Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years later the tax was extended to include Nonconformist registrations — a move petitioned for by the Dissenting churches themselves , who welcomed the official sanction of their records . |
| 2 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 3 | They are not kept thoroughly clean , as they were when they were looked after by the local authorities . |
| 4 | Several documents gave rise to concern as they were wrestled with in the appropriate commissions , none more so than the all-important Dogmatic Constitution on the Church . |
| 5 | He did it again when , leaving her question hanging , he stepped closer , studied her scraped-back hairstyle , then , without so much as a by-your-leave , whipped her glasses from her nose — the better , it seemed , to check that her green eyes were the same green he had looked into during the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 6 | Finance has always been a headache for a group whose adherents have often come from amongst the poorest strata of society . |
| 7 | Thirteen men were missing and search parties were organised from amongst the trapped men and sent out to look for them . |
| 8 | The law has not been adhered to in the recent years , as it was in the past and every night when you 're out you usually see more than one cyclist driving without lights , often on the pavement . |
| 9 | When things are cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero — minus 273.16°C — strange things happen . |
| 10 | Thirdly , the semiconducters used as infrared detectors must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero , and they can measure the brightness of only one small patch of sky at a time , rather than ‘ photograph ’ a whole region of sky at once . |
| 11 | Infrared telescopes must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero to prevent their own heat radiation from swamping the faint signals from space : hence the liquid helium cooling systems which make infrared satellites complex and expensive . |
| 12 | Looked at from the Overseas Groups point of view , the pattern would look something like this : |
| 13 | Many of these aspects are looked at in the following chapters . |
| 14 | The concern of the writers that we have looked at in the preceding pages are with a number of organisational variables : |
| 15 | It is possible to obtain derogation from certain Stock Exchange requirements but this must be applied for in the early stages of a transaction . |
| 16 | Without doubt one of the liveliest and most sought after of the Tyrolean resorts , Kitzbuhel offers everything . |
| 17 | James Wood , Director of the Art Institute of Chicago , conveyed a suspicion held by most high-level museum administrators : ‘ I would assume that these exhibitions have been tailored more as events than as the kind of exhibitions that are being sought after by the major museums ’ . |
| 18 | He was wearing a duffel coat , done up on the wrong toggles , with copies of evening papers turned back at the job columns sticking out of both pockets . |
| 19 | Even money could not buy a quick passage through some of the conditions met with on the unimproved roads of the early eighteenth century . |
| 20 | The very idea of the variable draws upon an analogy with the highly abstract structure of mathematics in which variables and constants are objects in a mathematical domain operated upon by the appropriate rules for manipulation . |
| 21 | Chapter 2 by Bob Colenutt is written from within the political processes that structure the work of the Docklands Consultative Committee in monitoring the London Docklands Development Corporation ( DCC , 1990 ) . |
| 22 | As discussed above , the high currency of the group awards of HNC and HND has been built upon in the Advanced Courses Development Programme and the expressed need for analogous awards in the National Certificate has convinced SCOTVEC of the desirability of having group awards at all levels . |
| 23 | And that is being done outside of the statutory services and outside of the voluntary sector . |
| 24 | If we are troubled by the fact that the corporatist countervision we find hinted at in the legal materials might become simply a mask behind which corporate managers exercise unconstrained economic and social power , an alternative avenue for research is available to us . |
| 25 | Lyric poetry is not subjective in the ordinary sense ; and in its freedom from subjectivity it should be thought of in the same terms as music . |
| 26 | Most of Yonder was new , housing estates , schools , shops , small businesses and offices , and not entirely approved of by the original residents of the village . |
| 27 | One child volunteers to leave the room where she is to touch an article agreed upon by the other players . |
| 28 | If more than one edited copy tape is required , the extra copies can easily be produced from off the original recordings and not as third-generation copies off a second-generation edited master — with obvious advantages in terms of picture quality . |
| 29 | ‘ Among those I have talked to over the past years , ’ he said , ‘ I have found none who believed that Libya alone paid for , planned and carried out the crime — exactly none . ’ |
| 30 | I 've got enough just to manage , but things are n't what they should be and it 's not what we were used to in the old days . ’ |