Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 2 | Despite their early start , they still attended the dinner laid on by the Flanders rugby authorities . |
| 3 | TAFF Gregory , the Army cook who won a Gulf War BEM ( Eating Out August 14 ) , has quickly marched on from the Hartforth Hall Hotel at Gilling West , near Richmond . |
| 4 | Sandblasting of the Great Slab area at Stanage to remove graffiti painted on over the August bank holiday has had the beneficial side effect of totally cleaning the afflicted area of chalk and rubber marks , and has also increased the friction . |
| 5 | We got a letter , passed on from the Newcastle office this morning concerning a woman who wants to sell her bungalow . |
| 6 | Martha , who had decided to stop thinking about the inconvenience they were causing , asked Woodie not to stop at the boats ; they would like to go on to the New King 's Road . |
| 7 | From Seathwaite follow the access road to Long House Farm ( 1 mile ) but bypass the farm to go on to the Walna Scar Road ( actually a bridleway ) . |
| 8 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
| 9 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 10 | This marked the recommencement of the peace process which had been under serious threat in recent months as both the FMLN and the government accused each other of not abiding by the conditions laid down in the January peace treaty [ see pp. 38716 ; 38809 ; 38906 ] . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most telling aspect of the great wad of paper work which MPs get handed at the end of the Budget statement was the revelation tucked away that , even on Norman Lamont 's most optimistic financial forecast , the UK would not be in a position to meet the European Economic convergence criteria laid down in the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 12 | In the West Indies the original unity laid down in the Carlisle grant disintegrated as the Leeward Islands broke away from Barbados and Jamaica was set up with an entirely separate governorship . |
| 13 | The European Community has agreed to ban the use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) by June 1997 — three years ahead of the deadline laid down in the Montreal Protocol on protection of the ozone layer [ see ED no. 35/36 ] . |
| 14 | The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] . |
| 15 | I would add that if all the member states made the registration of their fishing vessels subject to residence or domicile requirements of the type laid down in the United Kingdom Act , nationals of other member states established in the United Kingdom would not even be able to carry on any fishing activity under any flag , because they would not be entitled to fly the flag of any member state . |
| 16 | They were judged on the criteria laid down by the EC Directive — that they should be unbiased , should properly examine alternatives , and should detail the measures that would be taken to mitigate any environmental damage . |
| 17 | As David Trippier from the Department of the Environment said , this is two-and-a-half years ahead of the schedule laid down by the Montreal protocol — and the government would have liked it even faster . |
| 18 | For all this to take place in so remote an area required not only payment of high wages but elaborate logistic arrangements on a massive scale , particularly with the strict conditions laid down by the Shetlands Islands Council to protect both the environment and the local way of life . |
| 19 | There is serious doubt about whether Italy can achieve the norms laid down by the Maastricht Treaty , and qualify for membership of the European Community single market next year and full monetary union by 1997 or later . |
| 20 | This removes any realistic prospect of a government introducing severe economic reforms to reduce Italy 's huge public debt to fulfil norms for the EC single market laid down by the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 21 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 22 | Within the requirements laid down by the Franks Report of the need for openness , fairness and impartiality , the objective is to achieve a formal procedure with an informal atmosphere . |
| 23 | Users had to present their data in ways laid down by the DP department ; they found themselves bound by the DP department 's priorities rather than by their own ; and , in addition , they had to compete with colleagues for use of the computer 's facilities . |
| 24 | Tucking in at the Cork District Social function held in Clancy 's Bar on Wednesday , 7th April 1993 . |
| 25 | Paul Azinger , Payne Stewart , Mark O'Meara , Steve Pate , and Chip Beck can be counted upon to pick up yet again the gauntlet flung down by the Mother Country . |
| 26 | And Jackson , who caused upset when he held his nose after touching down in the Ivory Coast , plans to perform extra dates in Africa . |
| 27 | And the singer , who caused upset when he held his nose after touching down in the Ivory Coast , plans to perform extra dates in Africa ‘ to make amends ’ . |
| 28 | Music 24 songs and nothin' to hear Geoff Dyer goes down to the Springsteen river , and finds that it 's dry |
| 29 | Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink . |
| 30 | Would he , seventeen years afterwards , be able to rediscover the mouth of the hole that led down into the Goughdale Mine ? |