Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , just as the empirical data on social inequality that were presented in Chapter 2 could be usefully explained through a combination of Marxist and Weberian theories , in this chapter , the concepts of closure and reproduction also help to bring Marxist and Weberian approaches together , this time for the analysis of the dynamics of class . |
| 2 | far from being crushed as a nation by the Russian conquest , the Yakuts succeeded in adapting to the ways of their conquerors and extended their own influence over their Tungus and Yukagir neighbours , not to mention the Russians themselves . |
| 3 | If the child has become lost or frightened as a result of parental neglect , then the adult in question may expect to be admonished by the fairy , who dislikes irresponsibility and carelessness . |
| 4 | As with other holders of potential power , the strategies open to presidents are limited through a variety of factors — the president is constrained through his formal constitutional powers , the degree of popularity he enjoys and the limitations imposed by relations with other countries , for example . |
| 5 | She added : ‘ If her journey was delayed as a result of the plucking , the person involved will be given a roasting . |
| 6 | But there are two further points which emerge from considerations of a wide range of literature relating to public enterprise : big investment decisions have been complicated and delayed as a result of having to be considered by a number of government departments ; such decisions have been easy prey to party political pressures when they have involved the location of new plants and/or closure of old ones [ Knight , 1974 ] . |
| 7 | The meeting had originally been scheduled to start on July 1 , but had been delayed as a result of Sri Lanka 's announcement on June 24 that it would not participate because of India 's refusal to agree on the withdrawal of the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) from Sri Lanka by the latter 's deadline of July 29 [ see p. 36735 ] . |
| 8 | All-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland , initiated by Peter Brooke , the UK Northern Ireland Secretary [ see p. 38156 ] , which were due to start on May 7 , were delayed as a result of procedural disputes mainly concerning the venue and chairing of the second strand of discussions . |
| 9 | Russia 's intended sale of diesel submarines to Iran , which had aroused strong US opposition , was delayed as a result of a dispute over trade payments , according to a Russian announcement on Sept. 25 . |
| 10 | Final approval had been delayed as a result of a Spanish-UK disagreement on the rate of tax to be applied to Spanish and British sherry in the UK . |
| 11 | 9.17 Frustration of reinstatement Landlords sometimes include a proviso that the landlord should have the right to terminate the lease in the event of reinstatement being frustrated or delayed as a result of circumstances beyond the landlord 's control . |
| 12 | Speaker B treats this contribution as requiring an answer , following a pattern described by Labov in the rule : ‘ If ( speaker ) A makes a statement about a ( speaker ) B-event , it is heard as a request for confirmation ’ ( 1972b : 254 ) . |
| 13 | There are other images , too : he mentions the " ailanthus " , one of which stood in the yard of the Mary Institute where he had once played , and the " briar rose " by his father 's house in Gloucester ; in addition , he employs words like " rote " or " groaner " which he had heard as a child in New England . |
| 14 | The expression the frog 's boon was also used by the old horseman in another way that is worth recording : it was heard as a kind of metaphor for ‘ being in control ’ . |
| 15 | Four elements here are open to criticism : ( 1 ) the term batteur de mesure had become discredited and much less used by 1790 , because of its association with the bad old days ; ( 2 ) the ‘ large stick ’ whatever its size in 1750 , got markedly smaller by 1790 ; ( 3 ) there was no unified body of opinion which attacked ‘ woodchopping ’ over the decades : in fact Rousseau 's text , and those of his epigones , aspired to make musico-political points in favour of Italian opera as much as about beating time ; ( 4 ) audible stick signals can not be said , at least after 1781 , to have ‘ co-ordinated ’ chorus and ballet , if that implies ‘ heard as a matter of course ’ ; the evidence shows that no audible signal was thereafter heard as a matter of course . |
| 16 | Four elements here are open to criticism : ( 1 ) the term batteur de mesure had become discredited and much less used by 1790 , because of its association with the bad old days ; ( 2 ) the ‘ large stick ’ whatever its size in 1750 , got markedly smaller by 1790 ; ( 3 ) there was no unified body of opinion which attacked ‘ woodchopping ’ over the decades : in fact Rousseau 's text , and those of his epigones , aspired to make musico-political points in favour of Italian opera as much as about beating time ; ( 4 ) audible stick signals can not be said , at least after 1781 , to have ‘ co-ordinated ’ chorus and ballet , if that implies ‘ heard as a matter of course ’ ; the evidence shows that no audible signal was thereafter heard as a matter of course . |
| 17 | And not a snigger is heard as a group of teenage boys sit around the table talking about sex . |
| 18 | She got told off for being late , but it was n't until the next day that Sally 's parents were phoned by the school who had heard about a gang of young people being at the hospital the previous night . |
| 19 | ‘ But since Sir Charles died , I have heard about a number of things that seem to be supernatural . |
| 20 | Ireland is still witnessed as a state in some indefinable way opposed to England . |
| 21 | The estimate for the current work is far in excess of any price yet realised for a work by Goya and the highest price achieved at auction is currently the $650,000 ( £391,000 ) paid for a drawing entitled ‘ Those who escape work end up like this ’ sold at Christie 's New York in October 1990 . |
| 22 | In other words a capital outlay and revenue allocation will , by necessity , precede the recovery of any sums realised as a result of the reduction in long stay services . |
| 23 | According to a House of Commons motion , the leak was traced through a system of numbered copies of the 752-page document , which was sent out to the authorities investigating possible criminal proceedings resulting from the report 's conclusions . |
| 24 | Anthropologists and others have produced evidence of the range of languages and institutions within which ‘ scientific progress ’ has been made , as in the mix of mathematics and astrology in ancient Greece ( Goody , 1977 , p. 17 ) , and of geometry and the building of sacred altars in ancient India ( Parry , 1982 , p. 23 ) , while in Europe developments can be traced through a number of traditions , of which the essayist tradition is only one . |
| 25 | Reading schemes have been heavily criticized for a range of reasons . |
| 26 | In the 1920 's a new high altar and reredos was erected as a memorial to those parishioners who had died in the First World War . |
| 27 | The handsome wrought-iron gates of the Palace were erected as a memorial to Edward VII . |
| 28 | In 1891 , an obelisk of Aberdeen granite was erected as a memorial in place of the headstone . |
| 29 | V6028 plunged through a hail of flak , dodging balloon cables and aiming at the centre of the docks . |
| 30 | Locally , they maintain , state intervention is directed towards consumption processes , and policies are developed through a plurality of political struggles . |