Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a period of unemployment in 1919 he found work at the government-run Slough Transport Depot where he became chairman of the shop stewards ' committee , organizing strikes and demonstrations against its eventual closure in April 1920 . |
| 2 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 3 | In the week before the start of the congress it emerged that party ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev was canvassing support among the party leaderships in several republics and in Moscow and Leningrad for postponing the congress until the autumn . |
| 4 | Clauses 81 and 83 make provision for the appeal arrangements that will apply in Scotland . |
| 5 | Editor Richard Felton , who writes a large proportion of the magazine himself , flew out to report on Shell Brazil 's initiative to fund sport and dance programmes for the street kids . |
| 6 | Help Eastern European countries embracing democracy , and declare support for the reform policies of President Mikhail Gorbachev ; |
| 7 | Sometimes the Moors sell prisoners in the slave markets . |
| 8 | Difficulties over timing are normally resolved by the respective lawyers giving appropriate undertakings , particularly if the chargee will not release the charge until it has received part of the sale proceeds . |
| 9 | I 'll go on accepting payment until the course finishes |
| 10 | Caradryel introduces the system of rotating units to the Gateway fortresses so that the garrisons are always at full strength . |
| 11 | For example : Sentence Graphics 1 John gets up Stick figure in bed then standing by bed 2 John gets dressed Clothes appear on stick figure 3 John eats breakfast food on breakfast table disappears 4 John gets the bus to Stick figure leaves house , school waits at bus stop , is collected by bus 5 He plays football in the Stick boys play football yard Example 4 : parts of speech . |
| 12 | Questionnaires were sent out to 300 employees and timekeepers in order to gather data on the problem areas . |
| 13 | He said : ’ I reserve my position on that because I have not only got to find money for the welfare changes . |
| 14 | His latest theatre has included Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Nights Dream and the fascinating double Hugo/Frederick in Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon at the open air theatre in Regent 's park , London . |
| 15 | Early studies of the contemporary romance form tended to offer somewhat disbelieving accounts of the readership figures for a fiction in which marriage was invariably offered as the solution for female anxiety ; as in David Margolies ' attempts to do this in his application of the tools of literary criticism to the most consistently successful publishing concern in the world . |
| 16 | This was used to infer values of the Census variables for households which never returned a form . |
| 17 | The pilot scheme guaranteed half the cost of improvements carried out by operators in Towyn , Kinmel Bay and Belgrano worst hit during the floods when the sea breached defences in the resort towns . |
| 18 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 19 | The Commission wants permission from the member states to widen the terms of its mandate to negotiate a partnership agreement with Russia and other former Soviet republics . |
| 20 | The company is understood to have abandoned development of the Repository altogether , and the switch of strategy leaves the whole AD/Cycle concept in complete disarray , though the company says that it is reaffirming support for the AD/Cycle tools available : to do anything else would leave the company open to all manner of retaliation from AD/Cycle International Alliance Members . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman — a Scottish Member — refused to take the opportunity to tell us what he would do about his Scottish problem at Ravenscraig , but he has views about the west midlands . |
| 22 | Mainz Cathedral is immense and was altered in later periods when the crossing towers were rebuilt in different styles and houses were constructed abutting on to and becoming part of the cathedral flanks . |
| 23 | Since 1984 the Justice Department has had authority to prosecute terrorists who attack Americans abroad , but the FBI has had to request permission from the host countries to return them to the US . |
| 24 | Whether the Council I , I personally would be quite keen to go down there and see A , and we 'd need permission of the land owners , to do this , to see where the link could go across , you know , the best position , so that we , and I believe this is what Councillor is saying , so that we can actually come forward and maybe this ought to be a meeting with the Amenities Committee , maybe the Ramblers and bear in mind as I say again I hate to do these things and the land owner think we 're steamrollering 'em into something without their knowledge . |
| 25 | During a debate on party organisation , some representatives complained that Conservative Central Office was not providing Tory workers with the necessary back-up to sustain and win support at the grass roots . |
| 26 | They particularly wanted to obtain copies of the prospecting licences to see what conditions were attached . |
| 27 | Breeders will need Department of the Environment licences before birds are left in the wild . |
| 28 | We tried football in the exercise periods , but soon developed a more entertaining and satisfying game , a variation on volleyball . |
| 29 | The database for the system contains data on the price movements of 1,700 companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange over the past 15 years . |
| 30 | The most senior candidate , Adam Matthews , 16 , of the Socialist Labour Party , said his party would abolish the Queen , generals and public schools , put the Royal Family out to work as wardens in nature parks , and prosecute Arsenal under the Trade Descriptions Act for calling themselves a football team . |