Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1967 , a parliamentary commissioner was established to investigate complaints passed on by Members of Parliament about maladministration in government departments . |
| 2 | ‘ The constitutional function performed by courts of justice as interpreters of the written law laid down in Acts of Parliament is often described as ascertaining ‘ the intention of Parliament ; ’ but what this metaphor , though convenient , omits to take into account is that the court , when acting in its interpretative role , as well as when it is engaged in reviewing the legality of administrative action , is doing so as mediator between the state in the exercise of its legislative power and the private citizen for whom the law made by Parliament constitutes a rule binding upon him and enforceable by the executive power of the state . |
| 3 | Not content to let surgeons perform unguided , she remains conscious to give instructions and read aloud from books of psychoanalysis . |
| 4 | Pares published extensively in a series of monographs illuminating various aspects of his chosen field , the role of the West Indies in the development of the British Empire , and the determination of British international policy during the eighteenth century : his pioneering investigations ranged widely over questions of war and trade and international law . |
| 5 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 6 | Mrs Parkin described how children were coming to the school weighed down with tins of food . |
| 7 | As representatives of the ranks of the great unfashionable made their way to their seats weighed down by crates of lager , it was clear , at the band 's first British appearance for seven years , that paunches may come and full heads of hair may go , but times do n't change . |
| 8 | In the same case Lord Scarman , at p. 186 , referred approvingly to observations of Harman L.J . |
| 9 | smacked down by figures of authority . |
| 10 | Sometimes it clouded over with rays of darkness . |
| 11 | Young contributed largely to Annals of Agriculture . |
| 12 | Hundreds of riot police then charged repeatedly at scores of Left-wingers and pushed them back from the podium so that President Weizsaecker could begin his speech . |
| 13 | The lower levels of these vast ‘ graveyards ’ built up into beds of limestone and colossal shifts in the earth 's structure meant that much of this was raised above sea level . |
| 14 | They are phoney devices built up of strips of card or other material to give an appearance of genuine binding . |
| 15 | One feature of this shift was an emphasis on industrial democracy , which drew heavily on principles of codetermination . |
| 16 | Peter O'Dwyer , 23 , of Arthur Street , Darlington , was remanded in custody charged jointly with others of burglary at The Gatehouse , Ellerton-on-Swale , near Catterick , when electrical equipment and other goods worth £1,200 were stolen . |
| 17 | The discussion groups were relatively open , and many people came along as friends of friends . |
| 18 | Mrs Drubb came in with offers of tea . |
| 19 | His wife Aileen came in with pails of milk , scolding at two little girls for clinging onto her skirt and making her spill . |
| 20 | After cautiously sounding our way over stones of all colours and sizes encased in the clearest ice formed by the spray of the waterfall , we found the rock … from the summit of which the water shot directly over our heads into a bason and among fragments of rock wrinkled over with masses of ice , white as snow , or rather as D. says like congealed froth … |
| 21 | Wills were of immense significance and the contingent squabbles sometimes spilled over into acts of family treachery and even violence … |
| 22 | She came home in floods of tears , ‘ I 've got to be a nurse , I ca n't be an architect ’ . |
| 23 | Lurid semi-fictional accounts by James Greenwood , George Sim and Jack London alluded darkly to acts of debauchery not fit even for the pages of The Lancet . |
| 24 | Whether this added up in terms of cost per job was another matter . |
| 25 | A little boy came up with lumps of rock in his hand . |
| 26 | ‘ He came out with bits of information that were never of any use to anyone : But Ken could turn any conversation into an erudite discussion — and also make jokes about them . ’ |
| 27 | Corman directed most of the picture but then had stop because union rules , to which he adhered religiously in terms of actors ' and technicians ' payments , made it impossible to continue with a fully fledged production team . |
| 28 | 5 Confirmation received today from MEMORIES OF YORK ( 13/6 ) all OK for your visit . |
| 29 | It came about through changes of agreement amongst speakers over the course of time involving greater and greater consensus on open /α : / as the appropriate realization , and it is not fully explainable in purely linguistic terms . |
| 30 | Until 1986 Stock Exchange participants were either brokers , who acted on behalf of clients in buying and selling securities , or jobbers , who held stocks and shares and dealt with brokers as the market required , and acted rather like wholesalers of securities . |