Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the student is encouraged to keep a record of the activities undertaken and the progress achieved in the investigation , there is no requirement for a written report as a means of communicating the results . |
| 2 | Previously no distinction had been made between acquittals , cases which were dismissed because there was no evidence that the accused had committed the crime , and cases dismissed because no crime had been committed . |
| 3 | The assault was stiffly resisted and at no time in their planning had the Germans calculated that the Belgians would do anything other than tamely submit . |
| 4 | There would obviously be other important programmes undertaken but the line-item approach to budgeting does little to improve managerial planning and control . |
| 5 | A test showed that the frequencies of the three possible types of transition did not differ significantly from the values expected if the identity of a cone were independent of the identity of its neighbours and reflected only the absolute probability of that cone type ( ) . |
| 6 | There were only two cases reported where the wife killed her husband and a sexual relationship or activity was at issue . |
| 7 | People came in the summer to walk and to sail and , if development plans succeeded and the roads could be kept clear , they 'd soon be coming in the winter to ski . |
| 8 | Through the six months of Alberta 's bitter winter each lady tried to outdo the other in the number of coffee parties given and the number of charitable offices each managed to obtain . |
| 9 | Against the hard , insistent pressure of Guy 's mouth , Isabel 's lips parted and a whimper of surrender sounded deep in her throat . |
| 10 | the skills or subjects taught and the amount of time allocated to each ; |
| 11 | Bacon said that there were three kinds of gift that might be offered to a judge : the first were bribes given in advance to pervert the course of justice ; the second were presents given when the judge thought the case was over . |
| 12 | although in fact it still had some way to run ; the third were presents given when the case really was over . |
| 13 | The noise of breaking twigs stopped but the breathing continued . |
| 14 | Let us turn to another definition that would give the context-dependent nature of such phenomena more centrality : ( 12 ) Pragmatics is the study of the relations between language and context that are basic to an account of language understanding Here the term language understanding is used in the way favoured by workers in artificial intelligence to draw attention to the fact that understanding an utterance involves a great deal more than knowing the meanings of the words uttered and the grammatical relations between them . |
| 15 | It will apply only to cars registered after the law comes into effect . |
| 16 | ‘ But the crickets stopped and the bird flew away , quite suddenly . |
| 17 | Despite a bright start , Liverpool were eventually shown up as a brittle , spiritless outfit whose heads dropped when the roll of the dice went against them . |
| 18 | Because every colour TV channel soaks up another 8 MHz of bandwidth there is a trade-off between the number of channels carried and the distance between equalisers and amplifiers . |
| 19 | The tactics succeeded and the erosion of optional business was stopped . |
| 20 | In the case where there are no computers installed and the user is coming at the problem with no previous experience there is really only one answer . |
| 21 | Her shoulders dropped as the tensions began to ease and she raised her face to the condensed water on the ceiling , trying to relinquish control . |
| 22 | His eyes watered as the pain increased . |
| 23 | Eventually , control of the car could be taken out of the driver 's hands , and the brakes applied if a stationary vehicle is detected in the road ahead . |
| 24 | But this is an unimaginative conclusion , for there might be other relationships revealed when the oppressive or shielding stone is lifted and taken away ; even if the family — parents and children — will certainly be there . |
| 25 | Once more their eyes met and the old nun said softly : |
| 26 | For the first time her shoulders slumped and a tearful lump clogged her throat before she quickly shook it off . |
| 27 | No matter how well intentioned an author may be , no matter how good his work is considered , a lavish photographic book of this kind , and of this price , must stand or fall on the sheer quality of the pictures selected and the way in which they are presented . |
| 28 | After making corrections for the spotting order of the microtitre plates all the data were combined into two files , one listing the probes used and the other listing the hybridisations of all probes to each clone . |
| 29 | Both parties requested that a case be stated for the opinion of the High Court . |
| 30 | At that moment the door to one of the partitioned offices opened and a stout , smartly suited figure emerged . |