Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Extending the range of visits to library and related establishments beyond the London area to which we are limited through lack of funds ’ … |
| 2 | Crippled with arthritis and wheelchair-bound , at 77 Renoir detested meeting strangers but he had heard about Modigliani from Osterlind and , almost certainly , from Zborowski and agreed to the visit . |
| 3 | It was for him that now she was entertaining this arrow-straight , dark-eyed young scoundrel who would be likely to repay her by seducing her daughter , she thought , if she still had one , and who would probably forget everything he 'd ever heard about hunger in St Jude 's , or in County Kildare for that matter , should he ever find himself well-fed in Westminster . |
| 4 | Yet were we taught about Crapper at school ? |
| 5 | Now eight or nine-year-olds are being taught about periods in schools . |
| 6 | The Pope urges that students in seminaries should be taught about sex in seminaries . |
| 7 | But is it really a good idea that students should be taught about sex in seminaries ? |
| 8 | And three quarters want to be taught about relationships as part of their sex education too . |
| 9 | Those who eschewed colour and decoration , like Spurgeon , and built what were really mammoth meeting-houses with a Greek front , were criticized for lack of taste and for concentrating too much on the preacher . |
| 10 | The study has been criticized for incompleteness of data , but it was a major step forward , and the results obtained were so positive that further research was stimulated . |
| 11 | The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography . |
| 12 | In central and eastern Europe remedial measures must be taken to clear up environmental problems developed through years of neglect . |
| 13 | The card has been developed through co-operation between Bank of Scotland and the University 's Development Office . |
| 14 | Nemesis is one of Oxford Molecular 's first products developed through collaboration with researchers , providing molecular modelling to users of desktop computers ( currently IBM PC compatibles and Apple Macintosh ) . |
| 15 | We left after breakfast on the Monday and stopped for lunch near Montdidier . |
| 16 | The rain had not stopped for days on end . |
| 17 | You may keep travel and subsistence expenses paid during jury service , but as your normal salary will have been paid in your absence , any payments received for loss of earnings must be made over to the Company . |
| 18 | The doctor refused to give her more sleeping tablets but scribbled a prescription for tranquillizers , which were increasingly prescribed for women like Clare , with symptoms of anxiety in stressful situations such as poverty , divorce , or bereavement ; women with marital problems and women who were out of work also found them helpful , although the pills did nothing to resolve the problem responsible for the initial anxiety . |
| 19 | Corticosteroids would not usually be prescribed for people with Aids , since their immune response is already suppressed , but recent reports suggest they can reduce the inflammatory process associated with PCP . |
| 20 | His three spinster daughters , whom he had not registered at the parish church in any way , were all baptised as adults at Badcox . |
| 21 | There was a heap of sales catalogues from all over the world to be sifted through , magazines to be trawled for items of interest … |
| 22 | Capriati has been courted for months by IMG , whose promotion , coupled with success on court , will bring their teenage client millions of dollars . |
| 23 | A bank of video monitors cunningly disguised as sacks of cargo show films of interviews with living Indians , maps of the regions covered and other backup material . |
| 24 | The coal torpedoes had a powder charge inside a hollow cast iron block that was disguised as coal with tar and coal dust . |
| 25 | There were no tanks , no Fifth Columnists disguised as Sisters of Charity . |
| 26 | ‘ It is not necessary to suggest that there will be conscious unfairness ; but it is , I submit , possible that such judges will , particularly in cases where the liberty of the subject is concerned , find themselves unconsciously biased through over-appreciation of executive difficulty … |
| 27 | The canteen ran in this form , with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960 , when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift . |
| 28 | There are three bedrooms for visitors all with private bathrooms and individual character — one has an iron-framed antique rose-painted four-poster bed with lace hangings and a Victorian screen , another has oak beams and a closet ( now a shower ) where priests are reputed to have hidden during times of persecution . |
| 29 | The Centre , developed as part of PNP , made a significant and welcome contribution to professional development in the Authority . |
| 30 | It was developed as part of Project Athena at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and goes under the unexciting name of X Window . |