Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May 1916 all the main peace organizations joined together to launch a petition calling for peace by negotiation . |
| 2 | Thirty-three years on , his fans gathered there to mark the occasion , and Aileen Taylor was with them . |
| 3 | Two cameras , switched to give an almost negative image that enhances the metallic quality of the foliage ( and presaging the Dalek gunfire effect mentioned earlier ) , pan across the ashen forest in sweeping arcs , their pictures mixed together giving a greater impression of size to the dense , white foliage . |
| 4 | The class of solutions included here contain an arbitrary number of parameters . |
| 5 | Defiance made her turn her back , but the sound of a dark laugh sent a chill through her and , jerking her head round , she saw his lips drawn back to reveal a dazzle of predatory teeth . |
| 6 | While in Peru informal mini-bus and taxi drivers banded together to lobby the transport ministry . |
| 7 | The Buttholes brought back to rock the expanded WAISTLINE , a conspicuously WASTEFUL attitude to sound . |
| 8 | Thus was born the technique of intense study of typical ‘ quadrats ’ or squares marked off to define a sample of the vegetation for the surrounding area . |
| 9 | Antibiotics administered pre-operatively have a better chance of preventing infection . |
| 10 | The big cities , New York , London , and Liverpool even , can afford to have units set up to encourage the production of films and videos and so on in their areas , in fact there was a report in last Thurs thirtieth of December 's Shropshire Star about Liverpool 's office . |
| 11 | The two books taken together provide a fascinating portrait of the break-down of conventions over the century between their composition . |
| 12 | The heavy breasts and opulent maternal figures of the old Stone Age goddesses which give way to the multiplied breasts of the Ephesian Diana and then to the Mother-and-Child images mentioned above represent a trend of increasing clarification and refinement of the basic psychological situation — the need to find in heaven a substitute for the primal mother lost on earth . |
| 13 | As they demonstrated outside , shareholders met inside to decide the firm 's fate . |
| 14 | Its study is therefore in its infancy , and the cases presented above provide no more than a glimpse of its potential interest . |
| 15 | Mean attitude scale scores for the different sub-groups of teachers , derived from the factor analyses for each phase , were then used to test whether any of the institutional and demographic matters listed above had a statistically significant effect on these attitudes . |
| 16 | In two areas where unemployment was particularly high the farm , even though providing little or no financial return , was seen as an important factor in keeping the male school leavers occupied thereby fulfilling an important social function . |
| 17 | Most of the offences considered above involve the occurrence of physical harm plus intention or recklessness . |
| 18 | Many previous studies have sought risk factors retrospectively in the context of trials designed primarily to detect a difference between antiulcer treatments . |
| 19 | Most of the gas in that cloud went to form the sun or got blown away , but a small amount of the heavier elements collected together to form the bodies that now orbit the sun as planets like the earth . |
| 20 | From a Marxist viewpoint , market exchange under capitalism may appear as an area of individual freedom and choice ; but in reality the commodities exchanged there constitute an alienated and uncontrolled social force whose existence dominates rather than liberates the lives of those who produce them . |
| 21 | The businessmen brought in to run the Councils have been frustrated by the tight operating and financial practices imposed by the Department of Employment Such practices sit uneasily alongside the entrepreneurial freedom that business leaders are used to ( see Guardian , 23 March 1990 ) . |
| 22 | In conventional trials set up to assess the efficacy of a new drug , the drug is given to a group of patients suffering from a particular illness , and the effects are compared with those obtained in a matched group of patients given a dummy ( or placebo ) drug . |
| 23 | When racism is addressed as a set of ideologies , for example , none of the antiracist analyses cited above displays an awareness of contradictions , inconsistencies and ambivalences of the kind I have sketched earlier . |
| 24 | The replacement of " existence predicates " with quantifiers along the lines indicated above represents a vital opening manoeuvre in a reductivist strategy . |
| 25 | It maintained that the two elements taken together constituted the record and the material must be retained in a way that includes all the pertinent information . |
| 26 | This scene in America is typical of meetings of MG enthusiasts determined not to let the marque die . |
| 27 | The mode of action of the toxins described above leaves a loophole which can be taken advantage of . |
| 28 | Israel 's relations with East European countries improved dramatically following the collapse of communist party rule at the end of 1989 . |
| 29 | He caught the fragrant smell of herbs sprinkled inside to keep the robes fresh . |
| 30 | The explanations given above provide the general framework of analysis to which the various actual uses of to before the infinitive will be referred in this study . |