Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details of EC support received by overseas farmers and information regarding the prices paid and received for their various commodities . |
| 2 | A recent ad for follow-on milk , quoting from an article in the British Medical Journal , stated that cow 's milk given at six months caused ‘ subclinical but appreciable gastro-intestinal bleeding in about a third of children . ’ |
| 3 | The British Isles became , in 1941–43 , a giant aircraft-carrier punished by German raids but giving more than was received as the air war was intensified by 1943 . |
| 4 | This does not mean , however , that one should invest in that declining industry beyond the level justified by short-run returns . |
| 5 | There is nostalgia , and fantasy — both wonderfully caught in Blake Morrison 's evocative ‘ Turf Moor , and Other Fields of Dreams ’ — and there is fiction filled with four-letter words . |
| 6 | Maggie stared at John 's bare back , his creamy white skin punctuated by large freckles both fascinated and repelled her . |
| 7 | IF so many countries can pledge troops to help relieve the crisis in Somalia , why is Britain 's support limited to two planes ? |
| 8 | We are also concerned about the reliance placed on these tests but in a different context . |
| 9 | She was alone in the world and owned nothing but the clothes in which she stood , a small attaché case filled with important things and a brown paper carrier bag containing shoes , stockings , and two crystal goblets carefully wrapped in a pair of white cotton knickers . |
| 10 | Pensioner tricked by bogus gardeners |
| 11 | Proteins are also macromolecules ; in this case compounded from molecular units called amino acids . |
| 12 | Glottochronology is a technique developed for spoken languages which has a basic assumption that languages change at a relatively steady rate . |
| 13 | The search aids include a search save process and a multiple database/system regeneration and repeat facility , an automated search technique developed from natural-language phrases via stemming and Boolean AND operation to automatically give a variety of searches based on the original phrase , aids to searching a number of individual databases , and a facility for automatic database selection . |
| 14 | In our patients , those with proven neural and muscular pathology conformed to these patterns of motor activity . |
| 15 | Opening a Trust account seems to be the route favoured by many hoteliers . |
| 16 | Groups are capable of great creativity , as in language and folksong , and even in the stimulus and support given to individual writers and thinkers . |
| 17 | Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising . |
| 18 | Todd linked family structure to ideology and politics , and indeed sought to account both for types of regime and for the electoral support given to particular types of party by an area 's dominant family structure . |
| 19 | Lothian Region support given to National Festivals & Companies , leading to workshops and visits to schools by major companies |
| 20 | The breaching of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 opened the doors to a series of revolutions in Central and East European countries which , from November 1989 to January 1990 , saw the toppling of Communist dictatorships , and their gradual replacement by governments relying in most cases on popular support given at free elections . |
| 21 | Although , when the three friends reunite in 1959 after thirteen years , they have not achieved everything they hoped for as adolescents , we are left at the end of the play with a feeling of hope — not the kind of false hope prescribed by Soviet censors but the hope that comes from being young and strong and having lived through difficult times . |
| 22 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 23 | As in the original study , the main source will be small-areas census and other data , with measures of inequality calculated from these indicators . |
| 24 | N-plant leaked for five hours |
| 25 | A two-year part-time course intended for medical graduates interested in medical and radiation oncology . |
| 26 | Andrew Swales , 31 , of Chesham Street , Middlesbrough , was one of 12 men killed when the Bristow Super Puma plunged into icy seas during a short hop from an oil rig to an accommodation platform . |
| 27 | Since , however , the types of response given by these enquirers did not differ significantly from applicants , we have grouped them with the applicants for the purpose of the analysis . |
| 28 | Although the accident estimate could logically be independent of the actual exemplar of the junction that a subject was shown it is clear that it is in fact strongly related to the risk rating given to particular exemplars . |
| 29 | Gregory and Lock were arrested at Bangkok 's Don Muang international airport on February 6 when police said they found a condom filled with 150 grams of heroin . |
| 30 | Lock and a companion , Sandra Gregory , 27 , from Aberdeenshire , were arrested at Bangkok 's Don Muang airport on 6 February after police found a condom filled with 150 grams of heroin in the woman 's body . |