Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All vegetation was dying , after July had felt the breath of January . |
| 2 | However , a strong cup tradition backed up by five Monmouthshire titles in seven years and 18 Ben Francis Cup wins counted for nothing as Blaina struggled to find the consistency necessary to mount a successful promotion campaign . |
| 3 | High-yield-bond sales through Drexel helped finance the acquisitions that have turned Hasbro into America 's biggest toy company . |
| 4 | Councillors from the Forest of Dean came to visit the site at Tidenham Chase , before deciding whether or not to allow the travellers to stay there . |
| 5 | Hence , far from seeing NHS provision evaluated on a basis broadly comparable with the private sector , the authors of WFP have swung the balance in favour of private hospitals . |
| 6 | The upshot of all this was that in 1959 the State of Tennessee ruled to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School . |
| 7 | April 's inheritance of the winds of March had cleansed the air of London . |
| 8 | It was during this time that the Sword Masters of Hoeth gathered to study the art of swordsmanship and protect the tower . |
| 9 | After a while the Sword Masters of Hoeth began to investigate the cult and report their findings back to the White Tower . |
| 10 | After a night-long blizzard the villagers of Munding woke to find the water-meadows glittering and still , the ford across the lane crusted over . |
| 11 | In 1538 the Earl of Sussex claimed to hold the reversion of the Lord Stewardship . |
| 12 | The authorities in the northern Russian town of Arkhangelsk have made the money available for a facsimile edition of one of the most ancient Russian manuscripts , the Arkhangelsk Gospels , which date back to the year 1092 . |
| 13 | Jones referred to ‘ cranks — long-haired men and short-haired women ’ who formed the ( British ) Socialist Party , and explained that the title of NSP better represented the time and circumstances than SDI' because ‘ social democrat was associated with Germany and Germanic thought , and during the present war the action of most of the social democrats of Germany had made the term stink in the nostrils of most people ’ ( SE 1 June 18 ) . |
| 14 | Since Val wrote to us her local branch of Dixons have exchanged the Amstrad 5086 towards a 386SX machine . |
| 15 | However , in a regional survey of LEA policy initiatives in the arts , Tweddell ( 1988 ) found that a high proportion of LEAs had included the arts within their individual local priorities . |
| 16 | Dr Colin Wringe of the University of Keele has analysed the ambiguities in the active citizenship concept . |
| 17 | For example , we have the form of expression ‘ when I said ‘ Napoleon was crowned in 1804 ’ I meant the man who won the battle of Austerlitz' and we are inclined to interpret the use of the past tense ‘ meant ’ as meaning that the idea of Napoleon having won the battle of Austerlitz must have been present in the speaker 's mind when he said that Napoleon was crowned in 1804 . |
| 18 | The medical association of Chile want to ban the sport and have effectively done so by prohibiting doctors from assisting at ringside . |
| 19 | I am aware that the President of Ukraine has made the point that he would like his republic to be a non-nuclear state and that he would like the west to assist with the process of dismantling and destruction . |
| 20 | In this year the course was back to full length and the closure of Peppard helped swell the membership , especially of the Artisans . |
| 21 | Heinrich Fischer of Freiburg sought to explain the occurrence of jade objects in each of these areas as the outcome of trade or even of migration from the Far East . |
| 22 | The collapse of Drexel has drawn the public 's attention to over-borrowed companies struggling to service high-yield debts . |
| 23 | The Bank of Scotland had frozen the overdraft of Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd some weeks ago when it emerged that debts of about £1.7 million had accrued . |
| 24 | Unless the Church of Scotland has redefined the meaning of ordination , I remain a minister in function although I chose to demit status . |
| 25 | THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland has welcomed the decision by the Chancellor to ease the penalties on value added tax offences . |
| 26 | At last King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to fund the expedition . |
| 27 | The Bank of England sought to have the bank declared insolvent , to allow depositors compensation from the UK 's Deposit Protection Fund ( which paid 75 per cent of deposits up to £15,000 ) . |
| 28 | We know how Edward I of England chose to misinterpret the meaning of the Stone of Destiny . |
| 29 | Before news of the collapse of the invasion of England had reached the Earl of Mar in Scotland he , too , was facing military defeat . |
| 30 | The Bank of England had told the MPs that it did not think it had failed to discharge its supervisory duties . |