Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This inquiry was from a third-year pupil who had seen Prestel demonstrated in the information skills course where there is an emphasis on career information and the pupils use the large collection of Career materials in the library .
2 After two hours of driving Carson and Alison stopped at a motorway services area , a cut-rate chunk of space-age that straddled the carriageway .
3 So far as tomorrow 's game at Celtic Park is concerned , Rangers ' Goram , Gough and Steven all came through the midweek Champions League match without further mishap , and will play .
4 Many contemporary players came under the Squash Rackets Association 's coaching umbrella at a very early age and facilities are more abundant than for any other racket sport .
5 Many councillors said they felt compelled to vote against the motion because they believed in the tenant farmers freedom of choice .
6 Karen Briggs , the world bantamweight champion , has undergone surgery on the shoulder she dislocated in the world championships final in Belgrade last month .
7 The remainder of the bureau questioned , around 20% , either had no traditional typesetting or printing background at all or came from the computer services sector .
8 On the political right the fourth estate busied itself in a revived version of the old Chamberlain protectionist pipedream of Empire Unity , as now expounded by the press lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook .
9 So the CPS and Commander Penrose turned to the Press Complaints Commission .
10 Winnie Mandela was grim-faced as she and her husband arrived at the Soweto Magistrates Court .
11 It looks at the explosion of mobile , global money in the 1980s encouraged by the electronics communications revolution , and how it affects people 's lives .
12 They were really much more than just bike rides , for Granny , who lived with the family , had told her the story of St. George and given her books about Brownies , and Brenda rode along the country lanes make-believing she was the knight riding to rescue the princess from the dragon .
13 Subsequently anterior and posterior abdominal scans were obtained at 40 , 120 , and 240 minutes using a large field of view gamma camera fitted with a low energy high resolution collimator and interfaced to a Research Machines Nimbus microcomputer .
14 After the AFCO protested to the Trade Practices Commission , the institute revised its advertisement .
15 However , the day really belonged to the Vintage Carriages Trust with the formal opening of their museum at Ingrow , also performed by Cllr Thorne .
16 ‘ The reaction I got from the Twin Cities race was really out of proportion , ’ he says with appropriate modesty .
17 He joined the company in May and is presently making arrangements to move his family from Durham where he worked as a Management Services Executive with Ramar , manufacturers of apparel textiles .
18 Because I I I 've said this to him before on on the floor of the house , that is what we are required to do in the insurance brokers registration council for all insurance broking firms , that is what parliament required in the insurance brokers registration act and it is not an onerous requirement on firms , it is not excessively expensive so it would meet I believe , any cost compliance test er that erm the er the D T I might wish to insist be carried out .
19 The HNO 3 column amount measured inside the vortex is in close agreement with values observed in 1986 ( ref. 17 ) , and a little higher ( within the errors ) than that recorded from the Arrival Heights laboratory in 1987 .
20 With the 401st Bomb Group continuing their dials missions , a brief respite cam e to Dan and his crew as Mary Alice underwent repairs , until just even days later when they flew to the marshalling yards south of Paris on June 4 .
21 Besides the radar , Bill also looked after the radio communications equipment on the Washington .
22 Pressure groups , political organisations and other extra-Parliamentary activists vociferously expressed enough anxiety over the potential demographic transformation of British cities and the destruction of British culture to make it an issue within Parliament : the political argument culminated in the Commonwealth Immigrants Bill becoming an Act of Parliament in 1962 .
23 In the United States in the 1960s the political will to get to the trough of federal aid resulted in the Model Cities programme rapidly expanding from a focus on 66 metropolitan centres to a total of almost 140 cities spread across the nation ( Levine , 1989 ) .
24 The Sunday Times reporter Peter Gillman recounts how the Panel went to the Trading Standards Office at Bodmin but was told that there was nothing to be done because water was not covered by the Food Act .
25 I went to the Wicklow Gardens Festival last year and enjoyed it thoroughly ; and the welcome I received at Hunter 's Hotel makes a return visit hard to resist .
26 She inquired at the trading standards department about the legality of catapults but was told they were sold at fishing tackle shops because anglers use them to hurl their bait into the water .
27 She spoke to a woman police officer outside the Old Bailey after the court had adjourned on Tuesday evening .
28 Before shaving , he rang his office and spoke to the woman police constable who acted as his secretary .
29 In the case of information relating to er say client A which is obtained by the auditor while auditing client B , the auditor ought as a matter of sound practice normally to use the information to make further enquiries for the purpose of the audit of A. These interpretations have been set out more fully in the statement of auditing standards and the professional guidance issued by the auditing practices board that will accompany this legislation and as matters of courtesy to the house er Madam Deputy Speaker , I ask that a copy of that be placed in the library .
30 The accounts also have to be prepared in line with the accepted practice within the accounting profession , as laid down in a series of Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAPs ) issued by the Accounting Standards Committee .
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