Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 2 | The marriage between logical semantics and textual semiotics does not , however , prove equally felicitous when the approach to the truth-conditionality of counterfactuals developed within modal logic is extended to the semantics of fictional universes by means of the " Principle of Minimal Departure " ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 3 | Complementary to that record we have the accounts given by those fans of those very occasions and others like them . |
| 4 | By the later decades of the century it was becoming obvious that the numbers of many species were being rapidly diminished , and it was now regarded as ‘ unsporting ’ to amass the vast collections of trophies favoured by earlier hunters . |
| 5 | The role will involve providing economic back-up analysis and feasibility studies for planning activities undertaken at all levels by the Physical Planning Directorate . |
| 6 | Activity with tools may be undertaken by the whole class as a supervised group , or may be later activities undertaken by small groups of their own volition , and the circumstances under which this latter is to take place must be carefully organized in advance . |
| 7 | The Commission points out that it is often difficult to attribute responsibility , especially when damage is the cumulative result of activities undertaken by many parties . |
| 8 | Direct employment covers all those activities undertaken by Scotch Whisky companies , who , to a greater or lesser extent , are engaged in : |
| 9 | It would be easy for the issues to be addressed by a series of discrete activities undertaken by different staff with the likelihood of overlap , empire building , and gate-keeping . |
| 10 | The Commission was attempting by these measures to reduce the past bias towards spending on large infrastructure projects favoured by national governments . |
| 11 | The platelet aggregates formed in this way are fixed with formol . |
| 12 | It is imperative that we emphasise the uniqueness of the Catholic school which understands itself as a faith community in which the beliefs and values communicated in Religious Education inspire and unify every aspect of the school life . |
| 13 | At home I grew up in old Victorian houses filled with antique furniture . |
| 14 | — Manjiku 's got a snout like a crocodile , Manjiku 's got pointed green teeth arranged in double rows , and a mane of spikes like sea urchins , and a forked tail with razor edges he uses to slice up his food . |
| 15 | Part of the growth of road transport reflected the political tolerance of what unions and rail pressure groups regarded as unfair competition . |
| 16 | But none of the rules given in traditional grammars can explain the use of the definite article in an opening such as : |
| 17 | All these cases , and similar cases heard in other jurisdictions , were reviewed in the landmark case Caparo Industries plc v Dickman ( 1990 ) 2 AC 605 HL which has caused so much controversy . |
| 18 | The answer given by the courts in this instance is ‘ yes ’ to both questions , but the reasons given for these conclusions are less than satisfactory . |
| 19 | The reasons given for these sales are that the Museum has limited storage space in its present building , and that the works in question have not been on exhibition for some considerable time , or duplicate existing holdings . |
| 20 | Among the reasons given for this conclusion were that the system imposes long delays in obtaining foreign exchange for essential imports , thus putting a brake on exports ; that the rate of exchange was not adjusted sufficiently ; and that in the absence of retention rights the exporters had lost their motivation for exporting . |
| 21 | Reasons given for transnational participation are : continuity of research to overcome shortfalls of younger scientists entering the field in view of the imminent retirement of many senior scientists and to provide advanced training . |
| 22 | The discussion thus far has focused on the reasons given in legal doctrine to support the legal model 's centralization of the power to manage the company in the hands of the directors of the company . |
| 23 | ‘ The reasons given in this case contain a comprehensive analysis of all the relevant cases and literature . |
| 24 | I agree with both the judgments that have been given and with the reasons given in those judgments for allowing this appeal . |
| 25 | By the outbreak of World War II rather more was being made of the ceremony itself , but it would appear that the reasons given by working class couples heading for the altar were still somewhat pragmatic . |
| 26 | The opportunity to maintain their freedom of referral was one of the commonest reasons given by general practitioners for joining the fundholding scheme . |
| 27 | We also use the survey to examine the significance of small establishments as employers of temporary workers and the regional distribution of temporary employment , to give the personal characteristics of temporary workers — concentrating on their sex , age and marital status — and to discuss some of the reasons given by temporary workers for working on this basis . |
| 28 | There is no doubt that the reasons given by both players made very good practical sense . |
| 29 | ‘ Where the two roads cross the procession is stopped by a column of prisoners guarded by some Uhlans , who wear the chapska perched on their ear , and ride with couched lances . |
| 30 | Moreover , at moments of crisis — notably in 1881 , 1903 , and October 1905 — the authorities connived at vicious pogroms against them . |