Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Management therefore need information that helps them determine the cost and effectiveness of alternative programmes given a variety of resource constraints ( typically the imposition of cash limits and target staffing levels ) . |
| 2 | After the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 Parliament prescribed an oath of allegiance which denied that the Pope had any authority to release Roman Catholics from their allegiance to the King . |
| 3 | As well as those prisoners given an amnesty , the Catholic Institute for International Relations estimates that at least 260 ex-Somocistas have already worked their way through the five stages of imprisonment and , although given long sentences , have now been released on the basis of their behaviour . |
| 4 | B T's developed a system for sending television pictures down telephone wires . |
| 5 | All schools will be free to manage their day-to-day budgets , with local education authorities given a new strategic role . |
| 6 | All schools will be free to manage their day-to-day budgets , with local education authorities given a new strategic role . |
| 7 | Personally , I 'd like to see Deane ( or whoever ) rested half way through the 2nd half if he 's having one of his off days , and Strandli , Whelan or Forrester given a 20-odd minute run out . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , during these years many statesmen placed a higher value than ever before on public feeling as voiced by newspapers , and made unprecedented efforts to court and shape it . |
| 9 | Zurachina smoothed a finger down one cheek . |
| 10 | When it fell to his lot to cut her free from the coils of the hydra , had his poignant fixation received a body-blow — or a boost ? |
| 11 | The directors of the firm kindly gave B U permission to borrow a Tacker for the exhibition and after Le Leicester branch arranged a temporary replacement , Taffy began working , cleaning up the machine to showroom condition . |
| 12 | In practice , thought , the Antares 130 was slightly thirsty and turned in a pto fuel consumption figure of 265g/kWhr. given a 20% power loss between engine and pto , this gives a fuel consumption figure for the engine of 238g/kWhr . |
| 13 | Also earlier this year the University formed a Managing Directors Club . |
| 14 | We have , of course , in addition undertaken a considerable change |
| 15 | Hobeika and Jamei ( 1985 ) describe the MASSeVACuation ( MASSVAC ) simulation software designed to analyse and evaluate traffic evacuation plans given a natural disaster in an urban area . |
| 16 | The west-coast defences given a structure and a system of manning , they moved inland to the key sites at crossroads or ford or defile where , usually , there had long been a hill-fort or an earthwork of some kind . |
| 17 | His request was initially cold-shouldered , Ray recognising Minton as one of a drunken , rowdy crowd who had several times filled a box in the theatre . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State for Defence reopened a list as an exception to allow the Association to mark the fortieth anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty the Queen , our patron , to the throne . |
| 19 | It was alleged that the retailer committed an offence under section 1 by selling bars of chocolate bearing the misleading label ‘ Extra value ’ and that this was due to the act or default of the defendants , the manufacturers . |
| 20 | Cos her Mum won a lot of money . |
| 21 | For example , last year alone , the University earned a total of four point nine million pounds from research grants and contracts , a figure which has risen despite the recession . |
| 22 | Net profits were were $595m , which compares with net profit from operations of $556m in the 1991 first quarter , when the company of course reported a big loss because of the change in the method it used to account for employee benefits . |
| 23 | Mala was motionless , eyes wide , lips parted a little , as if hypnotized . |
| 24 | His lips parted a little , and she rubbed the pad of her index finger over the edge of his bottom teeth . |
| 25 | Inside , the potentially uplifting light and space of the skylit rotunda are obstructed by four incongruous non-structural piers painted a peculiar faux-bronze green . |
| 26 | Recognising the problems associated with calcium deficiency facing women particularly , English Grains Healthcare formulated a dietary supplement called Calcia to ensure your calcium intake keeps pace with your body 's needs . |
| 27 | The supreme court also confirmed a 20-year prison term given a third defendant , accomplice Yasuhiro Uegaki . |
| 28 | My conclusions come from experiments in which comparison is made between subjects given discrimination training and subjects given a control procedure of some sort ( or sometimes , in the studies done with human subjects , no pre-training at all ) . |
| 29 | For subjects given a list of words , when recall is immediate words with serial positions late in the list are more likely to be recalled than when recall is delayed . |
| 30 | To catch a frisky horse or a young colt in a field the horseman placed a little of the mixture of oil of origanum , oil of rosemary , oil of cinnamon , and oil of fennel about his person . |