Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Clauses 81 and 83 make provision for the appeal arrangements that will apply in Scotland . |
| 4 | Help Eastern European countries embracing democracy , and declare support for the reform policies of President Mikhail Gorbachev ; |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'll go on accepting payment until the course finishes |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He said : ’ I reserve my position on that because I have not only got to find money for the welfare changes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Breeders will need Department of the Environment licences before birds are left in the wild . |
| 16 | We tried football in the exercise periods , but soon developed a more entertaining and satisfying game , a variation on volleyball . |
| 17 | When they acknowledge receipt of an article journals sometimes state how long authors should expect to wait before receiving a decision , although few make this information more widely available . |
| 18 | The Accommodation Service is available to provide assistance during the vacation periods as well as during term-time . |
| 19 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 20 | Put more bluntly , the Big Six in the US appear to be putting a pistol to the public 's head and saying : if you want continuation of the audit services we provide , then change the legal system so that we can maximise our economic return on our investment on auditing . |
| 21 | The overall regression equation , calibrated by ordinary least squares , relating population to the carrier variables is Table 5.3 gives further details . |
| 22 | During March the Northern Ireland office drew attention to the discussion papers and issued advertisements which included the following : |
| 23 | Kenyatta ( 1.4 ) describes childhood amongst the Gikuyu , where the family and community has primacy over the learning experiences which will equip children with the skills and qualities valued in this pre-industrial society . |
| 24 | These great works , at any rate , converted shallow waters , where ‘ fen slodgers ’ had fished for eels and caught waterfowl for the town markets , into the most fertile soil in Britain , where rich harvests are now reaped . |
| 25 | Cells that have a genetic capacity for hardening are stimulated by the environment to produce isoenzymes — alternatives to those normally in production — that change the phospholipid and sterol content of the cell membranes . |
| 26 | Controlling either the monetary base or broad liquidity is difficult given that the Bank of England is always prepared to provide liquidity to the discount houses as lender of last resort . |
| 27 | If it is true that ‘ Political power and the effective control of communication go together ’ and political power at a local level may concern formation of council or school policy ; equally , consumer power depends on knowledge for choice and accountability while producer power needs control of the base materials , including know-how . |
| 28 | The Institute possesses a wide range of data logging , micro- and mini-computing equipment and has access to the computing facilities of the Edinburgh University Computing Service and to national and international networks . |
| 29 | The reader who has access to the copyright libraries — which in Britain are the British Library Reference Division ( better known still as the British Museum Library ) , the national libraries of Scotland and Wales and the university libraries of Oxford , Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin — can gain access to practically everything published in the UK since these libraries receive ‘ copyright ’ copies of all books , journals and most pamphlets and research reports . |
| 30 | Bill Grundy has trouble with The Sex Pistols on TV . |