Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This speech is magnificently done as Antony has to obey certain rules which he does , but still convinces them that the conspiracy was wrong . |
| 2 | The Forest of Dean has suffered many abuses in the past . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The North Ormesby area of Middlesbrough has suffered serious discolouration and solids in its drinking water . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The Educational Institute of Scotland has organised industrial action because it argues that the new school is still basically Bellarmine in a different building . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I remember also going to the Bank of England vaults to see whole rooms piled to the ceilings with gold bars . ’ |
| 12 | The Bank of England has lost some independence in recent years because of the formalisation of what were previously informal supervisory activities . |
| 13 | A doctor in the north of England has done pioneering work on the measurement of clinical need . |
| 14 | Over and above such day-to-day management , the Church of England has made substantial efforts in recent years to rationalise its portfolio of buildings . |
| 15 | There is an interesting contrast between the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church in that the Church of Ireland tends to create new parishes out of old as the need arises while the Roman Catholic Church builds new churches where they are needed but keeps still to the already existing parish structure . |
| 16 | Bank of Ireland has made significant cost savings with the introduction of Bank Assistants and it is now time to redistribute some of those savings amongst those who most deserve it . |
| 17 | President Mobutu of Zaire has taken drastic measures to silence all journalists and publishers who criticise his policies . |
| 18 | A string of official reports both from the European Convention for the Protection of Animals and the House of Commons has condemned close confinement of sows . |
| 19 | It is probably in this area that the House of Commons has had most effect in persuading governments to modify their original proposals . |
| 20 | For example , the Leidsebuurt district of Haarlem has received comprehensive treatment as a 30 km/h zone ( Figure 4.11 ) , with a concentration on the creation of raised plateaux in the roadway ( speed tables ) spectacularly patterned with black and white paviours ( Figures 4.12–4.15 ) . |
| 21 | Until now , the future of Dangerfield has caused local historians and conservationists considerable worry . |
| 22 | John Power of Kilkenny has wrought tremendous harm and damage on Wexford and Offaly from the middle of the field , alongside Michael Phelan , so there 's a huge responsibility on the shoulders of Michael Coleman . |
| 23 | THE Auto Cycle Council of Australia has threatened legal action over plans to move the Australian Grand Prix from Phillip Island to Sydney . |
| 24 | Trading was helped by the release of August 's reduced retail sales figures showing that interest rates are beginning to bite . |
| 25 | The House of Lords has given useful guidance in this respect . |
| 26 | The case of Iran has shown Soviet leaders that a Third World state may withdraw comprehensively from a Western sponsored military alliance in a strategically sensitive area and avoid subsequent alignment with the USSR . |
| 27 | Michael Argyle in the department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford has written several books and articles on laughter 's close companion , happiness . |
| 28 | Further work in collaboration with G. P. Geoghiou of the University of California has shown that organophosphate resistance in Culex quinquefasciatus , a common nuisance mosquito and vector of filariasis , can also be suppressed by the addition of synergists such TPP , DEF ( a defoliant ) or the fungicide Kitazin ( IBP ) . |
| 29 | The industry which has flourished since Classical times at Torre del Greco south of Naples has developed such expertise that even corals of Japanese origin are imported there for fabrication . |
| 30 | The Council of Europe has remained Western Europe 's largest organisation . |