Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Would he , seventeen years afterwards , be able to rediscover the mouth of the hole that led down into the Goughdale Mine ? |
| 15 | For at that moment , directly below the steps that led down to the Moebius Strip , the float of dummy Capellans was purring serenely by . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She gazed down at the London horizon , its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings . |
| 18 | An advance group of undergraduates moved in for the Michaelmas Term . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I moved off to the PGA caravan to have words with Sally about our tentative arrangement for dinner at her flat . |
| 21 | The taxi drew up opposite the Battersea Bridge end of the boats . |
| 22 | But as Percy Makepeace twittered through the hall and down the corridor with his clerical acquaintance , two more cars drew up in the Burleigh driveway . |
| 23 | But , with only 48 seconds separating the top nine riders overall after more than 1,000 miles ' racing as they headed out through the Birkenhead tunnel , Lillywhite and his team-mates had to be on their guard in today 's 85-mile penultimate stage to Salford Quays . |
| 24 | WORLD snooker champion Stephen Hendry 's miserable season continued last night as he crashed out of the UK Championship in Preston . |
| 25 | GOALKEEPER Martin Thomas was sent off yesterday as Birmingham crashed out of the FA Cup . |
| 26 | Redundancy/Church Relations — Sandie reported back about the SMT discussion held 12.3.93 . |
| 27 | We staggered out into the Madrid evening ‘ full of piss and vinegar ’ , as Dana said later , and somehow made our way to the Puerta del Sol , where there is a large circular fountain . |
| 28 | TODAY dropped in to the Oxfam shop in Oxford to see what she missed . |
| 29 | We eventually left the outback by way of some tiny townships , widely spaced , and came down onto the Queensland coast at the busy city of Townsville with a modern cylindrical building surmounted by a silvery roof feature . |
| 30 | During the first week of December 1986 , Donleavy came down to the Windfrey hotel at River Chase , Alabama , just south of Birmingham , for the first of several briefing sessions . |