Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not necessary to go to the lengths of the British Airways new Four Corners shops , where the travel element can hardly be distinguished through an Ali Baba 's cave of irrelevant merchandise , but only to set up efficient systems run by people who know what they 're talking about and who can make time to understand what their travellers want , like Trailfinders with their honest bucket-shop approach , or the STA chain with its expertise in student travel . |
| 2 | On about 89 mins Deane put the ball in the net , but the goal was disallowed for a Wallace push on a defender . |
| 3 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 4 | He had already killed dozens of men on duty ; he slipped ashore during a skirmish at Haifa , disguised as a Coldstream private , and shot several more . |
| 5 | This is as true of nineteenth-century Whitley Bay ( which literally ceased to be farmland ) as it is of almost all of Longbenton , developed as a Newcastle over spill after 1945 . |
| 6 | Once the foreign lawyer is registered as an RFL , he or she may enter into partnership with an English solicitor . |
| 7 | Odd as this may sound , the idea that an association might be formed between a CS and the absence of some event is not without precedent in associative theorizing . |
| 8 | In their infinite wisdom , the SFA had arranged for a Scotland Under 23 side to travel with the senior squad , in the admirable but ultimately naive belief that it would be a learning experience for the young stars of the future . |
| 9 | The printers " picnic that had been arranged for a Saturday at the beginning of August 1914 had to be cancelled because of the outbreak of war . |
| 10 | An emergency session of EC Foreign Ministers held in Oslo ( where most were gathered for a NATO meeting ) nevertheless ruled out any renegotiation of the Treaty while declaring that the " door remains open for the Danes to come back " . |
| 11 | Paul A. Bilzerian , 38 , chairman of Singer Co. and a stock speculator , was on Sept. 27 , 1989 , fined $1,500,000 and sentenced to four years in prison — the longest prison sentence given for a Wall Street criminal . |
| 12 | RTMAS has been developed for an IBM PS2/Model 80 connected via modem to software initiated by direct dial up to a sequence of traffic counters . |
| 13 | His experience as a pilot was considered too valuable to the training of other pilots and , together with his Maurice Farman , he was posted as a Warrant Officer Instructor to the RNAS training squadron at Eastchurch aerodrome . |
| 14 | For example , the problem of sequencing the production of n batches of paint of different colours on one machine , where is the cost of cleaning the machine when colour j is to follow colour i , can be formulated as a TSP . |
| 15 | The Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick was formed as an ESRC Designated Research Centre ( DRC ) on 1st October 1984 . |
| 16 | There is an anisotropy in the radiation which is explained as a Doppler shift due to the Earth 's motion relative to the frame of the distant galaxies ; the radiation would appear isotropic in that frame . |
| 17 | We have successfully pressed for an EC ban on the importation of baby seal products and of furs from those countries which permit leghold traps . |
| 18 | In building up its stable of branded prescription drugs , Medeva has bought a number from SmithKline Beecham , including Dexedrine , which can be regarded as a UK equivalent of methylphenidate , and the products Normax and Micralax , which are used to treat constipation arising from use of opiates in severe pain cases . |
| 19 | The same approach can be adopted for TRPs since Phase I can itself be regarded as a TRP . |
| 20 | Valeriu Pescaru , nominated as a Cabinet-rank Secretary of State responsible for the privatization of agriculture , was a member of the small Democratic Agrarian Party , which was regarded as an NSF satellite . |
| 21 | For too long it had been treated as a Cinderella service . |
| 22 | For an unusual case in which , on an interpretation of a bye-law , Monday , January 2 , was held to be properly treated as a Sunday for the purposes of supplying travellers , see Henderson v. Ross , 1928 J.C . |
| 23 | In this model , firms ' reactions to one another are treated as a Nash equilibrium with conjectural variations , the latter being derived from firms ' profits functions . |
| 24 | Superpower détente , the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and growing economic interdependence ( especially as a result of the process of introducing a single market within the European Communities — EC ) were " undermining Switzerland 's centuries-old case for being treated as a Sonderfall , an exception " . |
| 25 | The play , by Belfast writer Maria Jones , is aimed at children with special needs , and the production has been nominated for a Belfast Telegraph EMA Award for best production of 1992 . |
| 26 | Their ‘ Midsummer Night 's Dream ’ was nominated for an Olivier Award . |
| 27 | Patrice Orfilat , a fearful , whimpering wretch bearing a grudge against Thorez whom , he assumes , had prevented him from being nominated as a PCF candidate for the 1936 elections , petrified at the thought of war and his own death , attempts to find a job in the Foreign Affairs Ministry , and is ultimately disdainfully rebuffed by an orthodox party member unperturbed by the Nazi-Soviet pact . |
| 28 | Daedalic has been claimed as a Dorian style ; but purely Daedalic heads are found on marble lamps made in the Ionian Cyclades , and the first monumental marble sculpture from the same area is inseparable from the Daedalic tradition . |
| 29 | Essex paceman Neil Foster , hotly tipped for an England recall this summer , lived up to his nickname when he kicked two stumps out of the ground just before tea . |
| 30 | DO N'T GET CAUGHT AS AN APRIL FOOL ! |