Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [vb pp] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 We also use those homes as centres for day care , and the financial effects of that are estimated and taken out of these calculations , but I think it 's important for members to remember that your residential homes are n't purely and simply providing only residential care , they are also centres for day care in that particular area .
2 Approximately equal amounts of each are powdered and mixed together thoroughly .
3 In helping pupils to use the microcomputer to retrieve information , either as a list of references or as statistics , the information skills set out in Figure 6.6 are learned as required .
4 The brochure distributed in February 1991 contains 55 product numbers of which only 12 are manufactured and supplied by us .
5 Subsequently , most Scottish rural areas , mid- and North Wales , the Pennines and parts of Devon and Cornwall have at one time or another been designated as Assisted Areas ( see figure 3.3a ) .
6 Thus the emotively articulated skies and sleek luminosity with which Titian was experimenting in the early 1520s are echoed and developed in Palma and Lotto and Dosso , and the fluid and broken brushwork of the last three decades — itself , in part , a response to Schiavone — is transmuted in Tintoretto and Bassano .
7 Some are designated as threatened or endangered in the I.U.C.N. 's ( International Union for the Conservation of Nature ) Red Data Books ; others , are still relatively numerous in the wild , but offer an educational encounter of value .
8 Some are awarded after supervised individual research presented in a thesis .
9 Would n't this be seen as tipping the balance ?
10 Before any programme for an elimination of " spurious designators can be properly evaluated , before its feasibility , and above all its significance , can be properly judged , it is essential that the concept of an ontological existent be clarified and made absolutely precise and this task is the most complex and most difficult of all .
11 These houses ( 140 were identified and illustrated ) still stand , but are neglected and decaying and in desperate need of new owners and new uses .
12 Few were noted as making prolonged stays and it is difficult to assign any particular record as a wintering or passage bird .
13 ‘ A few were tortured and executed in secret .
14 Nineteen of the 25 children were reported never to have established a regular sleep pattern , and 22 were classified as having severe sleep problems .
15 As in most parts of Britain the Hercynian movements at the end of the Carboniferous were accompanied and followed by a long period of erosion .
16 Some were beaten and tortured first .
17 Some were given or sold to favoured high-ranking officials and court favourites , a practice developed by Constantius II .
18 Whereas church bells announced the times of the various religious offices , the communal clock was a secular instrument that struck the hours , and by the end of the fourteenth century some were made that struck the quarters , although this did not mean that they were any more accurate .
19 Some were split and bent almost double by their own mass , which meant you could charge straight up them into the lower branches six feet above ground .
20 Whilst on their way a blizzard struck and some were trapped and froze to death .
21 Some were imprisoned or banished when they refused to be silenced .
22 A set of ten overlapping degenerate probes representing bovine GGF-II peptide 12 were radiolabelled and used to screen a bovine genomic library ( Stratagene ) .
23 Most evidence is taken in public — sometimes with radio microphones or television cameras present — and all of this is recorded and published .
24 This in turn rests on how we define the distinctiveness of each class and how we think this is blurred or enhanced as a result of broad socioeconomic processes .
25 That the preparation of a development plan should be a matter of self-training follows from those steps which the SDPP suggests , for instance , in auditing the curriculum : check whether the planned curriculum meets the statutory requirement ; identify possible gaps or overlap between subject areas ; ensure that where two or more subjects or activities are concerned with the same range of objectives , this is recognized and used positively ; analyse the curriculum for each year group in terms of curriculum objectives within and outside the National Curriculum ; decide in which part of the school curriculum to locate work leading to the National Curriculum and other school curriculum objectives ; assess how much teaching time is available and how best to use it ; compare planned provision with actual provision ; judge whether curriculum issues need to be among priorities of development ( DES 1989e : 7 )
26 When this is given as written practice it is usually between 250 and 3,000 words in prose on a given subject .
27 It is worth the effort to convey something of how this is done but do not worry if you find the remaining paragraphs of this section rather abstract and demanding .
28 This is done as follows : If the number ‘ one ’ is called she spells out the letters O N E to land on the yellow smartie .
29 So long as this is done where improving the outcome is more important than deciding for oneself this acceptance of authority , far from being either irrational or an abdication of moral responsibility , is in fact the most rational course and the right way to discharge one 's responsibilities .
30 It is useful , when several people have to get together to collaborate on an activity , to make one of them responsible for seeing that this is done and done at the right time .
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