Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the nets are usually deployed many hundreds or even thousands of kilometres from shore , few but their crews have ever witnessed the damage inflicted on the marine ecosystem by the drift-net vessels . |
| 2 | In many developed countries , politicians have at last realised the promise offered by the magnificent achievements of computer hardware engineers . |
| 3 | The lead is now sent to the Minsterley terminus of the Shrewsbury and Welshpool branch line , but if the Bishop 's Castle Railway were completed the ore destined for South Wales would be conveyed from Churchstoke Station via Craven Arms and the Central Wales Railway , thus effecting a saving of twenty miles in transit as compared with the present route . |
| 4 | The students , who are already working as racial equality officers all over Britain , have all completed the course sponsored by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 5 | It is the fear of frightening off investors that has stopped the government investing in water quality . |
| 6 | Aloysius ‘ Al ’ Fairweather , Jnr , United States ambassador to the Court of St James , had received the message conveyed by the British Foreign Office the previous evening on his return from the Upper Heyford USAF base . |
| 7 | There was a substantial issue of fact as to whether or not the elderly parents , who were to be the principal debtors , had received the letters written by the creditor advising them to take independent legal advice . |
| 8 | When a cancellation is received the reservation has to be cancelled throughout the system , in the diary and reservation chart and noted on documents in the filing system . |
| 9 | The statute imposed on a woman seeking an abortion a 24-hour waiting period after she had received the information stipulated by the law . |
| 10 | Just because the regional dimension has not received the attention afforded to monetary union , that does not mean that it is less important to our future economic well-being . |
| 11 | Not only had we increased our self-awareness , but we felt content , happy with ourselves and we 'd also received the encouragement to go for the things we want — to seize the day . |
| 12 | Fortunately experience had taught the Alliance to prepare for such an eventuality , and they had standby arrangements for distribution and press coverage which were brought into operation . |
| 13 | The elder Blackwell 's religious commitment was at least as strong as his son 's ; he seems to have died in some poverty , having previously calculated the debts owing to himself at nearly £36,000 ( Bodleian MS Rawl . |
| 14 | From these are calculated the doses required for a quantity of water , usually 100 litres , if water consumption for each process requiring chemical is the same . |
| 15 | On the walls of the tombs in the cliffs above Beni Hassan are painted the meals expected in the after life , the menus marked with the number of portions required , as on cards hung on the doorknobs of hotel bedrooms to order breakfast . |
| 16 | A second has been the creation of new technologies that have altered the scale needed for efficient operation . |
| 17 | In addition to this the shift from Wimpy to Burger King has altered the technology used in production of the hamburgers . |
| 18 | He recorded the seven pieces out of order , however , and I rather wish that the transfer engineers had re-grouped the numbers according to the order of the score . |
| 19 | It said the deluge had eased the drought caused by several years of dry winters but had not ended it . |
| 20 | A reply at last came which confused the senior conductor with the ticket inspector and said Mr McArdle had ‘ unilaterally reneged the conditions pertaining to the tickets . ’ |
| 21 | Given the subject covered by the consultation paper , we are rather concerned not to have been notified of its existence . |
| 22 | Given the driver supplied by Overdrive is ‘ under the entire and absolute control ’ of the haulier , adequate insurance cover needs to be arranged by the haulier to cover wrongful acts or omissions by a driver . |
| 23 | The care of children is not seen to be the proper business of the state , given the emphasis placed on individual freedoms and parental rights and duties . |
| 24 | Given the claims made for Basquiat 's historical importance in the show 's catalogue , it is surprising that the retrospective has only signed up sites at the Menil Collection in Houston ( 11 March-9 May , 1993 ) , the Des Moines Art Center ( 22 May-15 August ) , and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama ( 18 November-9 January , 1994 ) . |
| 25 | Demonstrations by members of the majority ethnic-Albanian population appeared to have been sparked off by concern that , given the position taken by the Serbian delegation at the extraordinary LCY congress , Kosovar Albanians were to be denied a multiparty political system in the province which would allow Albanian nationalist parties to challenge Serbian domination . |
| 26 | The generation that rediscovered the existential was precisely the one best fitted to look and think ‘ within ’ , which is not unrealism , but a different form of realism — and one unavoidable to such as Leonard , given the horrors inflicted on his own people by the most ‘ culturally advanced ’ nation of the day . |
| 27 | Given the setbacks encountered in the really big cases it is understandable that the authorities now wish to make some headway as regards the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. accusations which , although dwarfed by comparison with Carrian and B.M.F.L. , were nevertheless concerned with really serious offences : as witness the long sentences imposed on those who have been dealt with on kindred matters . |
| 28 | Vernon Bogdaner a reader in government at the University and a Fellow of Brasenose College , says he too is in favour of P R , and wants the electorate to be given the chance to vote on the issue . |
| 29 | BUDDING young jazz musicians are being given the chance to shine with the launch this autumn of the Ulster Schools ' Jazz Orchestra . |
| 30 | Perhaps the most controversial aspect of care in the community comes when people like this along with the mentally ill are given the chance to live in group homes . |