Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was clearly felt that PAF should be regarded entirely as an automatic fee in recognition of a teacher qualified and belonging to a professional Society . |
| 2 | Germany , the principal ex-enemy state , lying at the heart of Europe , presented complex problems in 1945 , not least because it was placed under joint occupation by the Big Three and France who were joined together in an Allied Control Council . |
| 3 | Morphine given pre-emptively in an acute pain model will block the induction of c -fos in a dose dependent manner , however , even with relatively high doses there is still a basal level of c -fos induction with noxious stimulation . |
| 4 | Of course H is intended only as an easy illustration of what might go wrong — and go wrong it does in some of the important generalisations of Z that arise in Section 3.6 . |
| 5 | The conduct of pedagogic research as I have defined it here presupposes attitudes and approaches to techniques of teaching which are developed only through an educational perspective and this in turn calls for a continuous programme of in-service support . |
| 6 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 7 | The sky is of a rich sea blue that is almost grotesque in its fullness of colour , broken only by an indignant stream of clouds piping up in the distant horizon . |
| 8 | The troupe called the Eight Extraordinary Dancers travelled together in an outdoor uniform that had been supplied : heavy capes , white socks , boots , and , as a symbol of their destination — a beret . |
| 9 | Haw , haw ! ’ — would not have differed greatly from an average week in your average sit-com . |
| 10 | Colours can of course be mixed together for an infinite variety of results . |
| 11 | In desperation she slammed the stop-cock open and precious oxygen knifed outwards in an icy cloud that she aimed at the farthest point . |
| 12 | She tried to fight him , but her effort was half-hearted as she found herself carried away on an irresistible tide of longing . |
| 13 | Sadly , since 1979 , and in spite of national and international protest , much of the land we loved has vanished forever beneath an ever-increasing canopy of foreign conifers . |
| 14 | He was pursued also by an unsubstantiated rumour ( put about by others in the Shah 's entourage ) that he had stolen millions of dollars from the Shah . |
| 15 | However , the responsibility for the resultant problem can not be blamed solely on an overbearing parent ; there is also a marriage partner who is failing to stand firm on biblical priorities at the expense of his or her partner . |
| 16 | He was frozen there with an appalled sense of waste , that his cohort had denied him his greatest discovery . |
| 17 | The CaCl 2 /DNA mis was added dropwise to an equal volume of 0.2µm-filtered 2 HEPES-buffered saline ( 280mM NaCl , 10mM KCl , 1.5mM Na 2 HPO 4 .2H2O , 12mM dextrose , 50mM HEPES , pH adjusted to 7.05 with 0.5N NaOH ) and left to stand for 20 minutes at RT . |
| 18 | ( He has come closest to an antipathetic character as the ex-con in Straight Time , and as a crook in Family Business , two of his biggest commercial failures . ) |
| 19 | Move over Wilf NOT a lot of people might know this , but a Newcastle United player has come closer to an Olympic medal than poor old wobbling Wilf O'Reilly . |
| 20 | NEW YORK , Monday , 10pm : WALL Street ended narrowly mixed ahead of an important reading on US inflation . |
| 21 | NEW YORK , Monday 10pm : STOCKS ended narrowly mixed ahead of an important reading on US inflation later today when the Labour Department is due to release data on its US Consumer Price Index for May . |
| 22 | He hoped a short campaign would teach Iran the benefits of non-interference in Iraqi affairs , but was sucked instead into an eight-year fight . |
| 23 | Topics may have been defined , but they can not always be slotted neatly into an existing structure . |
| 24 | Special schools provide education for children with special needs , on the grounds that they can not be educated satisfactorily in an ordinary school . |
| 25 | In principle , all opaque sequences are minimal lexical units and therefore should be listed separately in an ideal dictionary . |
| 26 | The main group of demonstrators had broken away from an authorized rally in a nearby square called by the Revolution Party ( Christian Democratic ) . |
| 27 | Consequently herbs were simply not part of the garden scene , being tucked away in an odd corner of the vegetable garden , or grown half-heartedly in pots or window-boxes , where they became aphid-ridden and dusty . |
| 28 | ‘ … a queer little place called Ornovitza , tucked away in an eastern corner of Europe , it 's rather of the Republic of San Marino type , only it is n't a republic , it 's a Duchy . ’ |
| 29 | These Part II privileges are " subject to explanation and contradiction " — which means that they will not apply where an editor or programme controller has refused the plaintiff 's request to publish a reasonable statement in reply , or has done so in an inadequate manner . |
| 30 | The labour process , it is argued , can not be seen merely as an economic process attendant upon capitalist rationality and imposed on the workforce ; it is embedded in social and cultural practices , and without an understanding of this apparatus , particularly the meanings attached to work , it is difficult to account for the specific form of change , for the relationships between ‘ work ’ and ‘ leisure ’ , and for the significance of skill and social relations at the point of production . |