Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Extending the range of visits to library and related establishments beyond the London area to which we are limited through lack of funds ’ … |
| 32 | One view central to the lawyer/economist is that , in a world where , on the one hand , resources ( all of which have alternative uses ) are limited through scarcity and where on the other hand , there exists the insatiable human desire to consume those resources , then inevitably , trade-offs and choices must somehow be made . |
| 33 | On the one hand , tenure in top positions is normally limited through a more explicit contractual term of office than is employed in the private sector , and self-perpetuating oligarchies can not form . |
| 34 | As with other holders of potential power , the strategies open to presidents are limited through a variety of factors — the president is constrained through his formal constitutional powers , the degree of popularity he enjoys and the limitations imposed by relations with other countries , for example . |
| 35 | The producers of public expenditure have helped increase public spending since the competition for votes has led politicians to promise more and more spending ; moreover , since governments come into office with a vast amount of spending commitments inherited from previous governments , their ability to reduce these commitments substantially is limited through the length of time that would be required to make such reductions , and further , they are unlikely to court unpopularity through doing so . |
| 36 | Campaign financing is encouraged and yet limited through structural features of the American political system . |
| 37 | Evidence of the Host 's appearance is said to be the red crotal ( lichen ) stain found on rocks the morning after a heavy frost , which is blood they have spilled during their aerial spats . |
| 38 | He leaned forward and spat between Ebert 's feet . |
| 39 | While digesting my daily dose of Gulf wallpaper the other week , I chanced upon a Radio 4 telephone spat between an editor from ITN and Nicholas Soames MP , a Tory backbencher . |
| 40 | Obligations undertaken through consent or respect are voluntary or semi-voluntary obligations . |
| 41 | The first area is the teaching of legal awareness in schools , now being undertaken through a collaborative project between the Law Society and the School Curriculum Development Committee on Law in Education . |
| 42 | And this costly project was being undertaken through a strong sense of duty to what he believed his father would have wished him to do . |
| 43 | Such consultation was undertaken through a Great Council , from which evolved what was to be recognized as a parlement or Parliament . |
| 44 | Or perhaps more accurately , the designed object is validated as museum display through the discourse of design history . |
| 45 | This chapter examines a study , where , at the outset , the analysts were not entirely clear what could be achieved by using soft systems analysis , but felt it would provide an overview of the situation , enabling ideas to be formulated about new relationships that would arise from a fundamental change in role . |
| 46 | General theories are formulated about supposedly universal topics , for instance , about attribution of emotions , or friendship formation or schematic information-processing , etc . |
| 47 | He fastened the beads round his neck , arranging the knife so that it rested hidden between his shoulder blades . |
| 48 | A discharge from the urethra can sometimes be demonstrated during the medical examination , but , since the urethral opening in the female is hidden between the folds of the labia , such a discharge will not be apparent to the woman herself ; even if she examines herself , the natural moistness of this part of the body will tend to mask any contribution from the urethra . |
| 49 | On the other side of the street , beyond a row of lime trees , the broad green slope of Fernhill Park falls away in an amphitheatric curve to the river hidden between steep banks . |
| 50 | Whatever the specific features of the occupations chosen for study , samples tend uniformly to be male , or mostly male : this fact is hidden through the use of titles which purport to be describing work in general and the worker irrespective of gender . |
| 51 | By that time the information contained in the audited accounts would be so out of date that it would not reasonably be foreseen as the basis for a business judgment concerning the extension of credit to Berg or the discounting of bills . |
| 52 | Trade incentives , one case free for every ten purchased in the in introductory period which we 've foreseen as four weeks . |
| 53 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 54 | Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel , Senna 's stop went like clockwork . |
| 55 | She added : ‘ If her journey was delayed as a result of the plucking , the person involved will be given a roasting . |
| 56 | But there are two further points which emerge from considerations of a wide range of literature relating to public enterprise : big investment decisions have been complicated and delayed as a result of having to be considered by a number of government departments ; such decisions have been easy prey to party political pressures when they have involved the location of new plants and/or closure of old ones [ Knight , 1974 ] . |
| 57 | The meeting had originally been scheduled to start on July 1 , but had been delayed as a result of Sri Lanka 's announcement on June 24 that it would not participate because of India 's refusal to agree on the withdrawal of the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) from Sri Lanka by the latter 's deadline of July 29 [ see p. 36735 ] . |
| 58 | All-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland , initiated by Peter Brooke , the UK Northern Ireland Secretary [ see p. 38156 ] , which were due to start on May 7 , were delayed as a result of procedural disputes mainly concerning the venue and chairing of the second strand of discussions . |
| 59 | Russia 's intended sale of diesel submarines to Iran , which had aroused strong US opposition , was delayed as a result of a dispute over trade payments , according to a Russian announcement on Sept. 25 . |
| 60 | Final approval had been delayed as a result of a Spanish-UK disagreement on the rate of tax to be applied to Spanish and British sherry in the UK . |