Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ( 1 ) A licensing board may grant an occasional permission to a person representing a voluntary organisation or a branch of a voluntary organisation authorising him to sell alcoholic liquor during such hours and on such day as the board may determine , in the course of catering for an event , arising from or related to the activities of the organisation , taking place outwith licensed premises . |
2 | This has been highlighted in two lines of decisions in road traffic cases where the plaintiffs ' damages have been reduced , even though they in no way caused or contributed to the accidents in which they were injured . |
3 | I think er what the county council 's position is in terms of the statement he 's just read out it is that er the county council strategic framework , the structure plan alteration number three , the high fly policy which we discussed yesterday , is an attempt to address the needs of the districts and if we 've got this right then sufficient land should be identified or allocated to the districts within Policy I five . |
4 | The report suggests that the police regard true rape as occurring where one or preferably two of the following criteria are met : ( 1 ) complainer is attacked in her own home by intruder(s) ; ( 2 ) ‘ respectable ’ complainer attacked by strangers ; ( 3 ) complainer is severely beaten up ; ( 4 ) complainer is attacked by assailants wanted by or known to the police for crimes of violence ( especially against women ) ; ( 5 ) assailant uses weapon ; ( 6 ) assailant apprehended at scene of crime . |
5 | Large horticultural firms sent out or subscribed to the activities of professional collectors , who often employed local people to bring orchids to them and there was little hesitation in felling a tree to get a good specimen . |
6 | The downstairs lighting circuit is run under the first-floor floorboards , with cables preferably threaded through holes drilled in the centre of joists , or clipped to the sides of the joists . |
7 | Mrs Robinson was banished below decks and confined to the kitchens from which emerged a steady issue of victuals from forenoon to midnight . |
8 | Since in connection with this American libel we did not employ Mr Quintin Hogg , I wrote him a short letter and received a courteous reply : The third occasion when we instituted proceedings was several years later , in 1971 , when Harold Wilson was back in opposition , and related to the activities of the BBC , which produced a thoroughly incompetent piece of television called Yesterday 's Men . |
9 | First , there has been a harder look at the components of the nursing process to assess whether nursing skills were appropriately used and related to the needs of patients or whether they followed old-established but unvalidated local custom and practice . |
10 | The advertising was American , led by such firms as J. Walter Thompson and applied to the products of eight hundred American firms dominating the British consumer — Thomas Hedley ( Tide and Daz ) , Hoover , Singer , Heinz , Kellogg , Kraft , Gillette , Kodak , Woolworth , Colgate-Palmolive , Esso and Ford to name only the top twelve . |
11 | Firstly they discuss how a consideration of the expressive and biotic orders can be linked to the social order and applied to the fields of study currently examined by more conventional urban sociology . |
12 | The revised procedure was set out in a discussion document and presented to the Heads of Department . |
13 | In 1914 the Manor was purchased by a body of British subscribers and presented to the peoples of Britain and the United States of America in celebration of 100 years peace and friendship between the two nations . |
14 | Let's have a look at you , girlie ! ’ and surprisingly gentle and capable hands enquired and soothed to the sounds of Mrs Robinson . |
15 | Any sequel must be " more elementary " and tailored to the needs of the engineering student . |
16 | The displays show how Northamptonshire Ironstone was quarried , and transported to the blastfurnaces to be made into iron . |
17 | Later , in a speech at Warsaw University , the Prince spoke with admiration of the Polish people 's struggle and talked to the veterans of the uprising in which people took to the streets against the Germans , expecting help which never came from the nearby Russian army . |
18 | To have to compete with Third World labour costs would produce massive unrest in a population already urbanised and used to the standards of a Western industrial society . |
19 | Automobiles are made of thousands of components , many of which are produced by small firms and sold to the assemblers like Toyota . |
20 | All are comfortably appointed and equipped to the standards of the normal Italian house — as many are the holiday homes of Italians themselves . |
21 | Leeds adopted the destroyer H.M.S. Leeds as its mascot , and contributed to the comforts of the sailors . |
22 | If this declaration is not made within two months of the day of election and delivered to the chief executive or clerk of the council within that two months then the office at the expiration of the two months automatically becomes vacant and the local authority must declare the office vacant and signify the vacancy by notice signed by the proper officer of the authority and affixed to the offices of the authority . |
23 | The art of veterinary medicine had been , surprisingly , neglected in this country , and consigned to the hands of incapacity and ignorance . |
24 | After HMI 's inspection in March 1988 , a set of guidelines about the use and deployment of home-school liaison officers was produced by the LEA and distributed to the heads of primary schools concerned . |
25 | Her hair blew forward like a dusty web and stuck to the corners of his mouth . |
26 | They nested under the guttering and I spent many a happy lunch-hour wandering around counting their grenade-shaped nests , made of mud and stuck to the eaves of the school buildings . |
27 | It is perhaps not appropriate to insist that Zuwaya , resisting government regulation , had an image of a different kind of economic order , consistent with or derived from their image of Arab government , and opposed to the principles of Islamic socialism . |
28 | The panels were mahogany , strengthened on the outside with stout canvas glued to the back , and supported to the angles of the framing by glued blocks . |
29 | Such products , attractively boxed and delivered to the classrooms of the early 1970s , certainly offered multiple media — text , images and sound — but each was delivered as an independent element in the package . |
30 | Initially , older people were removed from the community supports which traditionally looked after them and subjected to the rigours of a ‘ work or starve ’ philosophy . |