Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tempted the women by treats and presents , and when that failed by psychological means . |
| 2 | Dressed in a sea-blue gown with matching head-dress , each studded with small mother-of-pearls , she looked so beautiful ! |
| 3 | Ten people lived on ordinary wards at the beginning of the study , and eight lived in special units reserved for those with the most challenging behaviour . |
| 4 | The dose of 40 mg omeprazole once daily is higher than that recommended for peptic ulcer therapy , but is regularly used in reflux oesophagitis , while a duration of five days was chosen because it has been shown that the effect of omeprazole on gastric acid and serum gastrin stabilises after three days of treatment . |
| 5 | It was the duty of the ruling sultan , at least in principle , to extend so far as he could the area controlled by true believers at the expense of that ruled by Christian infidels . |
| 6 | ( Similar allegations in 1971 led to one MP 's being suspended from the House . ) |
| 7 | Students of human memory have long recognized that performance on a retrieval task tends to be superior when the test context is similar to that experienced during initial training . |
| 8 | That led to another line of thought . |
| 9 | Mrs Brown lived in Morrell House , Burton Stone Lane , York , but before that lived for 70 years in New Earswick . |
| 10 | Four thin , wooden gods watched the rotting dead , each made of twisted lengths of birch-branch , no thicker than an arm but twice Tallis 's height . |
| 11 | The principles of exercise for coronary patients is no different from that applied to normal individuals trying to get fit . |
| 12 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 13 | Percentage measures of performance should therefore be compared to that expected from random selection . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Papert asks why half the population are maths phobics , afraid of numbers , and woolly headed about abstract concepts , ’ the narrator announced Any suspicion that this was the preface to yet another attempt to instil numeracy via some twist of new math , quickly disappeared . |
| 16 | We submit that even scores such as the Glasgow coma scale and the Apgar score , which are assumed to be independent of medical management , may , in fact , be susceptible to a similar effect to that demonstrated with APACHE scoring . |
| 17 | Response to music is believed to be dominant in the right hemisphere and as a result would be expected to exact a similar reduction in left field advantage to that found for right field advantage in the trigram tasks discussed here . |
| 18 | Here , it is assumed that the severity of any language problem is indicated by the extent to which a child 's language differs from that found among other children of a similar age . |
| 19 | This is a much larger proportion than that found among teenage women , where only about 1 in 3 were cohabiting at the time of the birth . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The plasma fatty acid profile in Crohn 's disease was similar to that found in ulcerative colitis ( Table III ) . |
| 22 | The regular pattern of the sixth century may be compared with that found in seventh century cemeteries which reveal a reduction in the number of combinations and the proportion of graves with weapons . |
| 23 | The extent of the reported inhibition is comparable with that found in other studies using similar amounts of calcium carbonate or calcium lactate . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The small negative slope after in vitro CO 2 equilibration of gall bladder bile ( ) is much lower than that found in human serum of -0.23 . |
| 27 | But here it reveals a concept of women very close to that found in dominant discourses of femininity . |
| 28 | There may be a vulva-vaginitis and the discharge is sometimes frothy like that found in trichomonal infection . |
| 29 | Each contributed in different ways to the Watkinson counter-reformation that began soon after he took over as Minister of Defence in October 1959 . |
| 30 | This method was used by the Court of Appeal in Whiteside [ 1989 ] Crim LR 436 : The defendants were selling counterfeit cassettes at a price much cheaper than that charged for real tapes . |