Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both the type of support given and in the way it is delivered , it seems of great importance to sustain a balance between dependence and independence which is regarded as appropriate by all parties . |
| 2 | Moreover , the claimant who has been successful in a case like the one in which the SCC judgement was rendered can bring an action for compensation of any additional financial damage sustained and/or for compensation for injury to feeling . |
| 3 | The forced march through Siberia becomes increasingly desperate and hallucinatory ( in fact Ypsilanti is , from the outset , clear in his own mind that they will never find the emperor ) : when the regiment comes to cross the tajga in July 1918 , the forest takes on the appearance both of a paradise regained and of a place of horror , endless in extent , haunted by marauding tigers and ghostly tribes . |
| 4 | ‘ At about ten o'clock on May 20th , ’ he began , ‘ a man driving a petrol tanker on the north to south highway of Stowerton by-pass saw a car overturned and in flames on the fast lane of the south to north track . |
| 5 | This is surely to be explained by the paramount corporate and legal sense of identity which the clergy enjoyed and by the institutional roots which convocation had in the church 's own provincial councils ; the assembly of merchants , for example , was nothing like so well established or defined . |
| 6 | As half-time approached and with the score at 0–0 , Reg and I shuffled nervously on the bench , but the duck was about to be broken . |
| 7 | One must , however , question d'Ohsson 's and Hammer 's statements that Hizir Bey became the premier Mufti , and , as is explicit in d'Ohsson and implicit in Hammer , that it is in his time that the office of Mufti originated or at least first gained importance . |
| 8 | However , in both trials almost a third of randomised individuals were excluded from the analysis either because of loss to follow up or insufficient compliance with medication , and an analysis by intention to treat could not be reconstructed from the data presented nor from data still with the principal author ( personal communication ) . |
| 9 | A foresighted Air National Guard officer was instrumental in having the Airacomet saved and in 1955 the Air Guard transferred the airframe back to the Air Force for placement in the USAF Museum . |
| 10 | Intelligence suggested that personnel had recently returned and there had been a significant increase in the number of aircraft seen and in the locations at which they had been sighted . |
| 11 | Their eyes met and in the distance a romantic gypsy began playing — Ned knew that from that moment on he could n't live without her ! |
| 12 | The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped and at least the proximal ones are usually contiguous . |
| 13 | Once again , there is considerable imprecision in the various regression formulae used and in some of the indicators . |
| 14 | At last the shops opened and like a kid with a tanner , I hunted and sniffed and tasted and tried , imagining what I 'd buy if I had all the money in the world . |
| 15 | We are continuing to lobby for full compensation for the commercial value of hens slaughtered and for equivalent testing legislation to be introduced throughout the European Community . |
| 16 | ( 1980 ) point out that statistical classification methods are by their very nature exploratory data-analysis techniques , dependent on the methods used and on a number of arbitrary definitions , and it is therefore inevitable that the results should be seen as a pioneering first attempt , rather than as a polished final product based on the application of well established proven methods . |
| 17 | They checked on the possibility that saccadic movements made with the eyes closed , or in the dark , might be slowed , or that the velocity may then be independent of length of saccade , and found that they were not : that is , waking eye movements with eyes closed , or in the dark , are the same as with eyes opened and in the light . |
| 18 | Record manufacturers formerly pleased themselves as to the degree of attenuation or enhancement used and in the early '50s , an amplifier might have several switched replay positions whilst another provided plug-in networks to suit records and cartridges . |
| 19 | Apart from a few still lifes , interiors , and landscapes , the pictures of Gwen John 's artistic maturity are all female portraits , usually of a model known only as ‘ the convalescent ’ , the monumental figure isolated or before a simple background . |
| 20 | George carefully positioned the old bear crossed and in a delightfully laid-back , almost human repose . |
| 21 | When he did , his eyes narrowed and for a moment Kelly thought he was going to bound across the room and hit her . |
| 22 | Expectoration may be very offensive , tenacious , lumpy , blood streaked or like thick , yellow or yellow/green pus , often with a pungent , cheesy taste . |
| 23 | The toasts to Gaby , the protestations persisted and in the end the two reeled out of the café arm-in-arm at two in the morning swearing eternal friendship . |
| 24 | Her eyes widened and for a moment she looked scared , but her model 's training stood her in good stead and she showed no other sign of what must have been a shock . |
| 25 | He had but three vessels left and despite urgent pleas from his men — now demoralized again , fretful once they realized another ship was gone — to abandon the voyage and sail back to the Guadalquivir , he pressed on north-westwards , passing through scenery of a wild grandeur and beauty he had never known before . |
| 26 | Any action taken or to be taken in connection with the prevention , investigation or prosecution of crime . |
| 27 | For the three sectors combined and with 1980 as base year , calculate current-weighted ( Paasche ) price index numbers for 1976 and for 1986 . |
| 28 | Overall there was a much more varied selection of entries this year both in regard to the wide assortment of subjects tackled and to the quality of the writing . |
| 29 | I think she had two-thirds of her first album composed or in her head when she was with us . ’ |
| 30 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |