Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were lots of smaller snapshots of him sitting astride Trigger , or propped on cushions behind the steering-wheel of Buddie 's truck , or standing in the garden in his very smartest clothes . |
| 2 | In a similar way the phenomena of political philosophy , ‘ the civil duties of a subject ’ , are , we shall see , reduced to , or explained in terms of , their causes in our basic desire for the pleasurable enhancement of the blood 's vital motion . |
| 3 | The essence of his argument was that life in general , and development in particular , could not be encompassed or explained in terms of physics and chemistry . |
| 4 | Certain things can never be blamed on or explained in terms of witchcraft . |
| 5 | This has been attributed to mere manipulation of the masses by irresponsible politicians , or explained by theories of economic and class conflicts . |
| 6 | 63% of those managing directors and IT directors interviewed had heard of DTI 's Open Systems Technology Transfer programme , with 47% having read or heard about aspects of Open Systems through DTI material — beating ‘ Technical Press ’ ( 44% ) into second place . |
| 7 | The extent to which such rights might justifiably embrace ideas unrelated to government or public affairs , ideas of no value at all , or cloaked in images of a sexual or violent nature , has long exercised the finest minds not only in American jurisprudence , but in Europe and the Commonwealth as well . |
| 8 | One can assume that the leaders of the Revolt were eliminated , removing the upper levels of tribal society , and also that the lands and possessions of the tribes would have been seized by the state to be retained as agerpublicus , sold off to speculators or given as rewards to loyalists . |
| 9 | Whether used around the garden or filled with flowers for display , prices start at £20 . |
| 10 | Biopsy specimens were mounted on filter paper or placed in cassettes before fixation in formalin and after routine processing were sectioned at three levels and stained with haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 11 | Benefit was refused or withdrawn on grounds of ‘ cohabitation ’ ( as it was then called ) in about 8000 cases a year . |
| 12 | In its preamble , the Natural Death Act 1976 states that ‘ adult persons have the fundamental right to control the decision relating to the rendering of their own medical care , including the decision to have life-sustaining procedures withheld or withdrawn in instances of a terminal condition . ’ |
| 13 | They may be scattered randomly throughout the sarcoplasm or arranged between fibrils opposite the Z-disks ; in the flight-muscles of the Odonata they form large slab-like structures and in the powerful fibrillar indirect flight-muscles of Hymenoptera and Diptera the giant mitochondria form conspicuous " sarcosomes " . |
| 14 | Shetlanders see classes as aggregates of people who are ranked or arranged like layers on a cake . |
| 15 | Notice that , unlike the accumulator array , where each accumulator had generalized functions , each control register or portion of a register has a specific function , although it is accessed or manipulated by instructions in a general way . |
| 16 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 17 | There were other dragons — gold , silver , black , white-flapping across the sun-shafted air on errands of their own or perched on outcrops of rock . |
| 18 | The criminal law includes and reflects our proper stance against ‘ murderous ’ acts of terrorism conducted by people who are usually exploited or oppressed by forces of occupation . |
| 19 | Walls and ceilings were marble faced or decorated with paintings in fresco , tempera or caustic medium . |
| 20 | The swords which had been clubbed or shortened into daggers for want of space to use them , now came into more orthodox play ; and the Welsh archers above on the hills were able to select their targets again without killing their own comrades , and worked with supercilious skill as long as there was light to slay by , and an Englishman still alive . |
| 21 | Their approaches have been included under the general category of ‘ administrative criminology ’ ( see Young , 1986 ) , or seen as varieties of control theory ( Downes and Rock , 1982 ) . |
| 22 | Such competing explanations tend to different predictions of what can be expected in early adulthood as to whether or not the former truants have , for example , experienced difficulties in the labour market or high levels of unemployment , acquired qualifications since leaving school , or met with problems in other aspects of their lives such as their marriages or their mental health . |
| 23 | In 1988 the committee came up with reasonably simple minimum standards ( adopted or exceeded by banks in most developed countries by the end of last year ) which sought to match a bank 's capital to the credit risks it runs . |
| 24 | The lyrics which are found in preaching manuals like the Fasisculus Morum and Speculum Christiani or are specifically written or collected by Franciscans like James Ryman , William Herebert and John Grimestone both encapsulate essentials of the Franciscan teaching in a way calculated to catch the imagination and stir the emotions , and incorporate standard interpretations of the meaning of Scripture . |
| 25 | There are instances of people being crushed to death or pushed under trains by the crush of excursionists on station platforms . |
| 26 | As to article 52 , the refusal to register as British fishing vessels boats owned , chartered , managed or operated by nationals of other member states , whether natural or legal persons , deprived those nationals of their right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom in order to pursue their fishing activities under the same conditions as nationals of the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | My judgment rests upon the view that the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |
| 28 | ‘ the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |
| 29 | So I go on the same as er , weeks two to four an analysis written , and , or drawn or made of examples on one of these themes . |
| 30 | These will be sold or leased to trainers with living accommodation . |