Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has one hand over Andy 's face , clamped tight ; his head is turned away from me , red hair fallen down over one ear . |
| 2 | Dustin , with darkened eyebrows , oily black hair smoothed down on either side of a central parting , dark sunglasses and Italian gestures , wastes much of his talent in this frenzied , intermittently funny satire on Italian customs . |
| 3 | Typography within a dictionary indicates the function carried out by particular parts of the text . |
| 4 | Surveys of dolphin tissues for mercury carried out in 1978 by Japanese scientists showed very high levels of mercury in local dolphins . |
| 5 | I thought you did n't like your German , are you a bit picked up on that then ? |
| 6 | In the following year , indeed , Joan of Arc was captured at Compiègne and in May 1431 , after what was a political trial carried out under ecclesiastical rules , she was condemned and burned at Rouen . |
| 7 | Secondly , this is not a comparative evaluation of different models of service , since the standardised diagnostic assessment carried out in this study by the research psychiatrist is not the same process of assessment that occurs in domiciliary visits performed by psychogeriatricians in more traditional services . |
| 8 | Knowledge is embodied if the functions in virtue of which the knowledge is attributed to the organism are at base carried out by bodily ( physiological ) mechanisms ; knowledge is built in if its embodiment is determined genetically rather than experientially . |
| 9 | Tamar had allowed Victoria to stay up late to watch the leading in of the last load , which was a ritual joined in by all the estate workers . |
| 10 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 11 | Light given out by distant galaxies has to swim against the tide of expansion to get to us . |
| 12 | In studies of this kind there was evidence of a shift in the attitude to physical environment as environmental perception had a significant influence on the research undertaken by on physical geographers . |
| 13 | There were also reports throughout 1990 detailing acts of violence carried out against Bhutanese citizens by ethnic Nepalese and various other dissident elements . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not anti-drink , I 'm anti the abuse of drink and the hassle that it causes , ’ he told me during an interview carried out in one of the three plush hotels he owns . |
| 15 | As he turned the door handle to enter the building he saw a storm-trooper come out of one of the side rooms . |
| 16 | With a length of 116 metres , a width of 18 metres and a depth of 6.9 metres over the sill , it enabled the larger steamers now frequenting the port to have repairs and maintenance carried out in modern facilities . |
| 17 | This becomes technically possible for Cabinet government , a private practice carried on between appointed adults , only when the Cabinet Office archive has become available under the thirty-year rule . |
| 18 | With bad blood carried over from last year 's clash between the two sides which saw Eric Rush retire from the fray with a broken wrist , the portents were not good . |
| 19 | On a more positive note , often the plundering carried out in good synthetic studies can lead , as here , to an enrichment of material presented to the reader . |
| 20 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 21 | Based on research carried out on paraprofessional social service personnel in fourteen developed and developing countries — Australia , Britain , Canada , Denmark , India , Indonesia , Israel , Japan , The Philippines , South Africa , Spain , Uganda , the US , and West Germany — over the last seven years , this paper presents some findings that , if acted upon by social service organizations , social work education programmes , and paraprofessional training programmes , could strengthen the contribution of both professionals and paraprofessionals to social service and social development goals . |
| 22 | This year , the funds have been allocated very much according to the UFC 's grading of the quality of research carried out at each university . |
| 23 | The results of much research carried out within African universities and research centres remain unknown outside the continent , and little known within it . |
| 24 | Wilkes became involved with commissioning and editing the guide through research carried out in 1989–90 . |
| 25 | Research carried out in 1985 showed that 20–25 per cent of hotel guests cared sufficiently about fitness to view the provision of leisure facilities as a major determinant in selecting a place to stay ( Lodging Hospitality , Feb. 1985 ) . |
| 26 | Research carried out in 1985 showed that 44% of Chief Nursing Officers did not have 5 " O " levels yet presumably they had coped with the rigours of a career in nursing at all levels ( 2 ) . |
| 27 | Extracts from these figures are listed as Table 1 , which records expenditure on libraries and computing for the universities involved in the present study , and Table 2 , which ranks these universities in terms of the proportions of post-graduate research carried out in these institutions . |
| 28 | This paper is based on research carried out in 1991–92 and supported by an SOED grant . |
| 29 | In the research carried out by one of the present authors ( Powell 1987 ) , forty seven clients in six separate structured group programmes were asked to rate which components of the package they had found most helpful . |
| 30 | The answer to this puzzle may have been provided by some research carried out by American engineers on another large white mammal of very cold regions , the polar bear . |