Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses .
2 Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage .
3 As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground .
4 It was discreetly positioned and bore the letters ‘ NR ’ painted on with white paint : NR for ‘ Nature Reserve ’ .
5 The conditions of the fifties meant that it was natural " for praise to be heaped on to democratic politics since it seemed to be doing the job very nicely .
6 But there has been an additional image barrier : the CAB as a generalist advice agency was often labelled a ‘ signposting ’ service whereby clients will simply be referred on to other organisations .
7 Some of the collisions were violent , but other planetesimals simply blended in with other collisions .
8 Prime Minister Petre Roman insisted on April 13 during an official visit to France that the King 's intention to attend a demonstration in the Transylvanian city of Timisoara , which he claimed " would have been covered by about 80 journalists flown in by chartered plane " , invalidated the claim that his visit would have been only a " private " one .
9 Whether or not his opinions actually percolated down to subordinate commanders many of them seemed to share his beliefs about keeping the French out , or at least , in an interesting reversal of roles in the First World War , treating France as an associated rather than an allied power .
10 The youth of Port Talbot were broken in on great drama and fired , from the beginning , to reach for the sky .
11 Sometimes the Pemberton Musks are listed separately , sometimes they may be listed in with Modern Shrub Roses as well as Hybrid Musks , or they may be listed in with it , which is all very confusing .
12 Moving closer , Miles watched as strips of blubber were placed along with heated stones into canoes filled with water .
13 He was cheered along by proud parents and his then girlfriend , Rosanne .
14 Ford plans for the system to operate across Europe , but before this can happen complete digital mapping of all the countries concerned needs to be completed along with guaranteed transmission success from cars .
15 The six themes are at unequal stages of development in that some have already been broken down into specific research projects whereas others are at a more exploratory stage .
16 To be useful , crime rates must be broken down into specific categories of offences .
17 The overall goal of ‘ increasing social contacts ’ , just like ‘ having more money ’ , can be broken down into specific objectives and activities .
18 She said the oil had been broken down into small particles and was being absorbed by organisms at the bottom of the food chain .
19 Goals are much easier to attain if they are broken down into small steps .
20 Subject-matter , in the Skinnerian teaching machine , was broken down into small steps which built upon one another into a great complexity , the student making successive responses and receiving the reinforcement of immediate confirmation at each stage .
21 The required action is broken down into small segments and a reward is given when the next segment of action is correctly performed — even if this is done by chance .
22 The way she spoke , all words were broken down into distinct syllables .
23 In order to study the growth rates in more detail , the data were broken down into annual figures , ( See Table 4 ) .
24 The development department is broken down into product-oriented sectors which , in turn , are divided into discipline-oriented units .
25 It is likely too that non-manufacturing activities need to be broken down into major cost-driver categories .
26 The broad Shetlander identity can also be broken down into various sorts of identities .
27 Any sentence can be broken down into immediate sub-units which themselves have reasonably independent status as coherent wholes , whose combination produces the original sentence .
28 For internal management control purposes a annual budget will normally be broken down into discrete quarterly , monthly or even shorter periods .
29 Although most departments have drawn up plans , many areas of departmental work can not easily be broken down into discrete cost centres .
30 The strong linear flavour emphasizes , of course , the flatness of the picture plane and this effect is further strengthened by the fact that the entire picture surface is broken down into angular forms of almost equal size , which are all dealt with in the same vigorous technique .
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