Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew the attention of the soldier-in-charge and explained about his position in the club . |
| 2 | The NAC " was severely criticized for its policy towards the Abyssinian war . |
| 3 | Meri had been criticized for his management of the Foreign Ministry , especially for having dismissed two deputies in February without consulting the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | The SPD polled an average of 26.64 per cent ( 21.88 per cent in March 1990 ) , but apparently only made real inroads on CDU support in Brandenburg , with the respected East Berlin lay Protestant leader and lawyer Manfred Stolpe heading its campaign against the CDU 's Peter-Michael Diestel ( who had been criticized for his handling of the dissolution of the Stasi secret police — see p. 37828 ) . |
| 5 | The FNM attacked the size and cost of the new Cabinet and called for the resignation of Maynard and of Philip Bethel , who had been criticized for his stewardship of the Transport Ministry and the troubles of the state airline Bahamasair . |
| 6 | Les Stewart , Senior Manager at Oban , who has responsibility for Scarinish , had perceptively anticipated that I would not be over-extended during my stay on the island . |
| 7 | Dr Susan Walker , water resources manager for the north-west of England region of the National Rivers Authority , and president-elect of the British Hydrological Society , is honoured for her support of the activities of the university 's department of civil and offshore engineering . |
| 8 | Albert Fall arranged for their transfer to the Department of the Interior , and then leased them in secret to two private oil magnates from whom , it was later revealed , he had received substantial bribes — some $300 000 and a herd of pedigree cattle . |
| 9 | Physicians for Human Rights , based in Boston , and the New York group Human Rights Watch brought the samples back last summer and arranged for their analysis at the British chemical weapons laboratory at Porton Down , Wiltshire . |
| 10 | Finding out that the goods were stolen after receipt is not handling , but if the accused then , for example , sells them , he may have arranged for their disposal for the benefit of another . |
| 11 | Murchison recognized the boy 's ability , arranged for his entry to the Royal School of Mines , where he studied under Thomas Huxley and ( Sir ) Andrew Ramsay [ qq.v. ] , and in 1862 recruited him to the Geological Survey of Scotland . |
| 12 | The defendants did not appear before the judge on the hearing of the motion and no adequate explanation was given for their absence by the solicitor then acting for them . |
| 13 | A side-effect of this is that if your mail starts showing your long address as opposed to the short address given for your name on the list , the dopey list software rejects it . |
| 14 | Hugh Fraser 's later career was rewarded — no doubt forgiven for his participation in the case , or possibly because it was unknown — by a knighthood , but nothing more . |
| 15 | As in the case of the central government , the new Bihar ministry relied for its survival on the outside support of the two communist parties and the BJP . |
| 16 | In order to test the coverage of the lexicon , the test part of the LOB corpus was retrieved and each word in the text checked for its existence in the lexicon . |
| 17 | The authoritarian paterfamilias presided over the institutionalisation of the double standard , while the pedestalised mother and wife depended for her purity on the degradation of the fallen woman . |
| 18 | if you are offered payment for any outside activity undertaken as a result of your employment in the ES or for any invention developed during your employment with the ES ; |
| 19 | Another veteran communist politician , Santiago Carrillo , secretary-general of the PCE from 1960 to 1982 , effectively retired when on Feb. 15 , 1991 , he signed an agreement providing for the integration into the PSOE of the small Partido de los Trabajadores de España ( Spanish Workers ' Party — PTE ) , which he had formed after his expulsion from the PCE leadership in 1985 [ see pp. 34183-84 ; 35527 ] . |
| 20 | But David Dein , the Arsenal vice-chairman martyred for his part in the deal , insists that it is working ‘ eminently satisfactorily ’ . |
| 21 | Lewis referred to him as ‘ a man martyred for his belief in the destiny of his country , a man whose worst fault was that his courage outran his prudence ’ . |
| 22 | In one such list the Jesuit astronomer Christopher Scheiner is included for his discovery of the sunspots . |
| 23 | Majid had a brutal reputation , earned during his suppression of the 1988 Kurdish rebellion and his period as governor of Kuwait following the August 1990 invasion . |
| 24 | Sister Marjorie Bell , later decorated for her bravery in the Lewisham Rail Crash was in charge of the case . |
| 25 | They had all come to pay their last respects to the local boy , decorated for his part in the Gulf War , who lost his life on a training mission in the Scottish Highlands . |
| 26 | And the woman respected for her concern for the sick and deprived is told : ‘ Not to love is not to live , or it is to live a living death . |
| 27 | They should be trusted and respected for their grip of the job and their good judgement . |
| 28 | In addition the status itself carries high prestige : Rosenfeld notes that leader-managers are ‘ respected for their contribution to the communal enterprise as leaders , organizers , managers of farms and shops ’ . |
| 29 | The timber producing companies , the announcement says , would prefer to be respected for their integrity in the exercise of self-control without conditions imposed on them by other countries . |
| 30 | Professor Geoffrey Rose — now retired — is highly respected for his work at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . |