Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The information is used to affirm a unique individual profile , from which an individualised plan for the person is developed through a more equal relationship with the elder being assessed .
2 a unique individual profile , from which an individualised plan for the person is developed through a more equal relationship with the elder being assessed ( Key , 1989 , p. 69 ) .
3 But the approach eschews vague yet important notions of fairness and integrity , and makes them subservient to what can be criticized as a very narrow view of cost .
4 By contrast , the social survey was developed as a more generic method .
5 The equations were originally developed as a highly simplified model ( mathematically a very severe truncation ) of the equations of Bénard convection ( Chapter 22 ) .
6 The trustee company will also be paid an annual fee , normally calculated as a very small percentage on the net asset value of the trust .
7 As Neil MacCormick has observed : ‘ It remains a contested issue whether an aspiration to justice is to be treated as essential to or definitive of the legal enterprise in all its manifestations , or is to be distinguished as a specially urgent demand issued in the name of critical morality . ’
8 Prost had come cheap — virtually free for the first year — and Niki had re-signed for a very large sum indeed .
9 It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’
10 The author craves to be forgiven for a very brief self-quotation in illustration of this from a work of his own :
11 It seems that human attention can only be sustained for a very limited time by any subject , even the prospects of its own destruction .
12 It would challenge the boundaries between subject areas : for example , why science is construed and taught as a totally separate area from social science , when it might be argued that the social effects of science ( particularly in our nuclear age ) should be given equal weight to the mechanisms of science .
13 It is merely intended as a very easy-to-fit deterrent which a car owner may use in place of an alarm or , as in the author 's car , the unit can complement an existing security system which previously had no visual deterrent .
14 This brochure is only intended as a very brief introduction to Carmarthen Bay & Teifi Valley .
15 The couple wanted to thank friends and relatives for the ‘ tremendous support they had given during a pretty rough time ’ .
16 The constable was treated for a badly bruised nose at Broomfield Hospital , Chelmsford .
17 If a diabetic patient was in need of so-called ‘ balance ’ — namely , the appropriate injection of human insulin for the control of blood-sugar levels — equally so did Morse require the occasional balance of some mildly erotic fancy in order to meet the demands of what until recently he had diagnosed as a reasonably healthy libido .
18 But this is dismissed as a merely verbal error .
19 Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time .
20 We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would .
21 We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would .
22 As Minister of Defence between 1955 and 1957 , Zhukov had vigorously pressed for a less onerous regime of Party supervision and for greater General Staff autonomy in military — technical matters .
23 The contestation of meaning can be regarded as a fundamentally transgressive practice which can have a liberating effect on the reader — hence his emphasis on the value of the ludic aspect of fractured narrative which had a ‘ carnivalesque ’ role ( almost in the Bakhtinian sense ) of freeing the reader .
24 That fact standing alone might be regarded as a not unjust consequence of the Home Secretary 's policy .
25 Arbiter theorists have a comparatively complex outlook on law , which is regarded as a partly autonomous sphere of social action , not controllable by capitalists .
26 Although a significant proportion of women remain economically active until the age of 60 or even 65 , retirement is still regarded as a predominantly male experience .
27 Bargaining power , whether belonging to an individual or a group , is sometimes regarded as a rather mysterious ingredient and indeed there is a multitude of definitions .
28 Do you think there 's a better means of selection , other than what seem generally to be regarded as a rather barbaric system ?
29 Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour .
30 From being underdetermined , the Keynesian model was made fully determinate by means of what many non-Keynesians regarded as a rather devious sleight of hand .
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