Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems of demobilization were greatly eased by the Servicemen 's Readjustment Act ( 1944 ) , better known as the GI 's Bill of Rights , whereby war veterans received extensive unemployment payments and educational opportunities . |
| 2 | This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war . |
| 3 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 4 | The big machines are only powered by the ratepayers ' money , and that woman who threatened to tie herself to a willow tree represents thousands upon thousands of ratepayers who share her ( and Constable 's ) convictions about the essential nature of a river . |
| 5 | Adopting techniques long employed by the solicitors ' profession , the brochure sets out personal accounts of government legal work by serving lawyers . |
| 6 | The ladies final , somewhat overshadowed by the men 's final , was resumed in the evening because of rain . |
| 7 | A general war weariness , grievances over high taxation , and a deep fear amongst the Anglican majority of the population that the Church was now in greater danger from Protestant Nonconformists than it was from popery , all worked to the Tories ' advantage . |
| 8 | The thousands of miles of new hedgerows in the Midland countryside , when they came to full growth after a generation , added enormously to the bird population , especially with the extermination of the larger hawks and kites as pests , a process that is abundantly recorded in the church-wardens ' accounts or the field-reeves ' books of Midland villages . |
| 9 | They are often sited in very desirable locations : mental hospitals , in particular , such as the former county asylums which sprung up after the Lunacy Act of 1847 , are located on the outskirts of towns , in landscaped grounds thoughtfully planned for the patients ' well-being . |
| 10 | He similarly assumes that exile players are only qualified for the clubs ' ostensible countries of origin . |
| 11 | MANCHESTER doctor Philippa Roberts and teenagers Nicola Huntridge and Corinna Williams all qualified for the women 's jump final at the World Waterski championships in Singapore . |
| 12 | The parties of the centre-right coalition suffered substantial losses in nationwide local elections on Oct. 18 in what was widely seen as the voters ' initial verdict on the austerity measures . |
| 13 | On May 3 the remains of Enver Hoxha and 12 other " former leaders of the Party of Labour " ( the PLA — the former ruling party , later renamed the Socialist Party of Albania — SPA ) were discreetly transferred from the Martyrs ' Cemetery in Tirana to a public cemetery in the suburbs of the city . |
| 14 | Polly thrust it back into her bag , embarrassed at being caught doing things more properly done in a ladies ' cloakroom , and furious at her own embarrassment . |
| 15 | What is common to these and related responses is that if we take the starting of the wipers to be an effect we believe at least that there is some type of circumstance which is uniformly connected with the wipers ' starting . |
| 16 | Vacancies were normally filled by the commissioners ' presentation by the end of the century , but that presentation could be a formality and their autonomy restricted to the rejection of manifestly unqualified candidates . |
| 17 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
| 18 | Lebanon had already suffered for the Palestinians ' presence . |
| 19 | for use by a solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is or proposes to become a member of and/or a beneficial owner of a share or shares in a body corporate seeking recognition or already recognised under the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 . |
| 20 | for use by a recognised body ( or body seeking recognition ) which is or proposes to become a member of and/or a beneficial owner of a share or shares in a body corporate seeking recognition or already recognised under the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 . |
| 21 | They were soon relegated to the emigrants ' cars , and when even the emigrants complained they were forced to travel on baggage wagons or on the boarding steps . |
| 22 | And er , I was also asked why I had offered to and I 'd already spoken to the students ' secretary about it . |
| 23 | Your child has just appeared at a Children 's Hearing and the members of the Panel have decided that your child should be placed on supervision to a social worker and that he/she should live away from home for a time . |
| 24 | But of course these stocks are dependent on the amount of wheat sown in the preceding year ; and that , in its turn was largely influenced by the farmers ' guesses as to the price which they would get for it in this year . |
| 25 | That 's because Tony has just emerged from the players ' tunnel . |
| 26 | The Liberal Democrats have finally emerged from the puppet-masters ' box , but the crowds in the streets may decide they have left it too left . |
| 27 | The treaty endorsed the principle , already enshrined in the republics ' sovereignty declarations , of republican ownership of land and natural resources , and of the supremacy of republican laws " in all matters with the exception of those within the competence of the Union " . |
| 28 | TWO youths who had spiked a social worker 's toast with rat poison were yesterday referred to the Children 's Hearing for sentence . |
| 29 | This has always added to the clergy 's spiritual authority and status , and has tended to merge with the authority claimed by the clergy in matters of faith and morals , with the high clergy deciding what constitutes matters of faith and morals . |
| 30 | Maarouf Saad , the leftist mayor of Sidon , was fatally wounded in a fishermen 's demonstration and in further fighting the Lebanese national army — largely commanded , of course , by Christians — came into conflict with Muslim gunmen and the more radical of the PLO 's Palestinian guerrilla groups . |