Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NJCC for Building published a Guidance Note on Collateral Warranties and a Procedure Note on Tendering for Building Works without Bills of Quantities . |
| 2 | Donaldson 's for instance became a German prisoner-of-war camp ; the Royal School for Deaf Children at Margate was taken over by the Corporation of Margate and used as the Civil Defence Headquarters , Food & Fuel Office , W.V.S. Headquarters , Emergency Police station , among a number of other wartime departments . |
| 3 | A paper tabled on June 26-29 by the group 's chairman , George Maciel , as a basis for negotiating represented a synthesis of proposals already made by participants . |
| 4 | The use of the ultra vires doctrine as the basis for review posed a number of serious problems . |
| 5 | The excess demand for labour generated a faster scrapping of old equipment . |
| 6 | For its part , the thesis about overload struck a chord since it fed off the common-sense of the media . |
| 7 | See if we got that bottle of whisky got a bottle of Bells . |
| 8 | A promising early phase of play brought a sloppy opening goal in the 13th minute , when Hamilton lodged a long kick into the heart of the Dundee United half . |
| 9 | Rules of play became a priority and the pit on the 3rd in front of the tee was temporarily classed as a hazard , the player having to drop and lose distance . |
| 10 | Parties for the Warwickshire team at Cranmer 's Saltdean bungalow on one of the evenings after the close of play became a tradition . |
| 11 | A trout can detect the smell of chemicals of shrimp diluted a thousand million times , while the sensitivity of an eel is a thousand million times greater still . |
| 12 | In 1982 the Forestry Commission 's Head of Site Studies and Head of Pathology paid a short trip to West Germany to see forest decline for themselves . |
| 13 | Their areas of expertise encompassed a wide range : Sandra Salmaso and Cinzia Mascherin from Italy devised a piece called No Man 's Land , described by Mascherin as ‘ an empty space , without border , beyond quiet ’ , based on work done with objects . |
| 14 | Again , management promises of payment secured a return to work . |
| 15 | As more and more land was planted with cash crops , the lack of pasture became a serious problem in many districts . |
| 16 | The spread of Communism presented a threat to the Second and Third Pillars , but was making no impact upon the British political system . |
| 17 | She was admitted for mobilisation , but tests requested the next morning on samples taken on the evening of admission showed a serum glucose concentration of 56.1 mmol/l . |
| 18 | Out of chaos emerged a self-created god , Atum , who was all or nothing , who was the original sun god of Heliopolis and later deemed to be the creative aspect of Re . |
| 19 | Another distant roll of thunder added a bass note to the orchestrated shrillness of the tropical night , and Devraux lifted his head for a second to listen . |
| 20 | This reliance on the compulsive power of oratory started a rhetorical tradition which in the long run weakened liberalism ; rhetoric is unsuitable to the politics of interest and easily becomes the property of extremists . |
| 21 | The once proud members of the Auguste Didier School of Cuisine looked a doleful group as they followed Auguste . |
| 22 | Belinda 's father had of necessity bought a rather characterless cream brick house in the outer suburb where his hardware shop was located , and Belinda had always wanted to live in one of these gracious old places , which were larger , more urban versions of the old farmhouse near Emerald where she had spent her childhood . |
| 23 | The men threw up their arms every time they shouted , and gradually what began as a confusion of noise became a solid roar of acclamation . |
| 24 | In 1985 , however , the Ministry of Agriculture took a first step towards meeting environmentalists ' objections , with a new ‘ Guidance for Drainage Authorities ’ on investment appraisal . |
| 25 | It is high time that there was a public inquiry into the matter and that the Minister of Agriculture made a statement at the Dispatch Box . |
| 26 | In 1933 , following a typical dispute over this issue , Alban Dobson of the Ministry of Agriculture sent a letter to the clerk of the Medway Catchment Board in Maidstone , dictating where the critical cut-off point should lie . |
| 27 | But the stumbling block to abattoir approval by the US Department of Agriculture remained a major barrier , according to trade sources . |
| 28 | However , the Ministry of Agriculture reported a similar level of ruthenium in a soil sample taken in 1987 , apparently without any comment being raised at the time . |
| 29 | The River Solway Purification Board and the Ministry of Agriculture conducted a ten-year study into Galloway 's declining fish stocks in the 1970s . |
| 30 | Whereas the holders of the former view of physics made a strong distinction between arts and science , the holders of the latter view saw affinity between arts and science . |