Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a spiral has developed where falling prices deter purchasers , which further depresses prices . |
| 2 | To take a somewhat simplistic example , stealing low-priced goods from shops is more likely to be reported than stealing goods of equal value from one 's place of work . |
| 3 | The situation was slightly better than in the first half of the 1980s , when more power stations were cancelled than entered service , but those under construction all dated from orders placed at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 4 | It is likely that many of the remaining 13 cases could also have been resolved if focusing preferences had been applied weakly when appropriate ; in these cases , the discourse focus is typically a plausible referent , but is less plausible than one of the intrasentential candidates . |
| 5 | Happily , four which survive almost unaltered and have been extensively restored , can be enjoyed while exploring London 's suburbs . |
| 6 | An army spokesman quoted by Agence France-Presse news agency said that soldiers had been attacked while pitching camp at Kaguitt . |
| 7 | The limit on the amount which can be earned while receiving ICA effectively discourages carers from retaining contact with the labour market . |
| 8 | Gibbs-Heaviside eventually won as regards applicability but the quaternions have the honour of being the first to demonstrate the existence of consistent number systems not satisfying the commutative law of multiplication . |
| 9 | Such recognition is reflected , for instance , in the enhancement by statute of the rights of employees against dismissal , which from an aggregate wealth viewpoint may be depicted as inhibiting factor mobility and hence on occasion as being wealth reducing . |
| 10 | The only difference is that whereas in the cases seen previously ( 59 ) — ( 84 ) , perception is represented as giving rise to true knowledge , in ( 85 ) — ( 87 ) above it is depicted as giving rise to a false impression . |
| 11 | The other features which are often claimed as defining characteristics are at once both subordinate to this and , on closer examination , clearly visible in many non-scientific enterprises . |
| 12 | 1 µg of the regulatory protein p4 was also added when assaying P A3 activity or when analyzing its repression effect on P A2b . |
| 13 | In essence , the figure can be summarized as showing processes within the physical climate system and within the biogeochemical one , these systems being interwoven by the global role of water and increasingly affected by human activities . |
| 14 | The slits in the sides of their throats which had originated as filtering mechanisms , were walled with thin blood vessels so that they also served as gills . |
| 15 | A smaller passage also occurs in spring , when there are frequent reports of birds at the coast between early March and late May ; often these birds have been reported as flying north . |
| 16 | By August 1991 the European Commission was reported as forecasting growth for the year at a discouraging 1.5 per cent . |
| 17 | The omens are uncertain ; the middle of August 1991 found government forces well established in the north again , with five brigades of Republican Guards reported as ringing Kirkuk . |
| 18 | In a recent study as many as 5% of subjects in a group of students and hospital employees were reported as losing bowel control , at least occasionally . |
| 19 | In 1987 , the Lord Chief Justice ( Lord Lane ) publicly backed police demands for the abolition of the suspect 's ‘ right to silence ’ ; and was reported as attacking politicians for delay in passing tougher laws on sentencing policy , a question on which the judiciary was divided . |
| 20 | More recently Hairy Hands has been reported as wresting steering wheels from drivers ' hands and forcing them off the road , often causing appalling accidents . |
| 21 | Percutaneous aspiration cytology has been reported as confirming malignancy in about two thirds of pancreatic cancers and one half of bile duct tumours but can not be done unless a mass lesion is established on imaging . |
| 22 | He has been installed as writing development worker at Darlington Library and plans to inspire would-be authors to follow his example . |
| 23 | Data were only included when paired airway and caecal measurements could be made for the same animal . |
| 24 | All of these programmes are designed as enabling mechanisms which allow participants to try things out , test their assumptions and then to transfer the learning into action . |
| 25 | Because of the mutual coupling between windings , the transient conditions in both of the phase bifilar windings must be considered when calculating turn-on and turn-off times . |
| 26 | ( ii ) What safety factors must be considered when using display lighting ? |
| 27 | Meeting Room facilities should be considered when allocating rooms within the former SOTU accommodation . |
| 28 | These dimensions should be considered when assessing resource patterns from a political perspective . |
| 29 | The whole planning system came under fire from several quarters , including Mr Hague who called for reforms so that associated pylons and cabling would be considered when planning applications for power stations were submitted . |
| 30 | Firstly , it is worth noting that if the Lorenz equations ( Section 24.2 ) are considered as modelling convection in a loop ( Figs. 17.4 , 17.5 ) , then the chaotic solutions of the equations do not correspond to turbulent flow in the loop . |