Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a transfer of value is made by associated operations carried out at different times it shall be treated as made at the time of the last of them . |
| 2 | I do not now intend by beauty of shapes what most people would expect , such as that of living creatures or pictures , but … straight lines and curves and the surfaces of solid forms produced out of these by lathes and rulers and squares … |
| 3 | For some time Judith Cowan 's was synonymous with a certain type of imagery and object making characteristic of the 1980s ' little monkey hands would peep over elliptical edges and scooped out boat shapes would merge with curiously-conceived animals made out of fired papier mâché . |
| 4 | In particular the government forces encountered problems in maintaining control of a town once rebel forces had been defeated ; when armed units moved on to another troubled area , rebels could regain control . |
| 5 | You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper . |
| 6 | The political and social tensions thrown up by this strategy became visible in the plans for the rescue and reform of prostitutes which feminists put forward as their alternative to regulation . |
| 7 | If the strict regulations in most western countries governing the transportation , temporary holding , and eventual killing of farm animals , were more effectively policed , and often inadequately staffed inspectorates brought up to required strength , then mistreatment could be all but abolished . |
| 8 | By end of this period around half of all small shops and restaurants should be in private ownership , and the number of joint-stock companies formed out of large state enterprises should reach 1,000-1,500 . |
| 9 | THE best of Country and Western music comes to Wonderwest World , Scotland 's premier holiday venue , with a host of top names lined up for Daily Mirror readers . |
| 10 | Systematic sampling of West German voters carried out in 1979–80 indicated that 13 per cent of all voters in the Federal Republic had a consolidated extreme rightist ‘ world view ’ ; 14 per cent responded positively to the statement that ‘ we should again have a Leader who would rule Germany with a strong hand for the good of all ’ . |
| 11 | Last December Judge Rant jailed eight men for consensual activities ( MT February ) ; sado-masochistic ( S&M ) sexual practices carried out by homosexual men — in private . |
| 12 | On June 1 the Interior Ministry announced that the government would pay compensation to victims of political repressions carried out since 1946 . |
| 13 | Santiaguito , which was a complex of four distinct domes joined on to one another in a single elongate ridge , is rarely quiet for long , and one can literally hear it growing , because there is an almost continual rattle of small stones and rocks falling from the higher parts down on to the scree slopes below it . |
| 14 | He used data from job-attitude surveys carried out in 1947 and 1959 , from a study of an automobile factory published in 1959 , and from several case-studies . |
| 15 | The two following tenders peeled off to left and right and the three vehicles , sirens whooping , fanned out to cover the entire frontage of the building . |
| 16 | The OPCS disability survey was commissioned in 1984 and consists of four separate surveys carried out between 1985 and 1988 . |
| 17 | The data used was taken from two separate surveys carried out in 1977 and 1981 . |
| 18 | Re-entry programmes may include practical clinical assessments , but it is more usual to rely on reports from any supervised clinical allocations undertaken during a course , and any personal assessments carried out by continuing education tutors , your mentor , or senior nurse assessors working in the area where you will be working . |
| 19 | Japan 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications says it is planning to build an administrative network that will link the local area networks used in government offices across the country , but the plan is still in its embryonic stages ; at the same time the ministry is studying a proposal for a fibre to the home project that plans to get Japanese households connected up by 2015 ; total infrastructure costs are estimated at about $256,000m . |
| 20 | Studios were built and additional stages added on to old complexes . |
| 21 | Evidently the unique thoroughness of its muster book was complemented by a more rigorous standard of assessment than in most shires , since in 1522 personal wealth there averaged £97 per thousand acres , compared with as little as £61.7 in 1515 and £64 in 1524 , and , mostly having less than average wealth , the sixty-nine additional men roped in in 1522 can not account for this difference . |
| 22 | Thus the egg cylinder comes to be divided into three distinct chambers divided off from each other by the future amnion and chorion ( Figure 1d ) . |
| 23 | Cattle stealing was one of the more prominent crimes carried out in colonial Sri Lanka . |
| 24 | Once before , Israeli troops pulled out of Palestinian refugee camps — in Lebanon during the Israeli invasion of 1982 . |
| 25 | Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient . |
| 26 | The various African charters on human rights drawn up in recent years have all failed to capture the importance of the right to communicate and the right of free expression , according to a group of leading communicators who met in Cairo , Egypt , 16–17 October . |
| 27 | The various African charters on human rights drawn up in recent years have all failed to capture the importance of the right to communicate and the right of free expression , according to a group of leading communicators who met in Cairo , Egypt , 16–17 October . |
| 28 | It is well known , however , from previous experiments carried out in Russian and other laboratories that instabilities in the current channel can give rise to strong electric fields which accelerated deuterons and can produce neutrons . |
| 29 | Comparison of three national surveys carried out between 1976 and 1985 reveals very little change in the percentage of older people reporting difficulties with a plethora of adl activities ( see Table 4.9 ) . |
| 30 | Harry also remembers that when he was a journeyman at Stanstead Park , the liquid was used to deter red spider mite from violet cuttings planted out in cool spots in the grounds . |