Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She screeched while his rump heaved , her snout rammed between the bars of the pen . |
| 2 | The hearing will be adjourned pending the delivery of the High Court 's opinion , at which time it will be relisted and a decision given on the merits in the light of the High Court 's opinion on the law . |
| 3 | All four children had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia diagnosed between the ages of 2 and 4 years , the year of diagnosis ranging from 1972 to 1988 . |
| 4 | Thus whereas the bare infinitive allows for the incidence of its event to a support situated within the confines of event time , the mechanism of incidence provided for by the verb form itself is inoperative when called upon express an incidence to a support situated prior to the time contained in the event . |
| 5 | As to more general options for change , the Board referred to the possibilities of exclusive or semi-exclusive ‘ contracting , ’ and of ‘ franchising . ’ |
| 6 | This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians . |
| 7 | During the ninth century a struggle developed for the souls of the Slavs between the two Christian confessions , the Eastern Church based in Byzantium and the Western Church based in Rome . |
| 8 | Contracts were shortened and meat prices restrained ; the meat plant was nationalized and the export distribution channel lost ; the issue of land tenure for pastoralists became submerged in the much bigger ujamaa re-settlement programme of 1975 ; and livestock buying at markets was taken out of the hands of the traditional Somali buyers and for the most part placed in the hands of state agents . |
| 9 | Another writer commented on the implications for staffing , recalling the importance of this contingency in course planning in Figure 1.1 : |
| 10 | 1792 It being Represented to this Meeting that their is unlawful combinations and Meetings held by the Weavers in the Island , particularly in the Parish of Kilchoman , for the purpose of shortening or cutting off the usual measure called the Islay Ell , which has for time Immemorial been the Standard Measure given by the Weavers with every Species of their Manufacture , and for reducing the measure to the English yard , and for continueing the prices for the English yard as high as that for the Islay Ell |
| 11 | Men fighting in the field depended on the votes of men splitting straws in Washington . |
| 12 | The waterproof feathers of many marine birds , underlain by a dense blanket formed from the aftershafts of individual feathers , enhance insulation and serve also to keep out wind and snow . |
| 13 | The contract contained in the articles of association is one of the original incidents of the share . |
| 14 | On March 17 the Albanian Foreign Ministry protested about the incidents to the Greek ambassador in Tirana , claiming that there was " systematic mistreatment " of Albanian would-be migrants [ see also pp. 38690 ; 38775 ] |
| 15 | Because of economic and other pressures , schools in South Asia may place too great a reliance on a curriculum trapped between the covers of a book . |
| 16 | When taking a train journey women were advised to equip themselves with the largest hat-pin they could find and if travelling by night , or through a tunnel , they were to sit bolt upright , hat-pin clenched between the teeth in case of attack . |
| 17 | They decided to compare the money earned by the inventors of the Polaroid instant camera , the Catseye road stud , and the ring-pull can , with the reward reaped by Armstrong . |
| 18 | A fundamentally important way in which the Nun 's Priest 's Tale reflects the overarching structure of the Canterbury Tales is by inviting profound reflection on the two criteria by which the tale-telling game on the pilgrimage is to be judged : " Sentence " and " solaas " — a familiar pairing of lust and loore , instruction and entertainment — are the two aspects of literature supposed by the terms of the competition to produce the best tales . |
| 19 | Mrs Yaxlee , by no means the eldest of the clan ( there was a great aunt of eighty-seven who lived in independent squalor at Nether Oldfield ) but still a senior member , sat in her parlour surrounded by the trappings of her state . |
| 20 | For orange tendrils of uncombed hair curled round the shoulders of his grimy shirt . |
| 21 | The women 's resistance movement crystallized around this refusal , drawing hostile comment from Alfred Evans , who praised the " shoulder to shoulder " solidarity with the ETS shown by his own members , while deploring the aid given to the resisters by " middle-class women who are on the warpath on behalf of the employers " . |
| 22 | This year our Easter Course will take place from lunch time Tuesday 8th April until after tea on 12th April at Southlands College situated on the outskirts of Wimbledon ; set in pleasant rural surroundings , participants will be accommodated in Queensmere pictured here . |
| 23 | I worked my way along the haphazard-looking perimeter fence formed from the tombs of kings and bishops ; all one piece , all stitched together by a web of carved stone and iron railings . |
| 24 | Otherwise , the position of the feet along with the amount of weight placed through the booms onto the mastfoot determine the angle of heel . |
| 25 | The report concerned a number of items taken in a raid the previous evening on a gaming club frequented by the sons of several important Company heads . |
| 26 | North-East football joined in the celebrations with Newcastle United victorious at Leicester City ending any lingering doubts they might drop into the Third Division for the first time in their illustrious history . |
| 27 | Flame leaked from the nostrils of his proud old dragon . |
| 28 | The public conflicts of recent years have involved confrontations between different political ideologies : the resistance from the Clay Cross Urban District to the Conservative Housing Finance Act ; the rejection by Merthyr County Borough of the Conservatives ' withdrawal of free milk for schoolchildren ; the resistance of a number of Conservative education authorities to the Labour commitment to the introduction of comprehensive secondary education ; the resistance of Labour local authorities to the Conservative government 's legislation on the sale of council houses ; and the forms of creative accounting developed in the mid-1980s by some local authorities to evade expenditure restraints . |
| 29 | The Privy Council agreed that the presidential pardon given to the Moslems by the then acting President Emmanuelle Carter in exchange for Robinson 's release remained valid . |
| 30 | Many of the recommendations of the Civil Justice Review relied upon the results of a factual study undertaken by Touche Ross Management Consultants . |