Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 First , the draftsman may provide for the substitution of a different index to be agreed between the parties or determined by a third party in default of agreement .
2 The shelving sliders at either end of the graphic 's bands prove particularly useful when using 5 and 6-string basses , allowing straightforward boost or cut across a wide frequency range , and giving the bassist well-defined depth on the lower strings and bright treble at the top , but with a ‘ cut mid ’ to minimise that confusion of bass and lower mid frequencies .
3 And with copious amounts of tone modification and sheer brute power on tap , via the active contouring filters ( 18dB boost at 100Hz and 10Hz ) then the graphic equaliser ( 15dB of boost or cut with a ten-band slider ranging from 30Hz right up to 8kHz ) , the Hartkes are never likely to be found wanting .
4 To a family in the Lebanon whose house has been bombed by Israeli jet aircraft or destroyed by a CIA-backed bomb the definition probably does not matter much .
5 Isolation groove 7 may be filled with insulation or replaced by a high resistivity region .
6 The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn .
7 Under the new scheme , CFCs and water are mixed in a reaction furnace and heated with a high-frequency electric current to about 10,000 degrees Centigrade , at which point electrons are stripped from the atoms to form a plasma .
8 Inform your neighbours ; notify the local fire brigade if required by a local byelaw .
9 Besides a full set of stamps mounted on card and protected by a transparent sleeve , each pack opens up to reveal a wealth of information , accompanied by full-colour illustrations .
10 Similar tragedies can occur even in rather unusual settings and caused by a different train of events , for example the North Sea Piper Alpha episode 1988 , where staff died either on the blazing oil installation or drowned in the surrounding sea of fire .
11 But no , as I watched , he turned a ball elegantly off his legs and called for a quick single .
12 I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses .
13 A rapid and widescale communication network is thus provided , and good chants can be taken over from one set of fans and used against a different set the following week .
14 The thematic maps were computer generated , using information brought together from a number of databases and processed through a Geographic Information System with methods that were specially developed during the project .
15 He woke briefly in the middle of the round with an eagle and a couple of birdies , but eventually slid back into indifference and finished with a level-par score .
16 A LAWYER-FREE small claims procedure , easily operated by the do-it-yourself litigant and staffed by a new body of volunteer ‘ civil justices ’ , is needed to combat problems of cost and delay Lord Donaldson , the Master of the Rolls , said .
17 With the exception of two seminars on the assessment of enterprise skills , the focus on teaching and learning was taken out of the programme and shifted to a two-day conference ( with a menu of sessions to which staff can opt in ) held in June 1993 in conjunction with the Educational Development Unit .
18 Sixty odd years separate this work from The Birth of Tragedy and compared with a similar span of years since Winckelmann 's revolutionary study of Greet art , the later period , viewed as a period of German Hellenism , is anti-climatic .
19 Once they start to hatch the emerging fry will be picked up in the parent 's mouth and deposited into a pre-dug pit , or under the edge of a rock .
20 A modern one bedroom End Terrace House built some three years ago of brick under a tiled roof and situated in a small attractive close .
21 A file on the alleged offences was compiled by the Suffolk force 's internal discipline department and sent to a special section of the CPS in London which deals with allegations against English police officers .
22 Alternatively they may be subsumed within the department and treated as a poor relation .
23 To reach Ireby , descend alongside the wall heading south-west , crossing it where convenient and continuing down the other side until confronted by a large shakehole with a floor of boulders .
24 In the autumn of 1950 the French put forward the Pleven Plan , their aim being to ensure that any German forces were split into small units and integrated within a European Defence Community ( EDC ) .
25 The bow is made out of a separate piece of fabric and stitched to a basic straight tie-back .
26 Her headdress made from slipper satin and lace was trimmed with pearls and worn with a three tier long veil , both designed and made by Wizard of Goz in Kensington .
27 PHOTOGRAPHY magazine will endeavour to return all entries if accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope .
28 It was as if game birds had been flushed by beaters and driven towards a central point , forced to attack the heart of power and authority in a desperate bid to secure this for themselves and seal the planet .
29 There is coal in Kintyre and large pieces are sometimes brought up by fishing boats working locally , so perhaps the old people who say that coal was mined at Daill and used by a local blacksmith in the First World War are correct , although no trace of workings has been found .
30 About 1.45am a few other hostages and I were herded into a red van at gunpoint and driven to a private home in the wealthy neighbourhood where General Noriega lives .
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