Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In training , Action for Cities identified a number of initiatives that were designed to improve access to and awareness of training services for those in the cities . |
| 2 | FURIOUS homebuyers are set to sue the builder of their luxury estate after paying £100,000 for houses branded no better than SANDCASTLES . |
| 3 | Although they again found no difference between subjects given no pre-exposure and those exposed to a variety of flavours , interpretation of this finding is rendered equivocal by the fact that the two groups drank different amounts of the CS flavour on the conditioning trial . |
| 4 | For subjects given a list of words , when recall is immediate words with serial positions late in the list are more likely to be recalled than when recall is delayed . |
| 5 | Tivoli has also built a toolkit for non-programmers called the Application Extension Facility ( AEF ) so they can customise Tivoli applications and migrate existing systems management programmes to a standard . |
| 6 | The Geordies pulled out of the race yesterday after Rangers placed the staggering price tag on their 26-year-old striker . |
| 7 | A SCHOOLBOY miraculously survived a 25,000-volt electric shock after vandals booby-trapped a railway bridge . |
| 8 | Nearly 300 litres of diesel oil were spilled into a tributary of the River Tamar in Plymouth yesterday after vandals released the fuel from a tank in a timber yard . |
| 9 | They were responding to a tip-off after police released a video of two men filmed shortly before the blast at the Knightsbridge store on January 28 in which three people were injured . |
| 10 | AN ESCAPED prisoner is back behind bars after police arrested the runaway in a primary school . |
| 11 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral National Congress consisting of a 400-member Federal Chamber of Deputies elected every three years ( 300 by majority vote in single-member constituencies and the remaining 100 by proportional representation from minority parties ' lists ) and a 64-member Senate ( comprising two senators from each state and two from the Federal District ) elected at the same time as the President . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 13 | Silver smiles A GREAT variety of activities marked the silver jubilee of the Holy Family Primary School in Sale . |
| 14 | By 1979 only 9 per cent of employers regarded the Plan as very important . |
| 15 | A recent poll showed that only 2% of Germans regarded the United States as a suitable model for their newly united nation — Switzerland topped the pops . |
| 16 | Among the grievances of some of the rural rebels in the sixteenth century were complaints about the enclosure of lands by lords — this occurred in the north-west sector of the Pilgrimage of Grace , and the casting down of hedges marked the start of the Norfolk rising of 1549 . |
| 17 | The cumulative number of words assigned the correct ranks for these texts are shown in diagrammatic form in fig 4.9a and 4.9b . |
| 18 | The first thing is that I think people need to recognise that the investigation of savings generated a figure of one point four million pounds . |
| 19 | The coffins were lined with roses , and hundreds of telegrams lined the walls . |
| 20 | Whether Diana 's interest in Birthright was planted by her obstetrician George Pinker , who was then its president , or by several of her friends who have had problems and become involved , her decision to add Birthright to her list of patronages marked a turning point in its history . |
| 21 | The detailed study waits to be written on the way in which developments in the law of certiorati affected the law on natural justice . |
| 22 | A rationalisation of this approach might be that late payment of bills involved no interest charges , and that house purchase secured an asset which with luck would keep its value . |
| 23 | The majority of blacks occupied the most menial and subservient occupational statuses , being employed as agricultural labourers and as unskilled and semi-skilled manual workers in industry . |
| 24 | Secondly , even when some paths did have to be pursued in parallel because their scores were above the threshold , the finite-state arrangement of hypotheses restricted the candidates for any particular slot , and cut short the combinatorics through backwards pruning ( Fig. 9.2 , point A ) . |
| 25 | This experiment , by Kaye and Pearce ( 1984 ) ( see also Pearce , Kaye , and Mall 1982 ) , included a group of rats given a series of presentations of a light , a stimulus that initially evoked a behavioural OR . |
| 26 | A second group of miners loaded the loose coal onto a moving conveyor which took it away from the coal face . |
| 27 | Following a letter in the Summer 1987 issue of The Lifeboat from John Anstey , a life governor of the RNLI and director of a group of singers called The Parlour Performers , the Bumpstead district branch ‘ booked ’ the group for a concert in 1988 . |
| 28 | They drove about a mile further , right up to the group of buildings called the Mill in the Pytle , and Rufus , turning the van round , asked what a pytle was . |
| 29 | Some slight insight into early local agricultural practices may be obtained from such things as Anglo-Saxon charters , details of which have been published ( from 1961 onwards ) in a series of volumes called The Early Charters of … , and commentaries on land usage such as in The Domesday Geography of … , each volume of which deals with a particular region . |
| 30 | Under this procedure , each summer a committee of officials called the Public Expenditure Scrutiny Committee ( PESC ) prepares a report forecasting public expenditure over the following five years . |