Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a first step , joint financing has been arranged for cleaning up the Dnepr river , one of the main polluters of the Black Sea . |
| 2 | Reading this , I could have been forgiven for conjuring up a picture of the Queen Mother settling down comfortably by a television set at Sandringham , perhaps a daughter at her side , a corgi at feet and refreshment to hand , basking in the glow of my birthday tribute to her , and making a mental note to instruct the Private secretary in the morning to send a line of thanks to those concerned . |
| 3 | More than 1,000 women have been recalled for a repeat smear test after it was revealed Practice Nurse Ina Gordon used a wooden spatula designed for holding down the tongue instead of special metal spatulas made for the vital tests . |
| 4 | It was eventually decided at the Council meeting that farmers should be approached about renting out a plot of land for a short time for the travellers whilst the search for a permanent site continued . |
| 5 | A volcano has even been blamed for speeding up the onset of the last Ice Age . |
| 6 | Berle hoped to have the British blamed for breaking up the conference , as he knew he had the support of the Latin American states and some European countries . |
| 7 | CONSERVATIVES in the European parliament are being blamed for holding up a plan to push through reductions of the lead content in petrol throughout the EEC . |
| 8 | Has a corrosion-inhibitor been added after cleaning out the system ? |
| 9 | Whatever happens , do not be pressured into filling in a form quickly . |
| 10 | This follows the realisation that if the hunters succeeded in wiping out the goats the vegetation might swiftly regenerate , making it impossible to see the wary pigs . |
| 11 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 12 | Borders Regional Council has sought to listen and to respond to its electorate and has succeeded in drawing up a document that is widely supported in the area . |
| 13 | We have recently succeeded in bringing in a number of new projects but to put it in perspective we need something like 250,000 hours of work a year and a major project like Tencel was about 50,000 in total . |
| 14 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 15 | A spokesman stressed that the government was still committed to setting up the agency ( one of the commitments in the Conservatives ' election manifesto ) , and that the necessary bill would be introduced later in 1992 or in 1993 . |
| 16 | This attitude had provoked two serious crises in the 1840s , in both of which France was virtually humiliated , and while Napoleon III was resolved on bringing about an understanding , he was equally resolved that it should be on a basis of equality . |
| 17 | English Nature have responded by drawing up a lowland peatland policy , which includes commitments : , to oppose new planning applications for peat extraction on Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) ; , to seek protection for SSSI sites which already have planning permission — by purchasing or leasing the site , providing grant aid for conservation management , or liaising with extractors to minimize damage ; , to support the development of alternatives to peat . |
| 18 | Henry Skelton 's college responded by setting up a drugs working party involving students . |
| 19 | No reparation seems to be being made for killing off the father . |
| 20 | It 's a result of the Constitution of France , which was drawn up in nineteen fifty-eight , when General de Gaulle came to power , and the Constitution was very concerned to produce a separation between the legislative , that 's the law-making , part of the government , and the executive , that 's the part which was seen as carrying out the laws . |
| 21 | He believed that if nothing were done about filling in the quarry , another tragedy would happen there . |
| 22 | Notice that the thought that in principle a would-be rapist should be compensated for giving up the right to rape is implicit in the answer of the supporters of the third principle as well . |
| 23 | In addition to the general comments and proposals that the Environment Select Committee made about tightening up the approach to dealing with toxic and hazardous waste , it said that an environmental protection agency should be set up . |
| 24 | On Nov. 27 a warning had been issued to the government by France , the United Kingdom and the USA , to hand over two men suspected of blowing up a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie , Scotland , in December 1988 , and to co-operate in bringing to trial suspects in the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 [ see p. 39215 ] . |
| 25 | Two preliminary points need to be made before setting out the argument against secularism . |
| 26 | electricity board owed a duty of care to an intelligent teenage boy to ensure that he was effectively prevented from climbing up a pole-mounted , high voltage electrical installation . |
| 27 | Many residents were reduced to eating a crude bread made from grinding down the cores of corn cobs , mixed with buds from tree branches and berries from which tea was brewed . |
| 28 | It commented in the same year that , ‘ while recognizing the considerable contribution that Mr Hornby has made in building up the Council to its present position of eminence within the colleges , it was now time for the CNAA 's influence to be more widely felt ’ . |
| 29 | He stressed that the meaning was to be contrasted with an error made in carrying out the testator 's intentions by the draftsman 's words , and also with a mistaken choice of words because of a failure to understand the testator 's intentions ( a matter covered by s 20(1) ( b ) of the Act . |
| 30 | Architect Mr. E. Ravenscroft , was instructed to drawn up a £1,000 scheme and Mr. Mardon paid £10 towards his fees . |