Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Upon marrying Lovebird Johnston , Juan moved to the outskirts of Kingstown , St Vincent and finally found work packing bananas for shipping around the world . |
| 62 | In Chapter 6 , it was suggested that one factor which contributed to the variations in fortune between different towns was the extent to which they had been affected by developments in the manufacture of cloth . |
| 63 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
| 64 | Although most of the adjustments Valuev proposed to the statutes of emancipation appeared to favour the gentry at the expense of the peasantry , one of them , the abolition of the peasant commune , might have had the opposite effect , and none of them was designed to turn the clock back . |
| 65 | The committee should be ready to attend lectures , courses and events devoted to the principles of worship , and to visit other churches in order to exchange ideas . |
| 66 | Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there should be a Select Committee of this House devoted to the affairs of Northern Ireland ? |
| 67 | Since 1973 , an annual conference devoted to the applications of computing and mathematics to archaeology has been held at varying locations in Britain . |
| 68 | In order to wean the company away from a reliance on theatre plays , he set up a major script department which drew on the talents of writers like Frank Launder , Sidney Gilliatt , Val Guest and Michael Pertwee , as well as occasionally giving jobs to young writers like Christopher Isherwood . |
| 69 | The community of the shire was based on a network of acquaintance and interests , and probably drew on the contacts of individuals in local government . |
| 70 | The Great War , with the enormous challenges it posed to the assumptions of laissez-faire liberalism , took the role of the State a great deal further . |
| 71 | In the last issue of WWF News , we reported on the efforts of WWF and other environmental groups to get an energy efficiency clause included in the Bill to privatise the electricity industry . |
| 72 | As already described , the Saxon rebel Wittikind fled to the Danes for protection during the second conquest of Saxony in 776 . |
| 73 | He said that although the public faces of the parents were brave , and they were trying to bear up , there were times when they sank to the depths of despair . |
| 74 | Marge , the gal who capsized and bumped over the rocks at Chase Rapids , showed us her bottom bruises . |
| 75 | Until the 1960s disability had a limited meaning : it referred to the effects of injuries but not often the effects of illness . |
| 76 | He also referred to the visits to Mozambique by the Deputy President of the African National Congress , Nelson Mandela , South African President F.W. de Klerk , Namibian Prime Minister Hage Geingob , Swaziland Prime Minister Obed Dlamini , and Chairman of the Lesotho Council of Ministers Justin Lekhanya . |
| 77 | She referred to the problems of democracy . |
| 78 | He referred to the displays of freaks which used to take place at funfairs , mentioning bearded ladies , deformed sheep 's foetuses and many similar items until called to order by the Chair ( = me ) . |
| 79 | In 1649 he became deputy chief justice of the Chester circuit , in which capacity he presided over the trials of James Stanley , seventh Earl of Derby , Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh [ qq.v. ] , and John Benbowe in October 1651 . |
| 80 | I concentrated on the implications of Einstein 's General Theory , he said , and on the pathos of his later career . |
| 81 | There was the Trojan war , in which thousands perished over the indiscretions of Helen and Paris , who — give or take a sun-lounger — could have passed for the ancient Greeks ' answer to Fergie and John Bryan . |
| 82 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 83 | They dispatched their excess female baggage at the Strand Gate where the Sheriff was closing in on them , and then headed across the quicksands to Rye , where they left their horses and disappeared among the labyrinth of smuggler 's passageways that honeycombed the cobbled streets . |
| 84 | Western scholars may never discover how many Soviet citizens perished at the hands of Beria 's NKVD troops ( or Abakhumov 's SMERSH , operating in the enemy rear ) , but the scale and significance of their operations is well understood by those who command today 's KGB Border Guards and MVD Internal Troops , along with the ‘ special detachments ’ of the KGB and Armed Forces . |
| 85 | While they were eating , a woman who had a bad name crept into the room and knelt at the feet of Jesus . |
| 86 | He presided at the councils of Piacenza and Clermont ( 1095 ) , and preached with fervour war against the infidel , for the defence of Christendom and the recovery of the holy places . |
| 87 | But should the barrels stay missing for a while , they are not likely to be posing much of a health hazard — at least , not nearly as much as that posed by the tonnes of poison whose storage , legal or otherwise , is now going to be looked into . |
| 88 | In psychology , work clustered around the ideas of Frederiksen ( 1975 ) , Meyer ( 1975 ) , Rumelhart ( 1975 ) , Kintsch ( 1977 ) , Thorndyke ( 1977 ) , and Mandler and Johnson ( 1977 ) has led to dozens of studies based on an analysis of various types of text structure and the relationship between text structure and recall . |
| 89 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 90 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |