Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Utilising existing artwork — such as that given in a project — simply involves tracing the copper track layout onto a film , using the methods described last month . |
| 2 | Increasingly , however , the phase of such near total dependence is protracted by severe physical or mental infirmity , such as that caused by a stroke or dementia . |
| 3 | Since the heat capacities of sample and reference are different ΔT is never actually zero , and a change in heat capacity , such as that associated with a glass transition , will cause a shift in the base line . |
| 4 | On neurophysiological grounds one would expect there to be considerable differences between different individuals with regard to the most effective channels of learning ; therefore , one must regard statements such as that quoted with a certain amount of scepticism . |
| 5 | The desire to outshine others provoked extravagance , such as that shown by a Marquise who wrote to a friend : ‘ I have been invited to Compiègne for a week so I have sold a mill ! ’ |
| 6 | On the other hand , a variable , service-orientated transaction ( such as that provided by an international hotel concierge ) would best respond to recruitment of the right person in the first place . |
| 7 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |
| 8 | When he gave me a copy of his complete works in September of 1943 inscribed from a ‘ sincere friend ’ , I noted the four lines opposite the title page : |
| 9 | A GIRL of eight paralysed as a baby in a car crash won a possible £7 million damages in the High Court yesterday . |
| 10 | A Barra fisherman 's son , one of eight born to a couple who lived as squatters in a foreshore hut , ‘ was brought up in my grandfather 's across the road : ‘ I had everything in their house . |
| 11 | The import liberalization measures of 1989/90 combined with an upswing in domestic demand to produce a strong growth of imports in 1990 . |
| 12 | You feel the weight of that compared to a gateau box . |
| 13 | As the external surface of the field collided with the elements of space , an explosive force was generated which was the equivalent of that produced by an ion bomb . |
| 14 | The relevant question is therefore : is there any indication in the subject matter and statutory purpose of the provisions concerning administrative receivers generally , or in the Act of 1986 considered as a whole , from which it appears that Parliament intended that the word ‘ company ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) of that Act should not be confined to its prima facie meaning of a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts , but should also embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ? |
| 15 | The official definition of the Unemployment Percentage Rate in the UK can be stated as ‘ the number of unemployed expressed as a percentage of the latest available mid-year estimate of all employees in employment plus the unemployed at the same date ’ . |
| 16 | In the suckler ring an entry of 49 sold to a top of £1,460 and £1,300 for two pedigree Charolais cows with bull calves at foot . |
| 17 | There 's a £30 reduction for children under the age of 12 occupying a bed in a twin room on a Villa-Flotilla holiday , or for children under the age of 12 booked on a Flotilla holiday . |
| 18 | After a bar of eighth notes comes a pair of sixteenths followed by a quarter 's rest , then a long , low root — just right ! |
| 19 | In e-mail systems it is possible to receive a number of related messages from different people on screen , to then go into a statistical package and do some calculations , and on the basis of this come to a decision which one communicates to a different set of people . |
| 20 | In their last financial years , only 39 FT-SE 100 companies ' audit fees increased above the rate of inflation ; 25 companies ' audit fees were cut from 1990 to 1991 ; 30 companies paid the same amount ; and the fees of six increased at a level below the rate of inflation . |
| 21 | He was one of six chosen from a brigade of 40 to accompany Quinn when he then left to work at Ettington Park , Staffordshire . |
| 22 | A major dimension of the Time of Troubles was the outbreak of peasant resistance in every region of the country , and the revolt of 1606–07 led by an ex-slave named Ivan Bolotnikov attracted widespread peasant support . |
| 23 | During work on the building of the electricity pylons on Halling Marshes workmen digging out the footings for one of these discovered at a depth of 10 ft in the mud a dug-out canoe . |
| 24 | One of these presented with a perforated small bowel lymphoma and died shortly after diagnosis . |
| 25 | Several kinds of difference figure in contemporary cultural theory but two especially : sexual difference ( deriving usually though not invariably from psychoanalysis ) and cultural difference , with each of these complicated by a third kind of difference which construes meaning and identity in terms of difference or , more exactly , differential relations . |
| 26 | The baroque is first of all laden with a set of Counter-Reformation characteristics including a salience of symbolism , monumentality , voluptuousness , and grandeur . |
| 27 | Like Nicholle , Nicholle 's over a couple of thousand saved for a car . |
| 28 | It is an interesting thought that the numerical approach could be strengthened and made more acceptable if the number of units of good credited to a ‘ good ’ decision and then added to the Godhead , could be a factor of the numerical majority of individuals in sympathy with that decision . |
| 29 | 30 per cent of those invited to an advisory interview after 12 months to start on a Jobplan workshop |
| 30 | No one can represent fully the lives of those met during a case study ; nor can full justice be done to the complexity and the range of issues , interpretations and concerns experienced by each individual . |