Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment . |
| 2 | Some of the rules change at this stage . |
| 3 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 4 | The codes used are summarised in Fig 11.13 ; internal in this instance referred to any activity within the EPH system model , and external to those of the wider system of interest or surrounding environment , eg the Department headquarters , Area Offices etc . |
| 5 | Complementary to that record we have the accounts given by those fans of those very occasions and others like them . |
| 6 | On May 16 the Appeal Court halved the five-year prison sentence given to former Guinness chairman Ernest Saunders in August 1990 for " massive fraud " in connection with the Distillers Company takeover bid [ see p. 37662 ] . |
| 7 | If an individual buys a futures contract at this price and later sells a contract at 91–23 , then he will have made a loss of 328.13 ( i.e. 21 ticks x 15.625 per tick ) . |
| 8 | It is also possible to unwind a futures contract at any time by performing a reversing trade , so futures contracts are generally extremely liquid ( at least for the near maturing contracts ) . |
| 9 | When the bas-relief on a newly-opened post office was reviewed by The Times , the newspaper 's art correspondent commented with some inspiration , ‘ The design consists of a male and female nude , recumbent , but with a suggestion that they are floating in water . |
| 10 | The role will involve providing economic back-up analysis and feasibility studies for planning activities undertaken at all levels by the Physical Planning Directorate . |
| 11 | The Commission points out that it is often difficult to attribute responsibility , especially when damage is the cumulative result of activities undertaken by many parties . |
| 12 | The platelet aggregates formed in this way are fixed with formol . |
| 13 | How else can you claim the insurance cover the certificate offers on all defects which occur in the first two years , and structural defects up to ten years ? |
| 14 | Male differs from both sexes of Baillon 's Crake in its olive-brown upperparts , unstreaked wing coverts , unbarred flanks . |
| 15 | This in turn causes the protein to fold up in an incorrect way , which results in the haemoglobin molecules sticking to each other . |
| 16 | The answer given by the courts in this instance is ‘ yes ’ to both questions , but the reasons given for these conclusions are less than satisfactory . |
| 17 | The reasons given for these sales are that the Museum has limited storage space in its present building , and that the works in question have not been on exhibition for some considerable time , or duplicate existing holdings . |
| 18 | Among the reasons given for this conclusion were that the system imposes long delays in obtaining foreign exchange for essential imports , thus putting a brake on exports ; that the rate of exchange was not adjusted sufficiently ; and that in the absence of retention rights the exporters had lost their motivation for exporting . |
| 19 | ‘ The reasons given in this case contain a comprehensive analysis of all the relevant cases and literature . |
| 20 | I agree with both the judgments that have been given and with the reasons given in those judgments for allowing this appeal . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that the reasons given by both players made very good practical sense . |
| 22 | ‘ Where the two roads cross the procession is stopped by a column of prisoners guarded by some Uhlans , who wear the chapska perched on their ear , and ride with couched lances . |
| 23 | At Durham Priory , for example , less than half of the income assigned to each office in the monastery was devoted to the activity for which the office had been created ; the rest was absorbed in management costs ( 209 , p.255 ) . |
| 24 | Their report shows that you 're most likely to fall ill visiting Egypt , Gambia , Turkey and Latin America , while 18 per cent of Spanish holiday-makers suffer from some kind of lurgy . |
| 25 | We are also concerned about the reliance placed on these tests but in a different context . |
| 26 | In the case of RNA polymerase III from mammalian cells three protein fractions were separated by chromatography on phosphocellulose and termed TFIIIA , B and C according to their consecutive elution points from this ion exchanger ( 1 ) . |
| 27 | Access to literacy was determined and directed by institutions formed on these assumptions . |
| 28 | In an introductory discussion of the kind undertaken in this chapter it is simply not possible to discuss comprehensively the various forms , spheres and agencies of racism that operate in British society , for example , those deriving from the state 's implementation of increasingly tighter immigration controls as well as nationality legislation , or We activities of some sections of the police ( Dummett , 1982 ; Gordon and Klug , 1985 ; Benyon , 1986 ) . |
| 29 | The arm-chair socialists were too engrossed in scoring advantage points over each other and so paid no attention to the bell-ringer . |
| 30 | The main aim of their eight-week-long visit is to learn enough to set up a consultancy centre at the university as the Czechs , unused to the rising unemployment they now face , do not have the knowhow to cope with such upheaval . |