Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 2 | For in matrilineal societies where kinship is traced through women on the mother 's side of the family , the mother 's brother does not usually behave in this fashion towards his sororal nephew . |
| 3 | They were schools , therefore , where progress in matching library provision to curriculum need had already begun , and where it was hoped that this impetus could be further developed through participation in the project and a grant in the region of £2,500 . |
| 4 | Productivity through people : people are seen as the sole basis for success which is developed through respect for the individual expressed through trust . |
| 5 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |
| 6 | I refer to your fax of 16 February 1993 concerning the return you have received for completion from the Local Government Chronicle . |
| 7 | Global Marine were enrolled as part of the subsurface team and managed drilling operations under a novel performance-related contract . |
| 8 | ( d ) Transfers of goods and services The law has traditionally distinguished between contracts for the supply of goods and contracts for the supply of services . |
| 9 | This compromise distinguished between fault in the navigation and management of the vessel versus fault in the custody and care of the goods and in equipping the vessel . |
| 10 | A two-year study of the conservation value of ponds in Central Region has just been completed as part of the Operation Brightwater Campaign organised by the Scottish Conservation Projects Trust . |
| 11 | Certain of these units will be regarded as core units , requiring to be completed as part of the course , other units being options , the student being able to select those units which would be best suited to his/her own particular needs . |
| 12 | A work-based project will be completed as part of the programme . |
| 13 | A community based project will be completed as part of the programme . |
| 14 | Such large quantities of water have been diverted for irrigation of the crop that the rivers which once ran into the sea no longer reach it . |
| 15 | This knowledge is communicated between people by the use of shared models . |
| 16 | Accounting policies which if altered for consistency with the purchaser 's policies would have a material effect on the earnings or net assets of the target . |
| 17 | He said that the rain we 'd been having here had fallen as snow on the top of the pass . |
| 18 | An exciting new technology demonstrator has been developed as part of the CARISMA research project , with support from the DTI/SERC under the IEATP programme . |
| 19 | Examples of commercially produced subject guides are Library Pathfinders , originally developed as part of the Model Library Project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and the LO Science Tracer Bullets from the Reference and Technology Division of the Library of Congress . |
| 20 | In 1992/93 we planted more than half a million trees and shrubs in landscaping our stores and at Watchmoor Park in Camberley a 20 acre nature reserve was developed as part of the store development . |
| 21 | Finally , one of the students whom I had worked with a couple of summers previously came back to me just before I left post to discuss his third year project at Shrivenham and I was able to arrange for him to do a project involving the linking of a commercial graphical package to the expert system developed as part of the war time operation aid mentioned previously . |
| 22 | The pragmatists thus argue that all knowledge is hypothetical and fallible ; that the meaning of concepts must be rooted in their social context ; that we should focus on the consequences rather than the origins of knowledge ; that all distinctions and boundaries to inquiry are relative to the stage of development of the inquiry ; and that the standards or norms of inquiry are developed as part of the process of inquiry . |
| 23 | A monitoring strategy will be developed as part of the project . |
| 24 | The Income Share , developed as part of the acquisition of Wedgwood , entitles its holder to elect to receive dividends from the Group 's U.K. earnings , a facility beneficial to most U.K. and U.S. investors and certain Irish institutional shareholders . |
| 25 | syntax may be checked through scrutiny of the log files for LaTeX documents , or by the use of the checknr verifier for troff documents . |
| 26 | The price of BZW 's ill-considered worldwide expansion in equities has already been paid by Howard Coates : in February he was sacked as head of the firm 's equities division , though he remains with BZW . |
| 27 | More than five million people have registered for part of the government 's remaining stake in British Telecom . |
| 28 | At the end of 1990 , the latest date for which figures are available , the number of businesses registered for VAT in the United Kingdom was 1.7 million , compared with 1.3 million at the end of 1979 — an increase of almost a third . |
| 29 | My Department is writing to all those who have been registered as objectors to the applications , with details of the arrangements . |
| 30 | The plaintiffs registered as guests at the defendant hotel . |