Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The next day the main opposition parties joined in the calls for Ershad 's arrest and students threatened to storm his home . |
| 32 | The securities scandal — involving the secret reimbursement of favoured clients for losses sustained through the vagaries of the market — continued to expand during August . |
| 33 | I presume that the nature of the images formed on the retinas of observers is relatively independent of their culture . |
| 34 | There is an index to the schedules , but this has been criticized in connection with the inadequate size of its entry vocabulary , the number of entries in the index only exceeding those subjects listed in the schedules by about 25 per cent . |
| 35 | His eyes dropped to the socks on her feet . |
| 36 | No-one understood more clearly in November 1911 than Havelock Wilson that although the strike victory of that year represented a major gain to the union , the Shipping Federation 's abandonment of " the Ticket " was a reluctant one and that his battle against the managerial prerogatives claimed by the shipowners in manning their vessels and paying their crews was far from over . |
| 37 | I hope it is not too fanciful to think in terms of the old universities , the civic universities , the former colleges of advanced technology , and the polytechnics grouped like the colours in a spectrum each with its distinctive character but with no barriers . |
| 38 | Despite the failure to ratify SALT II both Superpowers adhered to the terms of the treaty ( they continued to do so until 1986 ) and in mid-1982 a new round of talks on strategic weapons began , called START , which aimed not simply to place limits on strategic arms but to reduce them . |
| 39 | One or two of the cars parked beneath the trees in the centre started up and moved off . |
| 40 | Its branches caught in the arms of its neighbours . |
| 41 | The privileges enjoyed by the bureaucrats of communist regimes have constituted part of the evidence around which the debate about class relations has evolved . |
| 42 | For example , a few informants responded to the questions with images of death : ‘ It ( the community ) would go dead ’ , ‘ The community would die ’ , and so forth . |
| 43 | On June 2 tens of thousands of PDS supporters protested in the streets of East Berlin . |
| 44 | These results demonstrate that P. anserina telomeres are composed of short tracks of T 2 AG 3 repeats and therefore , confirm the expected telomeric nature of DNA sequences added to the termini of linear plasmids after replication in P. anserina . |
| 45 | Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall , powerful figure standing just a few feet away . |
| 46 | The speeches made by the representatives of member governments at the General Assembly were dominated by events in the Gulf [ see pp. 37631-41 ; 37694-97 ] . |
| 47 | We said goodbye to Ned again and headed north from Queenstown back towards Christchurch , staying overnight at Ruataniwha in huts built for the workers at Twizel dam . |
| 48 | This is achieved by what is usually known as the " ratchet " , namely characteristics built into the shares in Newco . |
| 49 | This commitment is manifest in these ‘ live ’ recordings made in the mid-1980s in collaboration with North German Radio ( NDR ) . |
| 50 | In the first place , the Pentagon had partial control over how the funds granted under the terms of the Pacts of Madrid were to be spent . |
| 51 | Officers from the RSPCA say hundreds of animals suffered at the hands of a callous and inept man . |
| 52 | … the profound darkness of every part of the city in which there are not shops illuminated by the owners with gas … there is not a little country town in England which is not incomparably better lighted than any street in Paris which depends for its illumination upon the public regulations of the City . |
| 53 | The Socialist parties suffered from the consequences of the Second International 's theory of revolution in stages ( which led the Argentine Socialist Party to support US interventions in the Caribbean ) and its under-estimation of the power of nationalism . |
| 54 | Gerald of Wales , writing in the later twelfth century , says that the Welsh do not build ‘ lofty stone buildings ’ but content themselves with small huts made of the boughs of trees twisted together . ’ |
| 55 | The Latin name ‘ labiosa ’ refers to the thick lips possessed by the males of the species . |
| 56 | Regnal years might also appear on coins of the Roman emperors made in the provinces of the empire , while at Rome coins were frequently dated by the titles of the emperor , such as the tribunician power , which was renewed every year and thus acts as a sort of regnal year . |
| 57 | They were the schools attended by the children of parents able to pay a modest but not negligible fee , together with the boys and girls who had by their own ability won a free or subsidized place . |
| 58 | On these issues the parties moved towards the concerns of the electorate . |
| 59 | I wonder if any of your readers noticed in The Times of 10 March how Lord Armstrong of Ilminster of the Victoria and Albert Museum 's Trustees , quite casually assumed that the independence of our national museums had already been similarly compromised ? |
| 60 | With control over Korea and Taiwan secure , Japan 's eyes turned to the territories of Northeast China and Manchuria , and Japan 's search for the acquisition of control over greater portions of Asian territory governed the development of Asian Japanese relations during the four decades up to 1945 . |