Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However in line with KPMG publicised policies on corporate finance services activities , MAS partners ( along with other partners ) should not commit either themselves or the firm to sponsor issues .
2 They also owned estates in other parts of Ayrshire and in Galloway .
3 Lord Kemsley and Lord Rothermere owned chains of provincial dailies too .
4 The Romans produced coins from this alloy which , in the first century AD , contained about 25 per cent zinc .
5 When the audience was over , the Shah led Marenches with great courtesy to the door .
6 He found that destruction of the visual cortex ( Lesion 1 ) produced impairments in visual discrimination learning ( Task A ) but not in visual orientation ( Task B ) .
7 Well I 'm , I 'm gon na use some of the er I mean I 've got some of the er I made notes of some of the quotes I got from compiling
8 Haunted by penury for the rest of her life , she habitually made notes over other people 's letters and wrote her own on the back of old laundry bills .
9 Much work was needed to prepare enough radium to treat patients , but once it was made , it was a more convenient source of radiation than the apparatus , extremely primitive by modern standards , which produced X-rays from electric discharges .
10 Direct talks between mujaheddin leaders and Soviet and UN officials in New York on Oct. 2 produced signs of Soviet flexibility over whether Afghan President Najibullah should remain in office until a new government could be elected .
11 Its Pyrenean valley is known as the most fertile of all , thanks to the kindly work of the local glacier , which laid down its moraine to a depth and at an angle that produced grasslands of great repute .
12 Many were polemical , and he made enemies among English surgeons whom he attacked in print .
13 Company chief David Ellwood said yesterday that his firm made nooses for British hangmen until 1964 — but had now dropped the trade .
14 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 .
15 In August , the Agriculture Minister , John Selwyn Gummer , announced plans for 12 experimental water protection zones including : Branston Booth , Lincs ; Sleaford , Lincs ; Chalford , Oxford ; Egford , Somerset ; Millington Springs , Humberside ; Ogbourne St George , Wilts ; Boughton , Notts ; Tom Hill , Staffs ; Wildmoor , Hereford and Worcester ; Wellings , Staffs and Shropshire ; Milton , Derbyshire .
16 The sport 's governing body announced plans in 1986 for the phasing out of turbos , to be complete by the start of the 1989 season .
17 However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities .
18 As I made inroads into both , I sussed the other punters and though the place was fairly quiet there were a couple of city gents in suits talking earnestly and drinking fast .
19 Michael Wittet : CA who passed exams in German prison camp
20 However , Gorbachev on Nov. 17 salvaged his prestige with a short address in which he unexpectedly produced proposals for constitutional reforms to strengthen the central leadership and raise the level of the republics ' involvement in it .
21 The trade body for the insurance industry , the Association of British Insurers , produced proposals in 1991 for a new basis on which shareholders ' profits from long term insurance business might be recognised .
22 The burden of the message from schoolmaster Olver , who led Quins for three seasons before a head of department post took him to Northampton in 1990 , will be about debts — moral , not financial .
23 At that hour , right across America , all airports ceased operations for two minutes ' silence .
24 The Solar Two project at Barstow , California , is a successor to a 10 MW power plant that ceased operations in 1988 .
25 Further down yet , the terracing ceased and became pairs of large semi-detached houses set well back from the road with the front gardens mostly paved and dedicated to parking space .
26 It concluded that in the light of the great events of the war , Party affairs had necessarily been forced into the background , and divided reactions into three groups .
27 Thomas Telford ( 1757 – 1834 ) was renowned as a bridge-builder , but he produced roads of great solidity through the intermeshing of small , angular stones .
28 But I got plans for this money .
29 It revealed frequencies of abnormal fetal presentation by older women ( 40–44 ) and younger ones ( 25–29 ) to be 31 and 18 per cent , respectively , and postpartum haemorrhage due to uterine inertia of 6.2 and 2.7 for the same two age groups .
30 Forty-eight hours earlier , the Cabinet had agreed in principle to the Big Five's recommended savings of 70 million , of which nearly 50 million was to come from cuts in unemployment benefits .
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