Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Haifa Bay route would have constituted a serious disruption as it passed overland through intensively developed urban and farming areas to the Jordan Valley , destroying property and agricultural land . |
| 2 | They would be available to share expertise , offer advice and provide an informed focus for locally based educational advance . |
| 3 | Once implemented , this system would also give an added incentive to these districts to redeploy the funding for locally managed alternative care and treatment . |
| 4 | It could cost from £1,200 for professionally installed secondary windows , and from £3,500 for replacement windows in maintenance-free materials . |
| 5 | Hunting has some steady on-going business — such as highly classified nuclear work — and is still hoping to see new orders generated by the lessons learned in the Gulf war . |
| 6 | An understanding of industrial relations in the Netherlands , for instance , requires an appreciation of the vertical segregation ( or ‘ pillarised ’ structure ) between religiously defined groupings and non-denominational organisations which for long characterised Dutch society and affected not only unions but also employers . |
| 7 | Mid-waters of the Southern Ocean are little explored ; for long considered empty , they are now known to be the haunt , possibly the refuge , of several species of fish and squid which feed either near the surface or at the bottom . |
| 8 | They press for much needed democratic reforms to enable the citizens to participate . |
| 9 | If direct access capacity is a limitation , a loss of 15 — 20 per cent of space will still compare well with other file organizations ( see Chapter 7 and the calculations of packing density for randomly organized direct files later in this chapter ) . |
| 10 | Another distinction is between so called European type options which can only be exercised on the settlement day , and American type options which can be exercised at any time up to and including the settlement day . |
| 11 | There 's more of a case for highly equipped regional laboratories with local out-stations . |
| 12 | Rhinos are mainly hunted for their horns which are then used in the Middle East for ceremonial dagger handles and also ground up for so called healing properties . |
| 13 | Assessment of maintainable earnings ( for example , after adjusting for so called excessive shareholder directors ' remuneration ) |
| 14 | The special , which had taken six months to plan , was axed after Best called United ‘ f***ing crap ’ and his former team-mate Bobby Charlton ‘ a miserable bastard ’ . |
| 15 | Social workers design co-ordinated packages of care for individually assessed elderly people . |
| 16 | You think about fucking buried alive by the wall . |
| 17 | The syndrome of dyspraxia of deaf children comprises that the child clearly suffers from dyspraxia or apraxia with dysrhythmia or arhythmia and that the child , his memory as such being normal , shows a typical profile of a strong memory for simultaneously presented visual data and a relatively weak one for successively presented visual data . |
| 18 | Judges were appointed by the Crown on the advice of the Lord Chancellor , and magistrates by the Lord Chancellor on the recommendations of locally based advisory committees . |
| 19 | Strict censorship , and a security service which keeps a register of all privately owned typewriters in the country , means that the source of locally produced printed material can quickly be identified and there is precious little chance of such material being widely circulated . |
| 20 | ‘ The museum itself has a representative display of locally produced lustred earthenwares . ’ |
| 21 | Well , I kind of rather felt sick and went away , because I thought er well . |
| 22 | This is not required in the accounts of wholly owned subsidiary undertakings of companies incorporated in Great Britain . |
| 23 | According to Leat and Gay : ‘ Payment for care schemes attempt to overcome the weaknesses of bureaucratically organised statutory care by buying in the strengths of care in the private domain whilst at the same time overcoming the weaknesses of informal sector care ’ . |
| 24 | Britain had a big takeover boom in 1985–89 , with plenty of bitterly fought hostile bids ; but none was financed with junk bonds . |
| 25 | The lesion consists of loosely arranged fibrovascular connective tissue with a variable inflammatory infiltrate including eosinophils . |
| 26 | It was as well , for the Seven Years War , which cost £82 million of which £60 million was borrowed , was about to begin a period of widely contested expensive wars . |
| 27 | Our approach in this case was to select specific events concerning the elderly , for example , the implementation of the new post-war pensions , the publication of official reports and of widely noticed social surveys , across the twenty-year time-span , and to review their presentation by newspapers and more specialized publications . |
| 28 | Gudok ran frequent articles on the wage demands of badly paid German railwaymen . |
| 29 | The advent of professionally trained full-time librarians is still awaited , but a number of project schools were well served by head teachers who resolved to designate and remunerate teachers for library responsibilities . |
| 30 | If they feel that taxation is unfair , intelligent people take advantage of vastly improved financial communication and look about the world . |