Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other secondary minerals formed during weathering include those composed of oxides and hydroxides of iron and aluminium and , less significantly , of titanium oxide , as well as amorphous or finely crystalline silica . |
| 2 | Finally , let us consider some motion verbs that have built-in deictic components , English come vs. go makes some sort of distinction between the direction of motion relative to participants in the speech event ( the exposition here follows Fillmore , 1966 , 1975 : 50ff ) . |
| 3 | So a horse that is overwhelmed with emotion pays little attention to anything else . |
| 4 | He carried a bronze-bladed spear and a heavy Saxon long sword , which he had won in forest combat some years before . |
| 5 | These devices protected the integrity of the inheritance , and both the patronage of the crown and the wealth won from war enabled many inheritances to grow larger in the course of Edward III 's reign . |
| 6 | It is possible to get round the need to refer to yourself by using the following devices , which can be varied in order to avoid any over-formulaic effect : — Adverbs and adverbial expressions Instead of " I think it is likely that … " use " Arguably … " ( but bear in mind what we have said about " arguably " above , Chapter 3 , p. 68 ) . |
| 7 | The family health services authority and health authority met with social services at the end of January to explain community care funding , but will this have come in time to save this local initiative ? |
| 8 | The press and public were excluded from the hearing , although Greene had given earlier assurances that the tape would be released after it had been edited in order to excise any classified information which might be disclosed inadvertently . |
| 9 | The principle behind the act is that marriage should be regarded as a partnership which is dissolved on divorce allowing both parties to have a ‘ clean break ’ and go their separate ways . |
| 10 | In 1940 , the school was badly damaged by fire — not by enemy action , but ( it seems ) by the carelessness of fire-watchers installed at night to forestall such action . |
| 11 | I 've come across cocktail sticks all night . |
| 12 | Affidavit evidence from the appellants , which ought to have been before the judge , has now been put before this court and an application has been made for leave to adduce this as additional evidence on the hearing of the appeal . |
| 13 | However there are a number of important controlling factors : firstly , the subject fixates centrally ( usually he has to report a digit which is presented in order to confirm this central fixation ) ; secondly , the stimulus is exposed for less than 200 milliseconds to avoid eye movement ; thirdly , the visual angle of the stimuli from the fixation point should be between 2.5° and 5° ( otherwise , confounding effects occur ) . |
| 14 | They are presented in order to illustrate some similarities and differences in the way the Cockcroft recommendations are being interpreted in relation to assessment and are not intended as a review of all the initiatives currently being undertaken . |
| 15 | Many hours of tears and frayed tempers were suffered in order to complete this intricate routine . |
| 16 | The Home Office Research Unit is prayed in aid to show less vandalism in rural communities . |
| 17 | Empirical evidence of the participants ' interpretation of next turns is not available , and conversation analysts instead fall back on circular arguments , claiming that the conversation develops as it does by " orientation " to the same organizational devices which have to be taken for granted in order to get this interpretation of the data ( p. 120 ) . |
| 18 | This point must be made in order to distinguish these religious traditions from a ‘ pantheist ’ position , which identifies God with nature . |
| 19 | The ‘ human capital ’ theory as applied to education epitomises this aspect of the relationship between social policy and economic growth . |
| 20 | I can not envisage a system related to ability to pay that does not approximate to income flows . |
| 21 | Barnard 's observation that succussed solutions showed a greater viscosity than the equivalent simple dilutions prepared without succussion provides some evidence that homoeopathic potencies do indeed contain long-chain molecules . |
| 22 | I was once offered a John Wesley letter which had the slight blemish of being written on paper watermarked some thirty years after the evangelist died , and on another occasion a letter from a supposed Trafalgar seaman , mentioning officers and members of the crew who were not on the muster roll of the ship concerned . |
| 23 | But first we had to heat up the tyre in the oven we 'd built on purpose to do this . |
| 24 | While the current situation in chip fabrication capability appears to be parity , the next frontier for the industry will be the portable devices known as Personal Digital Assistants ; since miniaturisation is a skill of Japanese manufacturers , these can be expected to be made in Japan , and all the strategic alliances made to date reflect this . |
| 25 | Practically this can be done by type underlining all ‘ black ’ amendments and marking up ‘ red ’ amendments by hand as appropriate . |
| 26 | These figures do not allow any sum for interest and therefore it may be that calculations will have to be made by council to include that figure or alternatively I am informed that both parties wish to consider the possibility of the incorporation of this judgement into a structured settlement . |
| 27 | Mainly used for reference works such as dictionaries , encyclopedias , etc . |
| 28 | The in-house cinema ( ‘ where they used to watch porn movies , ’ speculate the new occupiers ) , complete with massive Soviet projectors , is now used for film shows that would have caused apoplectic fits among the old inhabitants . |
| 29 | Potatoes which must not be offered for sale include those which are : |
| 30 | The jury in the James Bulger murder trial at Preston have been hearing how the two eleven year old boys accused of murder blamed each other for most of the violence . |