Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 2 | Groups formed as a result of a parent company , such as Matsushita Electric , spinning off its own operating divisions to form separate companies within the same field to act as suppliers , distributors and even retailers . |
| 3 | The most useful definition is that of groups formed on the basis of occupational difference . |
| 4 | The groups formed by the females and kids are small , and solitary animals , usually males , are far from uncommon . |
| 5 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 6 | Reader 's interest coincide generally with the news values listed at the start of the chapter . |
| 7 | It is realistic when one considers the number of new operations developed as a consequence of medical research . |
| 8 | South Uist in sunshine in March is not common but the visual beauty is hard to beat and Lochboisdale Branch situated at the waters edge looked in as good fettle as I have ever seen it . |
| 9 | This gives an IR spectrum containing absorptions belonging to methane , ethane , ethylene and three new peaks assigned to the methyl radical . |
| 10 | These brick buildings are on three storeys , the first two being unexceptional Victorian terraced houses arranged round a courtyard , but the floor above them has the characteristic long windows of textile workshops . |
| 11 | He was pleased with the support received for the practice of joint confirmation and particularly , welcomed the first ever united service for Christian Unity week . |
| 12 | For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace . |
| 13 | All the keywords can be left in the configuration file , as the parameter given for the keyword HCMAP dictates whether a volume set will be prepared for hard copy or omitted from the hard copy run . |
| 14 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 15 | In Kuwait City itself the Iraqi forces met some opposition from elite troops guarding the Amir 's palace and from troops stationed in Army and Air Force barracks situated on the city 's outskirts . |
| 16 | Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town , marring the views . |
| 17 | In 1878 she published a novel Change upon Change ( American title , A Reed Shaken by the Wind , 1873 ) and in 1872–3 made her first visit to North America . |
| 18 | Prayer meetings in the great barn-like churches of East Berlin , Dresden , Leipzig and other cities have been the focus of protest , drawing many thousands of people until no more could squeeze in and the crowds spilled into the streets . |
| 19 | He found it hard to believe that the 3 per cent of allegations of racial discrimination sustained by the authority could reflect the true picture , and he supported an independent investigatory agency to handle all aspects of complaints against the police . |
| 20 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 21 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 22 | Most States developed during the century some system of compulsory service ; but all of these were in varying degrees incomplete , haphazard and inequitable . |
| 23 | She screeched while his rump heaved , her snout rammed between the bars of the pen . |
| 24 | The primary source of this would be accounts given by the Banking , Insurance and Finance Union . |
| 25 | THE Attorney General is to review the three year sentence given to a killer who strangled and dismembered a Co Donegal woman . |
| 26 | THE Attorney General is to review the three year sentence given to a killer who strangled and dismembered a Co Donegal woman . |
| 27 | THE family of the young Donegal woman dismembered by a 19-year-old man today slammed the three year prison sentence given to the killer . |
| 28 | Paul A. Bilzerian , 38 , chairman of Singer Co. and a stock speculator , was on Sept. 27 , 1989 , fined $1,500,000 and sentenced to four years in prison — the longest prison sentence given for a Wall Street criminal . |
| 29 | The hearing will be adjourned pending the delivery of the High Court 's opinion , at which time it will be relisted and a decision given on the merits in the light of the High Court 's opinion on the law . |
| 30 | The impetus behind this increase was probably provided by a decision given by the United States Supreme Court in 1954 which declared forced segregation unconstitutional in all public educational institutions . |