Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Gallery has received letters of support from several international museums and galleries , including Dominique Bozo , director of the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris , Gerard Regnier , director of the Picasso Museum , Paris , and Thomas Messer , director emeritus of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York and now chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery in Prague . |
| 2 | The trust has received letters of support from Americans who served there during the war and hopes much of the money can be raised in the United States . |
| 3 | Set up in 1991 , the service has received requests for traces from over 15,000 people and possible pension source has been located in over 90 per cent of cases . |
| 4 | The group has received donations from well-wishers from as far as Bangor and Holyhead . |
| 5 | An international mountaineering conference in Katmandu , Nepal , has heard demands for climbers to be periodically barred from much of the Himalayas in an effort to limit their impact on the fragile mountain environment . |
| 6 | The German mining company Uranerz operates the Key Lake uranium mine in Saskatchewan , believed to be the world 's largest , which has provoked expressions of concern from local Dene and Cree people , who fear possible radioactive contamination of their land . |
| 7 | On the one hand , GM has joined forces with Toyota in car production and with the Japanese van manufacturer Isuzu , to which it sold a 40 per cent stake in its Bedford van plant in the UK and with which it is now investing £70m to produce a new four-wheel drive vehicle for the European market . |
| 8 | The knacker industry has reported falls in throughput of about 45 per cent on cattle and 95 per cent on sheep . |
| 9 | To lay the ground for his plan Mr Clinton has tarred opponents in advance as ‘ defenders of decline ’ who have ‘ already lined the corridors of power with high-priced lobbyists ’ to prevent the changes he wants . |
| 10 | The country has frozen imports of CFCs at the 1991 level of 15,648 tonnes ; according to the Industry Ministry imports to August this year were in line with last year 's total of 10,044 tonnes . |
| 11 | Rock Kitchen Harris has won accounts worth £650,000 from Monsanto and LI Products . |
| 12 | Dale order : Power systems manufacturer Dale Electric has won orders worth £200,000 in Nigeria . |
| 13 | Further , the claim is made that his criterion has withstood tests against episodes from the last two hundred or so years of physics in a superior way to rival criteria that have been proposed . |
| 14 | And the princess has accepted gifts of jewellery worth several million pounds . |
| 15 | The apple has suffered delusions of grandeur for centuries — ever since the Biblical legend of Adam and Eve reached north-west Europe and people assumed that the fruit on the Tree of Knowledge was an apple . |
| 16 | In the UK the process of privatization over the past nine years has moved utilities from public to private ownership , again under a regime of regulation ( Vickers and Yarrow , 1988 ) . |
| 17 | Dr Glyn Vale , of the Rekomitjie research station in northern Zimbabwe 's valley , claims that the ecologists lack the evidence to prove that the tsetse has prevented farmers from flooding into treasured wildlife areas . |
| 18 | Or let us not forget that research on Japan in the 1930s has revealed conflicts of interest between and within the military , zaibatsu , politicians and the bureaucracy . |
| 19 | The temporary ‘ window of opportunity ’ which has made gifts of works of art and other property to US museums fully tax deductible since January 1991 , has been extended for a further eighteen months from July . |
| 20 | It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth . |
| 21 | The Audit Commission has examined achieving value for money in areas such as the management of the council housing stock , and has produced reports on absenteeism through sickness , on the police , on refuse collection and on schools . |
| 22 | The larger size of authorities has produced complaints about remoteness from rural areas . |
| 23 | This has produced savings to date of £24m of which £13m related to manpower . |
| 24 | Radius Plc 's strategy of refocussing on software and services for vertical markets rather than on low-margin hardware sales has produced dividends in terms of profits for the year ending November 30 . |
| 25 | WACC has had contacts with CEPACS for many years . |
| 26 | WACC has had contacts with CEPACS for many years . |
| 27 | The BMC are also asking for details from anyone who has had problems at Latterbarrow in Wasdale . |
| 28 | ETA has had operatives in Barcelona for years , and the documents could reflect simply the continuation of these operations . |
| 29 | Critical reaction aside , Edith MacArthur has had piles of letters from viewers who were moved by her portrayal of the dying woman confronting the limits of her family relationships . |
| 30 | EXPLORER Gerald Kingsland , 62 — who inspired the film Castaway — has had scores of replies to an ad for a girl to join him on an island . |