Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Hyperion label the disc comes at ‘ upper mid-price ’ - just under £10-but it is worth remembering that Sir David Willcocks 's vintage performances of the Coronation Anthems with King 's College Choir at their brightest now come on mid-price CD in Decca 's Ovation series , generously coupled with the magnificent , extended Chandos Anthem No. 9 , O Praise The Lord With One Consent . |
| 2 | A single 9.3-metre-wide carriageway realignment of the Edinburgh/Kilmarnock road ( A71 ) has been provided with localised dualling where required at junctions west of the Bypass . |
| 3 | As a result they have also been trapped into importing food , an operation with considerable potential for losses , although ameliorated by exchange rate policy . |
| 4 | A modern-looking internal power filter could be left exposed , as a feature in itself , rather than hidden behind aquascape features . |
| 5 | The politicians were less impressed by the restoration of free elections than irritated by de Gaulle 's determination to place constraints on the assembly 's freedom of action . |
| 6 | Similarly , the Ministry of Rural Development published progress in four Zambian languages , but its circulation was very low : although intended for peasant farmers , it was almost impossible for them to obtain . |
| 7 | According to the most recent Green Paper ( DES 1985b ) there were at that time 184 institutions engaged wholly or mainly in the provision of higher education courses , and another 372 in which some provision was at this level — a total of 556 ( 10 fewer than given in Annex A of that document ) . |
| 8 | The green-lipped mussel preparation is a remedy which , although given in material doses , is akin to homoeopathy in its mode of action . |
| 9 | Although surrounded by peat moorlands , Toftingall rests on a gravel base and has a pH of approximately 7.5 . |
| 10 | Britain 's trade gap narrowed in February to seven hundred and fifty million pounds from eight hundred and fifty-eight million , but the figures are worse than expected by City analysts . |
| 11 | She has devoted her time to the survey of the wreck of an East Indiaman lying off Weymouth ; once captained by William Wordsworth 's brother , the ship went down in 1805 . |
| 12 | In contrast to the aforementioned pol III genes , U6 snRNA genes from vertebrates , although transcribed by RNA polymerase III , are controlled by promoter elements resembling those of typical pol II genes . |
| 13 | Although born in South Africa , Holmes à Court became one of several Australian multi-million dollar entrepreneurs who profited from stock market dealing under the climate of laissez faire capitalism created during the 1980s by the successive governments of the Australian Labor Party . |
| 14 | Although defended by Diplock J. in London Export Corporation Ltd. v. Jubilee Coffee Roasting Co . Ltd. [ 1958 ] 1 W.L.R. 271 , 281 , the practice was discontinued shortly afterwards . |
| 15 | No one is more anxious that the penalties should be apt for the crime than those most immediately affected by prison disorder . |
| 16 | Such a pulsating close battle required firmer handling than administered by Brian Wallis , for there were quite a few personal grudges raging . |
| 17 | It certainly assisted in the development of Renamo in the 1980s as a terrorist group in opposition to government , albeit supported by South Africa . |
| 18 | Although associated with Brian Boru , the 11th-century high king of Ireland , the harp is in fact unlikely to be more than five hundred years old . |
| 19 | A US federal court has ordered a secondary ban on tuna imports from countries that buy the fish from Mexico and Venezuela , which have been under a US embargo since 1990 because they kill more dolphins than allowed by US law [ see ED no. 51 ] . |
| 20 | In the end , the move had to be inserted , rather than filmed in master shot . |
| 21 | But now scientists believe the root cause of Germany 's problems could simply be drier weather , albeit aggravated by acid deposition and by the growing tendency for forests , like farmland , to be planted as monocultures . |
| 22 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 23 | Although warned by referee John Street of the consequences of a further ‘ miss ’ after two failures , Davis still could not hit either of the two balls and thus became the most notable victim of the controversial rule . |
| 24 | To some extent , then , kin can take on the status of friends , perhaps involving special kinds of obligations and pressures , but also subject to the influence of factors such as distance and the preference of the couples themselves , rather than determined by blood relationship . |
| 25 | Capital expenditure of £54.9m was more than covered by cash flow generated from operati |
| 26 | Although mentioned by Conan Doyle as a quiet village to which one of Sherlock Holmes ' clients retired , and the birthplace of Mrs. Beeton , of cookery fame , Penge owes its development mainly to the re-erection of the Crystal Palace at the top of Anerley Hill , in 1854 , when it was removed from the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park . |
| 27 | Although described as core troops , you might consider including smaller units of Boar Boyz in a supporting role . |
| 28 | Although hailed by Randolph Churchill as being ‘ Tory democracy in action ’ , the 1963 process was no more open . |
| 29 | Between 1966 and 1981 the number of conversions more than doubled in Greater London and , according to the Nationwide Building Society , conversions accounted for between 30 and 60 percent of all mortgages granted in central and inner London in 1984/85 . |
| 30 | A much lower rate than predicted by chancellor Norman Lamont on last week 's budget . |