Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bacon 's books , Sprat says , ‘ are every where scattered the best arguments , that can be produced for the defence of Experimental Philosophy ; and the best directions , that are needful to promote it ’ , while according to Glanvill ‘ all the main heads of natural history have received aids and increase from the famous Bacon , who led the way to substantial wisdom , and hath given most excellent directions for the method of such an history of nature ’ . |
| 2 | Now the woman came to the third cave , where lived the great bee . |
| 3 | The List will now be available in areas e.g. ‘ Norfolk & Suffolk ’ ‘ London ’ ‘ Home Counties ’ etc. or where required a complete set of the whole country on receipt of a SAE or at Q.T. Day on 15th March . |
| 4 | Bernice felt rather than heard the two explosions , like a double heartbeat , and then the corridor was filled with flames . |
| 5 | She sensed rather than heard the collective sigh of relief that went up as her acceptance rang round the studio just a moment before the signature tune flowed through the headphones , signalling the end of the programme . |
| 6 | Inner : once erected the inner is a free standing unit . |
| 7 | Once formed the stony surface , often termed desert armour , will tend to protect the surface , very much as the coarse material in a stream bed makes it often less erodible than the banks . |
| 8 | We presume that the behaviour depends on subcortical pathways involving the superior colliculus , although given the early abnormalities of these brains , anomalous projections to the hemisphere ipsilateral to the stimulus can not be excluded . |
| 9 | Although considered a useful lithological discriminator for tracing individual horizons during geological mapping , little systematic study of grain size characterization and measurement occurred before the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Although considered a key element , motivation training is just a part of the Celomer programme . |
| 11 | One is simply that you do n't need to have made a record or done anything very much except earned a local reputation as a watchable band playing original material . |
| 12 | It can be argued that mass communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously , rather than imposed a massive and rigid uniformity . |
| 13 | This number more than met the 1,119 houses that were needed in 1951 to eradicate undesirable overcrowding and subtenancy . |
| 14 | Gohlke tells a more subtle story than made the early headlines . |
| 15 | Moreover , fifty-five of the 137 reports in the Leicester Mercury related to Leicester itself , which suggests that there was a good deal more trouble at local level than reached the national press or the FA . |
| 16 | In most of the territories they occupied , the Prussians , by putting pressure on the peasantry to Germanise themselves , concentrated rather than diluted a Polish identity . |
| 17 | The Conservative Government has more than halved the top rate of tax . |
| 18 | Although termed an unofficial private visit , Botha met with his then counterpart Boris Pankin as well as with Eduard Shevardnadze ( reappointed on Nov. 19 in place of Pankin as Soviet Foreign Minister ) . |
| 19 | This viewpoint seems to have prevented him from doing more than cast a supercilious eye over the book . |
| 20 | But the Sperrbrecher , unidentified before the raid although moored a few hundred yards from the east jetty ( see diagram p. 41 ) was a strong ship . |
| 21 | The late surge more than reversed an earlier price plunge as the bubbling US market turned cautious about defensive stocks . |
| 22 | Tony 's Cornish landscapes , in frames of plain gilt , looked well ; their rich browns , yellows and orange tones warmed the room and more than balanced the white walls . |
| 23 | Although covered the radial shields are conspicuous , bar shaped nearly extending to the middle of the disk . |
| 24 | It is common ground that the concessionary fees more than covered the additional cost to the school of educating the taxpayers ' children . |
| 25 | Pemberton-Billing 's invention comprised an add-on governor mechanism which could be attached to a clockwork turntable to give this effect ( 49 ) , and a few dozen records were made which more than doubled the average playing-time . |
| 26 | Once established the new convent will serve the Kimberley diocese . |
| 27 | Some individuals can take up the suggestions of the hypnotist to the extent of becoming deaf or blind or unable to smell ; they may withstand pain without a murmur , re-experience being a six-year old , or even forget everything that happened , after hypnosis , until given a prearranged ‘ release ’ signal . |
| 28 | No sensible designer would have conceived such a monstrosity if given a free hand to create a flatfish on a clean drawing board . |
| 29 | The Biro is a wily beast , which , if given the least opportunity to make good its escape , will do so . |
| 30 | What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes . |