Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she has n't heard about the little delay in the proceedings , caused by the contretemps with ben Issachar , and the stint in the tree . |
| 2 | The European Commission , which is responsible for formulating the proposal in line with the views of the council of ministers , was criticized for the repeated delays in the adoption of the third Framework programme and hopes to stick to the intricate timetable for approval of the new programme , which must be accepted at three levels . |
| 3 | Filled for the first time in twenty years , Lake Eyre became a rich source of food , attracting tens of thousands of birds whose closest usual breeding area is five hundred miles to the south . |
| 4 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 5 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 6 | This reluctance to take office is recalled during the annual mayor-making in the council chamber of the town hall . |
| 7 | Over the past decade , digestive enzyme activation by lysosomal hydrolases ( particularly cathepsin B ) has been implicated as the initial event in three forms of experimental pancreatitis . |
| 8 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 9 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
| 10 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
| 11 | These data are given for the post-war period in Figure 2.1 . |
| 12 | The total number of accidents and the calculated average traffic flow at a junction are given for the 40 junctions in Table 3.2 . |
| 13 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |
| 14 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 15 | Together with previous data showing a similar location for the small molecule binding sites in adrenergic receptors , these results suggest that there is a general transmembrane binding site for small molecules in G-protein-coupled receptors , and that non-peptide antagonists can be developed for the analogous domain in other peptide receptors . |
| 16 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 17 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 18 | Strikes were legalized for the first time in Bulgaria 's history when on March 6 the National Assembly passed a bill on settling collective industrial disputes . |
| 19 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 20 | Flown for the first time in 1958 , the DHC-4 Caribou has seen extensive military service . |
| 21 | The first PC-5A assembled in India was flown for the first time in August 1941 and one report suggests that fifty were delivered to the Indian Air Force from 1942 , but this has not been confirmed . |
| 22 | The high level of technical ability of Roman engineers , together with the well-developed commercial economy , meant that major civil engineering schemes could also be undertaken for the first time in the landscape . |
| 23 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 24 | Surely she had n't almost fallen for the oldest trick in the book ! |
| 25 | The following were listed as the key points in economic construction during the coming decade and the eighth five-year plan period : strengthening agriculture ; strengthening the basic industries and infrastructure and reorganizing and transforming the processing industry ; and strengthening educational , scientific and technological undertakings . |
| 26 | Originally intended as the principal thoroughfare in the New Town designed by James Craig in 1765 , George Street was lined with not very distinguished buildings . |
| 27 | indeed , Mo Johnston , recalled for the first time in two months , was the only Everton player in the starting line-up who had managed a goal in front of the Goodison public . |
| 28 | This evidently existed , since from one horizon to the other dribs and drabs leaked through the little frays in the Emperor 's blanket . |
| 29 | Richmond have since sought help from Middlesex in pursuing the issue while Chilcott , dismissed for the fourth time in his career with Bath , awaits the result of tonight 's meeting of the Somerset Disciplinary Committee . |
| 30 | The principles underlying Adrienne Bennett 's work have been developed during the Low Attainers in Mathematics Project and the Raising Achievement in Mathematics Project . |