Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Most previous research , predominantly carried out in the USA , focuses on single aspects of the promotion process such as appraisal systems , psychological tests , career development systems , plateauing and sponsor-protege relationships . |
| 3 | This point is sensibly picked up in the Vienna Sales Convention , which provides in article 1(2) that : The fact that the parties have their places of business in different States is to be disregarded whenever this fact does not appear from the contract or from any dealings between , or from , information disclosed by , the parties at any time before or at the conclusion of the contract . ’ |
| 4 | The whole question of the burden of proof was nicely summed up in the Esso case by Lord Hodson where he said : It has been authoritatively said that the onus of establishing that an agreement is reasonable as between the parties is upon the person who puts forward the agreement , while the onus of establishing that it is contrary to the public interest , being reasonable between the parties , is on the person so alleging … |
| 5 | The Antipodean visitor was VH–AQJ/A17–26 , which had been especially crated over to the UK for the event and was expected to spend about a month or so in the country before returning home . |
| 6 | I do get rather fed up with The Lancashire Witches and Mist Over Pendle , but there you are . |
| 7 | When trading in or throwing away an old " fridge " try to make sure that it is not going to be just broken up without the CFC gas being properly collected first . |
| 8 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 9 | HMIP pointed out that an enforcement role for such an agency would be an unnecessary duplication of work already carried out in the UK . |
| 10 | The nuclear industry asked why all this was necessary when monitoring was already carried out by the CEGB itself , as well as by government departments . |
| 11 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 13 | However , the firm will have to make the prescribed disclosure that all or most of the FSA protections do not apply if ( even though it does not have to do so ) it tells a private customer that it is a member of SFA or is otherwise FSA-authorised ; or ( 2 ) It is carried on with or for customers in the UK , but the FSA 's overseas person exemption would have applied if that non-UK office had been a separate person from the UK office ( see page 40 above and also below ) or , presumably , is outside the territorial scope of the FSA in any event ; or ( 3 ) The business is that of an appointed representative of the firm and is not carried on in the UK . |
| 14 | Gabriel had not cried out as the Mason squeezed his hand , but now he wanted to scream and drag on Garvey 's sleeve and say , ‘ Make him go away ! ’ |
| 15 | A young woman who had evidently just got out of the Mini was approaching . |
| 16 | I 've only just got back to the UK ’ He looked around him . |
| 17 | Ministers have already decided that they will have to give cable operators a free choice on the technology they use , provided it meets the basic requirements already laid down by the DoI and endorsed last month by the Eden Committee . |
| 18 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 19 | Milling was last capped back in 1988 but with Waringstown 's Alan Nelson already ruled out of the Kenya trip due to work commitments , must feature strongly in the selectors ' minds . |
| 20 | World championships in several sports are already lined up for the Arena , as well as national and local sports events to drawn sports fans from all over Britain . |
| 21 | The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature . |
| 22 | TAFF Gregory , the Army cook who won a Gulf War BEM ( Eating Out August 14 ) , has quickly marched on from the Hartforth Hall Hotel at Gilling West , near Richmond . |
| 23 | The competitors were in various categories for judging and were to be judged by professionals specially flown in from the States . |
| 24 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 25 | That will be the second biggest rights issue ever made in in the UK , lagging only behind the ill-fated BP issue in 1987 . |
| 26 | Resplendent in traditional training scheme of silver with yellow T-bands , Vampire T.11 XD434 was formally handed back to the Fenland Aviation Museum on September 30 after restoration at RAF Marham . |
| 27 | Middlesbrough prop Phil Wright was yesterday called on to the Yorkshire bench , where he will join his former clubmate Jim Chapman . |
| 28 | In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft . |
| 29 | But as far as the security services are concerned , the Kremlin is still plotting to undermine world capitalism and J. Edgar Hoover is still holed up in the FBI powder room . |
| 30 | Alida turned away , to the tea trolley , impeccably laid out with the Worcester china , for she intended to give the impression of perfect comfort , and a good background , of genteel upbringing and attention to detail . |