Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campaign financing is encouraged and yet limited through structural features of the American political system . |
| 2 | This chapter examines a study , where , at the outset , the analysts were not entirely clear what could be achieved by using soft systems analysis , but felt it would provide an overview of the situation , enabling ideas to be formulated about new relationships that would arise from a fundamental change in role . |
| 3 | On the other side of the street , beyond a row of lime trees , the broad green slope of Fernhill Park falls away in an amphitheatric curve to the river hidden between steep banks . |
| 4 | You have heard about complex variables , and I believe you have come across the Cauchy-Riemann relationships . |
| 5 | Those who had heard about major items of foreign news — such as the Amin coup in Uganda , the deaths of Nasser in Egypt and Nkrumah in Ghana , or the proposed resumption of British arms sales in South Africa — had for the most part received the news from the radio . |
| 6 | It turned out , however , that the police had heard about possible sexual abuse before the father appeared in court on the physical abuse charges . |
| 7 | Thinking of young lives , his mind jumped back to yesterday , when he had heard about young Harrington . |
| 8 | The jury heard about wealthy amusement arcade boss Vincent King 's past only after it had given its verdict . |
| 9 | Furthermore , even before Posidonius , the Druids may well have heard about Greek doctrines of immortality either from oral tradition in Massalia or by honest purchase of Greek books . |
| 10 | We 've heard about object-oriented technology for 20 years , but it 's only just now beginning to take hold . |
| 11 | The council had heard about impending publication late on Saturday night , too , he said , and had tried to stop it by taking out an interdict against the newspaper concerned . |
| 12 | Major 's reply suggested that , as an interested visitor from another solar system , he had heard about human personality but regretfully had no first-hand experience of this rare bird , though he was prepared to extend it every reasonable courtesy . |
| 13 | That 's when — you know , you 've heard about supply-side economics . |
| 14 | You have heard about electric charge , current , magnetic field , etc . |
| 15 | But instead of discussing such low-cost , appropriate approaches , the International Workshop on Earthen Buildings in Seismic Areas , sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and held in Albuquerque in May 1981 , heard about high technology solutions like ‘ prestressed adobe ’ and ‘ reinforced poured adobe ’ . |
| 16 | At the end of the session prices between DM240,000 ( £96,000 ; $153,600 ) and DM380,000 ( £152,000 ; $243,200 ) were also realised for abstract oil paintings from the 1950s by Willi Baumeister and Ernst Wilhelm Nay . |
| 17 | Simply to hope that such things will be taught through other subjects is not satisfactory for a planning document even at the discussion stage . |
| 18 | Religious education and personal and social education ( broadly defined to include 16 areas such as careers education , community studies , education for parenthood and family life , health education , mass media , moral , political and economic education ) are compulsory in ISS : in TNC religious education is assumed ( but later given status as a ‘ basic ’ subject after pressure from the churches ) and elements of personal and social education are to be ‘ taught through other subjects ’ , though no advice is given on how this might be achieved . |
| 19 | The counselling and family work skills taught through social work leadership to all team members . |
| 20 | I 've read that our children will be taught about other faiths . |
| 21 | Men are n't taught about testicular cancer , yet it can affect any man between the ages of 15 and 45 . |
| 22 | How much did you get taught about German documents at Ashford ? — or Hereford ? ’ |
| 23 | Those who had moved were traced through various means including the local Electoral Register , Leicestershire Family Health Services Authority , the local Registrar of Births and Deaths , and the NHS Central Register at Southport in Lancashire . |
| 24 | Desmond Morris claims that his biomorphs " evolve " in his mind , and that their evolution can be traced through successive paintings . |
| 25 | The onward march of racism is traced through historical time and institutional space , from some presumed point of origination which defines its essential character , to a present conjuncture which is the summation of its effects . |
| 26 | As well as using the equivalent of ‘ which ’ to establish linkage , as in ‘ receiving the request which one of the parties presented to it ’ , the following verb is further suffixed for pronominal reference ( literally : ‘ which one of the parties presented-it-masculine to it-feminine ’ ) . |
| 27 | The larger estates were heavily criticized for absent or late provision of social and community facilities . |
| 28 | He complained that his design had been criticized for deficient lighting but he had shown the Committee that his windows were larger than those in sixteen or seventeen well-known classical buildings in London . |
| 29 | It enabled Bush , who had been criticized for excessive prioritization of foreign policy , to demonstrate concern for and involvement in domestic affairs , and to demonstrate a commitment to civil rights at a time when Duke 's gubernatorial candidacy in Louisiana [ see above ] had embarrassed the Republican party . |
| 30 | With the exception of the ten generals , who were elected annually by the assembly , most other public offices were filled for limited periods ( usually a year ) by citizens chosen by lot . |