Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has already been made clear that the definition of a ‘ professional ’ degree course being adopted here is an operational rather than conceptual one : it is a course which has a consistent and fairly exclusive relationship with a particular occupation , exclusive in that graduates from such courses tend not to go into other occupations , and in that entry to that occupation is largely or wholly restricted to graduates from such courses . |
| 2 | The man who is validly baptised or rightly instituted into office in the Church is assured that he has the Holy Spirit . |
| 3 | Trifolium repens is unusual in that much of the genetic variation present within the populations is easily recognised in phenotypic differences that are visible or easily determined on plants in the field . |
| 4 | If not , one presumes that radiography would have either shown no lesion or not contributed to management of disease . |
| 5 | Information held by a body , whether or not obtained in pursuit of our statutory activities , and collected at any date . |
| 6 | This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 7 | Women 's organisations had publicised the fact that wives were often assaulted ( sometimes raped ) by their husbands , and that numerous children were severely beaten or sexually abused by men in their families . |
| 8 | The former were either cast separately or as lines or blocks while the optical versions were engraved on glass disks or photographically produced on strips of film . |
| 9 | In short , theology is no longer simply taken for granted or even accepted by society at large . |
| 10 | But visitors have reported intolerable conditions on many wards , patients locked up all day or even chained to walls as approved forms of correction . |
| 11 | Since the second world war , but especially since the 1960s , the role of ‘ national economies ’ has been undermined or even brought into question by the major transformations in the international division of labour , whose basic units are transnational or multinational enterprises of all sizes , and by the corresponding development of international centres and networks of economic transactions which are , for practical purposes , outside the control of state governments . |
| 12 | Poisoned by pollution , hunted for meat , drowned in fishing nets or simply bored to death in captivity , the toll is growing by the day . |
| 13 | If , as has been suggested above , insider evaluation is primarily associated with curriculum improvement , it comes as little surprise that proposals for particular approaches are directly or indirectly related to models of curriculum design and development . |
| 14 | In the mid 1980s approximately four hundred foreign banks were directly or indirectly represented in London with American , Japanese and Arab banks dominating the scene . |
| 15 | Much , though not all , of the Earth 's tectonic , volcanic and seismic activity is directly or indirectly associated with movement between neighbouring plates . |
| 16 | His exact statement was that he ‘ had been assured by UPH that no profit of any description either directly or indirectly accrued to UPH from the transaction with Telecom ’ . |
| 17 | Having studied the proposals on behalf of the assembly 's Environment Committee , German MEP Mrs Ursula Schleicher said : ‘ The problem is immense , the substances involved — approximately 100 000 — are produced in anything form massive to minute quantities , dangerous to widely varying degrees and either known to possess dangerous properties or else shrouded in mystery on that point . |
| 18 | The rank was either conferred by birth or else acquired by practice of the law , medicine or the liberal sciences , membership of a university , or serving as a ‘ captain in war ’ . |
| 19 | In a centralised system the dull and docile will always go along with new policies , but no change can be properly interpreted or adequately sustained without support from active thinkers and innovators at different levels in a system . |
| 20 | Evidently , experiences can not be appropriately or adequately described in terms of the categories that are applicable to public objects or events . |
| 21 | This frankness of approach applies particularly if the presenting problem is directly or closely connected with matters of sex and Sexual relationships . |
| 22 | ( It is interesting to note that the frequency of occurrence of the OR actually declined during conditioning for the control subjects . |
| 23 | Jokes are also an important aspect of intimacy : it is difficult to joke with someone you hardly know ; many jokes are " in-group " jokes , or politically hardened into jokes of " us " versus " them " . |
| 24 | Lesion studies have their own problems of interpretation , while other methods which might conceivably be used to establish cerebral dominance , such as dichaptic stimulation and the dual-task technique , have not been validated nor widely adopted in experiments with large numbers of left handers . |
| 25 | Although rarely stated by ministers as a reason for privatization , the funds could be used to finance tax cuts and/or current spending . |
| 26 | Labour from 1945 to 1950 pushed through a programme of social and economic reform which was widely popular , although bitterly resisted by sections of the professional middle class and industrial bourgeoisie . |
| 27 | In this guise , the computer 's role was to deliver machine-readable information that would supplement that normally found by students in printed form or received by them in the shape of lectures and seminars . |
| 28 | Although not packed with tourists like Stratford , Warwick still attracted its fair share of visitors . |
| 29 | Sanguinetti 's faction of the PC , although not opposed to privatization as such , opposed Lacalle 's plan to sell off state assets through direct negotiations with potential buyers rather than putting them up for public tender . |
| 30 | Jenni Murray will be interviewing the excellent American actor Ed Asner ( above ) who , although best known to Brits as Lou Grant , has been involved in numerous political movements . |