Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THREE Glasgow men jailed last week for four years for bringing hashish into Spain have been released because of the time they spent awaiting trial , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 2 | PRINCESS Anne must take much of the credit for bringing royalty into the 20th Century . |
| 3 | In Southampton in the 1450s , when there was considerable bitterness in civic politics over the attitude to be taken to aliens , whether they should be welcomed for bringing wealth to the town , or attacked as intruders , marriage could lead a man to switch his allegiance from one group to another . |
| 4 | It can be seen that the central position of the MTFS is the ‘ monetarist view ’ of inflation that controlling the rate of growth of the money supply is a necessary and sufficient condition for bringing inflation under control over the medium term , covering a period of 3–4 years . |
| 5 | Janet was a pupil of the well-respected Professor Charcot ( 1825–1893 ) , who was responsible for founding the Salpêtrière School of Hypnotism in France and for bringing credibility to the subject . |
| 6 | The only requirement for bringing software under LIFESPAN control is that each source file ( except for those in the FOREIGN-SET ) must contain a module header . |
| 7 | Convey my thanks to Dame Sybil and Master Thomas and my apologies for bringing trouble upon them . ’ |
| 8 | HOWARD WILKINSON last night slammed Third Division Barnet for bringing football into disrepute as Barry Fry was sacked again — this time for real . |
| 9 | LEEDS boss Howard Wilkinson last night slammed Third Division Barnet for bringing football into disrepute as Barry Fry was sacked again — this time for real . |
| 10 | It was the most important of these groupings as it was directly responsible for bringing NIGRA to Derry for the 5 October 1968 march and thus was the catalyst which turned the civil rights movement into a mass campaign . |
| 11 | ‘ Not all companies , ’ it said , ‘ have the stomach for including goodwill in their losses-on-disposal calculations . ’ |
| 12 | This ignorance among the general public is one good reason for including knowledge about language in the English curriculum . |
| 13 | At a conference at Oxford in December 1989 , Professor Randolph Quirk , the famous linguist , attacked me fiercely for including material like this , which could be easily misrepresented by the press . |
| 14 | In fact only a few of Scotland 's great views are included but many well known ones elsewhere are covered such as Cat Bells and Snowdon , plus a few less familiar ones such as Mow Cop on the edge of the Cheshire Hills and Bennachie in Aberdeenshire . |
| 15 | Internally , the interests of the AWCC such as maintaining land in residential use and seeking effective zoning controls for this , lobbying for character street furniture and for historic designation and securing residential parking permits did not represent the interests of the wider neighbourhood population . |
| 16 | One of the pourers reproved me for eating cheese before trying the wine . |
| 17 | Player power is once more causing concern amongst those responsible for administering tennis throughout the world . |
| 18 | It seems to me that there is something finally maudlin and trivial about seeing neurosis as Nemesis . ’ |
| 19 | In Luton , vandals who caused £50,000 damage to a Sikh temple were condemned for inflaming tension between the Hindus and Moslems , which has now claimed 600 lives in India . |
| 20 | In Climate and Life he recalls the work of his collaborator O.A. Drozdov on ‘ Changing the Climate in Connection with the Plan for Transforming Nature in the Drought Regions of the USSR ’ ; and studies by others on the feasibility of melting the polar ice with nuclear energy and by damming the Behring Straits and pumping water from the Behring Sea into the Arctic . |
| 21 | i A coach tour operator has been fined £800 for allowing smoking on a coach tour which had been advertised as a smoke-free holiday . |
| 22 | The Author would like to thank the RAF Museum for its co-operation in the making of this article , and for allowing reference to its own publication on Sugar , A Very Special Lancaster by F E Dymond . |
| 23 | Largely because of the tax gains , but also the increased freedom it gives to the pensioner , many pension schemes have provision for allowing part of the value of the pension to be capitalized on retirement . |
| 24 | Mr Premium , thought Sir Peter , would abuse the public for allowing merit to an Act whose object was to snatch misfortune and prudence from the rapacious gripe of usury , and give the minor a chance of inheriting his estate without being undone by coming into possession . |
| 25 | Paradoxically , this is the one day of the week when there IS some justification for allowing traffic into the Park — so that it can be enjoyed by the aged and infirm whose only means of access is by car . |
| 26 | English Nature , the government 's official watchdog on nature conservation , was criticized at the time by environmental groups for entering into the deal with Fisons , and for allowing extraction of peat on a site of special scientific interest [ see ED 57 ] . |
| 27 | Previous to gaoling William Cokar for allowing gambling on his premises he bound over John Vaughan a tailor of Halling to keep the peace after a dispute with a Snodland tailor , Edward Chittenden . |
| 28 | But one day he could face the choice between using force in Eastern Europe and losing power in the Kremlin . |
| 29 | In drier work and traffic areas , a mat that offers moderate drainage is adequate , and in dry areas where spills and drainage is not a consideration , choose a solid , non-draining mat for cushioning comfort under foot . |
| 30 | In one other sense fear was promoted by abolitionists as a motive for demanding abolition in the national interest — fear of divine judgement falling upon the guilty nation as a whole . |