Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until 1858 , when the state set up a new administrative body at Somerset House , the responsibility for proving wills lay with the church . |
| 2 | This care will be paid for using funds transferred from the Department of Social Security . |
| 3 | He had resigned in January 1992 from a presidential committee with responsibility for handling problems relating to the repatriation and distribution of land to demobilized contras . |
| 4 | The case for protecting reputations emerged as the strongest . |
| 5 | It is , according to report , to test electronic equipment for checking cars coming into the centre of cities . |
| 6 | An essential tool for enabling astronomers to advance beyond the stage reached by Bede was the astrolabe . |
| 7 | SHADOW Minister Kate Hoey was sacked by Labour leader John Smith today after defying orders to abstain on the latest Maastricht Bill vote . |
| 8 | The electoral tribunal annulled the first round result and ordered a fresh election in Collor 's home state of Alagoas , after investigating allegations made by the PRN candidate , Renan Calheiros , that associates of Collor had tampered with 71,000 votes to guarantee the victory of his opponent , Geraldo Bulhoes , who also enjoyed the financial backing of another Collor adviser , a well-known businessman Paulo César Faria . |
| 9 | SHORT-SIGHTED patients have thrown away their ‘ bottle-top ’ glasses after having lenses implanted into the eye . |
| 10 | Staff who had long been encouraged to develop treatment relationships towards prisoners had little time left for this important work after discharging tasks arising from the need to concentrate on security . |
| 11 | The number of imaging studies performed outside the hospital increased from 19 ( 9% ) in group A to 59 ( 32% ) in group B , an almost fourfold increase ( χ 2 =31.9 , p<0.001 ( 0.2 to 0.3 ) ) . |
| 12 | Of course , he had already used colour in a non-imitative way , but after 1930 ; in part as a result of using paper-cutouts to help with the design of the Barnes mural he realised that colour could have a tangible reality of its own . |
| 13 | A Chance to Dance is a step towards producing students trained to the company 's standards and style . |
| 14 | The phrase ‘ in connection with its commission ’ was read by the court as capable of including payments received from the writing of the book , because the writing of the book was connected with the commission of the alleged offences of aiding the escape and conspiring to harbour and assist the escaper . |
| 15 | With a partial split-brain patient as their subject McKeever , Larrabee , Sullivan and Johnson ( 1981 ) observed that the usual difficulty of naming objects presented to the left hand was considerably reduced under hypnosis . |
| 16 | In an important article , Titmuss suggested that lay people are better advocates than lawyers in certain tribunals and the Consumer Council doubted the wisdom of allowing lawyers to practise in the new small claims courts which it proposed . |
| 17 | On completion of this second GIMMS job we are in a position to begin the final task , that of producing maps based on the digitized map of the 42 countries of Africa , using one or other of the two statistical variables entered into the file PMMLIB.GIMMSPOLYDAT . |
| 18 | A motion calling for the signing of an overseas professional was rejected unanimously ; only three votes were recorded in favour , one presumably Boycott 's , of signing players born outside the county . |
| 19 | Whale music — a recording of a group of socialising females made off the Azores — was then broadcast to the males . |
| 20 | The whole mass dropped into the pit and a moment later the big slab was snatched up by several dozen tentacles and slammed into place , leaving a number of thrashing limbs trapped around the edge . |
| 21 | As A. G. Gardiner , the Chairman of the Anti-Sweating League , fulminated at the opening of the exhibition of sweated trades mounted by the Daily News in 1906 : |
| 22 | The murmur of chanting voices carried above the far-distant thunder of the Grand Trunk Road , the old Mughal highway linking the farms of the Punjab with the bazaars of Delhi . |
| 23 | Crowds of chanting protestors gathered in the town centre as the 65-year-old Edinburgh man addressed a bunch of supporters at the King 's Head Hotel which did not realise it was to be the BNP 's venue . |
| 24 | It was a pleasant walk along well-trodden paths through Birbeck Woods beyond which we came upon the first set of workings in Gunnerside Gill : the remains of dressing floors belonging to the Old Gang Mining Company . |
| 25 | In the United States the Age Discrimination Act 1967 aims to ‘ promote the employment of older persons based on their ability rather than their age , to prohibit arbitrary age discrimination in employment , and to help employees and workers find ways of meeting problems arising from the impact of age in employment . ’ |
| 26 | Such ‘ choice ’ can be a means of motivating students to follow through the decisions of others . |
| 27 | The following description of sampling methods relates to the 1984 survey , but the sample design is similar every year . |
| 28 | There was fierce criticism of the government from centre-left opposition parties which accused it of aggravating conditions leading to the crisis by appeasing religious extremists . |
| 29 | Whilst this removal is extremely welcome , our concern over the efficacy of the clutch of up-grading schemes programmed for the A5 in ‘ Roads in Wales ’ , remains strong . |
| 30 | For those working in industrial pharmaceutical laboratories , the technical problems of designing drugs to act on the ‘ mind ’ were formidable . |