Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summary , to compare t treatments , we require a number of blocks each consisting of t experimental units ; for one reason or another the units within each block are expected to behave reasonably similarly in the absence of any treatment , e.g. t mice from the same litter , t plots in the same area of a field . |
| 2 | On March 27 the Ukrainian Prime Minister , Vitold Fokin , proposed unsuccessfully that supplies from Turkmenistan should be resumed pending conclusion of a price agreement . |
| 3 | By making crowns of the most precious metal , gold ( and in the case of that made for Queen Alexandra platinum ) , and setting them with the most resplendent stones available , a combination of the most precious substances proclaimed the supremacy of the state and its titular head . |
| 4 | A journey to the capital in the late 18th century can scarcely have been as harrowing an affair as that made to Kent by William the Emigrant in 1711 . |
| 5 | He turns to his deputy and says , ‘ Is that made of steel ? ’ |
| 6 | However , this was a different point to that made by Minister for the Disabled , Nicholas Scott , who commented that it was unwise to view all older people in the survey as disabled because ‘ … many consider the relatively minor limitations of hearing vision or movement recorded by the survey as in fact normal for their age . ’ |
| 7 | I would allow the appeal only to such extent as may be necessary to enable the order which , in a changed situation , this court made on 30 June to be substituted for that made by Thorpe J. |
| 8 | Can any conductor , though , be said to have made the same impact on recent musical history as that made by Bach or Beethoven or Wagner in the past ? |
| 9 | One would go too far in saying that by Civizade 's time a scholar could achieve greatness solely through office ; but at the least , such a distinction as that made by Karamani Mehmed Pasa had become almost impossible to make , since greatness ' and " office " had grown so closely intertwined as to be inseparable . |
| 10 | Current proposals for further action have yet to be implemented , including that made by John Major ( as chancellor of the exchequer ) at last September 's Commonwealth meeting of finance ministers . |
| 11 | The distinction is analogous to that made in chapter 6 with respect to the unemployed — the number of new people who join the claimant count ( the flow ) versus the number unemployed at any one time ( the stock ) — and in chapter 5 with respect to income versus wealth . |
| 12 | Under these a relief , similar to that given to prisoners for debt , was afforded on the same terms to traders owing less than £300 and to all other insolvents . |
| 13 | The amount of serum given had to balance with the amount given me by the Pharmacist from the records she kept of that given to Ward Sisters for use on the wards . |
| 14 | What determined the suppression shown to a test stimulus was whether or not its stage-one treatment matched that given to stimulus A. |
| 15 | The salary should match that given to expatriates in the company 's full-time employ and , in some cases , those working on contract may receive higher rates of pay . |
| 16 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |
| 17 | This interpretation appeared to differ from that given on April 6 by James Baker , the United States Secretary of State , after talks with Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister [ see also p. 37393 ] . |
| 18 | All subjects then received A-shock pairings followed by a test session assessing the generalization of conditioned suppression to both B and C. Suppression on this test was not profound but , as Fig 5.7 shows , each group showed more suppression to the stimulus that had received stage-one training equivalent to that given for A. |
| 19 | The atomic theory suggests a different picture of the nature of matter , and a different form of explanation from that given by hylemorphism . |
| 20 | Our estimate of the percentage of multiparasitized nests containing more than one egg of the same female at Guadix is close to that given by Soler , but significantly lower than that obtained at Santa Fe ( Table 1 ) . |
| 21 | The importance of the case lies in the general discussion of the principles of natural justice , especially that given by Lord Reid . |
| 22 | The most familiar description perhaps is that given by Lord Wright in Davies v Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1942 ] AC 601 at p611 : It is not a claim which the deceased could have pursued in his own lifetime because it is for damages suffered not by himself , but by his family after his death . |
| 23 | It has a long historical lineage but the most sophisticated explanation is that given by Diplock L.J. , as he then was . |
| 24 | There are many different definitions of leadership , but they do seem to have certain features in common and a useful general definition is that given by Kossen : ‘ Leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction . ’ |
| 25 | If we put these fragments of information together , we can construct a picture of black adolescents ' perceptions of Creole use and attitudes which is similar to that given by Sutcliffe . |
| 26 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 27 | The mean risk rating given in the Groeger and Chapman study was in fact considerably higher than that given by subjects in this experiment ( mean=3.66 , s.d. =0.74 as opposed to mean=2.15 , s.d. =0.50 ) . |
| 28 | Compare the description of her social life given by Linda Farrell , a delivery man 's wife , with that given by Margaret Nicholson , the wife of the director of a publishing firm . |
| 29 | Perhaps the best definition of repair was that given by Buckley LJ in Lurcott v Wakely & Wheeler [ 1911 ] 1 KB 905 : " repair is restoration by renewal or replacement of subsidiary parts of a whole . |
| 30 | There is no good reason for it other than that given by Bertrand Russell in that more troubled decade : ‘ The world in which we are now living would have seemed , before 1945 , too horrible to be endured . |