Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ambitious presentation of amateur radio to young people involves inviting Novice trainees , Scouts , Guides and ATC members to take part in amateur radio related activities arranged over a whole weekend plus some social activities . |
| 2 | Groups formed as a result of a parent company , such as Matsushita Electric , spinning off its own operating divisions to form separate companies within the same field to act as suppliers , distributors and even retailers . |
| 3 | It is realistic when one considers the number of new operations developed as a consequence of medical research . |
| 4 | These brick buildings are on three storeys , the first two being unexceptional Victorian terraced houses arranged round a courtyard , but the floor above them has the characteristic long windows of textile workshops . |
| 5 | All treatment was withdrawn for a minimum of two weeks , after which inclusion in the trial depended on a diastolic blood pressure >105 mm Hg . |
| 6 | On this assumption , all is not lost , as the expenses of a training course undertaken by a self-employed person are allowed as a business deduction under general principles when the training is undertaken for the purposes of the trade . |
| 7 | Meiklejohn says , " Every adjective is either an explicit or an implicit predicate " , the former corresponding in his book to appearance in predicative position and the latter to attributive use ; and he goes on to show , with examples , that he takes exactly the same view as is found later in accounts given within a Chomskyan framework . |
| 8 | THE Attorney General is to review the three year sentence given to a killer who strangled and dismembered a Co Donegal woman . |
| 9 | THE Attorney General is to review the three year sentence given to a killer who strangled and dismembered a Co Donegal woman . |
| 10 | Paul A. Bilzerian , 38 , chairman of Singer Co. and a stock speculator , was on Sept. 27 , 1989 , fined $1,500,000 and sentenced to four years in prison — the longest prison sentence given for a Wall Street criminal . |
| 11 | THE Court of Appeal yesterday quashed a suspended sentence received by a man convicted of indecent assault and incest with his 15-year-old daughter , despite submissions by the Attorney-General , Sir Patrick Mayhew , QC , that the sentence was too lenient . |
| 12 | The video would show activities undertaken during a typical school day , including lunch times and break times , the routines for meeting children at the end of the day , introduce the staff and the chair of governors and the chair of the parents ' association . |
| 13 | In dealing with the Renaissance , we are assuming , as de Man above indicates , that there is a relation between language and the phenomenal ( i.e. the range of activities undertaken in a defined historical period ) which is an a priori given . |
| 14 | In social work practice the term ‘ relationship ’ is used to describe the context of the general helping activities undertaken by a social worker in interaction with a particular client . |
| 15 | ‘ Gee , ’ Charity Marlowe responded drily from where she sat in a decrepit upholstered chair , her head thrown back , her hair hidden under a towel , and her eyes clenched tightly shut . |
| 16 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 17 | And she returned shortly afterwards with a thick roll of notes fastened with a rubber band and Melanie counted out seventy-eight pounds and a ten shilling note and the woman gave her five shillings from her alligator purse . |
| 18 | The schoolmaster 's appointment was at times treated as a sinecure for the vicar of Evenley , a Magdalen living . |
| 19 | An observer would have seen a raggedy man with his possessions gathered into a couple of carrier bags , his hair uncombed , and no life in his eyes at all . |
| 20 | But overseas activities plunged from a £1 million profit to a £13.7 million loss , the losses on property development and housing grew by 70 per cent to £17.1 million . |
| 21 | In the case of land , statutory provisions may give priority to a later contract registered as a land charge even if entered into with knowledge of an earlier , unregistered transaction , but it seems that this affects only proprietary rights and does not bar an action in tort based on interference with the earlier contract . |
| 22 | Several officers set out when a car was stolen from Gloucester City centre when a pedestrian had his foot crushed by a police car , then another vehicle crashed into the stolen Rapier . |
| 23 | It was quite usual to see her standing there baking , one knee on a cushion placed on a stool , to ease the pain . |
| 24 | The concern for the future of the Deutschmark within the EEC erupted belatedly in the Bundestag in early October 1992 ; at the insistence of an all-party committee , the Parliament pressed for a second opportunity to ratify stage 3 of the Maastricht Treaty before the Deutschmark became irrevocably part of the Single Currency . |
| 25 | The next day police raided the caravan fsite near Oxford and recovered a shot gun cartridge from the remains of a fire , as well as £410 in cash , fround hidden in a cupboard under a pile of towells . |
| 26 | It is likely that if five other tokens were considered from a different section of text gathered in a comparable social context the score would turn out to be very different say 80 per cent . |
| 27 | ENGLAND flew to Poland yesterday with reliance placed in a defence that , like Bobby Robson , has shown a talent for confounding the critics . |
| 28 | Gradually these discussions developed into a proposal for an action-research project ( in the sense of an action project which would be monitored and evaluated ) which would provide enhanced home support to dementia sufferers , partly through the employment of extra paid carers . |
| 29 | On this view pragmatics ( at least in part ) is about how , given a sentence uttered in a context , that context plays a role in specifying what proposition the sentence expresses on this occasion of utterance . |
| 30 | In an article on science fiction , Jean Baudrillard maintains that the traditional mode of the genre depended on a simulation of expansion that is no longer feasible in the contemporary world . |