Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The life may take a different form to that experienced by most of us , and may not be rewarding in our terms , or in the terms by which society judges these things . |
| 2 | That led to another line of thought . |
| 3 | By contrast , the presence of CRP allows occupancy of the lac P1 promoter , giving an extensive protection against DNAaseI cleavage from -80 to +20 interrupted by some hypersensitive bands [ 14,22,23 ] . |
| 4 | We were unable to obtain a footprint of the α-truncated polymerase at wild-type lac promoter in contrast with the wild-type enzyme which , in conjunction with CRP and cAMP , gave an extensive protection from -80 to +20 interrupted by several hypersensitive bands . |
| 5 | Some of the most exacting university degrees , such as those in the biological and physical sciences demand a level of work load from the conscientious student which is greater than that expected in most occupations . |
| 6 | And do you know when that stopped at all ? |
| 7 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 8 | This symbolism is similar to that found in many ancient cultures , including those of Mesoamerica , in which the serpent represents cycles of endless time , perhaps suggested by the fact that the snake periodically sheds and renews its skin . |
| 9 | Many of the synthetic calcites produced in the experimental work displayed zonation in CL comparable to that found in many natural carbonate crystals . |
| 10 | But the ethos of the system and the reality of democratic centralism lend to its political machinations a different flavour and bias from that found in any system plausibly termed pluralistic . |
| 11 | This cultural empathy inevitably leads to a fusion of individual expression and tradition that is far more pronounced than that found in any other category of oriental rug . |
| 12 | The mean rectal labelling index reported by these investigators was , in fact , lower than that found in any of the groups of our study . |
| 13 | Interestingly , in a large-scale study of search behaviour just completed ( Hey , 1992/3 ) we found a conclusion remarkably similar to that found in this study : subjects were responding in the wrong direction ( but significantly ) to changes in the riskiness parameter σ . |
| 14 | In the USA , the particularly distinctive features of unionism which distinguish it from that found in most continental European countries include ‘ job consciousness and job control , business unionism , an overwhelming emphasis upon economic struggle and collective bargaining , as opposed to broad political reform of the society and the economy ’ ( Kassalow , 1969 , p. 6 ) . |
| 15 | To excel in these areas , Keyence has had to cultivate an individualist meritocracy unlike that found in most Japanese companies . |
| 16 | The proportion of health expenditure devoted to administration is likely to rise nearer to that found in most of Western Europe even if the excesses of the US system are avoided . |
| 17 | The following list , close to that used in this book , summarises the most prominent symptoms : |
| 18 | Was there anything like erm redundancy money or anything like that payed at that time when the place |
| 19 | Active chronic duodenitis in patients not taking NSAIDs was more commonly diagnosed in our study than in that reported by some workers , who studied this abnormality in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia . |
| 20 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 21 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |
| 22 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 23 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
| 24 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
| 25 | Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " . |
| 26 | This amounted to some 100 suicides per 100,000 Greenlanders , or nearly 17 times the rate in 1960 . |
| 27 | This led into another thoroughfare , the far side of which was bordered by a high brick wall in which two iron gates were let , seemingly at the top of Spring Street , and giving entrance to a drive leading to a substantial red-brick house . |
| 28 | Moreover there was no infallible way of telling how long ago the hardener had hen put in ; With the usual frailty of human nature this led to all sorts of mistakes . |
| 29 | During the war of 1914–18 he served in the food production department of the Board of Agriculture , where he developed sex-linked plumage variants as a means of sexing chicks ; this led to many of the commercial ‘ self-sexing ’ breeds . |
| 30 | Needless to say this led to several incidents because the cattle came direct from farms and were not accustomed to being in pens or being handled by the general public . |