Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rise in water level is due to the melting of snow and ice in the Andes — it rails all year round over the rain forest , half of the moisture being recycled , due to evaporation from the surface of the water and moisture given off by plants ( transpiration ) , with an increase in rainfall in late February , March and April and the more than normal rainy season ( Monsoon ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I think he 's probably a bit mixed up in matters of doctrine but he claims to be a ‘ true protestant ’ not , as he says , a Lutheran protestant . |
| 3 | The Hull delegate to the National Conference of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children , in Nottingham in October , was surprised to learn that China is less than half as densely populated as the UK , despite the forcible abortion and sterilisation carried out on women in China and used as a means of genocide in Chinese-occupied Tibet . |
| 4 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 5 | It was an implicit assumption of much of the early research carried out in psycholinguistics in the 1960s ( see Greene , 1972 for a review ) that certain syntactic forms were exactly equivalent in meaning . |
| 6 | The normal pattern for the distribution of funding is a form of the Normal Distribution Curve , with the bulk of funding going to middle-of-the-road research carried out in Departments which are already pre-eminent , as can be seen from the figures for NERC support for geology quoted earlier . |
| 7 | How can university personnel be involved to support research carried out in schools by teachers ? |
| 8 | ’ Do n't talk to strangers ’ — it 's a message drummed into children from an early age , but an experiment carried out by Police indicates that the message is n't getting through . |
| 9 | This is the conclusion drawn by a study carried out by researchers at University College , London . |
| 10 | RESCUERS knocked a hole in the wall to reach a sleeping priest bricked up by jokers in his church near Verona , Italy . |
| 11 | Members are clear what Mr spotted which is that in addition to the from budget review , we also need to agree some er , effectively some delegations in c , d and e , of the recommendation laid out in pages two and three of the main agenda . |
| 12 | The process which had begun with Lavoisier 's study of respiration and continued with Prout 's work on digestion led on to studies of proteins and fats . |
| 13 | All those Tibetans who come back from India in the spring laden down with watches , silver jewellery , radios — where do you think they get their money from ? ’ |
| 14 | The Nfis looped off in gorges beyond and a path led us along , in swooping fashion , over the spurs and flanking down beside the clean , clear waters . |
| 15 | This tension led on to attempts to fuse the government parties in 1920 , to the failure of almost every government policy , and to complete deadlock by 1921 . |
| 16 | Cooke hopes these research findings — along with work carried out at universities near his company 's base in Cheshire — will persuade other governments in arid areas to try polymers . |
| 17 | Paint and sign work carried out to toilets on the recreation grounds . |
| 18 | The Bureau is setting up a library of background information on 1992 , including publications , major speeches , newspaper articles and details of work carried out by authorities . |
| 19 | It is like the work carried out by psychoanalysts . |
| 20 | The big research foundations such as the Rowntree or Carnegie Trusts are of vital importance in financing much of the work carried out by universities or other organizations . |
| 21 | The other applications , especially those relating to work carried out in offices will be considered in the remaining paragraphs . ’ |
| 22 | He said the government had evidence that APLA operated out of bases in the ‘ independent ’ homeland of Transkei . |
| 23 | Gurder and Masklin swung in a crude basket made out of bits of metal and wire . |
| 24 | That Kellynch Hall must be let , ‘ a beloved home made over to others ’ , is deeply felt ; but , within a few weeks of the Crofts ' arrival as tenants , Anne ‘ could not but in conscience feel that they were gone who deserved not to stay , and that Kellynch-hall had passed into better hands than its owners . ’ |
| 25 | Have you actually got a plan drawn up with measurements , devised to the top and the base as well or are you going to do that when you |
| 26 | The Bosnian Serbs under Karadzic are against the plan drawn up by mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen because it demands they give up a third of the territory they control and proposes dividing Bosnia into ten ethnic cantons . |
| 27 | Although post-Stalin leaders are more flexible about many things , that expectation survives in large measure and is to a fair degree born out by results . |
| 28 | But one may note the steady accumulation of evidence that all kinds of mental disorder have a physical basis , and that biochemical adjustment brought about by drugs often provides more effective help to a disturbed person than any other process . |
| 29 | Gorfang Rotgut is the chieftain of the Orcs of Black Crag , the ancient Dwarf hold taken over by Orcs many years ago . |
| 30 | While the main pressure for a common framework for the curriculum emerged from the lead given by DES and HMI , it has also been an issue taken up by academics and some local authorities . |