Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun pl] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DRUG SQUAD officers have stopped plans to give visitors to the Expo ‘ 92 World 's Fair in Seville a ‘ true taste ’ of life in Bolivia . |
| 2 | The 77-year-old Cranston , who had resigned as majority whip in 1990 and had dropped plans to seek re-election in 1992 on grounds of ill-health , was treated more severely because he had received by far the largest contributions and , unlike the others , had actively solicited funds . |
| 3 | British trade unions in their blanket rejection of such change have let employers initiate flexibility in a way that has been very damaging to the interests of workers and unions . |
| 4 | During the following two months came the first reports of Baghdad 's retaliation at the frontier town of Halabjah , in PUK territory , where aircraft were said to have dropped bombs containing poison gas . |
| 5 | Earlier this year Central and Anglia teamed up in a jointly owned group , Television Sales & Marketing Services , which has now won contracts to sell time for Border TV and the cable channel Discovery . |
| 6 | The Service recently won contracts totalling £640,000 from the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 7 | These included prisoners serving life sentences for their part in a coup attempt in 1980 , namely Edward Shamwana , Goodwin Yoram Mumba , Albert Chilambe Chimbalile and Deogratia Symba [ see p. 32179 ] , as well as Lt.-Gen. |
| 8 | It has designed programmes to develop chemistry in the Third World through education and training , providing services for laboratories in developing countries , and publishing information about chemistry for development . |
| 9 | Trade unions at Rover Cars have attacked plans to penalise staff who continually report sick . |
| 10 | Dropped calves made £270 paid twice for a Limousin bull and a Simmental bull . |
| 11 | It is difficult enough to persuade publicly owned companies to provide bus services to replace rail services when an element of public subsidy is available , at least in theory if not in practice . |
| 12 | Staff with special training in dealing with distraught and potentially violent , disturbed people are needed in all acute inpatients services , as are specially designed areas comprising clusters of single rooms , each with its own sitting and dining areas and bathroom facilities . |
| 13 | Hence , staff functions have traditionally attracted individuals wanting structure , autonomy and creativity while line manager positions attract people wanting power and relationships . |
| 14 | Claimed applications include image processing , digital video and digital audio . |
| 15 | Offers of funds sourced in America at interest rates of 8 p.c. fixed for 15 years are the latest in a series of schemes around the country to have attracted brokers seeking capital for their clients . |
| 16 | These included powers to make loans for land acquisition and works within the designated districts ; loans for site-preparation works ; and grants for rent relief within Partnerships . |
| 17 | Proclaiming themselves to be engaged in the most radical review of social security since Beveridge , they set up a number of ministerially dominated committees to explore options for reform . |
| 18 | However , legislation in the middle of the nineteenth century had begun to make it easier for partnerships and individually owned firms to issue shares . |
| 19 | in a four-year period — I have also included provisions to enable work on the A77 Ayr road route to start within the planning programme period . |
| 20 | It is now common practice in large hotels to issue guests on arrival with identity booklets in attractively designed folders containing information on the facilities available in the hotel . |
| 21 | David Hirst and Chris Waddle recently attracted offers totalling £6.5m — swiftly rejected by directors who have the assets to justify further investment . |
| 22 | The official envelopes sent to voters with their ballot papers had contained sheets giving de Gaulle 's reasons for a " yes " vote ( but never any reasons for a " no " vote ) . |
| 23 | The prosecution had claimed police kept watch for Powney after receiving a report he was regularly using the van . |
| 24 | A direct comparison of serosal strain gauges to open tipped catheters , however , showed that open tipped tubes detected 87% of all tonic contractions and 80% of all phasic contractions recorded by serosal strain gauges . |
| 25 | This was caused by the sudden interest of the water authorities in privately owned schemes using waterpower which , owing to the abundance of steep-flowing rivers in Wales , were proliferating at quite a rate . |
| 26 | The Department of Energy has dropped schemes to generate electricity for south-west England from " hot rocks " on grounds of cost . |
| 27 | Cis-trans isomerism in polydienes and tacticity variations in certain α-methyl substituted polymers alter chain flexibility and affect T g . |
| 28 | Subsequent analysis by the Labour Research Department revealed that they all directed companies which had given donations totalling £1.9 million to Conservative party funds . |
| 29 | The first , and perhaps the simplest , was that the formation of within-stimulus associations might interfere with the acquisition of subsequent associations involving these stimulus elements ( and , I must now add , might interfere with the ability of subsequently formed associations to influence behaviour ) . |
| 30 | The trinitro benzene sulphonic acid/ethanol treated rats showed weight loss , diarrhoea , piloerection , reduced fluid intake , lack of preening , and a reduced level of activity . |