to the large floating centre of the British electorate . |