Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall . |
| 2 | Has a sister called Yvette . |
| 3 | Agatha ignored Fidelma and returned to the much more worrying matter of Timothy 's encounter with a chit called Topaz Chilcott . |
| 4 | They are generally made of a hardwood called ramin with a natural , mahogany or walnut finish , and are available in lengths up to 300cm ( 10ft ) with diameters of 25 , 30 and 35mm ( 1in , 1 ½in , 1 ⅜in ) . |
| 5 | All the essential work is done by a function called hbba whose value is the goal , if the algorithm finds one , or else false . |
| 6 | A similar process can be used to download soft fonts , which means that a bit mapped printer can be programmed to handle any font , including fonts designed by the user . |
| 7 | A pixel addressable printer can obviously reproduce a bit mapped image , and page description formats have developed to allow this . |
| 8 | While creating a bit mapped image is quick and easy it does have a number of significant disadvantages . |
| 9 | Any attempt to actually draw the circle is bound to have some kind of imperfection , such as the irregularities if a bit mapped device , or servo non-linearities in an X-Y plotter . |
| 10 | Well , we 've recently erm been involved in the Travel Lodge exercise , which obviously is a budget priced operation which is run by Trust House Forte , and there I think the company itself is establishing very good standards because the occupancy rate of the Travel Lodges is so high , you know , that other hoteliers are quite jealous of it . |
| 11 | Face Pack is a budget priced collection of 50 MonoType text and decorative fonts supplied in TrueType format . |
| 12 | INCUBUS has a think-tank called Dracon based outside Boston . |
| 13 | Just a fortnight earlier , she 'd been on a course called Heart Start , which taught her the basics of resuscitation . |
| 14 | The Outliner view shows you a text based summary . |
| 15 | Essentially a text orientated language , it has been expanded to give graphics capability . |
| 16 | A university based institute offers the possibility for greater objectivity and a greater preoccupation with overall purposes than may be possible in a hard pressed Ministry , together with the potential ( and it remains a potential ) for linking research findings with the practical problems of curriculum design . |
| 17 | As part of the decision-making involved the assumption of responsibility by the Board for the Bedfordshire scheme , it is not surprising that the two WEA members of the Board and Frank Salter , the District Treasurer , who was a University nominated member , cast their votes in favour of the rural areas scheme . |
| 18 | The details are immaterial , and it is sufficient for present purposes to say that they were concerned with two subjects , namely the accounts of Carrian and a building called Gammon House . |
| 19 | One very extensive class is er is a calcium activated potassium channel , where calcium 's now activating from the inside as we 've already seen in that example I showed you early on . |
| 20 | He did , however , ask , ‘ Can you tell me anything about a writer called LaMotte ? ’ |
| 21 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 22 | Mr Pat Roberts for installation of a coin operated electricity meter . |
| 23 | Too many stereotypes an American who only eats hamburgers , a fat feminist comic , a Scotsman called Haggis , a smooth , fast-talking agent and a series of unlikely events was its downfall . |
| 24 | Too many stereotypes an American who only eats hamburgers , a fat feminist comic , a Scotsman called Haggis , a smooth , fast-talking agent and a series of unlikely events was its downfall . |
| 25 | Too many stereotypes an American who only eats hamburgers , a fat feminist comic , a Scotsman called Haggis , a smooth , fast-talking agent and a series of unlikely events was its downfall . |
| 26 | The latest development is a drug called clomipramine which has the endearing quality of reducing the desire to pull your hair out when under stress . |
| 27 | A drug called cythioate , more usually administered to control fleas , imparts a highly unpleasant taste to the faeces , and this can be a suitable deterrent . |
| 28 | Clark tested this idea by injecting a drug called alloxan into mice that were previously inoculated with P. vinckei , ( other strains of Plasmodium have to be used in the mouse model because the human parasites P. vivax , P. ovale . |
| 29 | This section describes the information which should be entered to set up a computer based problem report using the IPF Problem Control Facility . |
| 30 | We have therefore developed a computer based technique for the quantification of bowel uptake and have applied it to images of the distribution of Tc-99m HMPAO lavelled leucocytes . |