Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Detectives say they 're almost certain the same people were behind the two break-ins carried out in a north Oxfordshire village . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Passing sentence , Mr Justice Latham said : ‘ Adolescent emotions boiled over in a way that older people would have been able to cope with . ’ |
| 7 | Straight holding and in vitro injection pipettes are appropriate for manipulations carried out in a manipulation chamber . |
| 8 | This is based on calculations performed by chemical engineers and also on experimental trials carried out in a laboratory or pilot plant . |
| 9 | Although in every case the judge must balance the commercial or property rights of the plaintiff in controlling the information against the value of the defendant 's right of free speech , for many judges brought up in a world which accords pre-eminent value to rights of property , this may seem like balancing hard cash against hot air . |
| 10 | Tre ( Cuba Gooding Jr ) , Dough Boy ( Ice Cube ) and Ricky ( Morris Chestnut ) , are three young blacks brought up in an area where violence prevails . |
| 11 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 12 | Open green pastures and the distinctive monoliths gathered together in a circle . |
| 13 | Written excavation records once consisted of observations written down in a notebook , but nowadays most archaeologists use printed forms , or even a series of forms , which are filled in to record the evidence not covered by the drawn and photographic records . |
| 14 | The equipment consists of a number of machines linked together in a network . |
| 15 | All four of Charles 's children who married were to do so by licence ; that suited two of them — Elizabeth in Frome and then Benjamin in London — who were in a bit of a hurry , but in Sarah 's case there was maybe a hint of Nonconformist protest against having banns read out in a church which she did not attend . |
| 16 | The Versant client-server database gives transparent multi-user access to objects distributed anywhere in a network . |
| 17 | Those who play with fire , however archly , must expect to get their fingers burnt once in a while , and when ironic lyrics are allied to questionable public utterances and clearly provocative imagery , then it is reasonable to question the man 's motives and intentions . |
| 18 | Jane Henson turned into Miss THUGGY when she spotted Wilkins and Wontkins , two Muppet-style characters caught up in a copyright row , at a toy trade fair in the New York Hilton . |
| 19 | The Duveen Galleries are basically a large hallway formed by three separate but continuous rooms strung out in a line , which empty into the side galleries to the right and left . |
| 20 | He appeared to ignore her sarcasm , his brows drawn together in a frown . |
| 21 | His black brows drawn together in a frown , he turned away . |
| 22 | However , Harriman and Buxton ( 1979 ) presented semantically anomalous sentences spoken either in a monotone or with appropriate intonation , and obtained a REA only in the latter condition . |
| 23 | The first process is in part an aspect of the interaction of men grouped together in a society and engaged in production . |
| 24 | Three families in Ayrshire , for instance , who had eight children taken away in a raid in June 1990 ; little was heard of their situation until after the Orkney case had been in the headlines for some time . |
| 25 | A bit of a burden , but she treasured it all , he wealthy possessions screwed up in a ball . |
| 26 | This followed a succession of smaller mergers during the previous decade as the once dominant , but then struggling , independent British car makers joined together in an attempt to gain economies of scale and to maintain their market share in the face of fierce international competition . |
| 27 | The grypesh swam out after them , and there were battles fought there in a welter of blood and foam . |