Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The presidents agreed on a number of points relating to the 10-year-old civil war in El Salvador and the sanctuary given to Nicaraguan contra rebels in Honduras . |
| 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 | I have just done her a return kindness by getting invitations for her and her mother , to the Alumnus of the Year award given by Royal Bank as holder of Chair of European Governmental Studies . |
| 5 | LGB opposition to extensions of social legislation was increased due to the reluctance of the Treasury to provide what the Board regarded as adequate staffing . |
| 6 | This does not mean , however , that one should invest in that declining industry beyond the level justified by short-run returns . |
| 7 | His interest in physics developed at high school in Washington State where his family moved in 1953 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Maggie stared at John 's bare back , his creamy white skin punctuated by large freckles both fascinated and repelled her . |
| 10 | This is an interesting case to examine , of course , because in Problems of Social Policy Titmuss presented it as a clear example of a policy change engendered originally by the social debate on evacuation , and then given sudden new urgency by the ‘ decisive ’ influence of Dunkirk in July 1940 ; a marked change in government thinking — a new acceptance of the milk-in-schools scheme as a universalist social service rather than a relief measure tainted with Poor Law associations — took place ‘ five days after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Pensioner tricked by bogus gardeners |
| 13 | Unfortunately , ill luck , in his case compounded by ill judgement , dogs the unsuccessful , and the only way into the sport , for some who should never be in it , is around the less successful teams . |
| 14 | Proteins are also macromolecules ; in this case compounded from molecular units called amino acids . |
| 15 | Glottochronology is a technique developed for spoken languages which has a basic assumption that languages change at a relatively steady rate . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Dr Spufford 's book has successfully demonstrated that the timing of this change depended in large measure upon the farming system and the social and economic structure of the communities that were affected . |
| 18 | Support given to young people from Lothian for national arts courses |
| 19 | Groups are capable of great creativity , as in language and folksong , and even in the stimulus and support given to individual writers and thinkers . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Lothian Region support given to National Festivals & Companies , leading to workshops and visits to schools by major companies |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In the London case at least , this recovery can no doubt be attributed in part to the strength of its economy , the support given by central government to the Docklands redevelopment and other schemes , and the associated attraction of young professionals back to the more central parts of the city . |
| 25 | Particularly in a large organization , reclassification can be a major exercise , although it can be facilitated by the support given by computer-based catalogue records . |
| 26 | It would be a tragedy if the use of violence or any confusion introduced by irregular elements on the picket lines were to divide and deflect the support given by responsible trade unionists all over the country aimed at achieving an early and a peaceful solution to this problem . |
| 27 | As detailed in the previous section , using a theoretical framework developed from American research into heroin ‘ epidemics ’ , this formula allowed us to estimate that prevalence was still increasing but that incidence was decreasing . |
| 28 | Though relevant to the performer , this is an academic course examined through written work . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |