Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Important details have been filled in by experiments in channel flow ; transition is promoted by a vibrating ribbon close to one wall whilst flow in the other half of the channel remains undisturbed , so there is close resemblance to a boundary layer . |
| 2 | Large portions of the Education Bill are given over to procedures for the creation and financing of grant maintained schools , a cornerstone of government policy . |
| 3 | STM hinges on quantum theory , which suggests that electrons are given off in clouds from solids and will tunnel through a vacuum to other nearby conductors . |
| 4 | Throughout the town fences and hedges have been ripped down by tenants who want to use their gardens as impromptu garages . |
| 5 | She said electrical sockets had been ripped out of walls . |
| 6 | Sharks stayed outside the reef , while Trent knew Arab net fishermen in the Persian Gulf whose calf muscles had been ripped out by barracudas while they were standing on the coral with the water below their knees . |
| 7 | A difference in these cell numbers related to sex has already been pointed out in rats given omeprazole . |
| 8 | The relationship has not always been pointed out in discussions of Freud 's work , and yet it is an essential one if he is to be properly understood . |
| 9 | The inconsistencies in the approaches adopted by SSAPs 15 and 24 have been pointed out in papers published by the Pensions Research Accountants Group in 1989 and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( TR794 ) in 1990 . |
| 10 | It has often been pointed out by commentators that there is an ambiguity in Tocqueville 's discussion . |
| 11 | However , as has been pointed out by Hills , there are four main factors that affect learning in practical situations : motivation , activity , understanding , feedback . |
| 12 | Dr P 's argument disguises the reality that , as has been pointed out by writers as diverse as Spender ( 1981a ) and Eagleton ( 1983 ) , only a small group of people , historically , have participated in deciding which literature gets the best ‘ results ’ . |
| 13 | It has been pointed out by feminists that the tradition which depends upon this demarcation line fails to give a satisfactory account of conflicts that arise in the private sphere . |
| 14 | Difficulties are smoothed out for pupils by , for example , ensuring that awkward cases do not occur or that the numbers cancel or that the answer is not a fraction . |
| 15 | Women take baskets which are filled up with coals according to their strength , & sometimes 2 men had to lift it onto their backs . |
| 16 | The most important section of the book , however , is on introducing and sustaining quality programmes , and preconditions for this are examined along with guidelines for phasing in the quality programme . |
| 17 | Usually the largest bars are broken through at intervals by tidal inlets especially where powerful rivers reach the coast . |
| 18 | Instead of one side doing all their batting in one go and setting a target for the other side to beat , baseball 's innings are broken up into bits , with each side batting in turn until nine innings have been completed . |
| 19 | Marsh grasses , like the tall , coarse Spartina genus , are broken down by bacteria to form detritus , food for shellfish . |
| 20 | Some of the programme on Saturday , November 28th has been given over to residents of several old people 's homes and approximately £500 worth of tickets for the 2.00pm service have been donated to the residents . |
| 21 | When Wall Street has indigestion , the world 's market economies are checked out for coronaries . |
| 22 | In March 1965 a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery , Alabama , had been broken up by police . |
| 23 | A protest by badger lovers who chained themselves to railings at a Ministry of Agriculture culling centre has been broken up by police . |
| 24 | The inflated catalogue of works ascribed to him as a result of late nineteenth-century adulation has now been stripped down to basics . |
| 25 | Clubs and societies , such as darts and crib teams , have been wound up in pubs converted to management . |
| 26 | The court heard that McGregor had been caught up in attempts by a neighbour to end a relationship between his 20-year-old daughter and an older man . |
| 27 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 28 | At national level , negotiations are carried out between representatives of management and those of the joint union committee , the ‘ comité general intercentros ’ ( CGI ) . |
| 29 | Elections are carried out at grass-roots assemblies , directed by members of the local Popular Militias … |
| 30 | Most abortions within marriage are carried out on women over age 30 ( 56% per cent in 1988 ) . |