Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His coat and waistcoat swiftly followed it and his fingers ripped away the neckcloth about his throat , heedless of the ruin they effected . |
| 2 | One general index calculated from death and population information is the crude death rate . |
| 3 | The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment . |
| 4 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 5 | At first sight , the picture of word-meaning given by patterns of affinity and disaffinity is , at least in some respects , different from the picture given by semantic traits . |
| 6 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 7 | Children are made especially welcome in Leogang — there are lots of activities arranged for them . |
| 8 | This ambitious presentation of amateur radio to young people involves inviting Novice trainees , Scouts , Guides and ATC members to take part in amateur radio related activities arranged over a whole weekend plus some social activities . |
| 9 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 10 | Repossession of the goods , if payment stopped after at least one third of the credit price had been paid , was allowed only by court order . |
| 11 | Groups formed as a result of a parent company , such as Matsushita Electric , spinning off its own operating divisions to form separate companies within the same field to act as suppliers , distributors and even retailers . |
| 12 | Impromptu discussion groups formed whenever a man sat outside his house . |
| 13 | Examples of this kind of manipulation are discernible throughout recorded history and occur at all levels of control , from the actions of the relatively insignificant leaders of quite small groups formed for almost any reason , religious or otherwise , to the governments of nations who become powerful enough to dominate the world . |
| 14 | By the 1930s the dominant force within Catalanism was the Esquerra , a coalition of democratic and republican groups formed in 1930–1 under the leadership of Francesc Macià . |
| 15 | The groups formed by the females and kids are small , and solitary animals , usually males , are far from uncommon . |
| 16 | Ideally the pressure groups formed are not to be organized functionally around ‘ clienthood ’ or ‘ patienthood ’ but around identification of interests which consumers in general feel to be appropriate . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Corporatists share with pluralists a belief that the basic building blocks of the polity and the political process are groups formed around interests and that these have somehow taken over from the significance of representation through elections , parties and parliaments . |
| 19 | The Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , a loose alliance of opposition groups formed in July 1990 , immediately applied for registration as a political party . |
| 20 | The most useful definition is that of groups formed on the basis of occupational difference . |
| 21 | Groups formed last year will carry on working at four other tasks : cellulose losses , tow motor ( forklift truck ) costs , maintenance store stocks and quality information . |
| 22 | Other Groups Other smaller groups , such as the Brass Ensemble , Saxophone Quartet and the Madrigal Group , are joined by invitation only , but there are many ad hoc informal groups formed by pupils themselves , and any such initiative is welcomed and encouraged by the Music Department . |
| 23 | A number of hackers ' wives have now joined other grass widows parted from their husbands by golf or similar obsessional activities . |
| 24 | The plans referred to are short-term plans for periods of from one week to one month . |
| 25 | It is sometimes difficult to make the decision referred to in ( i ) . |
| 26 | A study done by Edwin Colbert and his colleagues showed that a tiny 50 gramme ( 1.76 oz ) alligator heated up 1 °C every minute and a half from the Sun , while a large alligator some 260 times bigger took seven and a half minutes . |
| 27 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 28 | The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean . |
| 29 | ‘ One coin given away with every four gallons of petrol . |
| 30 | Reader 's interest coincide generally with the news values listed at the start of the chapter . |