Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right to registered trade marks grew out of the rules of common law and equity , under which a trader who passed off his goods upon the public as those of another was held liable to damages and an injunction at the suit of the latter . |
| 2 | Can you imagine the Managers of old being given actual lines to say to staff like a bit-part actor ? |
| 3 | He was educated in Glasgow , trained in the family business , and at the age of twenty-one was appointed general manager of the funeral department of the Glasgow Tramway & Omnibus Company . |
| 4 | On top of some were displayed heavy glass bottles of fizzy pop , or coloured postcards , or jig-saws or ragdolls with floppy arms . |
| 5 | An even more embarrassing version of this is reversed emotional lability , in which the patient responds to a situation with the opposite emotion from normal . |
| 6 | Most of this is discharged untreated into the rivers and streams on which forest people and wildlife depend . |
| 7 | The importance of this was made evident following the results of another survey in April , this one carried out by the German Government , which identified that 46% of all tennis players suffer from tennis elbow as a result of impact shock vibration . |
| 8 | Quoted p values are two tailed and an α level of 0.05 was considered significant . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , mourners at Mr Gallagher 's Requiem Mass in the Church of the Sacred Heart , heard a priest describe the ‘ shock and confusion ’ felt in the community when the father of six was shot dead in Belfast on Wednesday . |
| 10 | Many of these are exported world-wide . |
| 11 | All fats are made up of fatty acids : some of these are saturated fatty acids ( called saturates ) , the rest are unsaturated and these include a special group called polyunsaturated fatty acids ( or polyunsaturates ) . |
| 12 | Fifteen farms were visited , four of these were farmed full-time and eleven were farmed part-time . |
| 13 | The ASW was asked which of these were considered applicable to the assessed individual . |
| 14 | This latter distinction refers to the size of the transaction undertaken ; lending and borrowing transactions in excess of 100,000 are termed wholesale transactions . |
| 15 | The 28 year old father of 3 was found dead in his cell at Bullingdon Prison , with a ligature around his neck . |
| 16 | A GIRL of 13 was feared dead in a huge hay barn blaze last night . |
| 17 | Up to 80,000 people of the town 's population of 145,000 were made homeless . |
| 18 | The congresses of 1814 – 21 are the most obvious example of this ; but Napoleon III negotiated directly with Cavour at Plombières in 1858 and with Bismarck at Biarritz in 1865 , while the peace preliminaries of 1871 were settled face-to-face between Bismarck and Thiers and the first Dreikaiserbund alliance of 1872 – 73 took shape from personal meetings between the rulers of Germany , Austria-Hungary and Russia . |
| 19 | A FATHER of four was shot dead as he sat in his home with his five-year-old daughter on his knee last night . |
| 20 | The earlier plans of 1939 were considered inadequate and in 1951 Mr Robert Frater ARIBA was asked to provide plans for a church to seat about 386 . |
| 21 | Deaths directly attributed to these new disasters totalled some 400 , while many hundreds of thousands were left homeless , without food , or without clean drinking water . |
| 22 | The inadequacies of Next 's inherited high street formulae have been cruelly exposed by the slowdown in consumer spending , reflected in a slump in profits at Next Retail from £7.6m to just £1.7m . |
| 23 | Symptoms like this are called strange , rare and peculiar , and are often of prime importance in finding the remedy or group of remedies from which to make one 's selection . |
| 24 | This lack of real parties during the period of Whig supremacy in 1714–60 was made possible by the lack during these years of real issues of principle around which opinion could crystallize and in terms of which politicians could arrange themselves . |
| 25 | He was a JP and DL of the county of Lincoln , and in 1881 was elected high sheriff of Bedfordshire . |
| 26 | From 1954 to 1958 he was adviser on Militia to the Army and in 1963 was appointed honorary Colonel of the British Columbia Regiment . |
| 27 | In 1962 Winchester became Brigadier I/C Administration in Cyprus , and in 1963 was appointed military author of doctrine in insurgency in the War Office . |
| 28 | In addition the ‘ boom ’ felt in the town in 80 's brought heavy traffic weight into the city . |
| 29 | In this post he continued his excursions into China , and in 1897 was appointed resident correspondent of The Times in Peking . |
| 30 | Perhaps the clearest indication of the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of Quaternary investigations is that a book written by a geographer , D.Q. Bowen , and published in 1978 is entitled Quaternary Geology and is subtitled A Stratigraphic Framework for Multidisciplinary Work . |