Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his credit , Tony scored a hat-trick for the reserves on the same night that the first eleven where jeered off the pitch . |
| 2 | The Supreme Court enjoys an effective if indirect and delayed veto over legislation and executive actions , and its decisions where based on the Constitution may only be overridden by constitutional amendment ( involving the approval of two-thirds majorities of both the House and the Senate and of three-quarters of the states ) . |
| 3 | Multiple regression analysis showed no increase in the correlation when the villous height/crypt depth ratio and intraepithelial lymphocyte count together where compared with the cellobiose/ mannitol % ( multiple r=0.50 ) . |
| 4 | And they worry that they will be asked to make a contribution if the WIPers use up the DM600 million now allocated to the programme . |
| 5 | The blue grey mud banks glittered where wet from the tide , but lay dry and cracked like acres of crazy paving above the high water mark . |
| 6 | If all of the remaining ( n - 1 ) markets respond in a manner similar to the one outlined above , aggregation across labour markets will yield a determinate relationship between the overall rate of change of money wages , , and an index of aggregate excess demand for labour , X L , where defined as the ratio . |
| 7 | In fact the definition will also include persons entitled to intermediate leasehold interests where created by the landlord between the date of the agreement and the grant of the lease . |
| 8 | Meetings are to be held otherwise when and where determined by the trustee ( r 6.153(1) ) . |
| 9 | Often , these strategies were invented by the pupils rather than taught by the teacher . |
| 10 | Although limited by the Parliament Acts and the convention of non-involvement in financial matters , the House of Lords is the only such check . |
| 11 | Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s . |
| 12 | Thus , in spite of substantial emigration , the population of Lewis more than trebled during the course of the 19th century . |
| 13 | Although justified on the basis that the social services departments , and by implication the staff , were responsible for users ' safety during opening hours , this policy represented an explicit denial of users ' freedom . |
| 14 | She 's all grey , rather than freckled at the moment , but this chick is still something very special to staff at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust . |
| 15 | The philosophy of the Warnock Report ( Department of Education and Science , 1978 ) greatly influenced the content of the 1981 Education Act , particularly with its recommendation that varying and individual educational needs should be acknowledged , rather than prejudged on the basis of categories . |
| 16 | A disused pipe organ case is sometimes employed as a screen and certainly a more accurate impression of a pipe organ is gained if the speakers are positioned in one place , rather than dispersed around the building . |
| 17 | Tangy and crisp with a fruity flavour we quite liked this one , although we were less than impressed with the look of the bottle . |
| 18 | ( c ) Position conflicts : the position you take in one piece of litigation may be at odds with the position you want to take in a subsequent action ( for example , in advancing the cause of a plaintiff you may adopt a position that puts you in difficulty with some defence clients who are less than impressed with the vigour with which you espouse the plaintiff 's cause ) . |
| 19 | Gregory himself did not doubt the efficacy of the saint , but clearly Leudast and his supporters were less than impressed by the bishop 's special relationship with his supernatural patron . |
| 20 | Old age becomes something to be dreaded and endured rather than enjoyed by the individual . |
| 21 | Lothian Region Transport is a bus company which , although owned by the Council , acts independently as though it were a privately owned firm , it has no powers or funding to subsidise bus services . |
| 22 | oh dear , they 're , they 're better than caught in the act are n't they ? they 're quite |
| 23 | These can often be made cheaper per head by squeezing one person more than recommended into the household . |
| 24 | If closely neighbouring points on an attractor give trajectories that , although confined to the attractor , rapidly separate , then motion on the attractor shows a sensitivity to initial conditions . |
| 25 | The spectra of solid samples often contain more bands than expected on the basis of the molecular symmetry of single , isolated molecules . |
| 26 | If unions or individuals bargain for , and receive , wages on the basis of an expected rate of inflation that does not occur , then real wages will be higher or lower than expected over the period of the bargain . |
| 27 | Such a decrease is greater than expected for the loss of a single interaction between CP 96345 and the NK-1R ( for example , 30-fold reduction of CP 96345 affinity in the H197A mutant ) , suggesting that other amino-acid residues may also participate in interactions with the benzhydryl of CP 96345 . |
| 28 | It took much longer than expected for the population to be reduced by deaths , occasional discharges and transfers to new units . |
| 29 | A weight loss of only 1 lb ( 0.4 kg ) in the previous week ( less than expected for the effort put in ) . |
| 30 | We report here that ganglion cells near the fovea were allocated 3.3 to 5.9 times more cortical tissue than more peripheral ones , and conclude that the cortical representation of the most central retina is much greater than expected from the density of its ganglion cells . |