Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One resident says he has been unable to get out of his back garden after a lorry backed into the wall and buckled the gate . |
| 2 | America complained that Europe wanted to postpone any action until after a referendum called by the Bosnian-Serb ‘ parliament ’ for May 15th and 16th . |
| 3 | The diversity and volume of silver bearing his mark is far greater than can have emerged from a single workshop and it has been generally acknowledged , after a century dominated by the concept of the maker 's mark , that De Lamerie , in common with many other goldsmiths registering marks at Goldsmiths ' Hall , not only fulfilled orders with other goldsmiths ' wares but also subcontracted orders to a range of London workshops , although striking the finished wares with his own punch . |
| 4 | This year may well be the year in which British soul 's new generation emerges after a decade dominated by the synthetic beats of hip-hop and house . |
| 5 | ELEVEN people drowned after a helicopter plunged into the North Sea during a 47-second flight , an inquiry heard yesterday . |
| 6 | Grooming is a necessary ritual after a day spent in the close confines of the sett , a way of easing the effects of parasites and , when indulged in with another badger , of spreading the colony smell between individuals . |
| 7 | In mid-December the settlers were forced to leave one of the houses in after a court ruled against the eviction of the Arab occupants . |
| 8 | Three companies had denied breaking safety rules after two workmen were killed after a gantry fixed to the Severn Bridge collapsed . |
| 9 | THE RELEASE of this album , their first studio effort in three years , sees the return to the fray of Level 42 after a period punctuated by the tragic death of Alan Murphy , their lead guitarist , and a change of record labels to boot . |
| 10 | Methodist leaders sought the meeting with Mrs Thatcher after a resolution passed at the Methodist Conference in June last year , which declared outrage at the divisive effects of government policy . |
| 11 | Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli 's ‘ Madonna and Child ’ , is now attributed by several scholars to Parmigianino after a photograph taken through the old mount revealed an architectural sketch and handwriting thought to be Parmigianino 's ( £52,000 , est. £20–25,000 ) . |
| 12 | As with Martin Bayfield , I also had to get used to front jumping after a career spent in the middle . |
| 13 | An RAF inquiry is underway tonight after a parachutist plunged into the crowd during a display . |
| 14 | R v Secretary of State for Home Department , Ex parte Kuku ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls and Staughton LJJ ) ; 28 Sept 1989 It is highly desirable that foreign nationals to whom r 10 of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 169 applies should not only by warned by the Home Office of the necessity under s 3(4) of the Immigration Act 1971 of obtaining a visa if seeking re-entry to the UK after a short visit abroad , but that that warning should take the form of a document attached to the foreign national 's passport , so there is no question of any misapprehension . |
| 15 | Gillian Bulloch , a relief manager for CCG Catering in the east of Scotland , was the lucky winner of a raffle held at the Leonard Cheshire Foundation home , Glamis House in Glenrothes . |
| 16 | The specific objectives of the first phase of the Program , the pilot project , therefore , are ( I ) an appraisal of a structure established for the purpose of attaining this coordination , ( 2 ) an exploration of new methods of relating the library to the instructional program , and ( 3 ) a preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of these methods . |
| 17 | Subsequent analysis of a sample drilled from the interior showed it was of bronze with no zinc present at all . |
| 18 | There was talk of a film based on the character , but that never happened , perhaps wisely in view of the disappointing transformation of many TV comedies to the big screen . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've heard of a tunnel built by the school 's founder for emergencies , ’ said Mcduff . |
| 20 | This is a simplified version of a facility provided on the IBM 370 range ( but see below ) . |
| 21 | Results of a survey conducted by the Department of Health — the first to be published since the change in the law — showed that the average adult weekly alcohol consumption had not changed between 1987 and 1989 . |
| 22 | It may be an abuse of process if either ( a ) the prosecution have manipulated or misused the process of the court so as to deprive the defendant of a protection provided by the law or to take unfair advantage of a technicality , or ( b ) on the balance of probability the defendant has been , or will be , prejudiced in the preparation or conduct of his defence by delay on the part of the prosecution which is unjustifiable : for example , not due to the complexity of the inquiry and preparation of the prosecution case , or to the action of the defendant or his co-accused , or to genuine difficulty in effecting service . |
| 23 | By going down to sea level , you can walk out on to the Rocker de la Vierge , reached by a short gangway , which has a statue of the Virgin on top and the beginnings of a jetty planned by the Emperor Napoleon III but never finished because the sea kept demolishing it . |
| 24 | They were payments made in the fulfilment of a testamentary disposition for the benefit of the children in the exercise of a discretion conferred by the will . |
| 25 | His own brother , with an eye on the throne , allied himself with Richard , Duke of Gloucester ( later Richard III ) , and accompanied a Yorkist army headed for Edinburgh ; but , in the face of a compromise suggested by the provisional government , changed his mind . |
| 26 | More seriously , the Soviet alliance system in Eastern Europe began to disappear as a series of popular revolutions overturned the communist governments in Poland , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , Romania and the GDR ( which became a part of Germany and thereby of NATO under the terms of a treaty signed by the two Germanies , France , Britain and the United States as well as the Soviet Union in September 1990 ) . |
| 27 | Mrs Barnett fell ill because of a drug prescribed after the birth of her daughter . |
| 28 | Doolittle ( 1952 ) reconsidered Batschinski 's suggestion that the resistance to flow of a liquid depended upon the free-space available to a molecule rather than upon the temperature . |
| 29 | The rest of that chapter is devoted to the dramatic and somewhat risqué story of their hiding in the house of Rahab , a prostitute in the city , and their escaping by means of a rope let down the walls from one of her windows . |
| 30 | The institutional manifestation of non-intervention was the Non-Intervention Committee , set up in London in September 1936 to supervise the application of a principle observed by the democracies and by smaller European countries but openly flouted by Europe 's three most powerful dictatorships . |