Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some versions of traps have a capped connector on the side , for connecting an overflow assembly , which can be unscrewed for cleaning . |
| 2 | Kate Spencer-Nairn has been in wheelchair for eight years since her treatment at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford.In a High Court damages case against Oxfordshire Health Authority , she 's claimed that her spine was n't properly shielded during radiation treatment for Hodgkin 's Disease . |
| 3 | After a year or so of disappointment , my Dad gently explained about air waves , and I reasoned that if Dick Barton could send his voice through the air waves , God certainly could . |
| 4 | Prof Eno took us aside and explained about mummy rabbits and daddy rabbits . |
| 5 | My solicitor and barrister came and saw me , and explained about parole and remission , and told me there was no point in appealing . |
| 6 | If you feel constantly anxious and frightened about food , if you can not take pleasure in eating or in your body , if you know deep down that something is wrong , then it is irrelevant what you weigh or whether your immediate health is at risk ; you should take yourself and your feelings seriously , and look for help . |
| 7 | ‘ Extending the range of visits to library and related establishments beyond the London area to which we are limited through lack of funds ’ … |
| 8 | One view central to the lawyer/economist is that , in a world where , on the one hand , resources ( all of which have alternative uses ) are limited through scarcity and where on the other hand , there exists the insatiable human desire to consume those resources , then inevitably , trade-offs and choices must somehow be made . |
| 9 | Obligations undertaken through consent or respect are voluntary or semi-voluntary obligations . |
| 10 | Or perhaps more accurately , the designed object is validated as museum display through the discourse of design history . |
| 11 | According to the patent ( Us 235 199 ) , when the chopped light beam was focused onto the diaphragm it created sympathetic movements which could be heard as sound . |
| 12 | As you seem to know about knights , how come you have n't heard about chivalry ? |
| 13 | DURING PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE WEEK 1990 , SECOND YEAR PUPILS OF PEEBLES HIGH SCHOOL HEARD ABOUT AMNESTY 'S LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN FROM THEIR LOCAL AMNESTY GROUP . |
| 14 | Little is heard about policy effects or outcomes . |
| 15 | ‘ I had heard about Smailovic and his Sarajevan Opera String Quartet some time ago and had the idea of offering him support by writing a piece and joining him in one of his concerts at the front line . ’ |
| 16 | It was for him that now she was entertaining this arrow-straight , dark-eyed young scoundrel who would be likely to repay her by seducing her daughter , she thought , if she still had one , and who would probably forget everything he 'd ever heard about hunger in St Jude 's , or in County Kildare for that matter , should he ever find himself well-fed in Westminster . |
| 17 | No doubt she has heard about Lovat being badly wounded during the early days of the fighting in Normandy and remembers her words to me as I left Achnacarry to join Lovat in Sussex . |
| 18 | Peter White , this instability could result as people have been warning in Civil War , that we 've already heard about venturism being er , suggested by the Russian leader Boris Yeltsin it , he might try to change the boundaries of the Soviet Republics . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've heard about Industry Year , Vic ? ’ |
| 20 | She had not travelled for pleasure since she had come home from her long sojourn and she had wiped out of her memory the simple delights of hot sun and cheap wine . |
| 21 | More specifically , Cornall noted ; ‘ cross-curricular themes may be all right but they can not adequately be taught through foundation subjects . |
| 22 | They must be taught through benevolence and sympathy ; when the necessity arises shame may be used , but fear only in the last extremity , and then ‘ with such delicacy that if possible the habit may not gather strength by the use you are constrained to make of it ’ . |
| 23 | As with other subject areas of the course , electronic publishing is taught through theory and practice . |
| 24 | I feel erm personally when I was younger that I was taught about love long before I feel in love sort of idea you know comics , the old movies , gave us expectations about what love was all about and I felt that had a , has a big influence in how yeah , when you grow up you feel , you meet this man and |
| 25 | ‘ Parents who do n't want their kids taught about homosexuality in the first grade are not bigots . |
| 26 | And surprisingly only one in five teenagers questioned had been taught about homosexuality and lesbianism in school . |
| 27 | Almond and Verba found that having been taught about government increases a sense of subjective political competence . |
| 28 | The Pope urges that students in seminaries should be taught about sex in seminaries . |
| 29 | But is it really a good idea that students should be taught about sex in seminaries ? |
| 30 | The boy is taught about family , clan and tribal lands , and their boundaries are carefully pointed out to him . |