Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along at the river 's mouth , at the standing wave formed where the incoming sea and outgoing melt water meet , a flock of terns hover and dive like gnats in the summer air . |
| 2 | The Museums and Galleries Commission is hoping that these considerations will lead the Charity Commissioners to reconsider their decision under the cy-pres ( i.e. next best thing ) provision of the 1960 Charities Act , which allows a charitable bequest or trust to be altered where the original stipulation is no longer relevant . |
| 3 | In recognising that fact , as well as the reality that this package can not be amended or the entire community ratification process goes back into the melting pot , it was the pressure point likely to offer the greatest temptation to the Tory anti-Maastricht brigade . |
| 4 | YESTERDAY 'S Diary explained where the main parties stood on British Rail ( between carriages jammed against the netty door , very likely . ) |
| 5 | The following points should be noted about partial offers : ( 1 ) The offeror and its concert parties must not buy shares in the target during the partial offer period , neither must they , or any new concert parties , purchase shares for a period of 12 months following a successful partial offer without the Panel 's consent ( Rule 36.3 ) ( although consent will normally be given where the partial offer has resulted in a holding carrying less than 30 per cent of the voting rights ( note 2 ) ) . |
| 6 | Experimental cars are being developed where the rear lights are controlled by a digital code sent from a circuit at the front along an optical fibre . |
| 7 | In Lahore , Karachi and other cities in Pakistan , small-scale melas are organised where the principal feature is a dance show performed by hijras . |
| 8 | The Army backs also had their moments , but too often the soldiers shot themselves in the foot as the critical pass was dropped or the wrong option taken . |
| 9 | At the end of that period , in mid-career , most surveyors will nowadays be involved in some form of re-training , and the trauma of that experience will be alleviated where the original education input was right . |
| 10 | In connected speech , however , in addition to the two kinds of substitution error mentioned above a correct word may be omitted or an incorrect word may be inserted into the string . |
| 11 | Such a claim is most likely to be instituted where the deceased son or daughter was unmarried and was contributing substantially to the maintenance of his or her parents . |
| 12 | More important , the Franco-Scottish armies succeeded where the Scottish ones had not . |
| 13 | I would have wished that the Liberal Democrats might have remained in their place , especially as their amendment is now before the House for debate . |
| 14 | In July it was disclosed that the Soviet Union was owed the equivalent of 87,500 million ( 25 per cent in convertible currencies ) , but much of this was believed to be for arms sales to poorer countries who were unable to repay it . |
| 15 | To give an example of how inadequate official testing can be , at Swansea , where a hell of a lot of people use the sea for recreation , until 1989 it was not disclosed that the official testing point in the sewage outfall pipe was above the point where commercial waste was joining the system . |
| 16 | In May 1991 , it was disclosed that the Metropolitan police area was to be permanently patrolled by special units , known as ARVs ( armed response vehicles ) . |
| 17 | As investigators from the Mines Inspectorate , British Coal and unions began their inquiries into the accident , the company disclosed that the trapped men had never been in serious danger . |
| 18 | Since HWIM 's grammar was far less tightly constrained than the finite state grammar used in HARPY , the system hypothesised a considerable number of words at the beginning of an utterance . |
| 19 | The parameter values of the QPO feature are much better constrained than the red-noise part . |
| 20 | It has been supposed that a vocal response must necessarily emanate from the left hemisphere and that a stimulus presented in the left half field of vision must therefore be transferred from the right to the left hemisphere . |
| 21 | Freud had always supposed that the various forms of innate behaviour he explored had biological bases to them . |
| 22 | I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 23 | It is supposed that the major factor behind this trend is the financial pressure faced by local authorities , especially as a result of reductions in the amount of central government grant that they receive . |
| 24 | — Despite arguments to the contrary ( Duporte , 1965 ; Matsuda , 1970 ) , it may be supposed that the thoracic terga consisted primitively of three simple segmental plates ( the nota ) between which lay small intersegmental sclerites ( Snodgrass , 1927 ) . |
| 25 | Before Weismann , most evolutionary theorists , and in particular the Frenchman Jean Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744–1829 ) , had supposed that the main cause of evolutionary change was the ‘ inheritance of acquired characters ’ . |
| 26 | This was the same Clark who had stressed that a regular education was necessary for a farrier . |
| 27 | It should be stressed that a local authority 's corporate planning is only one variable in securing efficient management within a local community . |
| 28 | These actually come down to common sense , but it still needs to be stressed that the successful study of coinage , as any other historical discipline , should be based on as full a collection of the evidence as possible as well as an awareness that this evidence should never be taken at face value . |
| 29 | IT is stressed that the braking distances learned for that driving test many years back are not idle theory . |
| 30 | We have stressed that the complex reactions of organic chemistry that are the processes and machinery of life , must take place in a watery medium . |