Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months . |
| 2 | The aim is to elucidate some of the methods by which entrepreneurial decisions are reached and entrepreneurial activities carried out on a day to day basis . |
| 3 | The optimum bucket size to minimize the time taken by operations carried out on a file depends on the nature of the operation . |
| 4 | They become very ill and need immediate intensive care in hospital with antibiotics given directly through a vein . |
| 5 | She reached up and pulled his head down , her lips parted expectantly for a renewal of his kisses . |
| 6 | He 's probably got a private cache of cheap cider or meths hidden somewhere under a paving slab to help him nod off at nights , and a pile of newspapers to keep him warm . |
| 7 | New rules in s88 and Sch 8 Finance Act 1993 now restrict the usefulness of capital losses carried forward in a target company which is acquired by a capital gains tax group . |
| 8 | Detectives say they 're almost certain the same people were behind the two break-ins carried out in a north Oxfordshire village . |
| 9 | I do n't think he conceived ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ as a concept album , but the songs slotted together in a way that it became a concept , and the way he presented it on stage , how he wanted to look , how the boy 's costumes looked ( facsimiles of his — though his were patterned and theirs were simple ) meant that he 'd breathe life into a concept hero . |
| 10 | I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education . |
| 11 | His eyes moved on to a chest of drawers , two chairs and a bed he had never seen before . |
| 12 | Jonathon had a high , airy attic , freshly whitewashed , with a little iron bed with a cover made of knitted squares sewn together like a refugee blanket . |
| 13 | The stainless steel split pins were then removed from the 14 castellated nuts and the main caps drawn off with a length of 1/2″ BSF threaded rod and a large section of channel . |
| 14 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and Alyssia felt suddenly dizzy , as though the breath had been knocked out of her , then she regained her self-control , and replied politely , ‘ I 'll be down for lunch . ’ |
| 15 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and she felt as though he was seeing right into her soul , into bits of her that no one had ever seen before . |
| 16 | He says that the kids pulled together as a team . |
| 17 | When the reader does not need to dwell upon decoding , then words encountered early in a sentence will not have been forgotten and will , therefore , be available for integration with the words at the end of the sentence . |
| 18 | Eye-witnesses told how eight police vans and three patrol cars swept up to a house in the street , flooding the area with police officers . |
| 19 | The taut legs standing out from the body at all angles , some hideously broken like twigs thrown carelessly on a bonfire , others still moving feebly . |
| 20 | Just 24 pictures taken inside by a prison officer on film provided by the guests , will record the nuptials . |
| 21 | And ee , all the kids ended up with a prize did n't they ? |
| 22 | 1 a polymer molecule consists of a large number of identical monomer units strung together in a chain ( linear polymer ) or in some other geometrical arrangement , which may be quite a complicated three-dimensional one . |
| 23 | The almost blue water tumbled over myriad falls and drops like pearls strung together on a necklace , each one challenging but nowhere desperate . |
| 24 | In the corner of one of their fields the younger brother 's wife built a shelter of leaves and twigs draped across with a shawl and put her baby beneath it to shield her from the alternate onslaughts of sun and showers . |
| 25 | Thursday 's rehearsals built up to a run in the afternoon . |
| 26 | Passing sentence , Mr Justice Latham said : ‘ Adolescent emotions boiled over in a way that older people would have been able to cope with . ’ |
| 27 | There is a gem in the Heraklion Museum showing two rampant lions with their forepaws perched up on an altar : at the centre , in place of a pillar or some other representation of the deity , is an unmistakable rayed sun which , as we have already seen , is one of the manifestations of Poteidan ( Figure 44 ) . |
| 28 | Straight holding and in vitro injection pipettes are appropriate for manipulations carried out in a manipulation chamber . |
| 29 | Ledger work — writing out the transactions carried out by a company in a day book , book-keeping and sometimes calculating the staff wages |
| 30 | This is based on calculations performed by chemical engineers and also on experimental trials carried out in a laboratory or pilot plant . |