Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Naval Reserve is trying to get the ministry 's decision overturned so that the new minesweepers can play an effective rôle in war . |
| 2 | It can not be exactly the algorithm given above because the desired outputs d from the top layer are not known , so it can not calculate y * ( 1-y ) * ( d-y ) . |
| 3 | Quickly the English found it so , and considerable confusion developed there as the foremost horses stumbled and floundered and oncoming ranks piled up with the pressure of thousands behind . |
| 4 | They must not underspend or overspend , and must regularize the volume of books received so that the processing departments have an even flow of work throughout the year . |
| 5 | The suppression of to has the effect of leaving no distance between the request and the action requested so that the actualization of the request is represented as carrying with it the realization of what is asked . |
| 6 | She looked at Lowell , her eyes narrowed so that the sexual invitation was n't too overt . |
| 7 | The machines were hideous parodies of the human form , their metal casings and flanges moulded so that the robots seemed to be sculptures made of bones welded together , interspersed with flattened , grimacing skulls . |
| 8 | The cause of that sinking must be a peril insured i.e. when a vessel is reported sunk by heavy weather and the weather conditions do not indicate severe storm then the claim should be very carefully scrutinised . |
| 9 | The best way of preventing scale , however , is to replace the cylinder with an indirect one where the same water is circulated round and round the ‘ primary ’ circuit ( the one which passes through the boiler ) which , once it has given up its chemical salts , is in effect softened so that no more will be deposited . |
| 10 | They noticed the car run wide as the defendant made a left turn and the officers decided to stop the vehicle . |
| 11 | It was dark when I left the farm : about five o'clock on a late December day , the light gone early and the stars beginning to show In a frosty sky . |
| 12 | He took this in suddenly one morning as he was charging a girl the duty on a camera , hitting the thought like an air pocket and ludicrously yawning at the same time with his mouth shut so that the girl noticed his face lengthening like a mule 's . |
| 13 | This parallels the trampling experiment described above where the skulls were the first element to be broken . |
| 14 | Like the professional illusionists , it was a case of hypnosis , part entertainment , part belief , keeping the moment of interruption suspended so that no one asked for fear of not hearing all of the tale . |
| 15 | Leon Kennedy 's lips restrained more than a smile . |
| 16 | However , light can be focused and distant objects seen clearly if the ciliary muscles contract ( as if for near vision ) . |
| 17 | Is the text or part of the text written so that a reader will benefit in a future encounter with a work of art ? |
| 18 | A child born less than a year after its elder sibling is twice as likely to die in infancy than a child born two to three years after . |
| 19 | The severity of jet-lag , however , is dependent upon the number of time zones crossed rather than the length of flight . |
| 20 | Later most post-mills were supported by a round house made of bricks ; and the buck or body of the mill raised so that the arms did not sweep as near to the ground . |
| 21 | We had been divided four to a room , with a Corporal in each and with the different nationalities split so that no nationalistic factions developed . |
| 22 | His clinical experiences taken together provided the basis for , as well as continuing opportunity to re-evaluate , his theory of early emotional development . |
| 23 | Perhaps the phosphorus in the bones thrown away after a chicken-based fast-food meal is a more serious resource loss than the petroleum gone with the wrapper . |
| 24 | This should be completed soon and also the necessary insurance certificates obtained so that the locomotive can go into service . |
| 25 | This decision can only be based on the spacing between the sites chosen rather than the importance of the sites themselves , ignoring even the cross-routes . |
| 26 | At paragraph 1.4 , the report states : ’ It can be argued ( and indeed many of our case study authorities did argue ) that , given the problems with the application of CCT in the corporate service sector described above and the current existence of strong pressures to reduce central costs ( described in section 2 ) , it is neither desirable nor necessary to extend CCT into this sector at all . |
| 27 | George Reid 's problem arose from the adoption of overtly militant tactics in a port in which there existed a tradition of co-operation and harmony between an existing local seamen 's organisation and local shipowners , encouraging its members to reject locally acceptable wage and conditions settlements and exhorting them to stop ships from leaving Hull with crews paid less than the NAS&FU demanded . |
| 28 | The February elections resulted in a substantial victory ( in terms of the number of seats won rather than the percentage of votes cast ) for the BNP [ see p. 38006 ] . |
| 29 | ‘ She is a dragon , ’ said Dinah , ‘ but she keeps me from annoyance , and Papa had the room designed so that no one could get straight in . ’ |
| 30 | At the end of this adaptation phase , the subjects withdrew their hand , the metre rule was replaced , and the subjects were retested under the experimental conditions in the order B , C , A. Under each condition , both before and after the adaptation phase , the subject was required to point at each of the four targets five times with the order in which they were required to point to the targets randomised so that the subjects did not become practised by repeated measurements in the same position . |