Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Their findings dramatically support the idea of accretionary or microplate tectonics advanced by geologists in recent years . |
| 4 | In 1991 , 363 accidents involved drivers affected by alcohol with 23% of these resulting in injury . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | East Anglia has bookshops filled with titles like 101 Things For A Boy To Do … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The investigators explore issues raised by integration on a number of levels including the physical/technical system , computer hardware/software system , management information and control system , and the organisational system . |
| 19 | The Quebec authorities proposed the creation of a special human rights tribunal to try Mohawks charged with offences during the siege , while Indian leaders demanded that Indian police agencies be established because of the widespread distrust of white law enforcement . |
| 20 | Though the unit still has responsibility for keeping ministers informed of developments in the UK oil and gas industry , most of the 86 staff working for OSO now focus on worldwide developments , including opportunities in the former Soviet republics and other areas which were closed markets to British exporters until a few years ago . |
| 21 | Press reports pointed to efforts by Western arms companies to expand this market to compensate for falling sales to the USA and Europe since the end of the Cold War . |
| 22 | Given these factors , in particular the fact that default premia tend to vary over the trade cycle , it is not a trivial task to isolate factors related to competition in the new issue market . |
| 23 | The downstairs restaurant where breakfast is served , has walls decorated with paintings of people dressed in traditional local costumes . |
| 24 | And now Toni lives in Magaluf — once a tiny village where even islanders rarely visited , now a sprawling mess of neon , curry burgers and chips , the Benny Hill and Linekers bars , and holidaying Brits drunk in charge of a limited vocabulary . |
| 25 | Candles deep yellow , shades orange silk , place cards written in orange on a yellow background , ices coloured yellow with saffron or turmeric and served in paper baskets of a deep orange colour . |
| 26 | While the parent television company has experienced serious delays with the supply of a vital set of electronic chips made by ITT , Datavision will be using chips made by Philips of the Netherlands and Plessey of the UK . |
| 27 | Iraq announces it will detain Westerners stranded in Kuwait at military installations . |
| 28 | Candidates for discarding might be hunting trophies willed to museums by former benefactors . |
| 29 | Lloyd 's has also agreed to pass Syndicate Premium Income ( Amendment No 4 ) Bye-law ( No 11 of 1992 ) , which allows premiums paid by syndicates for quota share re-insurances with insurance companies to be deductible when calculating a syndicate 's premium income . |
| 30 | Guy stood still , glittering eyes narrowed on Isabel for a long , tense minute . |