Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the EC President 's demand for solidarity angered Euro-sceptics , who saw it as Brussels trying to dictate British policy on a wide range of issues . |
| 2 | This speech is magnificently done as Antony has to obey certain rules which he does , but still convinces them that the conspiracy was wrong . |
| 3 | Since then companies such as Toyota have announced steep reductions in investment . |
| 4 | Various reports during February attempted to give some assessment of the damage sustained in Iraq as a result of the UN embargo [ see pp. 37639-40 ; 37695 ; 37871 ] and the air war . |
| 5 | Now that both the Secretary of State for Defence and the Prime Minister have comprehensively rubbished those assurances , will the Secretary of State for Scotland have to eat humble pie again or will he stand up for Scotland and make this a resignation issue ? |
| 6 | The Forest of Dean has suffered many abuses in the past . |
| 7 | Although no official statistics exist , local doctors estimate that 90 per cent of the population of the town of Nikel have suffered serious damage to both nervous and respiratory systems . |
| 8 | Customers , suppliers and other parts of ICI have shown great interest in the C&P quality materials . |
| 9 | The men of Ruthyn had abandoned all caution , spurring their horses furiously , lengthening out in their turn into a long frieze parallel with the edge of the forest , every man mad to be the first to lay hand on the arch-enemy . |
| 10 | A study of the health and ecological situation in the Ust-Kamenogorsk region of Kazahkstan has revealed widespread problems , apparently resulting from a mixture of nuclear and conventional air pollution . |
| 11 | The North Ormesby area of Middlesbrough has suffered serious discolouration and solids in its drinking water . |
| 12 | Between the Sidlaw Hills and the Braes of Angus , the red loam of Strathmore has provided healthy cropping and stock-rearing since the twelfth century in spite of disruptive wars and civil strife . |
| 13 | The excesses of Vathek do have some emulators — in Matthew Lewis 's The Monk ( 1796 ) , and even in the Victorian novels of Sheridan Le Fanu — but it is the polite feeling of Otranto that flourishes in the hugely popular Gothic novels of the Regency . |
| 14 | Georgia 's President Zviad Gamsakhurdia continued to warn of the prospect of Gorbachev attempting to impose presidential rule , and he told the Georgian Supreme Soviet on Feb. 27 that he believed that Gorbachev was preparing to detach South Ossetia and the other troubled enclave of Abkhazia from Georgia if the republic persisted in refusing to sign the new Union Treaty . |
| 15 | Only a third of LEAs had arranged any training for social services departments about the purpose and procedures of the 1981 Act , and only a few more ( 38 per cent ) had arranged training for health authorities . |
| 16 | In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’ |
| 17 | The Council of Castile had refused public recognition of Joseph 's title to the Spanish crown on the grounds that such a claim was ultra vires without consulting the nation . |
| 18 | The action stage of ASAP has included many student projects , such as peer teaching with lower grade students , developing videos on their own communities , writing a rap song to play on a local radio station , or testifying at tribal council meetings . |
| 19 | He was , as a bacteriologist , interested in the microbiological aspects , and as an enthusiast for technical methods , in the use of Penicillium extracts to make selective culture media ( i.e. media in which a required organisms will grow readily while unwanted contaminants fail either through lack of an essential nutrient or because something is present which stops them ) . |
| 20 | The burning oil wells of Kuwait continue to cause widespread air pollution , notably in the form of " black rain " , which has been reported as far away as Bulgaria , Afghanistan and Pakistan . |
| 21 | The Educational Institute of Scotland has organised industrial action because it argues that the new school is still basically Bellarmine in a different building . |
| 22 | Since that time the Halifax Building Society and the Bank of Scotland have become Appointed Representatives and in future will sell only Standard Life 's products through their branches . |
| 23 | Deletion and mutagenesis of c-Jun has identified two motifs within the A1 activation domain ( HOB1 and HOB2 ; Figure 1A ) which are essential for transcriptional activation ( 30 ) . |
| 24 | It took the combined efforts of the Bank of England intervening to buy unwanted sterling , the lowest inflation rate since 1967 ( and the lowest underlying rate since July 1958 ) , and a firm promise by the Chancellor not to play fast and loose with interest rates to reassure the markets . |
| 25 | Thousands of commuters using Victoria and Waterloo stations — which serve the south of England -had to find alternative routes home after a coded message claiming to be from the IRA warned of two devices in the capital . |
| 26 | ‘ I remember also going to the Bank of England vaults to see whole rooms piled to the ceilings with gold bars . ’ |
| 27 | In practice , the Bank of England ceased using special deposits after 1980 . |
| 28 | If this had happened , and if one could state confidently that the Parliament of England had survived these events , albeit in an altered state , whereas the parliaments first , of Scotland , and later , of Ireland , had disappeared from the scene , then there would be some warrant for assuming that the law , customs , conventions and powers of the Parliament of England had survived , whereas those of the others had not . |
| 29 | However , by the end of 1978 only 12 companies in the whole of the North West and North East of England had received financial support , amounting to a total of little more than £3 million . |
| 30 | In Paris itself , his priority , thanks to Schellenberg , had got him on the Berlin Express , but B17 bombers of the American 8th Air Force operating out of England had inflicted severe damage on the Frankfurt railway marshalling yards . |