Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surveys of dolphin tissues for mercury carried out in 1978 by Japanese scientists showed very high levels of mercury in local dolphins . |
| 2 | More than a year ago , the Barnes board had failed in a bid for permission to sell up to fifteen works from the legendary collection of early modern materpieces in order to fund building repairs . |
| 3 | And even then er you had to ask for permission to stay out till ten . |
| 4 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 5 | MAKING objects such as gear wheels out of compressed , powdered metal rather than cut or molten metal saves both energy and materials . |
| 6 | Wilkes became involved with commissioning and editing the guide through research carried out in 1989–90 . |
| 7 | Morel 's attack on ‘ secret diplomacy ’ was to have immense influence after war broke out in 1914 . |
| 8 | The full implications of this convergence between state socialism and nationalism only became apparent after war broke out in 1914 . |
| 9 | Soon after war broke out in 1914 he was asked to join ID 25 , the department of naval intelligence known as Room 40 , as a cryptographer . |
| 10 | The number of Poles officially looking for work shot up from 9,600 in December to 220,000 last month . |
| 11 | The Legal Aid Board , which administers legal aid , proposes to stop paying for work carried out by unaccredited solicitors ' representatives after 1st October 1994 . |
| 12 | This view was echoed by a BBC director general , Alasdair Milne , who remarked that the prescriptions for broadcasting set out in previous eras — even only a matter of a decade or so ago — were of little value in a rapidly changing social and political environment . |
| 13 | However , from time to time the curator 's instinct for identification comes up against scholarly puzzles . |
| 14 | Telephone lines to the city were jammed and messages of support flowed in from other student bodies . |
| 15 | Flaps of skin grew out of either side of the lower part of the body , helping to guide them through the water . |
| 16 | There would be opportunities here for a cross-European sharing of expertise built up around bilingual skills . |
| 17 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 18 | Additions to a cluster can of course come about by internal investment in greenfield projects ( such as an accountancy firm starting up its own insolvency practice ) , as well as by acquisition or merger . |
| 19 | erm We had to look for some lower riders and erm Tony Primmer of course comes in at four , which helps us immensely . |
| 20 | If all you want is a simple page of text run out in one of the standard LaserWriter fonts then any of the bureau should be able to manage that without any difficulty at all — if they ca n't then they probably wo n't last long in the business . |
| 21 | There is a good deal of self-censorship going on in these chapters about the festival . |
| 22 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 23 | This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection . |
| 24 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 25 | Then it shows the hypocrisy of the Labour party , which claims ’ Made in Britain ’ as its slogan while its Members of Parliament drive around in French motor cars and spend most of their time denigrating British industry . |
| 26 | I think there 's a day of action coming up on this sort of D I Y stuff . |
| 27 | Adored by his public and his pupils , feared by the phoney , derided by the reactionary , de Pomiane 's irreverent attitude to established tradition , his independence of mind backed up by scientific training , earned him the reputation of being something of a Candide , a provocative rebel disturbing the grave conclaves of French gastronomes , questioning the holy rites of the " white-vestured officiating priests " of classical French cookery . |
| 28 | Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity . |
| 29 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 30 | The Kingdom of God as a new dimension of living opens up to those who turn away from their sins , evidencing a radical break with the past . |