Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , hi-tech could be better understood as a set of principles distilled from a collection of material forms than as objects intended to embody prior principles . |
| 2 | At the time of writing solicitors are making hay with a flood of complaints about homes found to contain undisclosed faults after the buyer has moved in . |
| 3 | Omar Hassan al-Bashir was " keen to distance the new version of sharia law from that of Nemery " , who as President had introduced Islamic law to Sudan in 1983 . |
| 4 | El País of April 19 said that Menem had thus " opened a new front for political struggle within Peronism " ; the Saadi family which for decades had wielded considerable power in Catamarca , had provided crucial support to Menem in his ascent to presidential office . |
| 5 | Various reports during February attempted to give some assessment of the damage sustained in Iraq as a result of the UN embargo [ see pp. 37639-40 ; 37695 ; 37871 ] and the air war . |
| 6 | Secondly , as the war became less lucrative ( with fewer expeditions into enemy territory ) and the needs of defence came to dominate military activity , so the glamour of war which had undoubtedly existed both in the previous century and under Henry V , began to diminish . |
| 7 | The men of Ruthyn had abandoned all caution , spurring their horses furiously , lengthening out in their turn into a long frieze parallel with the edge of the forest , every man mad to be the first to lay hand on the arch-enemy . |
| 8 | An appeal to the principles of non-alignment had formed one strand in the Soviet strategy of base denial . |
| 9 | Indeed , it is ironic that the case of McCann was itself one of a series of cases intended to reduce sentencing levels on the part of lower courts . |
| 10 | The sparseness of fur did have one advantage — no mass of hairs to obscure the charming pose . |
| 11 | The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view . |
| 12 | All delegates supporting Ubaldini walked out before the vote , claiming that the Ministry of Labour had accredited extra delegates to unions opposing Ubaldini . |
| 13 | Only a third of LEAs had arranged any training for social services departments about the purpose and procedures of the 1981 Act , and only a few more ( 38 per cent ) had arranged training for health authorities . |
| 14 | This line of reasoning appeared to excite more criticism abroad than it did in France . |
| 15 | The recent price rises and the subsequent decline in general standards of living had left whole sections of the urban population dissatisfied with the results of reform . |
| 16 | The Council of Castile had refused public recognition of Joseph 's title to the Spanish crown on the grounds that such a claim was ultra vires without consulting the nation . |
| 17 | Researchers without very much thought , continually try to manipulate non-experimental data so as to approximate as closely as possible to the kind of experiment held to epitomise natural science . |
| 18 | The key to direct analysis and systematic comparison of the very large amount of data collected using these methods is the concept of the linguistic variable . |
| 19 | A number of schools wanted to examine practical ways of putting their vision of Catholic education , already discussed to some extent , into practice . |
| 20 | To give voters five votes each , all of them transferable , would result in an intolerable proliferation of candidates fielded to attract those votes , utter contusion in the minds of electors and a nightmare of transferring and of counting . |
| 21 | Although the new chairman Sir Robert Reid had his critics , at the decade 's end it was clear that his method of management had produced decisive changes . |
| 22 | Thousands of feet had tramped this route in times past before railways and military invasion . |
| 23 | Thousands of commuters using Victoria and Waterloo stations — which serve the south of England -had to find alternative routes home after a coded message claiming to be from the IRA warned of two devices in the capital . |
| 24 | In practice , the Bank of England ceased using special deposits after 1980 . |
| 25 | If this had happened , and if one could state confidently that the Parliament of England had survived these events , albeit in an altered state , whereas the parliaments first , of Scotland , and later , of Ireland , had disappeared from the scene , then there would be some warrant for assuming that the law , customs , conventions and powers of the Parliament of England had survived , whereas those of the others had not . |
| 26 | However , by the end of 1978 only 12 companies in the whole of the North West and North East of England had received financial support , amounting to a total of little more than £3 million . |
| 27 | In Paris itself , his priority , thanks to Schellenberg , had got him on the Berlin Express , but B17 bombers of the American 8th Air Force operating out of England had inflicted severe damage on the Frankfurt railway marshalling yards . |
| 28 | In view of the high incidence of these arrangements in Leeds , and their adoption and dissemination during a period when the massive resourcing of PNP appeared to have little impact on reading test scores , it might be worth carefully pondering HMI 's finding , referred to towards the end of the previous chapter , that |
| 29 | Early in the year , on Feb. 14 , the state of siege imposed following industrial action by teachers and trade unionists in November 1989 [ see pp. 37039-40 ] was formally ended . |
| 30 | Following negotiations with Justice Minister Mauricio Correa Lima on Nov. 10 , Guajajara Indians on the Canabrava reserve in the north-eastern state of Maranhao agreed to release 400 peasant farmers whom they were holding as hostages in return for a government pledge to remove 2,400 settlers and to relocate their village , Sao Pedro de Cacetes , off the reserve . |