Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " 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 | From then on they have developed as an almost necessary part of Church life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Prost had come cheap — virtually free for the first year — and Niki had re-signed for a very large sum indeed . |
| 10 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 11 | The author craves to be forgiven for a very brief self-quotation in illustration of this from a work of his own : |
| 12 | It seems that human attention can only be sustained for a very limited time by any subject , even the prospects of its own destruction . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This brochure is only intended as a very brief introduction to Carmarthen Bay & Teifi Valley . |
| 16 | Originally intended as an almost recreational activity , the Hillbillies were formed by Mark with former musical associates Brendan Croker and Steve Phillips . |
| 17 | The couple wanted to thank friends and relatives for the ‘ tremendous support they had given during a pretty rough time ’ . |
| 18 | The constable was treated for a badly bruised nose at Broomfield Hospital , Chelmsford . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If the resist is not exposed for a long enough period , it will not develop fully and so some traces will remain on the board . |
| 21 | That was calculated for an infinitely long line charge too . |
| 22 | But this is dismissed as a merely verbal error . |
| 23 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Arbiter theorists have a comparatively complex outlook on law , which is regarded as a partly autonomous sphere of social action , not controllable by capitalists . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |