Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface .
2 The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel .
3 This ambitious presentation of amateur radio to young people involves inviting Novice trainees , Scouts , Guides and ATC members to take part in amateur radio related activities arranged over a whole weekend plus some social activities .
4 Children are made especially welcome in Leogang — there are lots of activities arranged for them .
5 Examples of this kind of manipulation are discernible throughout recorded history and occur at all levels of control , from the actions of the relatively insignificant leaders of quite small groups formed for almost any reason , religious or otherwise , to the governments of nations who become powerful enough to dominate the world .
6 Groups formed as a result of a parent company , such as Matsushita Electric , spinning off its own operating divisions to form separate companies within the same field to act as suppliers , distributors and even retailers .
7 The most useful definition is that of groups formed on the basis of occupational difference .
8 Corporatists share with pluralists a belief that the basic building blocks of the polity and the political process are groups formed around interests and that these have somehow taken over from the significance of representation through elections , parties and parliaments .
9 The groups formed by the females and kids are small , and solitary animals , usually males , are far from uncommon .
10 Other Groups Other smaller groups , such as the Brass Ensemble , Saxophone Quartet and the Madrigal Group , are joined by invitation only , but there are many ad hoc informal groups formed by pupils themselves , and any such initiative is welcomed and encouraged by the Music Department .
11 By the 1930s the dominant force within Catalanism was the Esquerra , a coalition of democratic and republican groups formed in 1930–1 under the leadership of Francesc Macià .
12 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 .
13 The Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , a loose alliance of opposition groups formed in July 1990 , immediately applied for registration as a political party .
14 A number of hackers ' wives have now joined other grass widows parted from their husbands by golf or similar obsessional activities .
15 The plans referred to are short-term plans for periods of from one week to one month .
16 Reader 's interest coincide generally with the news values listed at the start of the chapter .
17 These are not competing principles of equal weight : the values listed in Article 10(2) are simply " a number of exceptions which must be strictly interpreted " .
18 The UAE , one of the states indicted by Iraq in 1990 , had previously come in for criticism without any members finding it necessary to resort to violence to obtain redress .
19 Another possibility is that the IP 3 R functions to integrate information from the multiple inputs received by this dendritic tree .
20 This is an important reminder for , on seeing the beautiful objects excavated from this charming little town , it is all too easy to forget its horrible end .
21 It is realistic when one considers the number of new operations developed as a consequence of medical research .
22 How do we account for the minimal pairs given in Chapter 9 ?
23 This gives an IR spectrum containing absorptions belonging to methane , ethane , ethylene and three new peaks assigned to the methyl radical .
24 These brick buildings are on three storeys , the first two being unexceptional Victorian terraced houses arranged round a courtyard , but the floor above them has the characteristic long windows of textile workshops .
25 For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace .
26 A good proportion of our work concerned our availability to act as an unacknowledged arm of the social welfare service to drug users in crisis situations , providing a front-line service for the ‘ speed freaks who 's OD 'd on the results of a bent script ’ , or the ‘ acid heads having a bad trip ’ , for we were in the streets , the pubs , the clubs , the crash pads , and communal houses frequented by the new ‘ alternative society ’ .
27 The third approach attempts to avoid the approximation of Koopmans ' Theorem by deriving binding energies as the differences in total energies between the molecule and the highly excited positive ions formed by removing core electrons .
28 When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance .
29 There is no doubt that the three surface positions for adjectives can be correlated with the three intensional patterns given in ( 37 ) .
30 Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town , marring the views .
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