Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Three North Koreans were killed and two South Korean soldiers wounded after a heavily armed North Korean patrol was said to have infiltrated the DMZ and encountered a South Korean unit . |
| 2 | A gynaecologist who worked in the Maternity " Hospital in San Salvador saw at least five women every day who were suffering from serious complications after a badly performed abortion . |
| 3 | But the Dallas county commission , which owns the building , denied his request after a highly charged debate in which the director was labelled a provocateur . |
| 4 | He sprinted through the defence from halfway after a quickly taken penalty , and Aldred 's conversion put Collegians 10-9 ahead . |
| 5 | Support for a fixed Channel link soon emerged as a prime candidate for assistance although the British and French governments remained committed to the idea of a privately financed tunnel . |
| 6 | The French are as committed as the British to the concept of a privately financed Channel Tunnel but are also concerned to maximise its benefits for the surrounding region , and the economy as a whole , by the judicious use of public investment . |
| 7 | Nkrumah also claimed to be against the existence of a privately owned press . |
| 8 | The opening paragraph of The Autocar 's November 1965 test of a privately owned car ( to much the same spec as our example ) read : ‘ Few readers indeed will get this far before turning to the data page which follows , for the name of AC Cobra is synonymous with performance . |
| 9 | The study was based on structured interviews with some 370 former employees of a privately owned steel company in Sheffield who were made redundant in and shortly after the summer of 1979 . |
| 10 | Moreover , all the circuit properties of a line are distributed along its length , uniformly so in the ideal situation of a uniformly constructed line . |
| 11 | GREEN-eyed rivals tried to oust the reigning champ of a best kept garden contest — with a scorched earth policy . |
| 12 | Their vision was of a functionally differentiated society in which ‘ the individual is now created by the social organism of which he forms a part ’ and in which a state , founded on democracy tempered by respect for the expert , is required to co-ordinate the social order . |
| 13 | We have shown that TCR -β rearrangement or , more likely , expression of a functionally rearranged TCR -β gene , is not only necessary but also sufficient for driving most of the immature IL-2R-positive DN thymocytes to the DP stage and for expanding the pool of thymocytes . |
| 14 | It may be the more difficult case of a temporarily reduced capacity at the time when his decision was made . |
| 15 | In fact , it 's part of a shrewdly calculated subtext . |
| 16 | In fact the two-hour film due to be shown on ITV on Saturday April 18 is an extraordinary study of a little known period of T.E . |
| 17 | They consist of a clearly stated objective , which is feasible and practical , stated in terms of quantity when applicable and achievable in a definite time period . |
| 18 | A planned policy in relation to retirements from the firm is also more likely to strengthen the loyalties of junior partners by giving them sight of a clearly defined career progression within the firm . |
| 19 | This encouraged the growth of a clearly defined body of hereditary peers , for it eliminated the risks that an earldom would pass into other hands by marriage , that the lands would become separate from the title , or that they would be divided up amongst coheiresses . |
| 20 | A problem in studying acute renal failure is the lack of a clearly agreed definition . |
| 21 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
| 22 | Mother , daughter and father with son on his shoulders holding a toy gun at the apex of a neatly composed pyramid . |
| 23 | They stop the contents of a partially filled sack moving around , keeping the load close to the back which is easier to carry . |
| 24 | For many people this has the advantage of convenience but also for those who pay income tax at the standard rate there is the advantage of a partially hidden subsidy . |
| 25 | A less exclusive emphasis is now placed on tracheational studies and , in spite of the opposition of Needham ( 1935 ) , there is a tendency to emphasize the fact that among the lower , generalized orders the wings are longitudinally plicated after the manner of a partially opened fan . |
| 26 | Given that the Cockcroft foundation list can be turned into operational criteria , it would be an example of a partially ordered structure in terms of topic area . |
| 27 | Of course , the word ‘ teaching ’ traditionally has connotations of formal instruction of a closely supervised group of children , which is hardly appropriate to most family settings , although with recent trends in primary education towards informal individualized teaching methods , the parallel is much more valid . |
| 28 | A uniformly distributed load can be supported by a hanging , catenary chain one thirtieth the cross section of a simply supported beam . |
| 29 | This is that , where there is judicial uncertainty over the meaning of a legislative text , in the absence of any consequent overt expression of a contrary parliamentary view , certain categories of statement on the effect of the provision of a Bill by one of a narrowly defined group of parliamentarians , if not later withdrawn or varied , can be assumed to be an expression of parliamentary intention . |
| 30 | ’ This fragment from the dead planet Ichael , ’ Posi then added , ’ is part of a nearly forgotten data package held at a university on Quarley 's World , a planet located on the Rim Beyond the Rim ’ . |