Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [art] [noun pl] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 2 | The 28-year-old champion was booed after taking a points decision over Hitchin 's Danny Porter at the Scottish Exhibition Centre but he said : ‘ They are the mugs , not me . ’ |
| 3 | On April 23 Danov announced a criminal investigation against Faks , which was generally sympathetic to the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the former communists ) ; also placed under investigation were the parliamentary review Debati , for publishing on April 17 a list of Bulgarian diplomats who had been secret service agents , and the weekly Reporter 7 , for publishing the police file of an alleged secret agent . |
| 4 | The Kuwaiti Ministry of Public Works says the cost of completing the telecommunications tower in Kuwait City has risen to $175m from $110m : the increase is due mainly to damage done by the Iraqis during their occupation of the country , as well as changes in the project 's specifications and a rise in the cost of raw materials and labour . |
| 5 | Four hundred artists represented in the museum 's collection have responded to the idea of producing a greetings image on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper . |
| 6 | By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca . |
| 7 | The Ministry say ’ we are concerned about ragwort , but we 're considering repealling the Weeds Act in the interests of de-regulation . |
| 8 | You stand nearly three times as much chance of getting a police caution in Kent as you do in South Wales . |
| 9 | SHORT OF HOLDING an arts festival down the darkened drains of Guildford , it is hard to think of a less promising cultural centre than the Arctic Circle . |
| 10 | A bizarre aspect of the case is that Mr Devaty 's ‘ crimes ’ include the apparently punishable offence of sending the authorities papers about their human rights abuses . |
| 11 | Now Powell outlined a way of cutting the wages bill by almost £1m , through ‘ natural wastage ’ , pay freezes but also , for the first time in Virgin 's history , through redundancies . |
| 12 | The main objective in changing the standard is to increase the effectiveness of audit reporting , which is one of the ways of closing the expectations gap between the auditors and users of financial statements . |
| 13 | Chairman , back in nineteen eighty when the County Council 's original structure plan submission was examined , the panel who subsequently the Secretary of State rejected the proposal for a policy to control development in the open countryside outside the nationally designated areas , primarily to suggest that on the grounds that the agricultural policy in the plan were equally capable of achieving the objectives sort by the proposed open countryside policy . |
| 14 | A TOP Catholic public school was yesterday accused of hindering a police investigation into a pervert priest . |
| 15 | Terry Roach , 41 , convicted of killing a police officer by running him over in a truck , serving life in the Phillips Correctional Institution , Georgia and Michael Hamilton , aged 40 , convicted of the contract killing of his wife , sentenced to death in the gas chamber at San Quentin . |
| 16 | Estimates of the cost of covering the tailings lake with soil varied from £2 million to £7 million . |
| 17 | Now that the results of our efforts are showing in a return to profitability , everyone in Chemicals manufacturing knows that they have an important contribution to make in transforming the Chemicals business into a really successful part of Johnson Matthey . |
| 18 | In operating an incomes policy on low pay , by changing the incidence of taxation on income and wealth , by cutting the rise in the welfare budget , while letting tax welfare be consumer led , the Government has brought about a revolutionary polarization in income and living standards , which can now be seen not only in the official data on income distribution , but also in widening class differences . |
| 19 | This appendix describes how to use VMS concealed logical names as pseudo-device names , for users who have difficulty in meeting the 20-characters maxima for various LIFESPAN device and directory pathnames . |
| 20 | Some of the feeling of constriction comes from recording the instruments side by side rather in stereophonic antiphony . |
| 21 | ON May 13 , 1986 , we published an article entitled ‘ A force to be reckoned with ’ which mentioned factors likely to deter potential black recruits from joining the police force at that time and cited as one example ‘ the beating to death of a black Hell 's Angel by policemen ’ . |
| 22 | Since then , the power to appoint savings banks ' top managers has shifted to the Treasury and the ruling political parties , which wasted no time in introducing the savings banks into Italy 's system of lottizzazione — doling out plush jobs to politicians ' pals . |
| 23 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |
| 24 | The commitment of Vine-Lott and BSL to Glasgow has resulted in his recent election as chairman of the Scottish Stock Exchange , the first non-Scot and first non-career stockbroker is a reflection of BSL 's commitment to building a securities industry in Scotland . |
| 25 | It is a reflection of sound management and a commitment to easing the homes crises in this town . ’ |
| 26 | Curtis said that Germany is currently spending a fortune on developing the telecommunications infrastructure in the east . |
| 27 | If we genuinely want to participate in the population debates , as opposed simply to joining the chop-off-their-willies brigade of population controllers , then we must try to understand those reasons . |
| 28 | Wilkins also pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer in the execution of his duty , and Parratt to obstructing the police . |
| 29 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 30 | The organization carried out a bank robbery in Castellón on July 12 which was thought to have provided it with the means to launch a new offensive , and was held responsible for wounding two Army officers in Madrid on Dec. 13 and Valencia on Dec. 15 , for killing a police officer in Barcelona on Dec. 18 and for killing two Civil Guards in Gijón , northern Spain , on Dec. 28 . |