Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first area is the teaching of legal awareness in schools , now being undertaken through a collaborative project between the Law Society and the School Curriculum Development Committee on Law in Education . |
| 2 | And this costly project was being undertaken through a strong sense of duty to what he believed his father would have wished him to do . |
| 3 | The case was heard as a minor offence before a low-level court , the tribunal correctionel in Tours , at which three judges ruled that , although the article exculpated the mayor , the advertisement did smear him , and the newspaper was ordered to pay him Fr10,000 ( £1,000 approx ) . |
| 4 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 5 | It was erected as a ducal chapel in 1336 by Azzone Visconti who was buried in it just three years later . |
| 6 | The High Court 's Sept. 2 judgment ( following a petition filed by Win Chadha , one of those named by the CBI as centrally involved in the scandal ) had intervened as a cantonal court in Geneva was due to deliver its verdict in response to the CBI 's request for assistance . |
| 7 | Its best-selling model is the Kijang , a tin box developed through a joint venture with Toyota . |
| 8 | Latterly his painting has shown a new freedom of expression , developed through a complex series of preliminary works to final canvas . |
| 9 | The main advantage of panels is that they provide feedback over a period of time , which increases the reliability of their responses compared with people who may have been stopped for a brief interview outside their local supermarket , for example . |
| 10 | It would have been easy to track down , as a somewhat acidulous correspondent explained during a few remarks on the shortcomings of journalists . |
| 11 | Is the Minister aware that a number of people in the west midlands and elsewhere who took the opportunity of buying their accommodation now find that their homes have been repossessed as a direct result of Government economic policy ? |
| 12 | This whole area had blossomed as a great region for settlement , in which the Spanish language was steadily being forced upon the survivors of the original population and to which Spanish emigrants went out as regular reinforcements to maintain the conquests of Cones and Pizzano . |
| 13 | The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague . |
| 14 | The other was a still life , part of a series painted during a prolonged stay in Paris . |
| 15 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 16 | Diana , they decided , would be painted as a sick woman with only a tenuous grasp of reality . |
| 17 | In any case , I believe Eliot admired the thrillers of the prolific E. Phillips Oppenheim , who was published in the yellow-backed series to which he more than once referred as a possible source of inspiration . |
| 18 | RIGHT This Norfolk Terrier may look like a ‘ toy ’ dog , but like all terriers it is a first-class ratter , and was developed as a working dog on farms . |
| 19 | Although the work has medical and therapeutic origins , it has been developed as a regular part of the Medau method of physical education and is intended for people of any age who are in normal health . |
| 20 | Developed as a modern mine in 1971 on the site of old workings . |
| 21 | Rates developed as a direct tax on an individual 's income levied so as to take into account his or her capacity to pay . |
| 22 | Developed as a direct result of research into how the human brain works , expert systems are bringing a powerful new commodity to business — computer-based knowledge . |
| 23 | For example , salt intake contributes to hypertension and is implicated as a causal factor in gastric cancer . |
| 24 | It has been implicated as a causative factor in both psychological and physical disease . |
| 25 | This inhibition can be reversed by IL-6 , a cytokine which has been implicated as a positive factor for mucosal IgA production . |
| 26 | This amount may be calculated as a fixed percentage of profit for a period , or by adjusting a notional pool of a specified amount by the percentage change in profits compared with the preceding period . |
| 27 | Earnings can fluctuate quite widely from one year to the next , but if long-run earnings are calculated as a moving average of short-run earnings , this will be a much more stable measure . |
| 28 | Under the 1976 Organic Law promulgated in Portugal , Macao , hitherto a Portuguese Overseas Province , was redefined as a Special Territory under Portuguese administration ; it will revert to Chinese rule in 1999 , the Chinese government having already , in 1988 , established a Macao Special Administrative region . |
| 29 | This seventeenth-century town mansion , restored by the National Trust for Scotland , is furnished as a typical home of the Old Town . |
| 30 | It was a large , first-floor apartment which had been furnished as a suitable setting for an up-and-coming superstar . |