Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
2 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
3 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
4 | The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs . |
5 | I send minutes laid out in the proper style . |
6 | The team will play to the rules laid down for the 1992 World Cup . |
7 | An exclusion clause , which purports to exclude or limit liability under these terms , is subject to the rules already outlined in this chapter , including the rules laid down in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
8 | The Yorkshire Television helicopter , which had lifted the crew in , landed in pitch darkness , totally against the ground rules laid down by the Civil Aviation Authority , and lifted out the film equipment . |
9 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
10 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
11 | Like the malarial swamps out of which the Most Serene Republic rose , we have seen that human altruism , communal feeling and social responsibility arose out of the egoistic , sadistic and erotic drives with which nature had endowed man . |
12 | Hun Sen sold out to the Vietnamese , and is now selling out to Thai businessmen as well , it says . |
13 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
14 | Tony Rickardsson cruised through to the Nordic Final stage of the World Championship when he finished third in the three-leg Swedish heats last week . |
15 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
16 | All these data will help to inform the stage of development into which the records-of-achievement movement is now moving , namely that of nationalization following the proposals laid out in the 1984 policy statement . |
17 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
18 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
19 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
20 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
21 | Harvey sank down into the parched grass . |
22 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
23 | From the hall outside the court , Doyle peered back into the drab room , wondering whether the girl would re-appear , and give him a chance to make his opening . |
24 | Hull moved out of the Second Division relegation zone for the first time since mid-September with a 2-1 win over Plymouth last night — their fourth win in their last six games and their third successive victory under the new manager Stan Ternant . |
25 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
26 | The Caribbean lapped on to the deserted palm-fringed beach just beyond . |
27 | Speaking on implementing the guidelines laid down by the fifth plenum , government spokesperson Yuan Mu said on Nov. 22 : " The main problem behind the many mistakes which have occurred in China in the past lies within the party and it is therefore necessary first to focus attention on the party itself in solving the problem " ( of " dilution and weakening of party leadership , neglect of ideological and political work , and neglect of the building of party style " ) . |
28 | Japan continued to favour the guidelines laid down in the 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resources ( Cramra ) . |
29 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
30 | The photograph was found in an album made up by the late Sqn Ldr G Beeby . |