Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is intended that such a timetable should be updated and agreed for circulation to staff each April . |
| 2 | They asked for access to give spiritual support to the Quaker children . |
| 3 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 4 | When the Slav nations of the Ottoman Empire tried without success to overthrow Turkish authority , Russia gradually moved from diplomatic pressure in their favour to a declaration of war in April 1877 . |
| 5 | In 1967 he concentrated on car racing full time . |
| 6 | However , the fact that the Bank of England refused to intervene when the pound came under pressure left some analysts speculating that predictions of an October shortfall of upwards of £1.8billion were too pessimistic . |
| 7 | In the new cemeteries , which came into existence to relieve overcrowded churchyards , gatehouses were often provided for watchmen . |
| 8 | The Thatcher government as soon as it came into office met considerable opposition in Parliament , from public opinion , from local authorities and from various pressure groups , to ‘ cuts ’ . |
| 9 | This is illustrated by the response of the CSEU to the 1980 action of a GMWU official who blacked the BIAKH at the request of the International Transport Workers Federation when the ship came into Jar row Mercantile Dock . |
| 10 | 1969 was the year that rock festivals took off in Britain , and exploded into celluloid myth-and real murder — in the United States . |
| 11 | The letters they received in reply made uncomfortable reading . |
| 12 | Trial two consisted of crop dusting 21 males aged 22 to 50 years for three consecutive days ( only 12 men remained to be sprayed all three days ) . |
| 13 | The pop music and fashion industries were geared specifically towards the young and magazines flourished in order to promote these trends . |
| 14 | The Official Unionist Party withdrew in order to have inter-party talks with the Irish republican Social Democratic and Labour Party — talks to which the other loyalist parties objected strenuously . |
| 15 | The roads are terrifyingly steep and on the map look like coils of intestines , which translated into reality become dizzying sets of hairpin bends , too narrow for two vehicles to pass in comfort at any speed . |
| 16 | The contractors which expanded into housebuilding have another problem . |
| 17 | The decade began with congress passing various bills that sought to cut off funding for the Vietnam War and in 1973 legislators moved on to pass the War Powers Act over president Nixon 's veto . |
| 18 | In order to be certain that the Blox would have peace , quiet and privacy when they needed it , we arranged with Sunsail to charter two bareboat Oceanis 320s , and to take them from Göcek , Sunsail 's base in Fethiye Bay , south and east towards the wild and lovely Kekova Roads . |
| 19 | I walked from Mill to get that job . |
| 20 | Disappointment came with only one grade 1 pass — in PE — and he returned to school to take three GCE ‘ O ’ levels . |
| 21 | China has recently joined the NPT and agreed in principle to observe some limits on its missile sales . |
| 22 | DNA binding reactions contained 4ng of target DNA labelled with 32 P at one 5' end and suitable amounts of bacterial extracts , incubated in buffer giving final concentrations of 10mM Tris.HCl pH 7.5 , 1mM EDTA , 10mM mercaptoethanol , 0.1% CHAPS and 100mM NaCl . |
| 23 | Bereaved people have done it too , perhaps starting a fund to commemorate a person they loved in order to help other sufferers of the same condition . |
| 24 | He also called upon Congress to approve specific tax reforms [ see below ] to encourage investment and to revive the ailing housing market . |
| 25 | Most importantly this project is a microcosm of the best of the Highlander ideas — the people who were most disadvantaged pooled their energies into a collective involvement which identified the sort of information which they needed in order to take further action . |
| 26 | The bird brought her food , dropping it into her mouth so that she should not have to stop for the nourishment she needed in order to have enough strength to carry on . |
| 27 | Under co-founder Steve Hui , Fremont-based Everex Systems Inc , now trading under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection , spent millions of dollars trying to produce clones of Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh and Sun Microsystems Inc workstations and an expensive computerised drafting table without ever getting them to market , according to United Press International ; former managers have also complained anonymously that Everex management frequently ordered more components than it needed in order to get lower prices , the wire service says . |
| 28 | Sets of spaces found not to conform to their specified relationships can be redefined or repositioned in order to reestablish those relationships . |
| 29 | Additional disclosure would also be necessary if , as explained in relation to exclusion clauses , the relationship between customer and agent evolved over time imparting higher levels of fiduciary duties . |
| 30 | Volvo 's over-the-counter US shares jumped more than $5 on word of a merger with Renault , while Jaguar — the object of a run-up since Ford hinted at takeover plans two weeks ago — fell nearly a dollar on word that rival General Motors will take only a minority share in the British car maker . |