Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , although the smallness of the samples of 16th , 17th , and 18th Century publications in need of repair means that conclusions about them must be treated with some caution , it is worth noting that if all pre-1800 items are treated as a group and the proportion of them allocated to each of Categories 3–5 calculated , their pattern of distribution ( ‘ Poor' 78% ; ‘ Bad ’ 18% ; ‘ Fragile ’ 7% ) comes close to matching that already established for all defective items . |
| 2 | Ideally , this should be the same as P(G) for each G. The discrepancy between them can be quantified as a number , commonly called C. This is zero when each P' ( G ) equals the corresponding P(G) . |
| 3 | Since each of these parties leant on the other for reassurance , relations between them will be soured as a result . |
| 4 | For example , if the pattern recogniser produces ‘ a ’ and ‘ o ’ with equal probability , the choice between them will be based on frequency statistics . |
| 5 | The sharper the boundaries , the more likely the dynamic between them will be articulated through more of less formal , institutionalised modes of mediation : patrons , brokers , interpreters , committees , councils and the like . |
| 6 | I look forward to hearing thoughtful and far-reaching speeches such as that made by the hon. Member for Chichester when these matters are discussed at Maastricht , and I hope that views such as his will be reflected in Maastricht — a subject to which I may return in due course . |
| 7 | One or two of them might be related to me , but I work on the assumption that my children will have access to most things and personal experience of some . |
| 8 | In future , these matters will not be decided here because responsibility for many of them may be transferred to Europe . ’ |
| 9 | Variants of ( Ε ) and ( o ) do not form a continuum along a single linear scale , but each of them may be said to be part of one or more subscales which can be constructed on , for example , the continua of roundness , or backness or length . |
| 10 | Nine of them may be attributed to petitioners . |
| 11 | These items are all connected , and any of them may be used as analogies or homologies for each other . |
| 12 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 13 | Ianthe sighed , perhaps foreseeing the day when both of them would be replaced by younger persons . |
| 14 | Not supper — emphasize that — or more of them would be affected by now . |
| 15 | It seemed as though she liked to keep those she loved to herself , as if by sharing , some part of them would be lost to her forever . |
| 16 | After the capture of the Isle of Wight 20,000 would be collected there and 5–6000 of them would be ferried across the Solent in small boats and landed along the creek separating Hayling Island from Portsea to take the Portsea Lines in the rear , which would only be possible if the guns of Fort Cumberland , on the eastern tip of Portsea Island , were knocked out beforehand by a bombardment by French battleships and bomb-ketches . |
| 17 | Second , the pattern of voting would be the same in the 54 new constituencies as in the actual 108 , in which case 53 of them would be won by the Conservatives . |
| 18 | I 'm always joking that such a coupling would sell 20 copies , and 10 of them would be bought by my mother . |
| 19 | For us , though , they are important , because if one plotted a map to show the distribution of all earthquake centres in the world for the last ten years , a large proportion of them would be scattered along the oceanic ridges . |
| 20 | Some of them would be put over hurdles next season , perhaps one might be sold to Barbados or Abu Dhabi in the forlorn hope that they could win something there , but most of them were racing in the shadow of the knacker 's yard . |
| 21 | There were two separate issues for the research : ( i ) which pupils would be included in the testing ; and , ( ii ) if a wide range of tests was to be developed , each of them would be taken by different and fairly small samples from among the target pupils , how could the comparability of the samples be checked ? |
| 22 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |
| 23 | In this discussion we shall have to make frequent use of the terms cost and expenses of production ; and some provisional account of them must be given before proceeding further . |
| 24 | These are only a few of the choices before them , but even these are very difficult to prioritize and at times some of them must be sacrificed at the expense of others in this play . |
| 25 | His zeal for the American design had even extended to the suggestion that a batch of them should be sold to the Shah of Iran . |
| 26 | The audience and readership profiles of the various media will help to ermine which of them should be included on your list 1 which can be safely left out . |
| 27 | He also said there were 230 patients at Aycliffe Hospital who faced an uncertain future and some of them could be moved to the Memorial hospital . |
| 28 | On the capital side , this meant that instead of all residential units being costed as if they would be ‘ new build ’ , twenty-five of them could be sited in existing buildings . |
| 29 | Neither of them could be described as a sobering influence . |
| 30 | The Cambridge group showed that most of these radio sources must lie outside our galaxy ( indeed many of them could be identified with other galaxies ) and also that there were many more weak sources than strong ones . |