Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made £41.7m compared with £32.5m in 1990 and is increasing its total dividend payout to 56.4p per share from 47p . |
| 2 | There were odd cases of profiteering such as the rental and catering concession held by Mears at Chelsea , but these were the exceptions that proved the rule . |
| 3 | Apart from the seismic work in the licence blocks , the joint venture is also involved in a wider geophysical evaluation — essentially to review every sedimentary basin in Algeria and , using experience gained by LASMO in Libya , Egypt and Algeria , to look at the palaeozoic basins of North Africa . |
| 4 | That evening Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Clarke set down his thoughts in brief notes on raiding parties carried by ship to the French coast and drawn from a special force . |
| 5 | The booklet has ben produced as part of the NKRF/Kidney Foundation Gift of Life initiative , a campaign to prevent kidney disease , and to encourage more people to carry organ donor cards . |
| 6 | The reversal cleared the way for the Swiss cantonal court of Geneva to co-operate in the investigation by disclosing details of six secret accounts with Swiss banks which were alleged to contain money paid by Bofors in " commissions " . |
| 7 | W H Smith is celebrating four ‘ best ever ’ signing sessions held in shops in Europe and the UK , all courtesy of survivors of the Beirut hostage crisis Brian Keenan , John McCarthy and Jill Morrell . |
| 8 | Their findings dramatically support the idea of accretionary or microplate tectonics advanced by geologists in recent years . |
| 9 | In 1991 , 363 accidents involved drivers affected by alcohol with 23% of these resulting in injury . |
| 10 | The former enshrines the major cavity properties : E1 is the incident field amplitude ( normally zero in a laser ) ; t is the time for light to propagate from the cell output around to the input , equal to ( " : - — L ) /c ; 8 is the cavity mistuning , whose physical significance is best examined for the empty cavity , in steady state , whence and thus The cavity field thus has resonances spaced at intervals of in 8 , which are very sharp if R is close to unity ( high-finesse resonator ) . |
| 11 | This would include workers employed in tourism for a holiday period , shop assistants who are employed for a Christmas or summer season and construction workers who are employed on a contractual basis . |
| 12 | Iris Murdoch 's prolific fiction touches only occasionally on academia ; but she loves plots based on relations between teacher and pupil , master and disciple , and her interest in philosophy is so well known a fact that it informs any reading of her books , which are often felt to convey modern philosophical issues in lucid and digestible form . |
| 13 | East Anglia has bookshops filled with titles like 101 Things For A Boy To Do … |
| 14 | Its members occupied seats reserved for whites in a lunch counter at a Woolworth store in Greensboro , North Carolina , after they had been refused service . |
| 15 | The skills required to manoeuvre flask transporters obviously stood Adam Luke , from Torness , in good stead when he entered the Scottish lorry driving championships held at SECC in Glasgow recently . |
| 16 | Then they used water mixed with vinegar in a syringe to rinse the cavity clear , sitting her up so that the residue could run out through her nose . |
| 17 | before PACE , to exclude evidence obtained in breach of the Judges ' Rules . |
| 18 | The Department of the Environment has published the results of a study investigating the impact of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 on resolving problems faced by leaseholders in flats . |
| 19 | The analysis will focus on the policy debates , common law rules , and statutory and regulatory provisions regarding the use and legal sufficiency of the Chinese Wall in resolving problems associated with conflicts of interest and duty in corporate entities . |
| 20 | My brew for this breeding attempt was to be tap water , rain water and tap water filtered through peat in equal measures , which gave me readings of 6pH and 2DH |
| 21 | A good example is the ‘ right ’ to tax diversion ( see Dignan , Chapter 6 ) — while British Courts are prepared to listen to arguments based on statutory rights , and may well be prepared to listen to arguments grounded in International Law , they are far less willing , at present , to accept arguments based on concepts of ( natural ) rights . |
| 22 | Labour was determined that no judge would be able to circumvent protections provided by Parliament by ‘ inventing new torts or arbitrarily changing the definition of a trade dispute ’ . |
| 23 | Another person died on the same day and at least eight people were hospitalized with bullet wounds after police had moved in to smash barricades erected by demonstrators at Pec . |
| 24 | Store Cattle : Medium weight ( 300399kg ) Simmental cross store steer prices fell by 1.5p to 111.1p per kg lw during the week ended 24 october while Charolais cross store steer prices rose slightly by 0.4p to 115.9p per kg lw Hereford cross store steer prices increased by 2.4p to 111.1p per kg lw . |
| 25 | Each of them has the power to decide immediately to stop purchasing tuna caught by fishing on dolphins . |
| 26 | She pointed out that the programmes of study , which have statutory force , now say that for all stages reading materials should ‘ include works written in English from other cultures ’ . |
| 27 | The second phase of the MGS was completed in 1982 at a cost of $10 billion with a capacity to process gas associated with output from the huge Ghawar , Abquaiq , Berri , Damman and Harmaliyah fields . |
| 28 | The route has its intake in the Gaza Strip , which is occupied territory captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 29 | He symbolizes man liberated by reason from the fear of death , the optimist for whom all truth is rationally accessible and knowledge of the truth a panacea . |
| 30 | A CRITICAL EDITION has a named editor , who tries to make the text the best possible version , and will usually include footnotes or appendices explaining decisions taken about words in the text . |