Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ROS goes upstage : Ideally a sort of upper deck joined to the downstage lower deck by short steps . |
| 2 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 3 | All treatment was withdrawn for a minimum of two weeks , after which inclusion in the trial depended on a diastolic blood pressure >105 mm Hg . |
| 4 | From these expressions it is clear that , for specific choices of initial data , the curvature singularity formed by the interacting waves degenerates to a coordinate singularity . |
| 5 | The baby had rejected milk given by the foster mother . |
| 6 | In Spain , we took Hal Hambra from a loss to a profit and the award of the Albanta Prize by the Spanish government and this is an award given to the best new text book in , in the Spanish educational system each year . |
| 7 | An abandoned truck , its snout rammed into the steep bank of a cut , caused me a moment 's panic . |
| 8 | On this assumption , all is not lost , as the expenses of a training course undertaken by a self-employed person are allowed as a business deduction under general principles when the training is undertaken for the purposes of the trade . |
| 9 | ON December 14 TODAY warned of the threat posed to women by the dangerously short sentence given to the multiple rapist Dr Thomas Courtney . |
| 10 | Among the most beautiful are the ‘ Morgenlied ’ ( track 3 ) and the autumn song , Phoebus hunting with his horses ; the freedom given to the three vocal parts is a conspicuous feature of the latter . |
| 11 | Throughout the Johannesburg commuter system , all station platforms were divided in half , for Whites and non-Whites respectively , and the trains were similarly divided so that the appropriate part stopped at the relevant stretch of platform . |
| 12 | WOMEN factory workers fighting for equal pension rights had their case referred to the European Court of Justice yesterday . |
| 13 | Lawyers and a shorthand writer gathered in the front room of his home in Beith , Strathclyde , to take his evidence before a court-appointed Commissioner . |
| 14 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 15 | She was said to have paid £1,000 towards the £2,000 down payment given to the undercover detectives by her father and Chief Superintendent John Homer said that in dealings with Mr Smith police had found him a difficult and opinionated man . |
| 16 | Even as the ‘ external functions ’ of the Soviet Armed Forces acquire real importance , the principal means upon which the USSR relies to influence change are what Westerners are accustomed to call ‘ other means ’ : moral , political and material support furnished below the legal threshold of intervention , designed to encourage and revolutionise or at least influence and infiltrate . |
| 17 | During the plague of 1603 rumours were fathered on him and John Dee [ q.v. ] to the effect that its future course depended on the imminent fall of a planet to earth . |
| 18 | The concern for the future of the Deutschmark within the EEC erupted belatedly in the Bundestag in early October 1992 ; at the insistence of an all-party committee , the Parliament pressed for a second opportunity to ratify stage 3 of the Maastricht Treaty before the Deutschmark became irrevocably part of the Single Currency . |
| 19 | The most sophisticated method of tying up land in strict settlement developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 20 | It is likely that if five other tokens were considered from a different section of text gathered in a comparable social context the score would turn out to be very different say 80 per cent . |
| 21 | In many respects the purchasing and contracting arrangements have strengthened the power of the locality to decide , mainly because of the reliance placed on the technical judgements of the caring professions . |
| 22 | Indeed , one of the reasons for the rapid absorption of the rational expectations hypothesis into new classical circles was that the underlying model of neoclassical economics in general and new classical macroeconomics in particular was the belief that this hypothesis conformed with the distinguishing feature of neoclassical theory , that of profit and utility maximization . |
| 23 | The horror provoked by the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780 was not just a response to their ferocity . |
| 24 | This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation . |
| 25 | I returned to the toll office , got our money refunded plus a signed waiver that allowed us seven days to return to St Michael without having to pay on the Austrian roads . |
| 26 | Analysis of political power in terms of ‘ agenda-setting ’ , with distinctions between ‘ institutional ’ and ‘ systemic ’ agendas , derives largely from the non-decision-making approach and is the nearest neo-elitism has come to producing general models of the kind favoured by the traditional elitists . |
| 27 | Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 28 | Of course , what Oxford " meant " and the source of its " powers " , a classical curriculum taught within an intimate collegiate system , could hardly be extended . |
| 29 | The most important difference was the protection given to the embalmed body itself . |
| 30 | From half an hour after training , to as long as twenty-four hours afterwards , it was possible to detect an increase in protein synthesis in the brain regions containing IMHV — a result which of course squared with the known amnestic effects of the inhibitors of protein synthesis . |