Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although the educational services were supplied to only a few inmates , several of these were undertaking advanced work : three had completed BAs over the past few years , another an MA , and nine were embarking upon university degrees by correspondence . |
| 2 | Officials have placed adverts in the British Medical Journal on behalf of the emirate , in a move which Labour has condemned as encouraging a medical brain drain . |
| 3 | In Victorian days , the Watch Committee regularly placed adverts in the local newspapers in early December : ‘ Shopkeepers are advised not to give Christmas Boxes to police officers . ’ |
| 4 | Few researchers have , as yet , examined attitudes towards the institutional care sector . |
| 5 | An evaluation of the source established the accuracy of the information it contained and formulated definitions for the various terms employed . |
| 6 | He or she invents a product which consumers did n't know they wanted until it is made available , manufactures it with the assistance of purveyors of risk capital known as publishers , and sells it in competition with makers of marginally differentiated products of the same kind . |
| 7 | Prosecutors interviewed by the Polish daily Zycie Warszawy said they would not know how to deal with a case of illegal abortion as they had not yet received copies of the new law . |
| 8 | In addition I understand you have received copies of the Scottish Office leaflets on Council Tax which have been prepared in conjunction with Local Government Officers and also the Council Tax Benefit leaflet produced by the Benefits Agency . |
| 9 | The similarities between such a scheme of reclamation and discipline and those widely mooted proposals of the 1980s to reclaim the youth through compulsory job-training or ‘ community service ’ should not pass unnoticed . |
| 10 | None had symptoms or a history of gastrointestinal disease or surgery or had received antibiotics in the two months before the study . |
| 11 | None of the patients or the normal volunteers had received antibiotics in the two weeks before the test period . |
| 12 | I have given thanks for the brave and selfless work done by many British men and women who face dangerous circumstances every day . |
| 13 | For example , some of our greatest melodies are given settings of the greatest simplicity , and to add ‘ counterpoints ’ would rob the music of some of its beauty . |
| 14 | The variety of sound produced by different species is enormous and amazing to anyone who has only heard frogs of the temperate regions . |
| 15 | Commercial Union is one of several major insurance companies to target the Grey market with specially designed policies in the past year . |
| 16 | So far we have considered reasons for the general increase in local government expenditure over the years . |
| 17 | The technical problems of testing have dominated discussions in the British literature on the APU , particularly the problems of the Rasch model . |
| 18 | Their heads have decorated pikes for the common cry of curs to snap and growl at . ’ |
| 19 | On this occasion some of the Messerschmitts had carried bombs for the first time — not a new role for III/JG 27 , which had operated in this manner over the Balkans during the previous month . |
| 20 | Chandrasekhar and Xanthopoulos ( 1988 ) have also considered perturbations in the initial regions which contain the approaching waves . |
| 21 | In Vl , CO-rich regions appear as regularly spaced blobs in the upper layers of the cerebral cortex while , in V2 , they appear as stripes . |
| 22 | Mauritius formally dropped ties with the British crown on March 12 to become a republic within the Commonwealth . |
| 23 | He attacked the British Government for its stand on refugees from war torn areas of the former Yugoslavia and criticised the British public for offering solutions to the crisis in the former Yugoslavia when conflict in Northern Ireland continues . |
| 24 | As a result , I have always reported concerns to the various Ministers ultimately responsible for the prison and have obtained responses . |
| 25 | In others , however , fee-payers ( who may or may not have been among ‘ the gifted and the intellectual ’ ) existed alongside those who had won places in the eleven-plus competition . |
| 26 | One of the real problems was that there were too many badly built , badly designed buildings in the wrong location which the tenants do n't want . ’ |
| 27 | Central South 's badminton star Julie Bradbury is having mixed fortunes at the All England Open at Wembley . |
| 28 | Central South 's badminton star Julie Bradbury is having mixed fortunes at the All England Open at Wembley . |
| 29 | * Norsk Hydro , a Norwegian manufacturing group , and British Airways have won awards from the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants for environmental reports . |
| 30 | Even more importantly , as Mikhail Gorbachev gradually allows so many officially forgotten barbarisms from the Soviet Union 's past to slide into the glare of public scrutiny , so the prospect grows of solving one of the post-war era 's most persistent enigmas . |