Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company confirmed last week that it was providing 10 nurses and two doctors at the Wolds and that the staffing arrangements could be increased or reduced according to demand . |
| 2 | Throughout the main growing season vegetables , fruit and flowers are gathered or cut according to need , often before they are fully ripe . |
| 3 | Most of the vital questions as to how these skills are acquired , how they are to be selected and adjusted according to context , how easily or not different kinds of school environment can accommodate them and so on , are begged . |
| 4 | Some would say her hair is her finest feature , though Robyn herself secretly hankers after something more muted and malleable , hair that could be groomed and styled according to mood — drawn back in a severe bun like Simone de Beauvoir 's , or allowed to fall to the shoulders in a Pre-Raphaelite cloud . |
| 5 | The books had also been classified and marked according to readability bands from 1–5 to help pupils to choose their books themselves . |
| 6 | Then he changed , as if what had happened between us till then was a joke , a charade , that had been rehearsed and gone according to plan , but could now be ended . |
| 7 | Vector changes relative to these regions were established and categorised according to type and position . |
| 8 | For the wealthy there were gold bracelets weighed by the market gold merchants and purchased according to weight and the going price of gold , not according to design . |
| 9 | The magnitude y d thus ceases to have any practical relevance since it is an entirely hypothetical quantity : if labour services were sold , the demand for goods would be But this representation of the aggregate demand for goods is patently misleading since realized trading in labour services and goods only amount to and respectively . |
| 10 | When analysed according to tumour differentiation , no significant differences were found between cholesterol concentrations for any combination of well , moderately , and poorly differentiated tumours ( Table III ) . |