Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier in Weston-Super-Mare Salvation Army leaders had been arrested for proceeding with a march contrary to a ban placed upon it by the local magistrates . |
| 2 | The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable . |
| 3 | Tim will be buried in the Everton shorts along with a signed Everton shirt given to him by the members of his favourite team . |
| 4 | However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I am grateful for the support given to me by the London Fire Brigade and I would also like to thank the Fire Brigades Union . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I am grateful for the support given to me by the London Fire Brigade , who have done all they can to help me over the years since the fire , and I would also like to thank the Fire Brigades Union for underwriting the risks of my legal claim . ’ |
| 7 | ( b ) ‘ authorised insurers ’ , ‘ the Council ’ , ‘ practising certificate ’ , ‘ the roll ’ and ‘ the Society ’ shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 8 | ‘ practising certificate ’ and ‘ the roll ’ have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 9 | ‘ practising certificate ’ and ‘ the roll ’ have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 10 | She retreated to the kitchen to cook breakfast but the odd sentence floated to her through the smells of frying bacon and toasting bread . |
| 11 | Again , paradoxically , objects are seen as increasingly exchangeable with one another , but also increasingly specific in terms of the particular values assigned to them in the form of prices . |
| 12 | As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis . |
| 13 | Interest in the Lamb is known to have been considerable at this period , when the third invocation addressed to it in the Mass was changed from " have mercy upon us " to " give us peace " . |
| 14 | North of the River Cam , re-using the older Roman town , was the late eighth-century Mercian burgh which had another fortified town south of the river crossing added to it in the late ninth century by the Danish soldiers and traders . |
| 15 | He watched her dab her cheeks , then wipe her eyes , his heart torn from him by the tiny shudder she gave . |
| 16 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 17 | They 're using a bank pamphlet given to them at the time as their evidence . |
| 18 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 19 | It is hard to divide up the Basque hinterland in any manageable way in order to describe it ; here , I shall stick to the three provinces recognized in it by the Basques themselves , of Labourd , Basse-Navarre and the Soule . |
| 20 | Our full terms of reference and supplementary guidance given to us by the Secretary of State for Education and Science are contained in appendices 2 and 3 . |
| 21 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 22 | The fact that subjects used a range of numbers may of course only reflect the demands placed on them by the experiment . |
| 23 | Another power of the president given to him by the constitution ? |
| 24 | Both managers said they would assess managerial competence by a person 's ability to achieve the goals expected of them by the organisation . |
| 25 | He felt at rest , the dark weight of tension lifted from him by the woman . |
| 26 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 27 | With its incredible wealth — about £6 million estimated annual income has been suggested — and ownership of about nine thousand manors came inevitable corruption as the Templars took advantage of the privileges granted to them by the Pope . |
| 28 | The best trainees and established dealers had little beyond brief academic demands made on them in the early days . |
| 29 | But already by the time of Pope Gregory I ( d. 604 ) the monastic movement , widely diversified as it was , was being integrated into the life of the church at large and open to the demands made on it by the church 's interests and needs . |
| 30 | Central administration has been continually adapting itself to the new demands made upon it by the creation of services . |