Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 2 | Despite their early start , they still attended the dinner laid on by the Flanders rugby authorities . |
| 3 | We got a letter , passed on from the Newcastle office this morning concerning a woman who wants to sell her bungalow . |
| 4 | This marked the recommencement of the peace process which had been under serious threat in recent months as both the FMLN and the government accused each other of not abiding by the conditions laid down in the January peace treaty [ see pp. 38716 ; 38809 ; 38906 ] . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most telling aspect of the great wad of paper work which MPs get handed at the end of the Budget statement was the revelation tucked away that , even on Norman Lamont 's most optimistic financial forecast , the UK would not be in a position to meet the European Economic convergence criteria laid down in the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 6 | In the West Indies the original unity laid down in the Carlisle grant disintegrated as the Leeward Islands broke away from Barbados and Jamaica was set up with an entirely separate governorship . |
| 7 | The European Community has agreed to ban the use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) by June 1997 — three years ahead of the deadline laid down in the Montreal Protocol on protection of the ozone layer [ see ED no. 35/36 ] . |
| 8 | The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] . |
| 9 | I would add that if all the member states made the registration of their fishing vessels subject to residence or domicile requirements of the type laid down in the United Kingdom Act , nationals of other member states established in the United Kingdom would not even be able to carry on any fishing activity under any flag , because they would not be entitled to fly the flag of any member state . |
| 10 | They were judged on the criteria laid down by the EC Directive — that they should be unbiased , should properly examine alternatives , and should detail the measures that would be taken to mitigate any environmental damage . |
| 11 | As David Trippier from the Department of the Environment said , this is two-and-a-half years ahead of the schedule laid down by the Montreal protocol — and the government would have liked it even faster . |
| 12 | For all this to take place in so remote an area required not only payment of high wages but elaborate logistic arrangements on a massive scale , particularly with the strict conditions laid down by the Shetlands Islands Council to protect both the environment and the local way of life . |
| 13 | There is serious doubt about whether Italy can achieve the norms laid down by the Maastricht Treaty , and qualify for membership of the European Community single market next year and full monetary union by 1997 or later . |
| 14 | This removes any realistic prospect of a government introducing severe economic reforms to reduce Italy 's huge public debt to fulfil norms for the EC single market laid down by the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 15 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 16 | Within the requirements laid down by the Franks Report of the need for openness , fairness and impartiality , the objective is to achieve a formal procedure with an informal atmosphere . |
| 17 | Users had to present their data in ways laid down by the DP department ; they found themselves bound by the DP department 's priorities rather than by their own ; and , in addition , they had to compete with colleagues for use of the computer 's facilities . |
| 18 | Paul Azinger , Payne Stewart , Mark O'Meara , Steve Pate , and Chip Beck can be counted upon to pick up yet again the gauntlet flung down by the Mother Country . |
| 19 | Which megastar was about to beamed in from a Hollywood poolside to give a transatlantic Tory thumbs up ? |
| 20 | Would he , seventeen years afterwards , be able to rediscover the mouth of the hole that led down into the Goughdale Mine ? |
| 21 | For at that moment , directly below the steps that led down to the Moebius Strip , the float of dummy Capellans was purring serenely by . |
| 22 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 23 | She gazed down at the London horizon , its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings . |
| 24 | The former Cambridge United striker was completely on his own when he moved on to a Billy Clark lob . |
| 25 | An advance group of undergraduates moved in for the Michaelmas Term . |
| 26 | Village communities anywhere are notoriously conservative , so when two young cyclists wandered in to the Gasthof Löwen with shoulder-length hair and matching headbands , they received some doubtful glances from the table where five farm-workers sat steadily drinking their way through the evening . |
| 27 | Police with truncheons waded in at the San Siro stadium as fighting broke out , although there were no immediate reports of severe injuries . |
| 28 | ‘ I had similar problems when I stopped over in the Brown Islands , ’ he said . |
| 29 | While it was charming I was not at all happy there so I gave up the grandiose life and moved over to the Peel Street YMCA . |
| 30 | The next year he moved over to the Alfa team , but could score only three points in a car whose engines rarely survived a race . |