Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Most of the Lake District prints at this time were made by craftsmen from either paintings or drawings or developed from sketchbook studies produced by painters who never actually touched the print themselves .
2 Pictish symbol stones are not merely raw chunks of rock standing upright or propped across burial mounds .
3 When pasture is ploughed up or overloaded by nitrogen input , organic nitrogen is oxidised and the highly soluble nitrate ion is washed quickly through the soil and into rivers or groundwater .
4 Mr. Lightheart reported that since it had not been authorised or erected by council authorities they were unwilling to pay for the fence .
5 Mr. Lightheart reported that since it had not been authorised or erected by council authorities they were unwilling to pay for the fence .
6 For the first time a tally was kept of the number of items issued to users or consulted by Map Library staff in answering letter enquiries .
7 There can be no doubt that the buckle-end of a belt could be a formidable weapon , but in fact the belts were often pricked out in fancy patterns or embellished with metal studs in much the same way that modern motor-bike boys adorn their jackets with stud designs .
8 In 1920 he revived the Headington Quarry side that he had formed in 1910 , some of whom had been killed or wounded in World War I , including his own son William , whose leg had been shattered .
9 The Great Battle is no longer at Golgotha or frozen in church history , it is here now .
10 On the Hyperion label the disc comes at ‘ upper mid-price ’ - just under £10-but it is worth remembering that Sir David Willcocks 's vintage performances of the Coronation Anthems with King 's College Choir at their brightest now come on mid-price CD in Decca 's Ovation series , generously coupled with the magnificent , extended Chandos Anthem No. 9 , O Praise The Lord With One Consent .
11 Diesel engines can be converted to run on a gas/diesel mixture [ dual fuel ] or modified for spark ignition .
12 To a large extent , of course , housing careers may indeed be enforced or constrained by market processes or government authorities .
13 Potassium salt is sometimes used as a substitute , or mixed with sodium salt .
14 Lanes 1–14 : The template pUVAI was transcribed by fractions HS 0.4 and DS 0.15 alone ( 15 µl each ; lane 1 ) or supplemented with PC A ( lane 2 ) , PC AA ( lane 3 ) , PC AD ( lane 4 ) , HS 0.1 ( lane 5 ) , DSC 0.1 , DSC 0.2 , DSC 0.3 ( lanes 6–8 ) , MQ 0.1 , MQ 0.2 , MQ 0.3 , MQ 0.4 ( lanes 9–12 ) , IID-Affi 0.35 ( lane 13 ) and IID-Affi 1.0 ( lane 14 ; 20 µl each ) .
15 Although such developments are primarily intended to introduce operating benefits , ie improved specific fuel consumption or thrust to weight ratio , reduced flightdeck workload etc , their maintenance workload implications are less certain .
16 I am told that , even today , most juveniles are cautioned or sentenced to community service , or receive a discharge because magistrates remain reluctant to award custodial sentences .
17 We have always loved to talk about and look at ourselves , as anyone who has watched or seen on TV home videos of family life can tell you .
18 These can be preset on the ground , or operated by radio control as in Belgian Raoul Fosset 's system .
19 The Law Commission has proposed that property ( other than land , insurance policies and annuities , or property bought or transferred for business purposes ) bought by either spouse for their joint use and benefit should automatically belong to both unless they agree to the contrary ; and legislation to this effect is awaited .
20 Perhaps as a result the area was never vandalised or disturbed by curiosity seekers .
21 For another , statistically significant associations between standards of work on the one hand and resource levels and the strength of a head teacher 's influence on the other , which are even stronger than those involving subject match , are not developed through discussion or connected to policy suggestions .
22 Out of 9,000 children killed or injured in car accidents every year , only 8 die in safety seats .
23 Pre-recorded cassettes , designed to be used on the nature trail , can be loaned to groups , or bought at cost price .
24 Radical analysts of welfare development tend to see the imposition of mandatory retirement , encouraged or enforced by state pension schemes , as pan of the process whereby , in late industrial societies with highly specialized divisions of labour , elderly people are marginalized into a condition of ‘ structured dependence ’ .
25 After a further 24–48-h incubation at 37°C , cells were either collected for protein extraction or used for anion efflux measurements .
26 The then Chairman of the Housing Committee was to be a leading member of ‘ Labour against Militant ’ and crucial decisions , including this one , were usually remitted from the full Housing Committee to a smaller Housing Committee Working Group which met privately and was given the task of disposing of 25 sites which had originally been reserved for council house or Housing Association use , but were to be sold , used for Partnership or HELP schemes , or used for equity shares .
27 property held or used for business purposes .
28 Wrapped or bagged round bale silage is shredded and discharged through a chute on the Teagle Tomahawk feeder .
29 Solid wastes are either burnt or buried in landfill tips and fluid wastes are dumped in the sea .
30 Flooring : Tapis D'Avignon 98 per cent wool felt floorcovering in Bois De Rose and Corail colourways , comes in 140 cm widths but can be sewn together to cover larger areas , or bound with linen tape to make rugs .
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