Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis . |
| 2 | Three Samoans who played in the World Cup — Tagaloa , Bunce and Steve Bachop — have just been picked for the All Black trials . |
| 3 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 4 | In this study , this was achieved by examining the estimated kilometre square populations together with those which were reported for the same areal units in the 1971 Census of Population . |
| 5 | Without bothering to confirm the report , Guretzky-Cornitz passed it on to Army HQ , embellished with a few boastful addenda of his own . |
| 6 | In principle , too , it should be possible to design an artificial organism organised along the same basic principles that produce consciousness in living things . |
| 7 | All of their problems could have been solved with a few simple decisions but they seemed to have been robbed of their ability to think straight . ’ |
| 8 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 9 | ROLLINS BAND : ‘ Tearing ’ lifted from the former Black Flag leader 's ‘ End Of Silence ’ LP , backed with ‘ Earache In My Eye ’ recorded live in Sydney , Australia in 1990 |
| 10 | What seem to be four candlesticks — designed in the same sugary style — stand guard around it and a fifth , a little distance from the main confectionary , is crowned with a gilded figure . |
| 11 | Had that been approached in the same meticulous way ? |
| 12 | The Committee of Senior Officials ( CSO ) of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , meeting in Prague on Nov. 5-6 , made public a specially commissioned report recommending the creation of an international tribunal to try war crimes alleged to have been committed in the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 13 | The Exeter Maritime Museum is located in the former Victorian warehouses alongside the Exeter Ship Canal , built to allow vessels of 400 tons to reach the city centre from the estuary of the River Exe . |
| 14 | But if her words had any effect on him , he had n't revealed it ; instead he had continued to avoid her glance , riding at her side with his features frozen in the same expressionless mask . |
| 15 | This was explained by arguing that the neural mechanisms underlying both motor control of the right hand and the production of speech are located within the same cerebral hemisphere and thus the two tasks compete for limited neural space or processing capacity . |
| 16 | can not help him out because they too are caught in the same conceptual framework . |
| 17 | This was because the scientific elite of the Athenaeum , on whom the correspondents relied , were well aware that research on controlled thermonuclear reactions was already being furtively pursued in a few British laboratories . |
| 18 | On Oct. 11 five Polish nationals living in Frankfurt and Bochum were arrested when police uncovered consignments of radio-active caesium and strontium believed to have originated in the former Soviet Union . |
| 19 | After ten minutes , Mick was asked for his passport and was then handed a sheaf of letters , all in the same size of envelope , all addressed in the same neat hand of his father . |
| 20 | Sometimes certain families adhered to the same religious beliefs for several generations . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm always attracted to the same swirling motif , so a certain harmony is inevitable . |
| 22 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 23 | Let us determine now the mutual inductance between two coils wound on the same magnetic core ( Fig. 4.7(b) ) . |
| 24 | Eventually , once the temperature had dropped to a few thousand degrees , and electrons and nuclei no longer had enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic attraction between them , they would have started combining to form atoms . |
| 25 | Thus , both the Fisher and Cambridge versions of the quantity theory come to the same important conclusion : that an increase in the money supply leads directly to an increase in spending and , with full employment , the general price level is proportional to the quantity of money in circulation . |
| 26 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 27 | Her smoking experiences , hitherto , had been confined to a few borrowed puffs from Walter Ash 's cigarettes , and some experimental moments , at the age of twelve , in the school bicycle shed . |
| 28 | Their product — stock and services — was carefully targeted to the many different client groups in the school . |
| 29 | On the one hand , production was modernized in ever larger factories and ownership was concentrated in a network of trusts , cartels and syndicates increasingly dominated by a few major banks . |
| 30 | However , until quite recently , the possibility of making recordings in Britain was dominated by a few large companies involved in manufacturing and distributing records as well as originating them . |