Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Hatch moved to a small drinks trolley , well stocked with spirits , Cowley took a last , lingering look at the photograph of Patrick Weaver , father of the dead bride . |
| 2 | That is why the Government are committed to an expanded roads programme and continuing major investment in our transport infrastructure . |
| 3 | Added to a National Rivers Authority grant of £100,000 , it 's enabled 3 weirs to be restored . |
| 4 | THE parents of a little boy whose nose was almost bitten off by an alsatian have called for the breed to be added to the dangerous dogs list . |
| 5 | With the advent of affordable and easy to use video equipment in the early eighties , community access workshops burgeoned , and local authorities and education authorities were added to the Regional Arts Association and the British Film Institute as sources of funding . |
| 6 | On the contrary , it appeared from several provisions relating to the Common Fisheries Policy that that policy , far from being exempt from the basic principles of Community law ( such as the prohibition of discrimination , the right of establishment and the principle of the free movement of goods ) , was expressly subjected to each of them . |
| 7 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Bournemouth , East ( Mr. Atkinson ) referred to the United Nations non-proliferation treaty . |
| 9 | For example , some come within the jurisdiction of the Ombudsman ( Chapter 15 ) , some have their accounts audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General and reported to the Public Accounts Committee ( Chapter 14 ) , some present annual reports to Parliament , and so on . |
| 10 | Water pollution incidents reported to the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) reached a record high in 1990 . |
| 11 | A total of 28,143 water pollution incidents were reported to the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) in 1990 , of which 658 ( 2.3 per cent ) were deemed as sufficiently serious to merit legal action . |
| 12 | More than 200 residents were evacuated to a nearby police station . |
| 13 | He said some people who found it difficult to pay for relatives ' funerals — due to redundancy or mortgage payments were offered payment by monthly instalments while others who would not or could not pay were pursued to the small claims court . |
| 14 | He was educated at the Orme Boys ' School , Newcastle under Lyme , then articled to the local architects Chapman & Snape . |
| 15 | His Homily for the Sunday after Ascension Day , which may date from soon after 1000 , says that a king should protect his people against an attacking army and rule with love and justice , and on the advice of his counsellors. Ælfric seems to have been much influenced by the contemporary continental churchman Abbo of Fleury , who had spent two years at Ramsey in the 980s , for he translated into English not only his Passio of St Edmund of East Anglia , but also the treatise De duodecim abusivis sæculi , written in seventh-century Ireland , and used by Abbo in his Collectio canonum , addressed to the French monarchs Hugh Capet and Robert the Pious . |
| 16 | Multiprotocol Networking Transport Architecture was also presented to the Open Systems Environment Implementer 's workshop last September , the company notes . |
| 17 | The draft code has been presented to the British Standards Institution as a possible basis for a new British Standard . |
| 18 | On April 30 the Japanese and South Korean Foreign Ministers held talks in Seoul at which it was agreed to relax restrictions currently applied to the 680,000 Koreans resident in Japan , many of whom were descendants of the 2,500,000 Koreans transported by the Japanese colonial administration for use as forced labour . |
| 19 | The reasoning in the lawyer/client cases can not automatically be transferred to the financial services area because of the particular nature of the lawyer/client relationship including the fact that in order to prove a breach of confidence a client might be forced to forfeit the lawyer/client privilege , and that the very restrictive Law Society rules provide for only a very limited role for the Chinese wall where law firms amalgamate and the clients consent . |
| 20 | Eventually I was asked if my reference number related to a low-level police helicopter flight planned in Wales . |
| 21 | MARTIN Bormann , one of Adolf Hitler 's top aides who dropped from sight after the Second World War , died of stomach cancer in Paraguay in 1959 , according to a confidential police report published in Asuncion yesterday . |
| 22 | Two South Africans and a Swazi were arrested after the discovery of the country 's largest arms haul , according to a Swazi police statement of March 9 , 1990 . |
| 23 | One reason is the ninety two percent approval rating it gets from victims of crime , according to a local police survey . |
| 24 | The British troops expect to be working in Croatia , away from the hotspots like Sarajevo , but just how close to the fighting they 'll get depends on UN strategy , according to the Armed Forces minister who visited South Cerney this afternoon . |
| 25 | AUTUMN-drilled crops in Scotland and the north of England have come through the winter best , according to the Home-Grown Cereals Authority . |
| 26 | But that put him at a disadvantage according to the flatty rules Daine had strung himself with . |
| 27 | According to the adaptive expectations hypothesis , this year 's expectation will be equal to last year 's expectation ( 10 per cent ) plus some proportion ( w ) of the error . |
| 28 | He assured Iranian leaders in Tehran in a banquet speech on Monday night that his country 's economic and social position was ‘ good , stable and balanced ’ , according to the official Agerpres news agency . |
| 29 | Work out the contributions according to the normal earnings period ( for example , weekly or monthly ) , even if the first payment covers less than that period . |
| 30 | According to the British Standards Institution , maintenance is ‘ work undertaken in order to keep or restore every facility . ’ |