Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The secrets are placed in a despatch bag and sealed with the chancery seal . |
| 2 | Six small rod-like capsules are inserted into a woman 's arm under local anaesthetic . |
| 3 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 4 | Be-bop , sometimes called straight-ahead jazz , is written with eighth notes , but at particular tempos the eighth notes are felt with a lilt or bounce to them . |
| 5 | As their name suggests , utopian ideologies are based on a vision of an ideal society , a perfect social system . |
| 6 | When terrestrial objects are viewed through a telescope , it is possible to separate the viewed object from aberrations contributed by the telescope because of the observer 's familiarity with what a tower , a ship , etc. looks like . |
| 7 | Propositions , therefore , in which objects are referred to a class , because they possess the attributes constituting the class , are so far from asserting nothing but resemblance at all … |
| 8 | Bien 's ‘ Hotel Polen ’ is the most emotive : images based on old photographs and possessions are placed in a menu stand from the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam , itself destroyed by fire in 1977 . |
| 9 | Two prisoners are accused of a crime . |
| 10 | The final accounts are prepared by a firm of local accountants , who also do the annual stock-taking . |
| 11 | The principal pension scheme 's accounts are audited by a firm other than Touche Ross , which acts for Dixons Group plc . |
| 12 | Generic technologies are characterised by a breadth of long term potential applications and impacts which require that they be recognised as fundamental elements in thinking about and planning the long term socioeconomic future . |
| 13 | These pleats give the lava a ropy appearance , and the flows are called by a name given to them by the Polynesian islanders — pahoehoe flows . |
| 14 | On the lower part of the northern Hebrides Slope and in the basin plain of the northern Rockall Trough the debris flows are buried beneath a cover of mud that was derived from the glacier front , together with drop-stones that melted out of icebergs drifting in the area . |
| 15 | These skills are applied in a dissertation which provides an opportunity to undertake original research . |
| 16 | In collective entrepreneurship , individual skills are integrated into a group ; this collective capacity to innovate becomes something greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 17 | So , what special skills are required of a theatre reviewer ? |
| 18 | Skills are acquired by a process of trial and error but the trials are not entirely random as is assumed in classical trial and error learning ( Thorndike , 191 1 ) . |
| 19 | His investigations are accompanied by a search for an india-rubber , about which he remembers only that it contained the two letters ‘ di ’ in the middle of its trade name ( hence ‘ Oe di pe ’ ) . |
| 20 | Most improtant is that homeworkers are easily disposed of ‘ Outworkers are used as a buffer against market fluctuations , particularly in the manufacturing sectors ’ said the Employment Gazette blandly . |
| 21 | Pluralists actually define British politics as public policy-making , and so they see politics as somehow " explained " once they tell us how those policies are made as a result of the activities of the various interested groups . |
| 22 | Locally , they maintain , state intervention is directed towards consumption processes , and policies are developed through a plurality of political struggles . |
| 23 | Our brewing operations are supported by a variety of business links , from joint ventures in Japan and Malaysia , through licensing agreements with Carlsberg and Budweiser , to marketing companies in the USA , Hong Kong and the Caribbean . |
| 24 | In many species mating preferences are acquired by a learning process known as sexual imprinting . |
| 25 | All of these accoutrements are dispensed in a once-in-a-lifetime , never-to-be-repeated , Chrysalis carrier bag to the 94 Brits and 60-odd continental journalists who finally file into the International Press Centre at 2 pm Brussels time — primed , not-so-primed , willing , able and ready to pit the wits of the two South London jokers with attitude . |
| 26 | The projects are presented by a group of English-speaking children from Britain , America and Australia , so that pupils are reminded that English is an international language . |
| 27 | Acquisition research cases are conducted on a fee paying basis . |
| 28 | Many chemical reactions are accompanied by a change in enthalpy . |
| 29 | Cyclones are seen as a force that prevents the ecological succession of coral reefs from terminating in less species-rich assemblages ( in those reefs , the earlier stages are more species-rich ) . |
| 30 | Both activities are inspired by a language called LOGO and a man named Papert |