Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We had all gathered for Hamish and Tone 's traditional Ne'erday partyette ; a necessarily quietish affair during which people exchanged tales of drunkenness , broken resolutions and recipes for hangover cures , as well as taking advantage of the opportunity to compare notes regarding blank spots in the memories of any of the assembled penitents . |
| 32 | When the Black Prince announced measures against him , Armagnac first appealed to Edward III ; on receiving an unfavourable response , he took the matter further and appealed to the king of France , Charles V. In this he was joined by his nephew , the lord of Albret , who lodged a similar grievance against the Black Prince . |
| 33 | This study is concerned with the way Pakeha ( white ) New Zealanders make sense of race and race related issues , such as the violent protests against the Springbok tour , Polynesian and British immigration , and the position of New Zealand Maoris . |
| 34 | These ‘ five techniques ’ ( requiring prisoners to wear hoods over their heads unless they were separated from other inmates or being interrogated , having them stand spreadeagled against a wall for up to 43 hours , depriving them of sleep , subjecting them to electronic noise and beating them ) were subsequently condemned as ‘ torture ’ by the European Rights Commission ( Hewitt , 1982:157–8 ) . |
| 35 | John McQueen himself had a hard struggle to remain solvent as a twenty-six-year-old university student with a wife and three children . |
| 36 | To help establish a strong UK base to enable participation in the EEC programmes |
| 37 | Because half of the Library 's budget represents payment in advance for subscriptions for the following year , it is extremely difficult to make savings in the current year when financial pressures are exerted . |
| 38 | Unfortunately , on 7 June 1973 , the New York Times revealed details of what the NSA was doing and , faced with the possibility of having to admit to an illegal act in open court , the NSA swiftly terminated the operations . |
| 39 | In the most serious corruption scandal to face the government of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , the Comptroller-General Guillermo Potoy made public on July 17 a report which accused a former deputy Minister of the Presidency , Antonio Ibarra , of misappropriating US$1,000,000 in foreign aid funds intended for the most disadvantaged sectors . |
| 40 | The management board offers advice to the governing body , but also makes many final decisions itself . |
| 41 | Although he found that television is far less violent than in Japan , the United States , France or West Germany , Dr Tadecki intends to campaign with Mary Whitehouse to curb violence on the screen . |
| 42 | Tony Lumpkin associates grammar with nonsense . |
| 43 | With the impact of Zhelev 's attack still reverberating , the 21-member UDF coalition held a national conference in Sofia on Sept. 18-20 and agreed to establish working groups to conduct talks with the President and the MRF . |
| 44 | David Murray became chairman at Ibrox in 1988 and , asked about the Liverpool manager 's record in the transfer market , said : ‘ Sure Graeme has spent a lot of cash but he 's sold well as well . |
| 45 | Six actors in a television studio , including Paola Dionisotti , Timothy West and Paul McGann , tell the story using texts from the Authorised Version of the four gospels . |
| 46 | In contrast , the media enjoyed the opportunity to report cases of mature women being charged with indecent offences against under-age boys . |
| 47 | Second , this cladogram is an exercise in inference because many of the extinct groups remain poorly documented ; the text offers justification for many of the placements . |
| 48 | This connection hints again that Fitzgerald led Eliot to the East , and that his reading in the history of religion affected his view of nineteenth-century poetry . |
| 49 | Because the technique involves work with genes it must be approved by an independent ethical committee . |
| 50 | A NEW technique to enable men with irreversible vasectomies to become fathers has been developed by the Surgical Advisory Service , a private London infertility clinic . |
| 51 | Maria registered delegates on Saturday morning . |
| 52 | This latest outbreak of sectarian fighting , momentarily stilled by a government-mediated ceasefire on July 21 , came as Sunni groups voiced opposition to the government 's apparently conciliatory approach to the Shias ( who accounted for about 20 per cent of the country 's population ) . |
| 53 | Burlington Publishing Co produces titles including Shooting Times and Country Magazine , Airgun World and Baily 's Hunting Directory . |
| 54 | Partnership It should rival the best of European cities and should be famously celebrated in Britain as an example of what can be achieved when resources and the expertise to implement solutions to environmental problems are combined with civic will . ’ |
| 55 | ICI supplies phenol from Billingham to the Trafford Park plant , which also buys adipic acid , propylene and small quantities of glycols from Wilton . |
| 56 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |
| 57 | Ingvar Carlsson Prime Minister Odd Engström Deputy Prime Minister ; Minister with special responsibility for research Sten Andersson Foreign Affairs Roine Carlsson Defence Allan Larsson Finance Laila Freivalds Justice Rune Molin Industry ( including energy affairs ) Mona Sahlin Labour Mats Hellström Agriculture Ingela Thalén Health and Social Affairs Ulf Lönnqvist Housing and Physical Planning Bengt Göransson Education and Cultural Affairs Georg Andersson Transport and Communications Bengt Johansson Public Administration ( including wages and pensions ) Birgitta Dahl Environment Maj-Lis Lööw Minister at the Ministry of Labour ( immigrant affairs ) Anita Gradin Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( foreign trade ) Lena Hjelm-Wallén Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( international development co-operation ) Eric Asbrink Minister at the Ministry of Finance ( budget ) Bengt Lindqvist Minister at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs ( social services , family affairs and matters concerning disabled and elderly ) Margot Wallström Minister at the Ministry of Public Administration ( ecclesiastical , equality and youth affairs ) Göran Persson Minister at the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs ( schools , adult education and study assistance ) |
| 58 | Most will have a manual personnel records system of some sort . |
| 59 | Carmen has three massagers in its range — the rechargeable Cordless Massager , £24.95 ; the Beauty Massager for facial care and body treatments , £12.95 ; and the new Celly Massager , a body massager to treat cellulite on thighs , bottom and stomach , £39.95 . |
| 60 | This will release space in the Cottrell Building to accommodate expansion of the other Schools . |