Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Six weeks before the October general election , figures in mid-September showed that inflation had dropped sharply in August , rising only 0.2 per cent , while unemployment had fallen the same month to 16.6 per cent of the active workforce , the lowest level since 1982 .
2 As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party .
3 Tuppe had travelled the latter part of the journey on the tall boy 's shoulders .
4 Since 1945 just over 600 awards have been made , with 41 first bars and five second bars — a reflection of the numerous small conflicts which have plagued the latter part of the 20th Century .
5 Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself .
6 Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 .
7 It is not difficult to see why corporate crime has not received the same publicity as murder , robbery , theft , rape and so on — both in the mass media and in the study of crime .
8 ‘ Did anyone know that Mowbray had received the same warning as Sir Ralph ? ’
9 Rising to his feet on the floor of the penthouse Nicholas staggered for a moment , while his wrists were being wrenched back and lashed ; and knew from the way John was standing that he had received the same treatment .
10 So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner .
11 At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years !
12 The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy .
13 But personal belief and professional judgement have not received the same attention .
14 To date , he has received the most commissons of any architectural ‘ mousequeteer ’ : three at Disneyland , Florida , one in Burbank , California , three at Euro Disney .
15 It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget .
16 Of all the kicks in taekwondo , the jumping side kick has probably received the most attention from the public , no doubt because its execution looks devastating and spectacular .
17 A pair of identical twins of very similar abilities were taught the same topic by teachers of greatly different experience .
18 When calculated the same way there is no tendency for the mean risk rating for a junction to determine correlations with accident estimates , r(8)=-0.047 , nor is there any similar relationship between risk and the response bias measure B , r(8)=-0.21 .
19 Also I 'd had feedback from the moss chart that children enjoyed scouring the poster for tiny details , so I looked for a solution that would allow as many items as possible to be painted the same size .
20 In 1890 the Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society acquired its present premises at 49 Albany Street , where the Congregational Church was also erected the same year next door .
21 For example , the words ’ made ’ , ’ making ’ and ’ makes ’ are all assigned the same index as the word ’ make ’ .
22 However , if ’ payment ’ were assigned the same index as ’ pay ’ , then a strong overlap would result .
23 However , both these studies used a low resolution technique to type a complex tetranucleotide repeat polymorphism , and thus alleles assigned the same fragment length may be genetically heterogeneous .
24 Sinton 's classy effort against Tottenham on Saturday , despite Rangers ' 2–1 defeat , will have given the former Brentford winger plenty of confidence .
25 Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old .
26 The Biro is a wily beast , which , if given the least opportunity to make good its escape , will do so .
27 The Adjutant was able to sound thankful where Charles had given the least impression of unwillingness .
28 Given the many problems with the data sets , ’ he said , ‘ one is not inexorably led to the conclusion that a negative secular solar radius trend has existed since AD 1700 , but the preponderance of current evidence indicates that such is likely to be the case . ’
29 Endill was given the same suitcase his father and grandfather had taken with them to school .
30 However , it can be understood as recommending that one live in such ; way that the various aspects of one 's being are given the same degree of power as they have of innate authority .
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