Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One general index calculated from death and population information is the crude death rate . |
| 2 | At first sight , the picture of word-meaning given by patterns of affinity and disaffinity is , at least in some respects , different from the picture given by semantic traits . |
| 3 | Unwilling admiration wrung from Jess a kind of exasperated protectiveness , as if she was the mistress and Miss Phoebe in her care . |
| 4 | my skin painted for war-dancing : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Only the weather was ominous — the usual generous gestures of support received from congregation and friends were heartwarming . |
| 10 | This is a field riddled with dilemmas . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A checklist completed by teachers will give a measure of the use of over two hundred activities in computer education lessons . |
| 13 | A HILARIOUS , misunderstood and grossly-inflated gangster morality play filled with blood , guns and mountains of nose candy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thirty-five teachers attended a special course given by Veronica Portmann , a lively young teacher from the Gymnastickschule in Bern . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The four-month jail sentence given to Christopher Hart for mowing down nine-year-old Sharon Townsend was a disgrace . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | OF course TODAY is pleased that the Attorney General is now looking into the sentence given to Dr Thomas Courtney , the multiple rapist . |
| 22 | Any decision given on review attracts a further right of appeal just like the original decision . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ We ca n't walk three abreast , ’ Claudia said as they emerged into the lane filled with people . |
| 25 | Replanting woodland ravaged by storms and disease , coppicing , hedgelaying and pond clearance to maintain a rich variety of wildlife habitat . |
| 26 | It has been argued that corporate efficiency in privatised industries has improved , not just by an exposure to market forces and an acceptance of the profit motive , but by the extra freedom given to managers . |
| 27 | With the wide coverage and freedom given to pupils to develop their own individual lines of inquiry , the identification of a large an detailed collection of keywords was one of the major tasks at the design stage . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Instead I found the field stripped of strawberries |
| 30 | The two girls held their breath , Liz sitting there with her mock examination papers , Shirley crouching by the shoe rack : their prison kitchen filled with presences . |