Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Between May 1990 and February 1991 , 101 ( 27% ) of 378 new cases referred to the teams and assessed by them were independently and blindly assessed by a research psychiatrist ( GC ) . |
| 32 | So in theory a computer , by comparing the pattern of voltages registered by the voltmeters at all the portholes , could calculate the pattern of obstacles around the fish . |
| 33 | The patterns formed by the processes of etching and/or evaporation of the conductor make the electrical circuitry of the integrated circuit . |
| 34 | She rested her head back against the soft leather seat , watching the patterns formed by the trees against the night sky as they drove steadily back to the road . |
| 35 | But as tree crops ( coconuts , coffee , cocoa , rubber ) became increasingly important in the mercantile economy into which the islanders were drawn , so conflicts developed between the men who planted the trees , their sons who inherited them , and the matrilineal inheritors of the land on which they stood . |
| 36 | He told his wife , Lisa , of the lies at the weekend then revealed the truth in response to warm wishes received after the attacks . |
| 37 | The Girls used a combination of numbers five and nine ; a few streaks painted on the cheeks , chin , nose and forehead were blended with the fingertips . |
| 38 | In Kendal the Duke of Perth 's horsemen were stoned and attacked by a mob armed with clubs , and as they approached Clifton on the outskirts of Penrith they came under fire from militiamen hidden behind the hedgerows . |
| 39 | Other employers referred to the advantages of employing search consultants for particularly sensitive appointments ; obviously a personnel director could not be expected to try and find his or her successor . |
| 40 | It is not unreasonable that the investors should want the managers ' views on the accountants ' report , but management 's advisers should try to restrict this warranty to the facts in the report and exclude any opinions given by the accountants . |
| 41 | The probability of the ‘ top ’ failure occurring is the sum of the values assigned to the events in the first level , and we can compute this if there are sufficient failure data to determine the latter directly ; if not then the analysis must proceed to lower levels of the tree . |
| 42 | ‘ I thought you three from Trazior were like Siamese triplets joined at the hearts , ’ the Sergeant said . |
| 43 | In the same period , off-licence chains owned by the brewers saw their share reduced to less than 25 per cent . |
| 44 | Gina stopped where she was , her fingers clenched in the palms of her hand as she fought to control the surge of irritation which threatened to make her lose her temper completely , while Rune 's brilliant gaze held her in thrall , intimate , deliberately self-assured . |
| 45 | In order not to obstruct gangways or take up rack space , dry powder systems would have to be designed with extensive pipework feeding nozzles located in the racks or gangways from a centralised , pressurised storage unit . |
| 46 | A specific consequence is the dating of the famous ship burial at Sutton Hoo to about AD 625 , on the basis of the dating of the hoard of Merovingian coins included among the contents . |
| 47 | Finally , the study of homicide is largely based on a quantitative analysis of details of 1,482 cases committed during the years 1883 — 9 and 1900 — 4 ( Appendix B ) . |
| 48 | In 1957 Macmillan inherited the leadership of an unpopular government , lagging behind Labour in the opinion polls , but the policies pursued over the years to 1959 managed eventually to retrieve the party 's position : Macmillan 's nuclear ‘ defence ’ policy seemed at the time a plausible way to reclaim the status of a world power on the cheap ; the formation of EFTA was negotiated ; Macmillan sacked the deflationary Chancellor Thorneycroft and substituted Heathcoat-Amory who instituted another convenient bout of pre-election tax cutting . |
| 49 | Certain of the policies pursued by the Tories during the '50s served to strengthen such stable ‘ non-class ’ social collectivities . |
| 50 | The university authorities claimed after the talks that they had offered a package of generous proposals in an attempt to settle the dispute . |
| 51 | The clay model of a priestess in a swing , also from Agia Triadha , shows birds perched on the swing-posts , as if the act of meditative swinging itself had induced the epiphany ( Figure 42 ) . |
| 52 | But it is the photographs that hit home the hardest : prisoners paraded round the streets in execution parades , broken men with cardboard signs hung around their necks on TV ( post-Tiananmen ) and kneeling before firing squads . |
| 53 | The birds caught in the traps on Fair Isle will be mainly the smaller passerines such as warblers , chats and the like , which tend to seek out any cover available . |
| 54 | The New Forest is at once a great national reserve of timber , a grazing ground for several thousand cattle and ponies owned by the Commoners , and a region for recreation and the enjoyment of scenery and wild life which , being open to the public , at large , has much of the character of a National park . |
| 55 | The behaviour of insects is largely ‘ instinctive ’ , it is based on programmes contained in the genes which direct their actions . |
| 56 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 57 | In the Southern Band the number of cattle-stealing cases reported to the courts failed to keep pace with the increase in population , but there was no general decline at this time . |
| 58 | But 12-year-old girls would certainly not have possessed the physical strength for such a form of attack , and although the rubric of ‘ garotting ’ was used universally to encompass these crimes , most of the cases reported in the newspapers seemed to describe fairly straightforward street robberies — sometimes using a variety of coshes , knuckle-dusters , ‘ Indian claw ’ devices and other forms of life-preserver — or what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ . |
| 59 | Certain changes in the rules contained in the Nurses ' , Mid-wives ' and Health Visitor 's Act ( 1979 ) are needed to make updating a legal requirement , and these must be put before Parliament as with any law reform . |
| 60 | Graham Brown , a 33-years-old farming contractor lay for nearly two hours trapped by the legs in a large field machine . |