Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment . |
| 2 | One general index calculated from death and population information is the crude death rate . |
| 3 | At first sight , the picture of word-meaning given by patterns of affinity and disaffinity is , at least in some respects , different from the picture given by semantic traits . |
| 4 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 5 | It is sometimes difficult to make the decision referred to in ( i ) . |
| 6 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 7 | Unwilling admiration wrung from Jess a kind of exasperated protectiveness , as if she was the mistress and Miss Phoebe in her care . |
| 8 | South Uist in sunshine in March is not common but the visual beauty is hard to beat and Lochboisdale Branch situated at the waters edge looked in as good fettle as I have ever seen it . |
| 9 | my skin painted for war-dancing : |
| 10 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 11 | The codes used are summarised in Fig 11.13 ; internal in this instance referred to any activity within the EPH system model , and external to those of the wider system of interest or surrounding environment , eg the Department headquarters , Area Offices etc . |
| 12 | Russia , for her part , was possessed of almost limitless manpower , but this was in large measure negated by her chronically inefficient rail system , so large numbers of men could be transported across country only with difficulty and by laborious stages . |
| 13 | ( ROS goes upstage : Ideally a sort of upper deck joined to the downstage lower deck by short steps . |
| 14 | He was pleased with the support received for the practice of joint confirmation and particularly , welcomed the first ever united service for Christian Unity week . |
| 15 | At officer level , the Cambridge Board through Hickson and Pateman not unreasonably argued that its initiatives in rural areas had been successful ; not least because of the financial support received from LEAs who were prepared to grant-aid provision of liberal adult education by the Board more generously than that provided through the District . |
| 16 | The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support received from Loughborough University 's Research Fund , and would also like to thank their research assistant , Theresa Madden , for her invaluable help and the RIBA for the assistance it has rendered . |
| 17 | If the Latin Americans had their nationalist sensibilities ruffled by the refusal of the Comintern to recognise that they were in the best position to analyse the situation in their own countries , and were disappointed by the level of support received from Moscow , Comintern officials in their turn were unenthusiastic about the evolution of the Latin American Communist parties and their approach to revolutionary politics . |
| 18 | Harry Lister , group managing director , paid tribute to the support received from both the Welsh Office and the Welsh Development Agency . |
| 19 | Only the weather was ominous — the usual generous gestures of support received from congregation and friends were heartwarming . |
| 20 | What do you see as the role of Government in promoting UK exports and how do you feel this compares with the support received by other European businesses ? |
| 21 | Details of EC support received by overseas farmers and information regarding the prices paid and received for their various commodities . |
| 22 | Reference to pre-Chelsea days are rare , but Miller described in the Dictionary how he grew Monthly Roses ( the Autumn Damask ) in his original Southwark Nursery ; under glass against a warm wall , ‘ using dung placed against its backside , as practised by raising early fruits ’ , to produce roses in February , for which there must have been a ready market . |
| 23 | All the keywords can be left in the configuration file , as the parameter given for the keyword HCMAP dictates whether a volume set will be prepared for hard copy or omitted from the hard copy run . |
| 24 | This is a field riddled with dilemmas . |
| 25 | The consequence is a realization that it is precisely the hierarchical and cybernetic attributes of living organisms that enabled evolution to acquire the direction emphasized by Hobhouse at the start of the century . |
| 26 | These students , like Fang himself , were part of the technocratic elite referred to earlier , but their better prospects and opportunities apparently failed to compensate for other sources of discontent . |
| 27 | A sentence formed in my head . |
| 28 | The presidents agreed on a number of points relating to the 10-year-old civil war in El Salvador and the sanctuary given to Nicaraguan contra rebels in Honduras . |
| 29 | He was living with his third wife , the ice goddess Veronica , in an LA mansion , surrounded by the gifts of a lifetime — a six-foot , hand-carved tiger given to him by Deng Xiaoping , a robe given to him by Elvis Presley . |
| 30 | A checklist completed by teachers will give a measure of the use of over two hundred activities in computer education lessons . |