Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of . |
| 2 | Whereas other books ( especially those on semantics and pragmatics ) have often received unfavourable reviews , Style in Fiction has received the most favourable reviews of any book of which I have been an author . |
| 3 | Since the two groups are as alike in all respects except that one of them , the experimental group , has received the supposedly causal treatment , the new teaching style , then any differences in academic attainment between the two groups must be due either to chance or to the causal factor . |
| 4 | Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) . |
| 5 | The report was seen partly as a response to a document published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) which had criticized the socially destructive effects of World Bank-supported SAPs [ see pp. 36991-92 ] . |
| 6 | Given the imperfectly competitive nature of the UK fertilizer market , the objective of this paper is to derive the tariff and quantity restrictions on fertilizer imports that the UK government and EC Commission could have chosen . |
| 7 | Given a subject , already identified , and given the wholly reasonable assumption that in our linguistic thoughts we do not equate properties with entities , there would be no conceivable point in introducing a property , and introducing it with the sense of " this completes what I am about " unless that property is to be taken as applicable to the subject . |
| 8 | Democratic reforms , certain to be costly , were rendered all the more difficult by the meagreness of the economic resources commanded by the Spanish state , given the ludicrously low level of direct taxation inherited from the monarchy , and by short-term problems arising from the world depression . |
| 9 | ‘ It is now too late to make fresh representations ’ but ‘ officers will be considering the need for a review as early as possible given the continuously changing circumstances and national planning context ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ So , as I say , this child has been given the most perfect environment possible . |
| 11 | Given the most cynical interpretation , although one that seems to be surprisingly widely held in New York , ‘ those four beautiful books have become the most glamorous mail order catalogue in history . ’ |
| 12 | British nurses were among the best trained in Europe but — thanks to the restrictive practices of the medical profession — were given the most limited responsibilities . |
| 13 | She had always been given the most unpleasant tasks to perform , punished when she rebelled , as often she did , growing up without knowledge of love or hearing the sound of a kind word . |
| 14 | A precedent for this was years ago when the famous collector of Greek origin , George Kostakis , was allowed to leave the Soviet Union with a considerable part of his collection of Russian Avant-garde after he had given the most interesting pieces to the Tretyakov Gallery ( for part of his memoirs , see The Art Newspaper , No. 21 , October 1992 , pp. 20–22 ) . |
| 15 | However , Cheltenham told a different story and after Party Politics had recovered from his exertions he was given the most drastic wind operation of all , when a tube was inserted into his windpipe . |
| 16 | Now he planned to do the same with the female cub , who had been given the most unleopard-like name of Harriet . |
| 17 | The Gaullist RPR , which has played the leading historical role in helping German postwar political recovery — while opposing any military revival — has given the most unequivocal welcome to the idea that Germany could again be one nation . |
| 18 | He was given the most cathartic laundering of his life , but his reputation — and his earnings from sponsors — shot up when he published the story in magazines around the globe . |
| 19 | Given the most rapid detection possible , the most effective means of transmitting the call to the fire services and their most prompt attendance , it is reasonable to suppose that in the absence of an effective automatic fire extinguishing system or even the benefit of a conventional one , that the fire will have reached a well advanced stage on their arrival . |
| 20 | The reforming jurists , on the other hand , saw punishment as a procedure for requalifying individuals as subjects , as juridical subjects ; it uses not marks , but signs , coded sets of representations , which would be given the most rapid circulation and the most general acceptance possible by citizens witnessing the scene of punishment . |
| 21 | There is no suggestion at present that any such standards should apply to the lifeboat services of the world , and it would be a virtually impossible task given the widely differing operating conditions , constitutions and tasks of the constituent members . |
| 22 | Iago 's contempt for the new breed of Renaissance soldier , necessarily more technical given the increasingly scientific development of warfare in the sixteenth century , may be intended to show that his complaint is the predictable and irrelevant grumble of the old-fashioned soldier made obsolete by new technology . |
| 23 | Not much new about that you might think , given the traditionally British trait of self-denigration , but the survey also found a further 42pc , or 84 companies , were genuine contenders for that elite gathering . |
| 24 | The former ANC president Oliver Tambo , who had only partially recovered from a stroke , was given the largely honorary position of national chairman . |
| 25 | In January 1990 he had been replaced as chairman of the Republican National Committee ( RNC ) by Clayton Yeutter , and had been given the largely ceremonial title of general chairman . |
| 26 | An exponent of traditional economic expansion through centralized planning , Li was attacked by Deng and his reformist allies after 1979 , and eventually removed as Deputy Premier and given the largely ceremonial position of national President . |
| 27 | He replaced Sam Skinner who was given the largely ceremonial post of chairman of the Republican National Committee . |
| 28 | Widowed mothers of young children had a poor chance of supporting their families adequately given the conventionally lower pay ( by half to two-thirds ) of women compared with men , even when a job could be found . |
| 29 | And , given the rather jaundiced view that civil servants had by then formed of the movie business , it is not surprising that they preferred to commend Rank for observing ‘ the normal standards of commercial efficiency and honesty , which have not so far been conspicuous within the film industry ’ than listen to the arguments presented by Palache that budget control on Rank 's film productions was inadequate . |
| 30 | Such theories are given the rather exaggerated title ‘ grand unified theories , ’ or GUTs . |