Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was then the heyday of ‘ stimulus-response ’ theories of animal behaviour , according to which all behaviour patterns are learned responses to associated stimuli .
2 Tensors having n indices are called tensors of rank n .
3 c , d , Paired images of Bcl-2 and ER proteins in the same field , whereas e , f are paired images of Bcl-2 and the mitochondrial proteins in the same field .
4 But the point is that if , if musicians go to service , they know there 's enough readers and if the musicians decide to take on part of that reading one service , surely it 's only courtesy for the musicians to say to the readers , whose lists are published months in advance , terribly sorry but we 're gon na do this this time , and do you mind stepping down ?
5 For example , some of our greatest melodies are given settings of the greatest simplicity , and to add ‘ counterpoints ’ would rob the music of some of its beauty .
6 Proven and probable reserves are estimated quantities of commercially producible hydrocarbons which existing geological , geophysical and engineering data show to be recoverable in future years from known reservoirs .
7 Since the entries are edited versions of a round-robin pro-forma some of the detail is distinctly idiosyncratic .
8 ( ii ) In the expression unc the ai are abbreviated notations for infinite sequences ; in unc the ai are actual elements of J.
9 Style , spaciousness and luxury are established hallmarks of the Moody performance yacht .
10 If this failed , words were assigned weights on an inverse term frequency basis ( uncommon words are worth more than common words ) , and the system would look for records containing just some of the words of the search .
11 All four schools were awarded prizes for reaching the semi-final stages that were presented afterwards by Lyn Davies , head of the computing and information department at Sittingbourne .
12 In the original method the total units were given numbers from 1 upwards and the sample taken by means of tables of random numbers which could be bought .
13 Also included in this study were known cultures of M avium serovar 2 , M paratuberculosis strain ( Linda ) , M fortuitum ATCC 6841 , Mycobacterium kansasii ATCC 12478 and MG3 medium only .
14 In a well-known experiment , subjects were shown playing-cards for a small duration of time and asked to identify them .
15 In one set of experiments subjects were shown photographs of people they did not know and were asked to indicate whether they thought the person in each picture was a successful person or a failure .
16 By 1971 , the Library Association 's recommended standards of library provision in Colleges of Technology and other establishments of further education stated :
17 Later McAllister was to remember that afternoon spent in the stifling attic as a kind of nightmare punctuated by Dr Neil 's barked commands to her and Rose ; she had ceased to exist for him except as a pair of willing hands and legs .
18 If a sum greater than that paid in is not recovered at the trial , the plaintiff will be liable for the defendant 's taxed costs from the time of the payment in , even though he or she has ‘ won ’ the action .
19 The Association was given premises in the San Jacinto Market and set about pressing for their other demands .
20 This has been supported by tests : when a group of subjects was shown pictures of chocolate cake , they salivated ; pictures of broccoli , however , had no effect at all .
21 Each vidane was given forms in triplicate on which to record information about crimes .
22 Unless this condition was met inferences about relationships within the sample could not be statistically secured .
23 McNulty is odder : he has a picture of himself when young with Patrick Moore on his sleeve , his tunes are called things like ‘ Sex ’ and ‘ University ’ and the overall effect is very like Gilbert O'Sullivan working with Victoria Wood .
24 In the remainder of this chapter the following areas are described types of finance
25 The low through each event and day is here clearly expressed as the texts are given settings for the people as well as choirs .
26 Parents were given rights to be represented on school governing bodies .
27 Parents were given details of the switch in letters from the school .
28 Between July 9 and 13 nearly 5,000 Albanians — mostly young men aged between 20 and 30 — who had sought refuge in foreign embassies in Tirana were given passports by the Albanian government and allowed to leave the country .
29 For the teachers who have to cater for all kinds of pupils this concentration on a particular kind of pupil and a particular kind of educational success poses the same dilemma voiced by the rural studies teacher in response to the promotion of academic examinations in his subject ; ‘ Once again we can see the unwanted children of lower intelligence being made servants of the juggernaut of documented evidence , the inflated examination . ’
30 On the various shelves were set items of laboratory equipment : retorts , beakers , distilling tubes and burners .
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