Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment .
2 The codes used are summarised in Fig 11.13 ; internal in this instance referred to any activity within the EPH system model , and external to those of the wider system of interest or surrounding environment , eg the Department headquarters , Area Offices etc .
3 When the bas-relief on a newly-opened post office was reviewed by The Times , the newspaper 's art correspondent commented with some inspiration , ‘ The design consists of a male and female nude , recumbent , but with a suggestion that they are floating in water .
4 At Durham Priory , for example , less than half of the income assigned to each office in the monastery was devoted to the activity for which the office had been created ; the rest was absorbed in management costs ( 209 , p.255 ) .
5 In an introductory discussion of the kind undertaken in this chapter it is simply not possible to discuss comprehensively the various forms , spheres and agencies of racism that operate in British society , for example , those deriving from the state 's implementation of increasingly tighter immigration controls as well as nationality legislation , or We activities of some sections of the police ( Dummett , 1982 ; Gordon and Klug , 1985 ; Benyon , 1986 ) .
6 The proposed new law curbing this type of blatantly dishonest description given by some estate agents is not before time .
7 Now if that is divided by , say , 3 bottles that means between 8 and 10.5 minimum , because they do not consider the case treated below this level .
8 But even with the field limited in this way , an exhaustive study is out of the question .
9 – This means that the outer G forme was removed from the press part way through — printing stopped for some reason — and someone dropped it , scattering the letters everywhere .
10 In no circumstances can you set your net on a field inhabited by any farm animals , for these can panic and run into the standing nets — not only destroying the evening 's sport but also destroying the nets .
11 The technique explained in this chapter , resistant line fitting , produces a line which makes the absolute value of the deviations in the Y direction as small as possible ( rule 3 ) .
12 Next consider a unit step function delayed by some time as depicted in figure 11.5(a) and denote it by .
13 I sure thought there was a writer hidden behind that beard of yours . ’
14 A payment made in respect of a claim arising under this Section where the only damage sustained by such motor car is breakage of glass in the windscreen or the windows ( or any scratching of bodywork resulting solely and directly from such breakage ) shall be deemed not to be a claim under the Policy for the purpose of the No Claim Bonus Section .
15 Where two vehicles collide and one then suffers further damage by striking an immobile object ( but not a parked car ) all damage sustained by that vehicle shall be taken into consideration when applying the Partial Indemnity Clause .
16 The fall in pocket money received for this age group contrasts with a rise from £1.40 a week to £1.48 shown in a Halifax survey of the under-12s last month .
17 More precisely , the infinitive evokes an event , and to , the movement from an instant situated before this event up to the instant at which the event begins .
18 Government grant is distributed through a mechanism which is now called the standard spending assessment , an awful word , or phrase , but it is absolutely vital , and if you look at the standard spending assessment given to this county the government is saying we ought to be able to provide all the services for a total cost of eight hundred and seventy nine pounds per charge payer .
19 But worse still , just as the Poet and the Mistress connived at each other 's deception in 138 , just as the Poet connived at the Friend 's deception in 93 , so in 112 the Poet is inviting the Friend to complete the circle : ‘ For what care I who calls me well or ill , /So you o'er-green my bad , my good allow ? ’
20 The subsequent development of state contributory systems of income maintenance , although to some extent building on the systems of mutual support developed by some trade unions and friendly societies , which were informed by a collective ideology and em-bodied the concept of the right to support , has also been constrained by the desire to maintain male work incentives .
21 ‘ Since you 're having Suzie 's trail pursued with such vigour , perhaps it would be sensible to stay on until my hotel reservation lapses . ’
22 One of these is the Runefang carried by all Elector Counts , and the other is the Dragon Bow of Ostland , a magic bow whose arrows are tipped with dragon horn .
23 In the absence of any significant anti-secretory effects , it seems likely that the beneficial action of cisapride reported in this study results from its prokinetic qualities , which might enhance the clearance of acidic gastric effluent from the bulb , and thereby reduce its duration of contact with the duodenal mucosa .
24 The Companies Act 1981 also provided that in determining the aggregate amount of any item in a company 's balance sheet or profit and loss account , the amount of each individual asset or liability included in that amount shall be determined separately .
25 The Bilingual Skills Certificate originated in this project and is designed to lay the foundations for such a development .
26 The direct consequences of this dramatic political change differed in each state , but paralleled each other , consolidating each alliance 's power .
27 One fairly obvious analogy is the type of case considered by this court in In re Chase ( No. 2 ) [ 1989 ] 1 N.Z.L.R. 345 where , following in particular the decision of the Privy Council in Tampion v. Anderson [ 1973 ] 3 A.L.R. 414 , the view was taken that an order dismissing an action on the ground that there was no reasonable cause of action was an interlocutory judgment and that therefore no appeal lay as of right .
28 Questions were asked after each problem , and at the completion of the task , to obtain the following objective information : 1 ) the ease of use of each program , 2 ) the insight gained from using each technique , 3 ) the aid given by each technique in attaining a solution , 4 ) the user preference , and dislike , for the techniques , 5 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving insight , 6 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving the best design , and 7 ) the subject 's engineering and computing background , and knowledge of the polar second moment of area ; this being the sectional properties of a component that allows the shearing stresses to be deduced from the applied torque .
29 The package is modelled on a successful Canadian Superhost hospitality programme developed by that country 's tourism ministry under which more than 200,000 people have so far been trained .
30 The guidance given in this book applies to contracts governed by English law .
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