Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun pl] [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes . |
| 2 | I mean that was really my only comment that I just erm heard this lady speaking erm okay she 's got two children and it probably is difficult to keep two children occupied without any children 's programmes , but like you commented , ‘ what did people do before television ’ , and erm I mean I 'm sure erm Rainbow and such , the people who produce those sort of television programmes would understand that keeping the majority of the country erm informed of what was going on was slightly more important than erm having children 's programmes on . |
| 3 | HOW we could have done with some frogs ' legs among the dire fare served up for national consumption at Stamford Bridge yesterday . |
| 4 | Regional task forces estimate , however , that the gap between the hours stipulated in most juniors ' contracts and the hours that they will actually work is about five to 10 hours a week . |
| 5 | This small characin can be seen in all dealers ' tanks , their fluorescence guaranteed to catch the eye of fishkeepers . |
| 6 | The first record is in August , when Dista 's representatives suggested the research might explain the bleeding seen in some patients ' stomachs and intestines . |
| 7 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 8 | The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | There is , buried in some agencies ' archives , material — usually based either on reading and noting research ( see page 100 ) or on direct response returns — which shows rather clearly that over a certain size — somewhere around 35 cm × 6 cols in a broadsheet newspaper — diminishing returns begin to set in . |
| 10 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |
| 11 | Do you think that it could ever be true that they would be sufficiently inexpensive that they could be used in most doctors ' surgeries , or is it going to be something which is only used in one or two important hospitals ? |
| 12 | In two-party systems with plurality voting rules which protect established parties from new entrants , and where the major parties are so internally democratic that party elites must satisfy the ‘ extreme ’ preferences of their activists , party manifestos can easily become ‘ over-polarized ’ compared with most voters ' views ( Finer , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | By early 1832 the insurrection in Jamaica had so underlined in many abolitionists ' minds the presumption that slavery was the source of social disorder they unambiguously demanded ‘ nothing short of the total and immediate Abolition of British Colonial Slavery ’ . |
| 14 | What the bland uniformity of the final bestseller lists ( see opposite ) fails to reveal are the intriguing regional variations that could be found in most respondents ' submissions . |
| 15 | The tenacity , ingenuity and resourcefulness of the women involved in these Groups ' activities was remarkable for the sheer depth of social and material capacities which it uncovered . |
| 16 | If a distinction between laws — the law of the State and the law of the Church — was blurred in most men 's minds , the distinction between the clergy and the laity was not . |
| 17 | The third image pictures the state in liberal democratic societies as a corporatist network , integrated with external elites into a single control system : here talk of external control versus state autonomy is irrelevant , for state and economic elites are so interpenetrated by each others ' concerns that no sensible boundary line or balance of influence can be drawn . |
| 18 | Energy management systems may represent a major attempt to rationalise fuel consumption in non-domestic environments , but it remains to be seen how they will be received by such buildings ' occupants . |
| 19 | They are regarded by many employers ' associations ( although lacking official recognition ) as a means of encouraging greater stability in shopfloor relations . |
| 20 | Already huge controversy has been provoked by some researchers ' attempts to claim effective ownership of human genes through patenting and by a proposal to set up a UK national database of ‘ DNA fingerprints ’ to enable the rapid identification and capture of violent criminals . |
| 21 | Finally , another major problem as perceived by Western governments and agencies is the philosophy held by many LDCs ' governments to free/private enterprise , the market mechanism , foreign investment and expropriation of assets . |
| 22 | This ability was sharpened by these players ' meetings , which were a unique feature of football at this time . |