Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The artist for this year was Helen Chadwick whose exhibition Of Mutability held at the ICA in 1986 led to her nomination for the Turner Prize in 1987/ The critic selector was Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton , formerly editor of Artscribe International . |
2 | If your sum insured is less than that recommended for your type of home , we strongly recommend that you increase it . |
3 | That led to his selection for the 1990 district championship in the North and Midlands side and also this season he has played twice for Scotland ‘ B ’ , scoring a try in each match . |
4 | until they left home , first of all it was I break his bloody neck taking advantage of my daughter , cos they each lived with their |
5 | Each knelt in her partitioned alcove , commending heart and soul to God and praying that Satan , who wandered around like a lion seeking his prey , did not harm their bodies or souls that night . |
6 | When a woman in her early thirties moved into her council flat she was still working , so she bought a fitted carpet and a freezer . |
7 | Reductions in mortality similar to that found by our meta-analysis have also been seen in the controlled ( non-randomised ) study by Muhilal et al , achieved by fortifying monosodium glutamate supplied to villages ; this maintains retinol levels better than infrequent high doses . |
8 | Tall , lively and springy , he characteristically flung his elbows about , his gait reflecting an angular gawkiness like that found in his drawings . |
9 | Previous studies have shown that only 2% ( 386/17000 ) of health care staff being vaccinated were naturally immune to hepatitis B , a figure lower than that found in our population — 5.5% ( 1186/21389 ) — indicating that perhaps most of those being vaccinated are either ‘ low risk staff ’ or new entrants to the profession . |
10 | Furthermore , by UV-cross-linking experiments , a polypeptide of 85,000 daltons has been found to bind to this region , a molecular weight similar to that found in our experiments for the factor binding to oligonucleotide I ( see Fig. 6 ) . |
11 | In Germany , where the authorities have wisely allocated digital phones a slot a long way from that used by their analogue brothers , there are other worries . |
12 | Using a technique different to that used in our original report , we have now detected an antibody against the cytoplasm of neutrophils . |
13 | This led to their inclusion in numerous combination chemotherapy programmes . |
14 | This led to her death from pneumonia in November last year . |
15 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
16 | This led to his prediction that electromagnetic waves existed and would propagate at a velocity c equal to the ratio of electromagnetic to electrostatic units of measurement . |
17 | This led to his writing Zen and the Art of Climbing Mountains , about to be published by Element Books . |
18 | King was a minor poet and staunch Royalist ; this led to his flight from Chichester at the time of the Cromwellian bombardment of the city . |
19 | This led to his appointment by the home secretary to a commission on explosions of compressed gas cylinders ( 1895–6 ) . |
20 | Difficulties arose because of the relative impurity of even the best available caustic soda , and this led to his greatest success — a process for manufacturing very pure caustic soda by the electrolysis of brine in a rocking cell containing mercury . |
21 | The following day his chest got considerably worse and this led to his hospitalization . |
22 | It is normally believed that this arose through my friendship with Harold Wilson . |
23 | This coupled with your methylene blue filter bacteria wipe-out means that you have a tank which is generally unhealthy and at times extremely unhealthy . |
24 | They were n't sure if this applied in my case but they were investigating the matter . |
25 | The reasons for this phenomenon are varied : the tightening bonds of serfdom and the greater degree of social regimentation introduced by Peter the Great meant that a number of previously innocent practices ( tree-felling , salt-gathering , trespass , begging , vagrancy , and so on ) were criminalized and punished with hard labour and exile ; popular protest against the proliferating powers of the state in the form of minor revolts , mass insurgencies ( for example , Bulavin , Pugachev ) , large-scale banditry and escalating rates of petty crime were similarly dealt with ; the abolition of capital punishment for criminal offences in 1753 led to its replacement with ‘ civil execution ’ ( public flogging and mutilation followed by perpetual katorga ) ; and laws passed in 1766 and 1769 changed the usual place of penal servitude from Rogervik and other locations in European Russia to the silver mines and factories around Nerchinsk . |
26 | But Arnold seems unaware of the strain that Jellett must have borne specifically as a woman artist , and one can not help but wonder if this contributed to her early death . |
27 | When John Barbour , archdeacon of Aberdeen , wrote his long verse account of the career of Robert Bruce , king of Scots , about 1380 , he emphasised that his hero 's successes against the English stemmed from his military qualities , his understanding of his men , his appreciation of the tactics required for victory , in a word his ‘ professionalism ’ as a man in arms . |
28 | Right now well all I , I ex I knew that you were having meetings about it so really all , all I need you to do is actually get this validated by your group and if there were any change significant changes you wanted to make then to come back to me and David with that those suggestions but erm it struck me that th the thing hangs together quite well . |
29 | Under the then prevailing adjustable peg arrangements , any one currency could fluctuate within a band ( or ‘ tunnel ’ ) 1 per cent either side of the dollar par value , so if one EC currency moved from its floor to its ceiling and another moved from its ceiling to its floor there would be a 4 per cent relative fluctuation in the values of the two currencies . |
30 | Roger Swansborough half rose from his executive chair holding out his hand in greeting . |