Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work was highly differentiated according to sex . |
| 2 | Work on voting behaviour in Great Britain in the 1980s illustrates this , with the class divide much distorted according to power in the market place , which in turn has become increasingly spatially variable : Johnston and Pattie , 1988 , 1990 . ) |
| 3 | They all agreed to this , and they became so occupied looking for ivy on the walls alongside the lane that they did n't see two boys suddenly come racing round the bend just by Miss Miggs 's cottage . |
| 4 | The used-car trader , the insurance " consultant " , the door-to-door sales person applying high-pressure techniques have all brought selling into disrepute . |
| 5 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 6 | Reimbursement of medical , hospital and treatment expenses while on holiday ( including emergency dental treatment ) and hotel and repatriation expenses to the British Isles necessarily incurred arising from injury sustained or sickness declaring itself during the period of the holiday ( including those of any one person required on medical advice to accompany the Insured Person ) . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , they stressed that any sampling design should be rigorously stratified according to site conditions and the stage of regeneration of the forest , and that measurements of parameters such as stand height , basal area and tree density in the areas around plots should also be taken . |
| 8 | In the earlier 5-year plans many environmentally destructive problems arose ; the relocated Indonesians found that on arrival , despite a policy of grass planting on a contour basis , soil erosion had already occurred resulting in nutrient depletion . |
| 9 | CCG are recruiting about 70 staff to run the site , and some have already started working on site security and other services during the mobilisation phase . |
| 10 | That had just started screening as part of the ITV Autumn Season and so suddenly George Birkitt was a familiar name . |
| 11 | Endill had already begun thinking of escape . |
| 12 | He had already begun publishing on electromagnetism , and in a paper of 1847 he suggested an analogy between an incompressible solid and a magnetic field . |
| 13 | But the Prince has always enjoyed flirting with danger , like his cousin , Prince William of Gloucester , who was killed in a plane crash in 1972 . |
| 14 | Henceforward , population would be the determining factor ( although the number of voters in a constituency still varied according to population density , from 80,000 people per constituency in the larger towns to 25,000 in the extreme south ) . |
| 15 | These groups were then further sub-divided according to car ownership , important both in the access it allowed to jobs and services and in the flexibility it offered to migrants in the initial residential search process . |
| 16 | It was tempting to ask , in view of his once held political ambitions , whether he had ever regretted staying in business . |
| 17 | But Floy was still sickened ; he remembered how on Renascia they had tried to follow what they had known of the Earth-people 's death rituals and how they had had the large , austere Firehouse with the ornate bronze lamps which were always kept burning in memory of those who had died . |
| 18 | Here tasks are less clearly differentiated according to rank ; men in all three grades would , for example , conduct routine river sampling . |
| 19 | Attitudes towards professional development are also differentiated according to length of teaching experience . |
| 20 | Policemen also disliked dealing with rape , although obviously for different reasons . |
| 21 | For this reason , the patients were also stratified according to stone free intervals of > , or < , two years and biased randomisation performed as described above . |
| 22 | He 's probably used staying in bed as his escape . |
| 23 | Selecting controls from delivery registers also enabled matching for mother 's age ( plus or minus five years ) , child 's sex and date of birth ( plus or minus six months ) , district health authority of birth , and residence in the study area at the time of diagnosis . |
| 24 | Employees working alongside each other in apparently comparable jobs may be quite differently rewarded depending on effort , performance , volume of business generated and other factors . |
| 25 | The Crown lawyer said the court would hear that the probable target was a man who worked for the Environment Department and whose tasks also involved working at Ministry of Defence properties . |
| 26 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 27 | Cultivation Mallows of all kinds are often seen growing on waste ground and beside fields and footpaths , and the marshmallow is no exception , though it favours wet places , especially salt-marshes . |
| 28 | ‘ Smaller manufacturers have won the battle with inflation but the cost is now reduced spending on plant , machinery and innovation , with training intentions also reduced . |
| 29 | Gary Kilpartrick has now started working with YWAM in Switzerland . |
| 30 | The B set did particularly badly on number of words correctly accessed according to definition ( i ) i.e. intended words ( 1% ) , but did better on definition ( ii ) i.e. valid words ( 20% ) . |