Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 2 | 63% of those managing directors and IT directors interviewed had heard of DTI 's Open Systems Technology Transfer programme , with 47% having read or heard about aspects of Open Systems through DTI material — beating ‘ Technical Press ’ ( 44% ) into second place . |
| 3 | Now eight or nine-year-olds are being taught about periods in schools . |
| 4 | And three quarters want to be taught about relationships as part of their sex education too . |
| 5 | For in matrilineal societies where kinship is traced through women on the mother 's side of the family , the mother 's brother does not usually behave in this fashion towards his sororal nephew . |
| 6 | The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography . |
| 7 | In central and eastern Europe remedial measures must be taken to clear up environmental problems developed through years of neglect . |
| 8 | The rain had not stopped for days on end . |
| 9 | In addition , five smaller grants were received for studies by individual members of staff , totalling £9,500 . |
| 10 | Finance for books , previously received for students aged 16 to 18 from the local authority , is likely to become a less frequent feature of the scene , and its absence will have a particular impact in those areas that have adopted a system of wholly tertiary colleges . |
| 11 | The doctor refused to give her more sleeping tablets but scribbled a prescription for tranquillizers , which were increasingly prescribed for women like Clare , with symptoms of anxiety in stressful situations such as poverty , divorce , or bereavement ; women with marital problems and women who were out of work also found them helpful , although the pills did nothing to resolve the problem responsible for the initial anxiety . |
| 12 | ( d ) Transfers of goods and services The law has traditionally distinguished between contracts for the supply of goods and contracts for the supply of services . |
| 13 | Büchler reported that CRP showed an overall accuracy of 93% in the detection of pancreatic necrosis ; a serum CRP concentration of > or <100 mg/l distinguished between patients with a better or worse prognosis with 100% sensitivity and 86% specificity . |
| 14 | His three spinster daughters , whom he had not registered at the parish church in any way , were all baptised as adults at Badcox . |
| 15 | There was a heap of sales catalogues from all over the world to be sifted through , magazines to be trawled for items of interest … |
| 16 | However , the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment , which reviewed the matter thoroughly in the early 1950s , and later law-reform committees have accorded preference to the ‘ general principle ’ that ‘ persons ought not to be punished for consequences of their acts which they did not intend or foresee ’ . |
| 17 | Capriati has been courted for months by IMG , whose promotion , coupled with success on court , will bring their teenage client millions of dollars . |
| 18 | A bank of video monitors cunningly disguised as sacks of cargo show films of interviews with living Indians , maps of the regions covered and other backup material . |
| 19 | There were no tanks , no Fifth Columnists disguised as Sisters of Charity . |
| 20 | There are three bedrooms for visitors all with private bathrooms and individual character — one has an iron-framed antique rose-painted four-poster bed with lace hangings and a Victorian screen , another has oak beams and a closet ( now a shower ) where priests are reputed to have hidden during times of persecution . |
| 21 | What characterises oral societies , and justifies drawing the distinction between them and ‘ literate ’ societies , is that ‘ all beliefs , and values , all forms of knowledge , are communicated between individuals in face-to-face contact ; and , as distinct from the material content of the cultural tradition , whether it be cave-paintings or hand-axes , they are stored only in human memory ’ ( ibid. p. 29 ) . |
| 22 | Is the contract on " written standard terms " if the terms are held on a word processor and one term is altered for dealings with a particular customer ? ( b ) A business regularly contracts on terms prepared by its trade association : are those terms its " written standard terms " ? ( c ) A business makes individual contracts by telephone , or other instantaneous communication , but incorporates its normal terms of business into the contracts by express oral reference , or by a course of dealing ; are the terms then " written standard terms " ? ( d ) Are terms " standard " on the first occasion they are used ? ( e ) A business has negotiated a set of terms for use on all contracts with a particular customer . |
| 23 | Attempts to explain relationships between emotional arousal and memory have frequently used frameworks which were originally developed as descriptions of the general relationship between arousal and task performance . |
| 24 | Smaller fields , however , could be commercially developed onshore and fields as small as 50 Bcf might be an attractive proposition offshore , if they were to be developed as satellites to larger fields . |
| 25 | Reactive oxygen species have been implicated as mediators of inflammation in ulcerative colitis . |
| 26 | CYTOPLASMICALLY inherited microorganisms are widespread in insects and have been implicated as causes of female parthenogenesis ( females developing from unfertilized eggs ) and cytoplasmic incompatibility . |
| 27 | Its meaning has begun to leak away through indiscriminate extensions beyond its original significance , extensions to cases which would normally be distinguished as cases of non-violence . |
| 28 | There are two spacious bedrooms furnished as bed-sitting-rooms with arm-chairs , table and colour TV . |
| 29 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 30 | I intended to study , and registered for courses on Spanish language and literature . |