Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes in the sense that although he comes from a peasant background originally , it 's a rich peasant background and he himself had er a reasonable education and subsequently erm built on the education that he was given becoming in part self-taught . |
| 2 | Not necessarily one 's own physical good looks — some of the battalions of the style fascists look as if their mothers should have considered smothering at birth — but the look of others who do not look right ( a subtle but fundamental difference ) . |
| 3 | Have you considered applying for research funding from the European Commission ? |
| 4 | Surely , as prime evidence of date and function the artefacts must be integrated into the excavation report itself and the artificial division into materials replaced by objects grouped according to function and deposit . |
| 5 | The brief comprised a list of about 80 species for each chart , grouped according to pollution tolerance . |
| 6 | Vehicles might be grouped according to colour , use , whether ‘ broken down ’ , number of wheels , etc . |
| 7 | Use wire plate hangers to hang a collection of plates on the walls , grouped according to colour , size or origin . |
| 8 | However , when the " high use " of temporary workers was examined , there were no significant differences between establishments grouped according to size . |
| 9 | The Southern Slavs argued for ‘ personal cultural autonomy ’ — that is , the inhabitants of the empire would be grouped according to culture ( regardless of where they lived ) , and their cultural-educational affairs directed by an elected national council . |
| 10 | ‘ When the firms were grouped according to similarity of objectives and techniques of production , and classified in order of the technical complexity of the production systems , each production system was found to be associated with a characteristic pattern of organisation . |
| 11 | They produce a leaflet called The Accommodation Barns Guide 1991 which contains useful information and lists of camping barns and bunkhouses grouped according to county . |
| 12 | These were grouped according to theme and accompanied by a variety of tasks . |
| 13 | The transitions between word ending states and word beginning states are then modified according to word boundary phonological rules . |
| 14 | The cap badge for all officers will be the coat of arms of the United States , embroidered in gold , modified according to pattern , and will be placed in front so that the top of the badge will be slightly below the top of the cap . ’ |
| 15 | Whatever the time dependences of the signals in a two-terminal nonlinear network , its terminal behaviour can be represented by Moreover , the relationship between sufficiently small signals and , denoted according to convention by lower-case letters i and v , is or where ( , ) is the bias operating point . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , ministers were known to favour strong action against anyone who was caught passing on information , to act as a general deterrent to other officials . |
| 17 | Clearly I had arrived between downpours of the searing acid rain , while none of the local wildlife had come looking for snack in my vicinity . |
| 18 | While , historically , archaeology departments have been organised according to material — pottery , bone and metals — the new laboratory is organised by processes . |
| 19 | Work on voting behaviour in Great Britain in the 1980s illustrates this , with the class divide much distorted according to power in the market place , which in turn has become increasingly spatially variable : Johnston and Pattie , 1988 , 1990 . ) |
| 20 | But the Prince has always enjoyed flirting with danger , like his cousin , Prince William of Gloucester , who was killed in a plane crash in 1972 . |
| 21 | Test packages are designed according to job specifications . |
| 22 | Since materials are classified and grouped first by language , all literary forms such as poetry are scattered according to language . |
| 23 | Secondly , it remained uncertain whether continental western European corporate language policy varied according to country and company size or type . |
| 24 | Henceforward , population would be the determining factor ( although the number of voters in a constituency still varied according to population density , from 80,000 people per constituency in the larger towns to 25,000 in the extreme south ) . |
| 25 | Lengths varied according to source from 76 to 86cm ( 30 to 34in ) . |
| 26 | Their relative importance varied according to context . |
| 27 | The amount of toll-in-kind payable for the service of milling the grain varied according to region and period , but the average charge was one-sixteenth part of the grain by volume . |
| 28 | The baseline characteristics of the subjects varied according to severity of periodontal disease ( table I ) . |
| 29 | They all agreed to this , and they became so occupied looking for ivy on the walls alongside the lane that they did n't see two boys suddenly come racing round the bend just by Miss Miggs 's cottage . |
| 30 | These included selling off minority shareholdings in state companies , halting all subsidies and incentives for eight months , stricter monetary discipline and more efficient tax collection . |