Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was carried out in two centres on an outpatient basis using local anaesthesia and intravenous sedation where indicated at one to four weekly intervals until obliteration of all varices had been achieved . |
| 2 | But it is easier to show that the Aquitanians ' identity as a people was imposed on them rather than felt by them in Carolingian times . |
| 3 | Auguste smiled weakly , than laughed at himself for his vanity . |
| 4 | But it has more than paid for itself in improved factory efficiency , said Bob Pruitt , operations manager of Thatcher Tubes , Florence — part of Courtaulds Packaging . |
| 5 | We were only twenty or thirty yards from the line-up , albeit divided from it by a thin blue line of helmeted , truncheon-tipped breakers . |
| 6 | And if given to us as actual temptations , the rather lure of the church , the Reverend Simon Stephen Daedalus SJ , and the lure of the flesh ‘ He closed his eyes , surrendering himself to her body and mind , conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips ’ . |
| 7 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 8 | The MacSharry proposals , if implemented in anything like their current form , would decimate Scottish agriculture because Scottish farms are generally well above the average size of farms in the EC and in the rest of the United Kingdom , for historical but mainly geographical reasons . |
| 9 | With alarming speed a large moth dashed at the candle , repeatedly and frantically , as if attached to it by elastic cord . |
| 10 | In my humble opinion , no person of tender years should be burdened with a constant concentration of learning and training , unless interspersed with lots of leisure-time and outdoor pursuits . |
| 11 | Because of the difficulties of investigating a complaint too long after the event , we will not consider any complaint unless notified to us in writing within that time . |
| 12 | The fact that he had written a large part of it after his marriage led him to think of it as a work quite different from the one he had originally envisaged.It was while engaged on it at Kensington Court Gardens that he added the more tender love scenes which provide its real poetry . |
| 13 | Much litter is related to vehicles too , whether thrown from them in passing or resulting from their roadside cleansing or repair . |
| 14 | Mind you Chappie has made us all laugh at times , and Deane looks as limited to me in a different way . |
| 15 | I understand that all these come within the definition of ‘ highway lighting ’ as opposed to ‘ footway lighting ’ as given to me by one of your officers and are therefore the responsibility of Lancashire County Council . |
| 16 | I understand that all these come within the definition of ‘ highway lighting ’ as opposed to ‘ footway lighting ’ as given to me by one of your officers and are therefore the responsibility of Lancashire County Council . |
| 17 | It is the task of the Holy Spirit to take the revelation God as given to us through Jesus Christ , and to bring it home to us step by step , as we 're able to grasp it . |
| 18 | Please permit her to do so as arranged with you by phone . |
| 19 | He repeated the other details about the shipment of cocaine , as relayed to him by the mysterious informant the previous night . |
| 20 | Now frankly , an admiral who does n't pick his own bombing targets and a broker who ca n't choose his own investments do n't seem as oppressed to me as a clerk who is n't allowed to press her own return key . |
| 21 | And , though the cats have not been polled on this point , I suspect they would share human mistrust of the new and unknown when approached with it by advertising researchers . |
| 22 | The authentic story , as related to me by Andrew himself , is as follows . |
| 23 | She read the classic children 's novels wonderfully well , so well indeed that books like The Scarlet Pimpernel were often a disappointment when re-read by us in private afterwards . |
| 24 | The officers on part of the panel have consulted schools very carefully about the last remnants of possible delegation which might arise and the recommendations are as presented to us in red , set out in section three . |
| 25 | A common agreement between two or more persons having for its object the death of all of them , whether or not each is to take his own life , but nothing shall be treated as done by him in pursuance of the pact unless it is done while he has the settled intention of dying in pursuance of the pact . |
| 26 | At its most distinct , it includes work which could not physically be produced by a non-Disabled person ( for example , drawing as seen by someone with a specific visual impairment , or using muscle spasm to create a particular photographic quality ) . |
| 27 | Perhaps they are at their most dangerous when possessed by someone with the gift of persuasive speech and power and influence . |
| 28 | M E Tralbaut recounts the story of Vincent 's actual departure from Belgium 's black country , as told to him by his old friend Louis Piérard , who knew the widow of the pastor of Warquignies well . |
| 29 | The heart of it is about later life today , as told to us by 55 older men and women who are all grandparents . |
| 30 | Its appeal is obvious when shown to anyone in the target age group of ages 3 to 6 , and this should be one of the first programs a young user should see on a PC . |