Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major 's reply suggested that , as an interested visitor from another solar system , he had heard about human personality but regretfully had no first-hand experience of this rare bird , though he was prepared to extend it every reasonable courtesy . |
| 2 | I had already heard about this plan because the doctor had discussed it with my father ; but it was apparent that Eric himself was not at all enthusiastic about it . |
| 3 | The onward march of racism is traced through historical time and institutional space , from some presumed point of origination which defines its essential character , to a present conjuncture which is the summation of its effects . |
| 4 | He complained that his design had been criticized for deficient lighting but he had shown the Committee that his windows were larger than those in sixteen or seventeen well-known classical buildings in London . |
| 5 | It is not so much thinking and reason that spring to mind as involvement , a sense of intimacy and harmony with the materials at hand , developed through long experience and commitment . |
| 6 | The working of the Contagious Diseases Acts themselves also served to mobilise many a radical working man against the exploitation of working-class women , and an important alliance developed between this radicalism and feminists , which had the additional effect of providing for the latter a social support which enhanced their authority within the repeal movement . |
| 7 | Cobras were punished for foul play when Deeside scored two of their eight first period goals through power-plays . |
| 8 | These sediments were dolimitised during early diagenesis and are generally characterised by low porosity and permeability . |
| 9 | 63. — ( 1 ) : In every factory in which , in connection with any process carried on , there is given off any dust or fume or other impurity of such a character and to such extent as to be likely to be injurious or offensive to the persons employed , or any substantial quantity of dust of any kind , all practicable measures shall be taken to protect the persons employed against inhalation of the dust or fume or other impurity and to prevent its accumulation in any workroom , and in particular , where the nature of the process makes it practicable , exhaust appliances shall be provided and maintained , as near as possible to the point of origin of the dust or fume or other impurity , so as to prevent its entering the air of any workroom . ’ |
| 10 | I said , ‘ Let me go , Syl ’ , because I felt ridiculous , crushed between this man and the garden hedge . |
| 11 | For various reasons , DATEC decided that , with one exception , no college proposals would be validated for Higher Certificate and Higher Diploma courses which would allow a start before September 1982 ; as a consequence , there are at present relatively small numbers of students on these courses . |
| 12 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 13 | A second Gloucestershire social worker has been sacked for smoking cannabis while in charge of a group of youngsters on holiday in Devon . |
| 14 | A social worker who was sacked for smoking cannabis while in charge of a group of youngsters , has won his appeal against dismissal . |
| 15 | Mrs Jonker , of Southport , said Miss Owen had been sacked for gross misconduct after written and verbal warnings . |
| 16 | Originally erected for private defence and as status symbols , today they form part of Italy 's best-preserved medieval town — rich in history and culture . |
| 17 | Scott 's point that groups are formed through discursive action and the sharing of knowledge , as well as other social practices , supports the link between knowledge and social processes that will be established in this book . |
| 18 | Up to five sections were examined for each subclass because of the scarcity of IgG-producing cells in some specimens . |
| 19 | In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games . |
| 20 | The charity still continues but as well as maintaining and providing extras for the school , grants are given for further education or books . |
| 21 | Dismissing the taxpayers ' appeals , Lord Justice Nourse said that the ordinary meaning of ‘ release ’ comprehended both a release given for full consideration and one given gratuitously , or for less than full consideration , and there was no warrant for putting the limitation , as contended by the tax-payers , on the word ‘ releases ’ in s 287(1) . |
| 22 | I do n't know who or what Wide Awake heard during that week but it certainly did n't originate in the Lower Ormeau . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , it is likely that the original boundaries between the fields will only be recognized through extensive survey and excavation . |
| 24 | Clearly this can not be a process completed during initial training but equally clearly it can not be attributed to the sole responsibility of academic or in-service courses . |
| 25 | KAN is based on techniques developed for parallel computation and represents a meeting point for psychology and artificial intelligence ( AI ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Across the regions , the proportion of land developed for residential use that had been previously developed or was vacant land in built-up areas varied between 33 per cent in the south west to 52 per cent in the south east , and 58 per cent in the north west . ’ |
| 27 | Fortunately there is a great deal of similarity between the mathematics developed for this task and the techniques required to analyse certain types of data . |
| 28 | It was on the basis of that syllogism that the connection between schools and parents developed for another decade or more . |
| 29 | In Scotland and Wales public pressure developed for more independence than could be gained from decentralized administration . |
| 30 | At Winfrith , a range of skills developed for nuclear modelling and inspection were adapted for use by the offshore oil industry . |