Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bacon 's books , Sprat says , ‘ are every where scattered the best arguments , that can be produced for the defence of Experimental Philosophy ; and the best directions , that are needful to promote it ’ , while according to Glanvill ‘ all the main heads of natural history have received aids and increase from the famous Bacon , who led the way to substantial wisdom , and hath given most excellent directions for the method of such an history of nature ’ . |
| 2 | The Navy had won the first round of the carrier battle : Sandys now conceded the RAF 's case for developing the TSR 2 around a new airframe instead of forcing the naval NA 39 upon them . |
| 3 | Where needed the Police are supplying road safety literature , advice and instruction . |
| 4 | Where stated a baby 's cot can be supplied at a charge of £5 per week . |
| 5 | He even came across a restricted locality where lived a colony of what must have been a new sub-species of the extremely rare , Small Mountain Ringlet butterfly , for they were at a much reduced altitude to their normal haunts , and altogether smaller than the regular species . |
| 6 | Into the largely unexplored Hose Range , and an area called the Bukit Tengah , where lived a number of rare and uncollected species , including the ratbird , happy until this juncture in their uncollected state . |
| 7 | This book would not be complete without a glance at a place where , more than any other , the ideals of colonial administration and administrative reality appeared to exist in harmony together — those rolling grasslands of the Great Rift Valley , on either side of the border between Kenya and Tanganyika , where lived the people who more than any other fascinated the Europeans who came to East Africa : the Masai . |
| 8 | Now the woman came to the third cave , where lived the great bee . |
| 9 | The List will now be available in areas e.g. ‘ Norfolk & Suffolk ’ ‘ London ’ ‘ Home Counties ’ etc. or where required a complete set of the whole country on receipt of a SAE or at Q.T. Day on 15th March . |
| 10 | Once received the data will be converted from radio to microwave signals and passed along cables to the control centre nearby . |
| 11 | Once completed the exercise enables comparison to be made between hospitals/specialties and thus the inequities in financial distribution to be identified . |
| 12 | Once completed the dam will provide water and electricity for 30 million people , but building it will require the displacement of 80,000 to 100,000 people and the flooding of 37,000 hectares of land . |
| 13 | He sensed more than heard the scuffle of trainer shoes on concrete behind him and threw a casual glance over his shoulder . |
| 14 | Something had punched her chest ; she felt the refrigeration unit of her suit cut in , she felt rather than heard the tearing , rippling , screaming boom of the explosion . |
| 15 | Bernice felt rather than heard the two explosions , like a double heartbeat , and then the corridor was filled with flames . |
| 16 | She sensed rather than heard the collective sigh of relief that went up as her acceptance rang round the studio just a moment before the signature tune flowed through the headphones , signalling the end of the programme . |
| 17 | He more than filled the gap left by Alex ; his presence animated her with a mysterious excitement . |
| 18 | Inner : once erected the inner is a free standing unit . |
| 19 | Once formed the stony surface , often termed desert armour , will tend to protect the surface , very much as the coarse material in a stream bed makes it often less erodible than the banks . |
| 20 | In 1845 the " Railway Mania " began , when the plans for new lines submitted to Parliament would , if passed and carried out , have more than trebled the country 's railway mileage . |
| 21 | Police have more than trebled the reward on offer for the capture of a serial rapist . |
| 22 | Once registered the candidate prepares a plan of action for obtaining evidence of existing competence and achieving the outstanding competence needed to complete the NVQ . |
| 23 | But he did it with a warming smile and a ready assumption of her allegiance and willingness , more as if he had asked a small current courtesy of his wife than given an order to a servant . |
| 24 | Although given a total of fifty-four times on two tours , which was not bad for an apprentice work mounted as a try-out , the nearest Adieu got to central London was the open-air theatre at Finsbury Park , where they danced that summer . |
| 25 | We presume that the behaviour depends on subcortical pathways involving the superior colliculus , although given the early abnormalities of these brains , anomalous projections to the hemisphere ipsilateral to the stimulus can not be excluded . |
| 26 | Although given the honour of being the opening story of Doctor Who 's second season this serial was originally scheduled to be part of the first . |
| 27 | Heading for our connection , a brief glimpse of the sleek city more than justified the time we intend to spend there next week . |
| 28 | Once installed the process model will begin to act upon any module instances entered with the corresponding type and subtype . |
| 29 | But the wild ducks carved by Alex Mair had been recognizably ducks , the piquant sauce , new to him , enhanced rather than dominated the taste of the birds , and the small mounds of creamed turnip and parsnip were an agreeable addition to green peas . |
| 30 | Three times round the train more than equalled the Derby . |