Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This latest outbreak of sectarian fighting , momentarily stilled by a government-mediated ceasefire on July 21 , came as Sunni groups voiced opposition to the government 's apparently conciliatory approach to the Shias ( who accounted for about 20 per cent of the country 's population ) . |
| 2 | Experience showed , he said , that the proportion which debts recovered bore to the cost of the court proceedings was less than one in twenty , and so a burden on trade and business . |
| 3 | People through the ages made images of the Tree of Life , as with the stone altar in Neolithic Malta with trees carved on all four sides . |
| 4 | All three sons became partners in the family firm ; one of them ( Holbrook , born 1878 ) , a director of ICI , was knighted in 1942 . |
| 5 | Four of his sons became partners in the Smith banks . |
| 6 | This breaking of demarcation rules plunged Roy into the centre of a possible strike situation which threatened to halt production . |
| 7 | Usually the priors became proctors for the king , paying over to him a farm ( or rent ) , but as these farms were based on a high assessment many houses or cells sold or leased their property in order to buy denization . |
| 8 | His hooves caught Will on the side of the head . |
| 9 | Renaissance courts involved theatricality in the sense of both disguise and histrionic self-presentation , while court manuals and rhetorical handbooks offered ‘ an integrated rhetoric of the self , a model for the formation of an artificial identity ’ ( Renaissance Self-Fashioning , 162 ) . |
| 10 | Their $400m share subscription allowed PW to give a clean audit opinion , although a note to the accounts drew attention to the fact that the bank was now owned by Abu Dhabi . |
| 11 | The King 's Fund found that good projects involved families in the planning of services and built them in to the system in such a way that they felt their important role was appreciated . |
| 12 | His Puritan inclinations found favour with the electorate of Poole , which he first represented in the Addled Parliament of 1614 , and he sat , always for Dorset constituencies , in ten of its next twelve successors . |
| 13 | Oil had stimulated new industry , cities were being modernized rapidly and ambitious plans promised change in the countryside . |
| 14 | Probably some of these birds moved east to the sandstone cliffs . |
| 15 | The money would be paid out as clients made use of the services . |
| 16 | The only sign of this lost affluence was a genealogical freak by which my father and his brothers became freemen of the city of York on their twenty-first birthday . |
| 17 | To worship the moon , as queen of heaven , they also sacrificed burnt offerings and made cakes , while the Jews made vows to the moon . |
| 18 | The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move . |
| 19 | Djaimin had actually been advised to make his own music by Tony Humphries himself when the two DJs got matey on the American 's Swiss spinning jaunts . |
| 20 | Francis Pym went to Defence ; Peter Walker to Agriculture ; Sir Ian Gilmour also to the Foreign Office ; Norman St John-Stevas became Leader of the House . |
| 21 | The judge agreed and F and his two brothers changed places in the dock . |
| 22 | Overall , Siemens AG was able to give little cheer to shareholders , and the shares were off 2.30 marks at 663.10 early yesterday after the company warned that it would be counted a success if 1992-93 profits were stable with last year — incoming orders in the first five months of this fiscal fell 2% , although it looks for a 4.7% rise for the full year ; group sales in the first five months rose 3% to the equivalent of about $18,500m . |
| 23 | Jeremy 's natural joy in the festivities found fulfilment at the Youngs ' house , where a children 's party and innumerable presents helped to put his father 's tragedy into the background . |
| 24 | When Black Annis howled , you could hear her five miles away and then even the poor people in their huts fastened skins across the window and put witch-herbs above it to keep her away safe . |
| 25 | Both members of Jean-Marie Le Pen 's European Right party , the MEPs shouted insults at the President of the Parliament , Enrique Baron , when he announced the measure barring the far-right party from leading delegations to Israel and Switzerland . |
| 26 | Both authors drew inspiration from the riverbank and the wildlife in Christchurch Meadows in Oxford . |
| 27 | Although the risk to humans was believed to be remote , manufacturers reduced DEHA in the film . |
| 28 | Pneumonia was the most common clinical diagnosis followed by bronchiolitis ; these two syndromes comprised 86% of the diagnoses . |
| 29 | No matter how long the lance master lectured him about truth to oneself , inner nobility and purity , the words seemed hollow in the light of his first remarks . |
| 30 | Women 's heels played taps upon the pavement . |