Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Unwilling admiration wrung from Jess a kind of exasperated protectiveness , as if she was the mistress and Miss Phoebe in her care .
2 It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan .
3 The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support received from Loughborough University 's Research Fund , and would also like to thank their research assistant , Theresa Madden , for her invaluable help and the RIBA for the assistance it has rendered .
4 If the Latin Americans had their nationalist sensibilities ruffled by the refusal of the Comintern to recognise that they were in the best position to analyse the situation in their own countries , and were disappointed by the level of support received from Moscow , Comintern officials in their turn were unenthusiastic about the evolution of the Latin American Communist parties and their approach to revolutionary politics .
5 At officer level , the Cambridge Board through Hickson and Pateman not unreasonably argued that its initiatives in rural areas had been successful ; not least because of the financial support received from LEAs who were prepared to grant-aid provision of liberal adult education by the Board more generously than that provided through the District .
6 The consequence is a realization that it is precisely the hierarchical and cybernetic attributes of living organisms that enabled evolution to acquire the direction emphasized by Hobhouse at the start of the century .
7 He informed them that Stella had not only had her appendix , but also her gall bladder removed , and that he would be home in time to attend to the next horse trek arranged for Saturday .
8 Richard Huxley Jones , 72 , is this year 's recipient of the Aelwyn Morgan memorial award given by Rhuddlan Town Council to those who contribute most to the community .
9 John Redding , 21 , picked up a trophy donated by former Teesside County Borough engineer Jim Radcliffe , while 18-year-old John McGuckin received an award given by Garth Drabble , retired county surveyor and engineer .
10 Thirty-five teachers attended a special course given by Veronica Portmann , a lively young teacher from the Gymnastickschule in Bern .
11 She found it in Medau Rhythmic Movement when attending a course given by Molly Braithwaite at St. Andrews in Scotland , and decided at once to study at the Medau Schule in Coburg .
12 The four-month jail sentence given to Christopher Hart for mowing down nine-year-old Sharon Townsend was a disgrace .
13 THE ABSURDLY lenient sentence given to Frederic Blancke , the French hospital worker who brutally murdered British school teacher Fiona Jones , is a travesty of justice .
14 OF course TODAY is pleased that the Attorney General is now looking into the sentence given to Dr Thomas Courtney , the multiple rapist .
15 The Fenari clan seem 's not to have forgiven or forgotten this slight , for Molla Fenari 's sons later challenged a decision given by Molla Yegan as kadi of Bursa and caused him to be examined by a of the ulema .
16 Everyone , however conditioned by family and society , still retains the dignity and freedom given by God , of exercising their own will and choosing good or evil .
17 The Community 's leading economic indicator , combining calculations for both output and outlook , dropped to 96.1 in December , from 96.3 in November , to equal the previous lowest level registered in October 1982 .
18 It is clear , therefore , that rules of English law which restrict access to courts , tribunals and remedies may fall foul of the principle of effective protection recognized by EC law ; and the greater the restriction , the more likely is it to do so .
19 The poor weather , with many fog patches restricting visibility to less than two miles , prevented the warships and their respective convoys from being discovered , although another ‘ snooper ’ , this time a Ju88 from 1(F)/121 was intercepted by a pair of Fulmars from ‘ Formidable 's ’ 806 Squadron flown by Lts .
20 What he was also wondering was whether Harriet had received any letters of the kind received by Tom Fearon and if so , whether she had kept them ?
21 There were gossip-column items , too , about such-and-such an amusing practical joke played on William Powell or this-and-that fancy present given to Carole Lombard .
22 The sarcasm drained from Golding 's face and was replaced by a steely earnestness .
23 The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule .
24 Variety commented on Madigan 's Millions that , ‘ had it been released earlier , it might have finished him …
25 This is the classical " matched guise " technique developed by Lambert , Giles and others ( see Lambert et al.
26 This is an improvement technique developed by Shiego Shingo for Toyota in the 60s .
27 Mind Maps Plus is a new software package based on the creative ‘ Mind Maps ’ learning and thinking technique developed by Tony Buzan .
28 Mind Maps Plus is a new software package based on the creative ‘ Mind Maps ’ learning and thinking technique developed by Tony Buzan .
29 The new technique developed by Matsushita relies on screen printing and brings the mass production cost per watt down to under £3 .
30 One is a resonance technique developed by Bell ( 1968 ) for ultrasonic thermometry , another is a reflection method , the third the measurement of wave velocity .
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