Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The man who is validly baptised or rightly instituted into office in the Church is assured that he has the Holy Spirit .
2 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 .
3 In short , theology is no longer simply taken for granted or even accepted by society at large .
4 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 .
5 Poisoned by pollution , hunted for meat , drowned in fishing nets or simply bored to death in captivity , the toll is growing by the day .
6 Much , though not all , of the Earth 's tectonic , volcanic and seismic activity is directly or indirectly associated with movement between neighbouring plates .
7 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 .
8 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 ’ .
9 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 .
10 ( It is interesting to note that the frequency of occurrence of the OR actually declined during conditioning for the control subjects .
11 The high point was the abolition of capital punishment which , although finally decided by Parliament after free votes in both Houses in 1965 and 1969 , would not have been possible but for the long campaign , outside Parliament as much as inside , mounted by the penal reformers of the day .
12 Although still biased in favour of him we do to some extent begin to change our opinion and perhaps look further behind his lies and inconsistencies .
13 The same regions that once benefited from growth in these industries have , subsequently , suffered economic decline and depression .
14 July 2nd is the date for the best Barn Dance that ever swung into range from behind bales of hay .
15 Marshall , the court held that a charge applied to factory machinery which had replaced that originally used as security for the repayment of a substantial debt .
16 The commander , although partially blinded by blood from cuts on his head , made his way to the main cabin door , which he opened , and all occupants were evacuated .
17 This limited degree of representation was in an important sense imposed from above , rather than actively won through struggle from below , in the same way that the 1947 Constitution was imposed by the US occupation .
18 It is widely distributed in space among different individuals , and widely distributed in time over many generations .
19 By the time he was eight , Michael Lee was an accomplished thief , and successfully touted for business for some of the street-girls , usually those who were either too ugly , raddled or diseased to approach a customer themselves .
20 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence .
21 ‘ XA ’ addresses CD-ROM 's deficiencies by permitting different types of data — text , sound , images — to be interleaved and thereby accessed in parallel from the disc .
22 Given the wide definitions accorded to LIFESPAN modules and packages , the various stages of software production , from design and implementation through to issue , can all be planned out as packages and thereby brought under control from the outset .
23 Paul Hopkinson was born on June 29 1906 , the son of a former professor of archaeology who became a clergyman and eventually retired as Archdeacon of West Morland .
24 An epidemic of infertility caused by widespread toxic contamination means that known ‘ breeders ’ are herded together and eventually selected for insemination by the powerful .
25 Complications developed in 15 patients , all of which were managed conservatively and most occurred during development of the technique .
26 James Howe attended the village school in Skirling but left still young and incompletely educated on account of his deafness .
27 She had been very ill and suddenly taken to hospital without Darren 's knowing why .
28 It was thought that this would stimulate our divinity students in being close to the university and so involved in contact with university students who would in future years be leaders of the nation , just as we hoped the divinity students would become leaders of the Church .
29 Instead of being repressed , the frightening possibility is voiced , dramatized and laughed about and so acknowledged as part of life .
30 Secondly , conflict may be formal in the sense of being openly recognised by the parties involved , and perhaps institutionalised as part of an established bargaining procedure ; or it can be informal , and confined to a sphere of covert activity outside the organisation 's authority structure .
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