Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did so not because we did not want money spent on community care , but because we did not necessarily believe that a one-track policy was the best way to ensure the ideal form of care . |
| 2 | Also known as ‘ mass clocks ’ they offered a means of telling the time for church services : an appropriately placed stick cast a shadow on the hour-scale . |
| 3 | This might involve , for example , the use of self and peer assessment based on structured interviews or the completion of detailed report forms , or could involve the use of simulations or assignments . |
| 4 | Should the defendant have foreseen damage caused by a falling tree ? |
| 5 | It made £41.7m compared with £32.5m in 1990 and is increasing its total dividend payout to 56.4p per share from 47p . |
| 6 | The Great Eastern then pioneered a new development , annotated timetables designed for tourist use and pamphlets detailing local trips with train times and fares for each of the Great Eastern seaside resorts . |
| 7 | Using returns computed over five-minute intervals , they found that futures returns led spot returns by about five minutes . |
| 8 | By running the definitional overlap program on some sample text using definitions extracted from both dictionaries , an objective comparison could be made . |
| 9 | : To determine the effectiveness of the definitional overlap technique using definitions extracted from the OALD . |
| 10 | : To determine the effectiveness of the definitional overlap technique using definitions extracted from the Collins English Dictionary . |
| 11 | The team is appealing for second-hand office furniture for their HQ , but patient facilities at the hospice will be bought using money raised by well-wishers . |
| 12 | Roger : For some time people who study the labour market have been recommending using money paid as benefit , to subsidise the cost of helping unemployed people back into work . |
| 13 | The charges , which carried a maximum sentence of 50 years ' imprisonment and a fine of $1,000,000 , alleged that Imelda Marcos had secretly invested in Manhattan real estate and valuables using money stolen from the Philippines . |
| 14 | Using money borrowed from Western banks , Ceauşescu embarked on building an oil-refining capacity three times greater than Romania 's domestic production of oil . |
| 15 | Salvatore Settis appointed head of the Getty Center for the History of Art |
| 16 | Sun Life and several friendly societies , including Odd Fellows and Tunbridge Wells Equitable , sell policies designed to do that . |
| 17 | With a partial split-brain patient as their subject McKeever , Larrabee , Sullivan and Johnson ( 1981 ) observed that the usual difficulty of naming objects presented to the left hand was considerably reduced under hypnosis . |
| 18 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 19 | But then Myverygoodfriend finished second and after Galway Star had become their fourth odds-on scorer , Passed Pawn failed in the last race . |
| 20 | This finding was confirmed using lifetable analysis , with a 35% reduction ( 95% confidence intervals 10–59% , p<0.05 ) in the proportion of ulcer relapses in patients who had received cisapride compared with those treated with placebo . |
| 21 | It follows , therefore , that if we are interested in deriving policies designed to secure full employment , we should first analyse the determinants of these variables . |
| 22 | They bought the scrap Herald for just £25 and salvaged the chassis , engine , gearbox and axles. then , using plans bought from a man in Sheffield , they set out to build the bodywork from plywood and aluminium . |
| 23 | The third factor supporting the whole-school approach is the benefits of wider experiences and peer interactions derived from the involvement in the curriculum which are essential for the full development of the ‘ whole child ’ . |
| 24 | Othon Pinheiro da Silva , and the chairman of the National Commission for Nuclear Energy ( CNEN ) , Rex Nazaré Alves , were quoted in the daily O Globo of April 9 , 1989 , as confirming that Brazil was now producing uranium enriched to 20 per cent ( regarded as the threshold of nuclear weapons technology ) . |
| 25 | The SPD on May 6 attacked plans presented by Waigel to reduce growth in federal government spending to 2.5 per cent a year until 1996 and to keep Land and communal spending increases to 3 per cent a year . |
| 26 | The agency , the Fund for Servicing the Foreign Debt ( FOZZ ) , used intermediaries to channel money held by Polish companies abroad to merchant banks and companies which bought up Poland 's debts for as little as 20 cents for every US$1 owed , contrary to an agreement between Poland and its bankers . |
| 27 | Stab vigilante cleared |
| 28 | Divergent influences may modify or dispel values imbued as a result of parental influence . |
| 29 | This last item can be used as a catch-all to embrace money spent on holidays , new furniture , entertainment , etc . |
| 30 | DNA binding reactions contained 4ng of target DNA labelled with 32 P at one 5' end and suitable amounts of bacterial extracts , incubated in buffer giving final concentrations of 10mM Tris.HCl pH 7.5 , 1mM EDTA , 10mM mercaptoethanol , 0.1% CHAPS and 100mM NaCl . |