Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such consultation was undertaken through a Great Council , from which evolved what was to be recognized as a parlement or Parliament . |
| 2 | The first area is the teaching of legal awareness in schools , now being undertaken through a collaborative project between the Law Society and the School Curriculum Development Committee on Law in Education . |
| 3 | And this costly project was being undertaken through a strong sense of duty to what he believed his father would have wished him to do . |
| 4 | Cole and Scribner point out that the specific skill developed for this purpose can be transferred to other tasks : they tested literates and illiterates in the Vai script for their ability to distinguish and reproduce units of meaning when heard as a continuous flow , and discovered that the literates were better at this task ( 1981 ) . |
| 5 | The freshness and novelty of the musical language can gradually be heard as a brilliant , prismatic treatment of " old-fashioned " tonal devices refracted through two or three prevailing modal scales . |
| 6 | A common example was an auxiliary verb sequence , such as I would n't have been able to go , which was heard as a single syllabic beat , approximately shown here as I wudnbinabluh go . |
| 7 | The case was heard as a minor offence before a low-level court , the tribunal correctionel in Tours , at which three judges ruled that , although the article exculpated the mayor , the advertisement did smear him , and the newspaper was ordered to pay him Fr10,000 ( £1,000 approx ) . |
| 8 | Mm , I 'm sure you 'll find something in Marks and Spencers , I have heard about a new trick mum , how to con money out of Marks and Spencers |
| 9 | Otis had heard about a special policy being offered by The Legal Protection Group , which you can add on to your motor insurance policy . |
| 10 | The service has been publicised through a public service announcement in Urdu on local television and has been swamped with requests for interpreter help from social services , solicitors and other agencies . |
| 11 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 12 | However , this advantage would be lost if the allophones that were the product of word-internal context-effects were also caused by context-effects across word boundaries : thus if in lee were realised as a voiceless [ l ] in a moderately fast production of … tip leewards … , lee would once more be embedded within plea even at an allophonic level of representation . |
| 13 | If a giant cuts off somebody 's head , the spectacle is only realised as a striking and funny denouement … |
| 14 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 15 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 16 | The fans are still hoping the terraces will be filled for a bright new future to come . |
| 17 | It was erected as a ducal chapel in 1336 by Azzone Visconti who was buried in it just three years later . |
| 18 | The existing bridge was erected as a temporary measure to replace the original bridge which was destroyed by floods . |
| 19 | opposite the ‘ Old Pack Horse ’ , whilst at the other Chiswick High Road corner — Heathfield Terrace junction — an obelisk was erected as a permanent War Memorial , around which Memorial Services have been held ever since . |
| 20 | This was the first ever building specifically erected as a social meeting place , as opposed to a church , in this country — or for that matter , anywhere else in the world . |
| 21 | The High Court 's Sept. 2 judgment ( following a petition filed by Win Chadha , one of those named by the CBI as centrally involved in the scandal ) had intervened as a cantonal court in Geneva was due to deliver its verdict in response to the CBI 's request for assistance . |
| 22 | Its best-selling model is the Kijang , a tin box developed through a joint venture with Toyota . |
| 23 | Latterly his painting has shown a new freedom of expression , developed through a complex series of preliminary works to final canvas . |
| 24 | Crucially , a rift developed between a local strike leadership and the trade union 's national officials . |
| 25 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
| 26 | The main advantage of panels is that they provide feedback over a period of time , which increases the reliability of their responses compared with people who may have been stopped for a brief interview outside their local supermarket , for example . |
| 27 | The conversion of fractions to decimals is a requirement for effective use of the calculator , and a further calculator question about the wages received for a 37½ hour week produced evidence that a number of pupils worked out the wages for a 37 hour week using the calculator and then made , or tried to make , a pencil and paper calculation for the remaining half hour 's money . |
| 28 | It would have been easy to track down , as a somewhat acidulous correspondent explained during a few remarks on the shortcomings of journalists . |
| 29 | As the science of the nineteenth century advanced in analytical skills , it became increasingly possible to tie down results to specific plants and the chemicals therein , until a pure chemical could be prescribed for a particular symptom . |
| 30 | Is the Minister aware that a number of people in the west midlands and elsewhere who took the opportunity of buying their accommodation now find that their homes have been repossessed as a direct result of Government economic policy ? |