Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child then might have seen or heard talk of acceptable violence because that was what war was . |
| 2 | Soviet writers claimed that the Western states were employing a whole range of devices to undermine the neutralism or proclaimed neutrality of the new states . |
| 3 | There is of course a difference between a flexible general programme , able to expand/develop/change emphasis , as and when circumstances alter/new needs emerge/relevant external courses present themselves , and waiting for a course to be advertised before a need is identified , or taken notice of . |
| 4 | In many Hemiptera the wings are held together in flight by various small hooks or folds along the wing.margins ( Weber , 1930 ) while in the Psocoptera the costa of the hind wing is held by a spiny or hooked process of the node where the second cubital vein of the fore wing reaches the margin . |
| 5 | As Funakoshi 's students became adept at the techniques , many broke away from the original shotokan school and formulated systems of their own . |
| 6 | New headteachers have limitations on their ability to manipulate the administration in County Hall , or to conduct a delicate personal conversation with a depressed and withdrawn head of department . |
| 7 | How could they be , given the fragmented and fallen nature of our humanness ? |
| 8 | ‘ Independently of climbing over rocks and fallen stumps of trees , the sportsman has to creep and crawl beneath and among the branches with the utmost caution , taking care only to advance when the bird 's attention is occupied in singing , or in scratching up the leaves in search of food ; to watch its actions it is necessary to remain perfectly motionless , not venturing to move even in the slightest degree , or it vanishes from sight as if by magic … |
| 9 | Now if it 's tablets they 've taken we do n't do whatever Angie did years ago in , in Eastenders and , and then she 's walked up and down and given gallons of coffee , what you do is keep your casualty at rest , nil by mouth because you , if you give them any fluid whatsoever it 's going to dilate , dilute the tablets that are in the stomach , and once they 're diluted they 've gone into the system quicker , mm , so there 's nil by mouth , now if you 're going to get up and walk them up and down because come on you must walk up and down , what 's happening to this per these tablets ? |
| 10 | Earlier , as shadow chancellor , he had contacted and won assurances of help from the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York if a Labour victory precipitated a run on the pound . |
| 11 | Thus Mrs Jones 's power inside the assessment process was increased by her having identified and pursued sources of strength outside that process . |
| 12 | The insensitive reviewer had invented and made use of the horrible word ‘ Bowenoid ’ for the stories collected in The Blush — he found them penetrating and subtle but could not forgive Elizabeth for her good fortune in being able to please the simple as well as the highbrow reader . |
| 13 | From this point you get one of the best views in the Dales : to your right , Dentdale , Whernside , the foot of Deepdale and Dent town itself ; to your left , northern Dentdale , Frostrow and the Howgills ; while below you are spread the patched and parcelled fields of the dale which , on this June day , were coloured a green the like of which I had seen before only in Ireland . |
| 14 | No one who has visited a Greek tax office in a provincial town , and seen rows of clerks thumbing and date-stamping their way through piles of dusty paper , can feel confident that a new broom is truly on the way . |
| 15 | we should have a core a of people who 've handled records of achievement and done records of achievement and they should you know not everybody has but we should what staff are capable of in terms of doing this has has has moved dramatic and there 's some still who struggle but everybody 's getting more and |
| 16 | I was arguing about the principle , that er , I mean , the lady who came to clean for me , was a nursing auxiliary , and if I 'd had rheumatism , she would have bathed me , and done sort of thing as well . |
| 17 | Fighting spread to Mostar which Croatian forces took on Oct. 25 and proclaimed capital of the Croatian Community of Herceg-Bosne [ see p. 39103 ] , with Boban as its president . |
| 18 | Photographs of the divers at work on the excavations and drawn reconstructions of the objects are also included . |
| 19 | The Serious Fraud Office , however , wanted more , and requested copies of all the liquidators ' transcripts of the earlier interviews with the 16 . |
| 20 | With that letter , I sent you two copies of the Agreement for signature on behalf of Bell Communications Research , on whose behalf I understand you placed the order , and requested details of the specification you wished the tape to be prepared to . |
| 21 | How exactly corks came to be adopted at Hautvillers remains a mystery , but one story relates that when Spanish monks stopped at Hautvillers on their way north from Santiago de Compostela , Dom Pérignon noticed that their water-bottles were sealed with corks and requested supplies of this spongy material to be sent to him . |
| 22 | This offer was accepted and he was appointed superintendent of the island , which was formally acquired as a British possession on 11 August 1786 and called Prince of Wales Island . |
| 23 | ECOMOG forces intervened to stop the fighting , and arrested members of both factions . |
| 24 | INDIAN police gassed crowds and arrested leaders of the main Hindu nationalist party yesterday , knocking one unconscious with a water cannon in an attempt to thwart a banned rally in New Delhi . |
| 25 | Another residents discovered rats had got into a kitchen cupboard and eaten packets of food . |
| 26 | But , Szeliga says : ‘ We are not coming in to buy market share ; we aim to promote ourselves at the quality and mid-priced end of the market . |
| 27 | It is clear that even the named and identified members of Jesus 's following represent a broad and diverse spectrum . |
| 28 | The Organising and Liaison Committees of the schemes are comprised of a small and identified number of solicitors . |
| 29 | The Federation stimulated and promoted membership of the WEA — an important consideration in the county as the tenet of every student being also a member of the WEA was not realistic simply because in the initial phase most of Shearman 's activity was in rural ‘ centres ’ rather than in WEA ‘ branches ’ . |
| 30 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |