Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specially printed promotional material was sent to each retailer or delivered by the Stoddard Templeton sales force to further strengthen the promotion with individual shop staff . |
| 2 | The Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) requires that American airlines in Europe and the Middle East x-ray or hand-search all baggage on flights to the United States , whether carried on board or destined for the hold . |
| 3 | Police say the dog could have been used in a fight or dumped by an uncaring owner who could not afford to have the animal registered under dangerous dog legislation . |
| 4 | Such costs will either be absorbed on a pro rata basis into the cost of existing projects or charged to the overhead accounts . |
| 5 | Trading guilds and companies manoeuvred to have their industry organized to their own advantage or allied with the Crown to do so . |
| 6 | This may be under a piece of tree bark , along a ledge of some kind or hidden on the ground among the undergrowth . |
| 7 | The term ‘ own account ’ includes ( in the words of the FTA ) ‘ the delivery and collection of goods sold , bought , used or let on hire or hire purchase or processed in the course of the operator 's trade or business whether transport costs are included in the price of the articles involved or charged separately ’ . |
| 8 | Similar tragedies can occur even in rather unusual settings and caused by a different train of events , for example the North Sea Piper Alpha episode 1988 , where staff died either on the blazing oil installation or drowned in the surrounding sea of fire . |
| 9 | This is a tribute to Labour 's smooth campaigning , in which the unacceptable faces of socialism have been either wreathed in benevolence or kept off the screen altogether . |
| 10 | According to a report in the Montreal Gazette the statues had been ‘ tampered with ’ in this way on several occasions , and the newspaper felt that they should be raised beyond the reach of pranksters or removed to an inside guarded site . |
| 11 | These can be mounted on a stand or held in the hand , and are available in both electret and dynamic types and with both ‘ omni ’ and ‘ uni ’ pick-up patterns . |
| 12 | Idoxuridine , one such agent , can be applied to herpetic ulcers either in an ointment base or dissolved in a solvent which aids its absorption in the skin , and has enthusiastic followers , but again convincing evidence of its efficacy is lacking . |
| 13 | Hopes for a ‘ green lung ’ in the heart of the city are fading , particularly since the announcement that Mercedes Benz is to build a huge service centre on Potsdamer Platz , dashing hopes that it might be left as a park or rebuilt as the commercial hub of the city it was before the war . |
| 14 | The field where the outbreak has originated may be grazed by sheep or rested until the following June . |
| 15 | The risks involved in entering new markets , new sectors or using new processes can be externalized or shared within conglomerate groups or underwritten by the state on behalf of society . |
| 16 | Where a driver says ‘ I was blinded by the sun ’ or ‘ There was a patch of fog ’ or ‘ The road was covered with black ice ’ , he should have stopped , reduced his speed or driven at a speed which was safe . |
| 17 | The fields will comprise the leading eight in the world rankings at the end of this season and eight more players supplied by the host association or invited by the sponsors . |
| 18 | Marble galls are still to be found now , attached to twigs or fallen among the leaf-litter , each with a minute 1mm hole from which the tiny cynipid wasp has emerged . |
| 19 | In the Guidance ( vol 1 , para 4.63 ) it is suggested that assessments be undertaken by professionals agreed between the parties or selected by the guardian ad litem . |
| 20 | First , the draftsman may provide for the substitution of a different index to be agreed between the parties or determined by a third party in default of agreement . |
| 21 | There are indeed some paradoxical pains — that is , pain that is aggravated by the use of analgesics or relieved by the use of antalgesics . |
| 22 | Now only a single motif could be seen , worn openly on chest or collar , on hems or in the form of jewellery , on pendants about the neck or emblazoned on a ring or brooch : the double-helix of heredity . |
| 23 | The shelving sliders at either end of the graphic 's bands prove particularly useful when using 5 and 6-string basses , allowing straightforward boost or cut across a wide frequency range , and giving the bassist well-defined depth on the lower strings and bright treble at the top , but with a ‘ cut mid ’ to minimise that confusion of bass and lower mid frequencies . |
| 24 | Next is the graphic equaliser , also switchable in or out , with a powerful 15 dB of boost or cut at the 7 well-chosen frequency centres of 50Hz , 100Hz , 230Hz , 500Hz , 1kHz , 2kHz and 5kHz . |
| 25 | And with copious amounts of tone modification and sheer brute power on tap , via the active contouring filters ( 18dB boost at 100Hz and 10Hz ) then the graphic equaliser ( 15dB of boost or cut with a ten-band slider ranging from 30Hz right up to 8kHz ) , the Hartkes are never likely to be found wanting . |
| 26 | In this section we attempt to provide a framework for discussion of a number of special instructions ( or groups of instructions ) , provided in current computers or proposed for the future , which do not naturally fit into these groups . |
| 27 | When grown in the absence of FCS , many of the cells died asynchronously over several days , with morphological features that are characteristic of apoptosis : when viewed by time-lapse video recording , the cells showed active surface blebbing and then shrank and often fragmented ( not shown ) , and when stained with propidium iodide or viewed in an electron microscope , the nuclei of the dead cells were condensed and often fragmented ( Fig. 2c , f ) . |
| 28 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
| 29 | To the right of the cirque there is a large indentation or cleft in the rim known as the Bréche de Roland ( see Plate 3 ) . |
| 30 | These include , the significance of the inaccuracy ; whether reasonable steps where taken by the data user to check the accuracy of information held and what procedures were followed by the data user once the inaccuracy was brought to light ( DPR Guideline 4 ) . |