Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only if the chief constable expressed his order in terms such as that he considered any injury to his men to constitute serious public disorder might the courts be prepared to intervene . |
| 2 | Thank you chairman , I , I second er 's motion , erm trying to be not political about this I got some figures from the er county council which indicate that from the first of April ninety-two to the thirty-first of December ninety-two eighty-six members attended committee meetings of which they were not members . |
| 3 | During 1939–44 he spent several years teaching in North America , at Hartford Seminary and at Fisk University , and he received an honorary DD from Wesley College , Winnipeg . |
| 4 | To allow for this we provided several opportunities in the questionnaire for teachers to make additional individual observations . |
| 5 | For this he paid ten pence a year at Michaelmas and performed a number of other duties on the lord 's land and paid tithes to the church . |
| 6 | Mr Stan Cardwell MBE , co-founder of the North-East ramblers ' association , said : ‘ His style was one of cooperation , not confrontation , and through this he made many friends , not least among the farming community , where he was regarded highly for his expertise on rights of way matters . |
| 7 | During 1876 he built new premises on the outskirts of Aberdeen , to cope with the increased demand . |
| 8 | After that they made better progress and managed to slip undetected out into the emptiness . |
| 9 | Then after that they bought another tug called , then they had another one called the , that was a diesel tug . |
| 10 | A local craft shop took them and after that she had regular orders for them from outlets further afield . |
| 11 | The next day he motored to four miles south of Hereford to lunch with an old cousin , and the day after that he attended two funerals , both of ‘ old Worcestershire friends who died on Christmas Day ’ . |
| 12 | After that he sat all day by the fire in the private room . |
| 13 | After this they employed Welsh builders and had everything sent over with them including paint , sandpaper and Polyfilla . |
| 14 | After this I bought some contact magazines . |
| 15 | After this he spent long periods in Madeira until his death in 1907 . |
| 16 | For a period after this he stopped inviting Bobby for meals at Lyons and took Eric Verrico instead . |
| 17 | AFTER THIS SHE HAD ODD FLASHES OF ‘ CLAIRVOYANCE ’ . |
| 18 | Certainly there were new developments after 1660 which created new sources of political tension and which fed into the emergence of party , whilst over time the parties modified and adapted their positions to cope with new problems , issues and contingencies . |
| 19 | After 1917 he undertook diplomatic duties , including a goodwill mission to America and two visits to London in 1918 ; in 1919 he attended the Paris peace conference . |
| 20 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 21 | After 1988 it increased each year to 1526 in 1991 ( table II ) . |
| 22 | Respectable workers were rewarded with the vote , and in 1868 the Royal Commission on Trade Unions recommended the extension of legal protection for trade unions , which was achieved in the Trade Union Act of 1871 which for the first time gave legal protection to Trade Union funds and the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1875 which legalized peaceful picketing . |
| 23 | The only kind of music he liked was sung music and of that he liked all sorts — opera , lieder , folk , country , rock , jazz , soul , the blues . |
| 24 | After a week of that I decided one night to leave in the morning . |
| 25 | And it was indeed hope , education and reformation that dominated the sphere of juvenile justice in these years , most solidly embodied in the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 which consolidated these developments in the treatment of young offenders . |
| 26 | He served Rome well but because of this he received hostile opposition from some Jews , especially the Pharisees . |
| 27 | The actions of the central authorities , in the event , served to rally local opinion still more closely around the nationalist leaderships , and when the issue of full independence was put to the republican populations in the spring of 1991 it received overwhelming endorsement The Lithuanian vote , in February , produced a majority of over 90 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout ; in Latvia and Estonia , in March , there were majorities for independence of 74 and 78 per cent on a similar turnout . |
| 28 | Between 1986 and 1991 , 18 ( 18% ) patients out of a total of 100 who underwent restorative proctocolectomy were aged 50 years or over ( median 55 years , range 50 to 66 years ) . |
| 29 | In the close season of 1924 he signed outside-right John Williams from Rotherham at a ‘ dirt cheap ’ price of under £2,000 . |
| 30 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |