Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Federation established industrial co-operatives with the intent that they should not be absorbed into or controlled by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 2 | As the dragoons beside the cannon prepared to advance , the Highlanders dashed forward and slashed at the horses ' noses , which sent the unfortunate animals , maddened with pain , into headlong retreat , scattering the supporting line behind them . |
| 3 | They went along with populist solutions to problems that if not actually created by the Nazis , had certainly been worked on and exaggerated to the Nazis ' own advantage . |
| 4 | and bitten off the butchers ' heads |
| 5 | With these facilities the way is open for customer database files to automatically be retrieved and displayed on an operators ' screen before the phone is answered — the kind of time saving integration between phone and workstation that telesales operations dream about . |
| 6 | I 'm actually , I am actually , I 've been party , they 've been circulating me with the correspondence of the residents ' association and I am very worried about this but do n't feel , until invited by the residents ' association , that we should do any more . |
| 7 | The defendant , who had been committed for trial to the Crown Court on bail , was arrested for breach of a condition of his bail and brought before the magistrates ' court pursuant to section 7(4) of the Bail Act 1976 . |
| 8 | Next morning , Sunday 13 November 1715 , General Carpenter reached Preston with three regiments of dragoons and blocked off the rebels ' only escape route , towards Liverpool . |
| 9 | Next night the mice came again , and gnawed through the soldiers ' belts and sword-straps , so they had no means of keeping their swords and their breeches on . |
| 10 | The effectiveness of metaphors of the type in which inanimates are treated as animate is shown in passages of narratorial description where they are deployed in a fully developed form , for example in a lengthy passage where the pre-Copernican view of the universe ( which still pervades the English language ) is exploited and combined with the peoples ' perception of animacy in all things : " The moon rose slowly and almost vertically into a sky where there was nothing but a few spilled traces of cloud . |
| 11 | Burning brands from the huts and from two galleys the MacIans had fired were seized and thrown into the MacIans ' own ships , to draw some of them away to put out the fires . |
| 12 | It is , however , recognised that prior to the introduction of any new Religious Education course into a Catholic School approval must be sought and obtained from the Bishops ' Conference , and , subsequently , from the Diocesan Religious Education Advisorate . |
| 13 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 14 | [ as amended by the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Repeals Rules |
| 15 | While it is appreciated that the contract — as contained in the works ' rules , etc — can contain such a provision , one wonders whether industrial tribunals should feel bound by such a provision . |
| 16 | Finally there is a section on the effects of some interventions on some behaviours as revealed by the parents ' records . |
| 17 | When confronted by the miners ' pay claim in 1973 , well in excess of the government 's stipulated maximum , Heath therefore reverted to the doctrine of the national mandate . |