Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A multilateral treaty relationship may be broken down into a series of bilateral relationships . |
| 2 | Kummar has tried to show how engineers in private industry have had their work increasingly fragmented and broken down into a series of simple individual steps . |
| 3 | The first group firmly believes that any document can be broken down into a series of discrete specifications which can then be used to automate the production process be embedding encapsulated versions , often called tags , within the source material . |
| 4 | Just as a graph can be plotted by defining the co-ordinates through which the line must pass so any shape can be broken down into a series of co-ordinates . |
| 5 | The project is broken down into a series of well-defined jobs of short duration whose cost and time can be estimated . |
| 6 | The project is broken down into a series of well-defined jobs of short duration whose cost and time can be estimated . |
| 7 | The visit may need to be broken down into a series of short and varied experiences . |
| 8 | The cosy harshness was broken only by a pair of plastic houseplants and by prints of country scenes on the walls . |
| 9 | The couple 's recent past is filled in by a series of ‘ flash-ins ’ , influenced by the French nouvelle vague . |
| 10 | Many of the returnees resisted , and had to be carried on to the aircraft by police amidst scuffles , but officials said that " minimum compulsion " had been used , in contrast to the violence which had marked the only previous forced repatriation attempt in December 1989 [ see p. 37121-22 ] . |
| 11 | Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London . |
| 12 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 13 | There is no official collection because it is immediately picked over by a series of scavengers — first adults , then children , then dogs and cats . |
| 14 | In a language with contrastive intonation patterns , the most common ones should be drilled early on the series of lessons . |
| 15 | CABBIES earning big tips helping to ferry stolen property away from break-ins were targeted yesterday in a series of police raids . |
| 16 | I HAVE burned the midnight oil scanning the arid wastes of computer programming manuals , but at last a publisher has come up with a series of inexpensive , factually sound but palatable titles which aim to introduce the beginner to the fun that can be had with calculators , computers and cassette recorders . |
| 17 | It has come up with a series of proposals in conjunction with City solicitors Davies Arnold Cooper which , it says , could enable judgment to be reached in 38 days in an undefended case and 66 days in a defended case . |
| 18 | The media are receiving such an informed , dynamic and visually striking group with open arms : from picketing South West Water to protesting in full surf regalia at Parliament , from surfing in gas masks to demonstrating with a huge inflatable turd , the SAS has come up with a series of media-friendly stunts that have caught the headlines . |
| 19 | Much detailed work was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April 1992 [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 20 | Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 21 | A split-half reliability carried out on the data from children in the standardisation sample between the ages of 4 years and 8 years 11 months produced correlations of between 0.64 and 0.84 for the different items . |
| 22 | This work is being designed by the Regional Council 's landscape consultants , the Turnbull-Jeffrey Partnership and carried out under a series of contracts aimed at completion by Spring 1988 . |
| 23 | The change of chip is largely a political move , since the CPU is used mostly for housekeeping matters on an Auspex server , the main work is carried out through a series of custom and ASIC chips handling Ethernet , File and Storage processing . |
| 24 | Its administration is carried out by a staff of several hundred who work under the direction of the general council . |
| 25 | Mazmanian ( 1976 ) , in his evaluation of projects carried out by the Corps of Engineers , and Gilbert and Specht ( 1977 ) , in their classic evaluation of the Model City programme between the years 1967 — 71 , appear to reach a similar conclusion : participation helps process but not goal attainment . |
| 26 | For ‘ Rameses ’ , Memphis sponsored the restoration of the exhibition 's centrepiece the 47-ton 27 foot Colossus of Memphis carried out by the staff of the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation at a cost of $125,000 . |
| 27 | For each cell , the equations are solved simultaneously in a series of discrete time steps . |
| 28 | Considered primarily as a means of spoken communication , language has been regarded , both traditionally and in modern linguistics , as a system for translating meanings in the speaker 's mind into sounds , or conversely , for translating sounds into meanings in the hearer 's mind . |
| 29 | The season of the hunt had come again to the people of the North Water . |
| 30 | During this critical time the ill feeling between Raine and the children boiled over into a series of vicious exchanges . |