Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fitch reckons that not all bond insurers deserve the top rating ; those that do , it believes , suffer because investors do not trust the triple-As assigned to the insured debt by Moody 's and S&P . |
| 2 | The great anti-Establishment provocateur of the Sixties now reduced to a gibbering wreck ? |
| 3 | finally , local councils were to be formed for each former borough , urban district or parish council area in the new unitary authorities , and where wanted in the metropolitan areas . |
| 4 | These are available where indicated on the individual Club pages for a first child sharing a room with 2 adults . |
| 5 | Although situated near an industrial area , its location on the banks of the Tennant Canal makes it a tranquil and memorable site . |
| 6 | And in my experience , this sort of transcendence is not involved in anorexia nervosa , where the material world has to be grappled with and controlled , rather than dismissed as an ultimate unreality . |
| 7 | Although developed as a mass movement , it had no leadership cult , and despite William Joyce 's scar , confrontation with socialists was small beer compared with the castor oil politics of Italy in the 1920s . |
| 8 | The advance of this critical period , however , can not easily be linked to the idea of a body clock which tends to run fast and so produce daily rhythms which are timed too early because , when daily rhythms have been investigated in these patients , it appears that daily rhythms are irregular , rather than altered in a particular direction . |
| 9 | He dropped it first , it seems , on considering sporting-dog breeds , notably greyhounds ; for these , although formed by the human artifice of selective breeding , had been given both structures and instincts useful in the wild . |
| 10 | Extensive canvassing showed the race issue to be , at best , marginal , more than counter-balanced by a strong pro-Taylor vote from many non-Tory constituents . |
| 11 | Although listed among the Western hostages held in Lebanon , the family was considered by many to have been held in Libya . |
| 12 | To the purist it would seem regrettable to have included a modern 14-carat gold box by Cartier ( although decorated with a nineteenth-century mosaic ) as the last entry in this book . |
| 13 | In this different culture it can be said that the basic dynamics of the Oedipal situation appear , albeit modified by the different structural and cultural arrangements . |
| 14 | Although committed to the Independent Orange Order 's rally in Ballycastle , he announced that he would begin the Twelfth by visiting Portadown to add his support to the planned march . |
| 15 | The prospective councillors will number two dozen ( rather than the sparse but active dozen originally sought ) ; there will continue to be a rather odd balance of journalists and lay members , selected rather than nominated by a quangoid committee . |
| 16 | The prospective councillors will number two dozen ( rather than the sparse but active dozen originally sought ) ; there will continue to be a rather odd balance of journalists and lay members , selected rather than nominated by a quangoid committee . |
| 17 | The point ( compared with cooperative acquisition ) is that all the purchased items are centralized at a site on the University of Chicago , rather than scattered amongst the participating libraries . |
| 18 | Although organised on a departmental basis , postgraduate study within the Faculty is not confined to disciplinary boundaries . |
| 19 | Survival curves were identical for patients who were and were not operated on and were only slightly worse than expected for the general population matched for age . |
| 20 | Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 21 | His house in a respectable street in Balham smelt damp and cold , an effect enhanced rather than discouraged by the adopted English cosiness of the decoration : patterned carpets , patterned wallpaper , smoked-glass lampshades and brass knick-knacks on the walls . |
| 22 | It would be impertinent to suggest that Keynes dichotomised his private and professional life and in this sense discretionary monetary policy and deficit spending by government although recommended as a technical solution to a technical problem , must be seen as the prescriptions of a self-confessed immoralist . |
| 23 | Although defeated as an independent candidate at Mile End in January 1916 , he achieved success two months later at another parliamentary by-election in East Hertfordshire . |
| 24 | Although written from a French perspective , the essence of the Charter is relevant for all cultures and it reflects the values promoted by WACC through its worldwide programme of media awareness seminars and workshops . |
| 25 | Although written from the different viewpoints of the agriculturalist and the physiological ecologist , both books have running through them the strongly common theme of comparative physiology and nutrition . |
| 26 | Likewise , the lives of other soldier-heroes of the period , the Black Prince , du Guesclin , even that of Henry V , although written in the chivalric vein , stress that these men were successful largely because their inherent qualities of leadership had benefited from training and experience . |
| 27 | He promoted county petitions supporting the vote of no addresses and the trial of Charles I. But although named to the high court of justice in January 1649 , he stayed away and returned to Parliament only after the king 's execution . |
| 28 | In some cases a relatively low rateable value more than compensated for a high rate poundage ( Blair 1988a:2 ) . |
| 29 | By reducing the tax distortion and increasing the amount of work a lot , lower taxes would be more than compensated by the extra work and incomes to which the tax rates were applied . |
| 30 | She could still hear the pounding of the waves on the rocks below , but felt lulled rather than threatened by the muffled boom , accepting it as an inescapable sound on an island surrounded by the Atlantic ocean . |