Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was the same Clark who had stressed that a regular education was necessary for a farrier . |
| 3 | It should be stressed that a local authority 's corporate planning is only one variable in securing efficient management within a local community . |
| 4 | It is expected that a technical report will be released by the EC next week . |
| 5 | It was in any case only to be expected that a serious move by the Community to advance further through a reduction of national sovereignty and freedom to act independently would generate a nationalist opposition . |
| 6 | It was expected that a similar equation would govern the proton , the only other supposedly elementary particle known at that time . |
| 7 | The annual outpatient workloads were also similar , and , assuming a similar case mix of new patients , it might be expected that a similar volume of inpatient work would be generated . |
| 8 | ‘ It might be expected that a substantial proportion of these also involved stolen vehicles , ’ he said . |
| 9 | All other Lead Bodies are also progressing well with the development of standards and it is expected that a wide range of new qualifications will be available within the next year or so . |
| 10 | It had been expected that a limited corp of staff would remain as a support unit after the last aircraft departs in January . |
| 11 | Certain common variables are being developed , and it is expected that a joint publication reviewing pay since 1970 will be produced , as well as a series of publications relating to the various dimensions separately . |
| 12 | With the creation of a single European market , it may be expected that a good command of a European Community language and familiarity with the country in which it is spoken will become an increasingly valued asset . |
| 13 | It was expected that a UN-supervised referendum to resolve the conflict over the region [ for details and background see pp. 37628-29 ] would be held in early 1991 . |
| 14 | Developments in Scotland are also being followed keenly south of the Border , where it is expected that a Scottish Lord Chancellor will introduce family legislation for England and Wales which will follow the example set by his countrymen . |
| 15 | But it has obviously been forgotten that a near-similar system was in place almost exactly a century ago — the submarine cable system , a communicative technique in which the British were supreme . |
| 16 | It is then claimed that a great variety of fundamental facts concerning the structure and social organization of the society can be directly inferred from a close analysis of " the kinship system " in this verbal sense . |
| 17 | Yet it 's also claimed that a primary characteristic of the play is that element of redemption which binds together all your work . |
| 18 | It was also claimed that a 25-km oil slick , observed in July 1989 some 35 km off the Californian coastline , had been caused by the Exxon Valdez making its way in a bad state of repair to dry dock in San Diego , California . |
| 19 | In terms of computer technology trade libel would occur if someone falsely claimed that a particular software dealer was trading in pirated software or was in financial difficulties or if a software house 's products were defective or would not operate on a particular make of computer . |
| 20 | In the courts political questions may come before the judges because the matter is already in public controversy , like race or industrial relations ; or because it is claimed that a public authority has exceeded its powers ; or because the matter concerns the activities of the police ; or because the matter impinges on the individual rights of citizens , affecting their freedom or their property . |
| 21 | Further , it could be claimed that a phonological analysis is a type of scientific theory , and a scientific theory should be stated as economically as possible . |
| 22 | It was also claimed that a national curriculum would facilitate movement from one area of the country to another with minimum disruption to children 's education . |
| 23 | This really meant the abandonment of the original reductive theory , since it could no longer be claimed that a non-observation statement was exactly equivalent in meaning to any collection of observation statements , however complex and conditional that collection might be . |
| 24 | Over a period of twenty years it is claimed that a fast reactor could breed enough additional plutonium to fuel another similar power station . |
| 25 | In the 1972 presidential elections he was vice-presidential candidate for the coalition headed by Jose Napoleon Duarte , who was widely held to have won although a military candidate was declared the winner . |
| 26 | It was only once the basic political problems of the transition had been resolved that a coherent strategy could emerge for confronting the immediate economic crisis , and for dealing with serious underlying questions such as the restructuring of basic sectors of industry and the modernization of state finances and administration . |
| 27 | A month later , it was resolved that a proper place should be provided for the Professor 's dissections and lectures , and advertisements were placed accordingly in publications including the Morning Post and the Daily Advertiser . |
| 28 | On April 7 , 1990 , it was reported that a quarterly survey of corporate partnerships , undertaken by UK accountants Peat Marwick McLintock showed that COCOM rules were being circumvented by the rise in the number of small joint ventures . |
| 29 | Only the other day it was reported that a young mother of a seven-year-old child had taken the Territorial Army to court for refusing to let her become a paratrooper … and won ! |
| 30 | It was reported that a new wave of investigations into participants in the April-June pro-democracy protests was launched in November . |