Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The association of water conservation measures with improved administrative control was apparent from the earliest days of Masai administration , and though it became fashionable in later years to talk about ‘ anchoring ’ the Masai for development purposes , administrative convenience was always a powerful interest : ‘ the Masai have , in my view , two outstanding needs ’ , wrote the Provincial Commissioner of the Northern Province of Tanganyika in 1950 — ‘ water and discipline ’ .
2 This implies that the gross contributions of the Netherlands and Belgium overstate the financial burden while the gross contribution of Germany for example understates the financial burden .
3 In turn , Goff invited Minton for weekend visits to his four-hundred-year-old cottage at Dallington in Sussex .
4 Sentence on Ballantine , a first offender , was deferred until 12 March for background reports , but Sheriff Donald Booker Millburn said it was possible he would impose a jail sentence .
5 Delegates also elected Markus Meckel and Angelika Barbe as deputy chairs and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt , as honorary chair ( a post he also held in the West German SPD ) .
6 ‘ Did you tell Rex that Alan Dysart worked for you in Swindon during university vacations ? ’
7 But a three-point plan for Mersey Ferries does create hopes that a new jetty could be built at New Brighton for cruise vessels to berth .
8 The side uses the British Gas sports ground at Acton for home matches and normally plays on a Wednesday or Thursday evening during the season .
9 We were doing our first two weeks square bashing in the RAF as boy entrants .
10 Intermittent clashes continued from mid-June between government forces and FRUD guerrillas near the coastal town of Obock and ( on Aug. 6-9 ) in the region of Garabaousse , in the south-west .
11 Diane Blakemore for instance uses she and her to mean any person , male or female :
12 Six month old Kyle Turnbull is back at home in Swindon after hospital checks .
13 Small pout and rockling at Sandown during night sessions .
14 Nos. 11 and 13 were used for the inspection of the Crystal Palace route and these cars took over the working of the Penge route as soon as the Corporation cars were withdrawn in June 1906 and in the same month , one of them was fitted with Raworth regenerative equipment for a demonstration on Anerley Hill for tramway engineers .
15 The Congress opened on March 28 , but adjourned after emergency votes concerning the confrontation currently taking place close to the Kremlin between security forces and pro-Yeltsin demonstrators [ see p. 38080 ] .
16 The JTS system failed to develop in the 1920s and 1930s and the STS , after early optimism , suffered from calculated indifference from the Ministry of Education in the 1950s , a preference of the LEAs for grammar schools and ultimately from the shift to comprehensives in the 1960s .
17 The FDP , which had first emerged in November 1989 [ see p. 37025 ] , was formally constituted at a congress on Feb. 4 as a sister party to the West German FDP , with Bruno Menzel as acting party chair and Jürgen Neubert and Dieter Tietz as deputy chairs .
18 THE smart navy uniform of the Alresford Quadrilateral Division of St. John Ambulance were exchanged last Saturday for clown costumes and brilliant wigs for the third annual bed-push to raise funds .
19 Specific areas of controversy where an SRO for pension funds would be useful are in disputes over investment strategies of funds , in fund surpluses , and in pension fund ‘ holidays ’ .
20 But what I thought I 'd do is like for Ellie and Linda for Christmas presents say , I mean you know it wo n't be a a lot but that 'll be it
21 This level of activity stands in marked contrast to that of the very few working class women who qualified under local government franchises ( although increasing numbers became Guardians after 1894 , when the property qualification was abolished ) , who squeezed in two or three hours Poor Law work on a Saturday between household chores .
22 ‘ At present I use a cheap old Yamaha TXAIZ for horn sections and baritone saxes .
23 A small union , the British Transport Officers Guild ( BTOG ) , has joint recognition with TSSA for management grades .
24 Sandra Grubb of Team Components Bureau rises to smash the ball during the Whitburn side 's Scottish Cup semi-final victory over Streamline Hazlehead on Saturday
25 ‘ Azerbaijan is the Texas of mud volcanoes : they are bigger , more active and there are more of them than anywhere else in the world — and they are clearly associated with oil and gas generation . ’
26 Alex Barr of Payment Services showed the London Press the £45,000 the Bank would have expected to lose on 31,000 cards over 18 months .
27 PLANES OF FAME East 's RP-63A Kingcobra 42–68864/NX163rp took to the air for the first time after restoration on October 2 , in the hands of Steve Hinton of Fighter Rebuilders , at Chino , California , reports John Harjo .
28 Dr Mike Barratt of Earth Resources Research , who carried out research on air travel for the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , says that the rapid rate of growth of air travel is a particular problem , as is the fact that the pollution it causes is injected directly into the atmosphere .
29 Up at Carn Gowla , Davis Hope and A. Camm found a companion for Four For Texas with Rainbow Games , E2 5c , taking the thin crack on the left side of the pink wall .
30 He established links with writers and artists ; shooting Picasso with bread rolls for fingers .
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