Example sentences of "[noun] raised [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She entered the room after a gentle knock , and saw that Faye was lying on her back in the large , luxurious bed , her shoulders raised on pillows and her fingers massaging her abdomen tentatively . |
| 2 | To a roomful of shoulders raised in perplexity , he warms to his theme : ‘ Is it when he has done something once ? |
| 3 | Voices raised with excitement came from a fourth group , clustered round the sink in the corner of the room . |
| 4 | To hear those lovely voices raised in celebration of a glorious event and to see the countryside — almost 200 feet below us — stretching away into the distance on this beautiful spring morning was an experience to remember . |
| 5 | There were , however , one or two voices raised in dissent . |
| 6 | Whereas at Cannington there were a handful of voices raised in favour of the nuclear industry , in Wales this was heresy . |
| 7 | The clerk heard voices raised in French and knew that Lady Yolande was protesting loudly at having to meet him . |
| 8 | The noise was intense , constant chatter , voices raised in argument , an air of expectancy , even tension , as everyone pretended to be involved in what was happening around them but secretly watched the great ones at the high table . |
| 9 | But the heart of this community has been pierced with terror — there are no children playing , no young voices raised in glee . |
| 10 | The sound of voices raised in anger and hysterical sobbing could be plainly heard coming from the suite of rooms occupied by the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham House . |
| 11 | Voices resounded through the house , voices raised in anger . |
| 12 | Public opinion for the most part approved , but among the voices raised in protest was that of Truman 's Secretary of Commerce , the veteran New Dealer , Henry Wallace . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the de-Marxisation of their project by him and the ‘ death of the social ’ which he has announced should alert us to the doubts raised by Raymond Williams on the issue of certain types of Utopianism . |
| 14 | According to Pat Corrigan of Wildlife Fund Thailand : " The animals can not be reintroduced into the wild because animals raised by humans lack basic survival skills and are often infected with diseases you do n't find among wild populations " . |
| 15 | In later churches there were many domes raised on drums . |
| 16 | They are nearly all of the late Byzantine building period — eleventh to fourteenth centuries — and mostly have many domes raised on drums . |
| 17 | Serbian influence was strong in Bulgaria , as in the Turnovo churches , but more common were the aisleless halls , barrel vaulted and with two domes raised on drums , one over the centre and one the narthex . |
| 18 | Connecting with their deities , through consciousness raised by ritual , through dance or song , through drugs or sexual congress , they were really connecting with this primal force . |
| 19 | The village when they reached it consisted of three dozen palm-thatched huts raised on poles ten feet above the ground . |
| 20 | In the meantime , the life of the V Force would be extended and its vulnerability reduced by the provision of Blue Steel Mk II with its stand-off range extended from the Mark I 's 100 nautical miles to 700 , and its speed raised to Mach 3 at 70,000 feet . |
| 21 | The auction , which raised questions about the compensation of owners in the case of classification by the Monuments Historiques came after only two weeks after ‘ Corbeille de fleurs et fruits ’ by the same artist was sold at Drouot salerooms in Paris for the record sum of FFr7.5 million , far in excess of the £230,000 raised by Sotheby 's London for ‘ Still Life of Plums and Peaches ’ on 4 July , 1990 . |
| 22 | This was evidently regarded as a heavy burden by the English government , although it was the merest tumulus compared with the great Everest of debts owed by the Emperor Charles V. The English Crown had escaped large-scale indebtedness by selling Crown lands , which produced 32 per cent of the total revenue raised for war , and by debasing the coinage , which produced just about as much . |
| 23 | The federal government is trying to persuade the communes to give up their existing sales taxes and rely in future either on transfers from the budgets of the republics and provinces or on revenue raised by taxes on local incomes and property . |
| 24 | In 1986 this accounted for nearly 12 per cent of revenue raised by expenditure taxes and 4 per cent of total government revenue ( see Godfrey and Maynard 1988 ) . |
| 25 | The amount of tax revenue raised by VAT depends on |
| 26 | The so-called ring fencing of local authority housing revenue accounts in 1990 has meant that current spending on housing has to be financed out of the revenue raised from rents alone . |
| 27 | Even in the nineteenth century the total revenue raised from parents in industrial schools only amounted to between 2.5 and 5 per cent of expenditure , while in the period 1948–69 the parental share of the costs of children in care amounted only to between 4 per cent and 6.5 per cent . |
| 28 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the amounts of Exchequer revenue raised from value added tax in each of the years 1978-79 , 1986-87 and 1990-91 ; and indicate what percentage of total Exchequer revenue raised in each of these years these figures constituted . |
| 29 | She 'd pointed out that it was stupid to talk about Tupperware parties as a means of raising funds since funds raised at Tupperware parties naturally went to the manufacturers of Tupperware . |
| 30 | The scheme , which is administered on behalf of the Department of National Heritage by ABSA ( The Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ) , seeks to encourage business sponsorship of arts organisations by providing financial awards to arts organisations to add to funds raised through business sponsorship . |