Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " 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 | Detectives say they 're almost certain the same people were behind the two break-ins carried out in a north Oxfordshire village . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His eyes moved on to a chest of drawers , two chairs and a bed he had never seen before . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And ee , all the kids ended up with a prize did n't they ? |
| 10 | Thursday 's rehearsals built up to a run in the afternoon . |
| 11 | Passing sentence , Mr Justice Latham said : ‘ Adolescent emotions boiled over in a way that older people would have been able to cope with . ’ |
| 12 | Straight holding and in vitro injection pipettes are appropriate for manipulations carried out in a manipulation chamber . |
| 13 | Ledger work — writing out the transactions carried out by a company in a day book , book-keeping and sometimes calculating the staff wages |
| 14 | This is based on calculations performed by chemical engineers and also on experimental trials carried out in a laboratory or pilot plant . |
| 15 | And did he have their little scarves sewn up into a patchwork quilt ? |
| 16 | If they are not , monofilament nets must be replaced by biodegradable multifilament nets made out of a material like cotton , which are detectable by dolphin sonar . |
| 17 | Is it like the sidings built up like a coach ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Footsteps on a wood floor ; then silence as the feet stepped on to a rug . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Bracewell , 29 , claimed the directors backed out of a promise to give him a two-year contract by offering him only a 12-month deal to stay . |
| 22 | I had some notes jotted down on a card somewhere , but I quickly went off them and chatted about whatever seemed interesting . |
| 23 | It was explained to Sir Robert Armstrong that ‘ weasel words ’ are ‘ words empty of meaning , like an egg which has had its contents sucked out by a weasel . ’ |
| 24 | LIFESPAN will report discrepancies between this reference and the versions called up by a package during QA checking . |
| 25 | In the United States a national botanical garden was founded to exploit the seeds and plants brought back by a Pacific exploration expedition under Charles Wilkes in the years 1838–42 . |
| 26 | Thus the animal locates itself in space by use of environmental reference points ( this is of course more or less what a psychologically untutored lay person might have guessed would happen , but it was not what psychologists brought up on a diet of Skinner would have theorized ) . |
| 27 | The artists themselves sometimes had a Jekyll-and-Hyde career , the prime example being the Australian bass-baritone Peter Dawson , who for many years dressed up as a Scotsman and hijacked Sir Harry Lauder 's songs , touring Scottish music-halls under the name Hector Grant . |
| 28 | They play the standard all-American folk-rock-country fusion , with the guitars dressed up with a dash of accordion , harmonica and brass , and they write good , solid songs that are tuneful , stirring , but never wildly original . |
| 29 | Bizarre though the synchro-energy system might sound , it 's touched a raw nerve among jaded New Yorkers worn out by a decade of hard , hyped-up materialistic living . |
| 30 | His long spine ached , and his eyes felt hot and flat against the windshield , like eggs broken on to a rock . |