Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
| 2 | There is also the danger of alcohol causing unpleasant interactions with drugs commonly prescribed for older people . |
| 3 | For various reasons , DATEC decided that , with one exception , no college proposals would be validated for Higher Certificate and Higher Diploma courses which would allow a start before September 1982 ; as a consequence , there are at present relatively small numbers of students on these courses . |
| 4 | Currently there are more than 5,000 people registered for higher degrees through Henley . |
| 5 | Several appropriate datasets are being examined for further temporal changes . |
| 6 | Drug doses also tend to be higher and given for longer periods . |
| 7 | More precision is given for rarer plants . |
| 8 | The charity still continues but as well as maintaining and providing extras for the school , grants are given for further education or books . |
| 9 | The references should be consulted for fuller accounts of experimental work on extensional flow , but present work seems to support the Zimm non-free-draining model ( Chap . |
| 10 | The entries for the other faculties should be consulted for further details . |
| 11 | Your LIFESPAN 08.00 documentation should be consulted for further details . |
| 12 | Approaches such as these that assess a worker 's competence against nationally-established standards and that issue a qualification regardless of a person 's formal academic background need to be developed for larger groups of paraprofessionals . |
| 13 | As time passed she could be halted for longer and longer intervals , and eventually she forgot her rearing habit altogether . |
| 14 | Children who do show difficulties in the screening test for vision must be referred for further examination . |
| 15 | At a Salzburg meeting on June 24-25 , originally timetabled with the intention that it would mark the conclusion of the EEA negotiations , the fisheries issue again proved intractable , and was referred for further discussion by the joint high-level negotiating group ( HLNG ) , while in the joint communiqué ministers " reaffirmed their joint commitment to conclude the negotiations before the summer break " . |
| 16 | However , Indonesia in particular was reluctant to endorse the proposal and it was referred for further discussion at committee level . |
| 17 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 18 | The SO17 is octagonal , with a capacity of about 17cu ft , and is intended for bigger gardens . |
| 19 | Under the proposals , all shipments of waste — including movements within a member state — would be subject to an obligatory notification procedure for all forms of waste except collection of household wastes and some non-contaminated wastes intended for further use , such as bottle banks . |
| 20 | One patient ( man aged 69 ) in whom H pylori had successfully been eradicated was recalled for further study . |
| 21 | As the desktop computer is being forsaken for lighter , more portable PCs , so the older proprietary mainframes are being superseded by less expensive but more powerful , more ‘ open ’ and more flexible systems . |
| 22 | The accident records at these schools have been examined in considerable detail by the Departments of Highways and Education and the Police and four areas have been highlighted for further action and detailed investigation . |
| 23 | Whilst line officers pressed for greater autonomy on their own operational turf , these years actually witnessed a strengthening of the prerogatives of political officers , not their diminution . |
| 24 | I have pressed for better freight links , which is another argument , but we must start with a reasonably fast passenger link to Europe . |
| 25 | Some idea of how badly the police were treated is given by the reports of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner which show that roughly one-in-four of London 's policemen were assaulted each year — 3,444 cases were reported in 1899 , for example , when the constabulary strength was 13,213 men and 1,949 sergeants — as police authorities pressed for firmer measures in assault cases . |
| 26 | The French Minister-Delegate for Foreign Affairs , Alain Vivien , who had visited Djibouti on Dec. 26-28 , was understood to have pressed for further progress towards a multiparty system . |
| 27 | Many companies refuse to invest less than £500,000 in any one company , partly because the smaller companies are regarded as higher risk . |
| 28 | Zermatt , for example , is a resort where many skiers must have wished for better links . |
| 29 | Mr Crump could not have wished for better and yet he was not as responsive as Hope had expected : indeed he only barely acknowledged the compliment . |
| 30 | We could n't have wished for better weather — perfect sunshine , just the right start for a wedding day and honeymoon/the most beautiful , romantic white Christmas . |