Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] raised [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Connecting with their deities , through consciousness raised by ritual , through dance or song , through drugs or sexual congress , they were really connecting with this primal force .
2 Kazakhstan conceded the issue of federal taxation in June , however , and on July 25 the Russian Federation agreed that a fixed percentage of taxes raised from enterprises by the RSFSR government ( rather than a predetermined amount as earlier demanded ) would go to the union budget .
3 The last four months have seen thousands of pledges raised from schools , local communities and trade unions , and from business , environment and development groups here in the UK and around the world .
4 John arrived first in Australia in 1791 , aged 18 , as a lowly and poorly paid Ensign in the New South Wales Corps , an ill-disciplined and motley band of renegades raised in Britain and sent out chiefly to police the penal colonies .
5 In 1986 this accounted for nearly 12 per cent of revenue raised by expenditure taxes and 4 per cent of total government revenue ( see Godfrey and Maynard 1988 ) .
6 Whereas at Cannington there were a handful of voices raised in favour of the nuclear industry , in Wales this was heresy .
7 The sound of voices raised in anger and hysterical sobbing could be plainly heard coming from the suite of rooms occupied by the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham House .
8 In response to Amnesty International 's inquiries about Ahmed Ashraf , the Egyptian authorities have twice stated that investigations into all cases of torture raised by Amnesty International have found no evidence that torture had taken place .
9 To a roomful of shoulders raised in perplexity , he warms to his theme : ‘ Is it when he has done something once ?
10 Clarkson sold some of his writings , including his history of abolition , through a system of subscriptions raised by acquaintances in religious networks , particularly Quakers .
11 Some of them were procedural rather than , it does n't mean that there is eleven things wrong with or the actual survey , it means that some of the things were raised during that , I think that there was a couple of things raised by accounts in that , the fact you do n't send a budget form .
12 Like the question of quality raised by Charlotte Brunsdon in these pages last year ( ‘ Problems with quality ’ , Screen , vol. 31 , no. 1 , pp. 67–90 ) , the question of aesthetics has returned to media debates after some years on the margins .
13 Where currents are feeble their role may lie principally in determining the direction of fall of particles raised into suspension by wave action .
14 Quinton and Rutter 's ( 1983 ) study of girls raised in care showed that girls who were ‘ planners ’ in other aspects of their lives were considerably less likely to become pregnant .
15 Up until the late 1970s , 98 per cent of children raised in Northern Ireland experienced schooling only on their own side of the divide ( Darby , et al .
16 This memorandum elaborated on a number of points raised by Saddam in his Revolution Day speech .
17 York University has won new research grants totalling £2.5m and hopes to beat its total of £10m raised from Government , industry and charities in 1990/91 by October .
18 The impact measures listed by Anderson include , publication counts , citations , and the number and value of grants raised in support of research .
19 The most depressing aspect he had found had been the neglect of the fundamental issue of liberty raised by MPs ’ proposals to prevent what they regarded as abuses by the press .
20 This conclusion serves to dispose of the only question of principle raised in relation to the Barclays ( Asia ) prosecution .
21 Samuel Katwere , editor of The Star , the only independent English-language newspaper , was arrested on Nov. 6 , 1989 , and held without charge over an article published in the paper on Sept. 22 , 1989 , which alleged that the managing director of the government-owned Ugandan Commercial Bank was being paid huge amounts in compensation for the death of two children during the war which brought Museveni to power , and further called Museveni a liar for defending the banker against allegations raised in parliament that he was being paid more than he was worth .
22 A three-mile stretch of the 400-foot high Bempton Cliffs at Flamborough Head is owned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , bought with money raised by children of the Puffin Club ( Penguin Books ) .
23 And to look at the colourful display of begonias , geraniums and fuchsias set against the trees and shrubs , the unusual rockery plants , the miniature acres in their raised beds , linked pools and waterfall , emptying into a small bog garden , and the greenhouse brimming with plants raised from cuttings and seed , you would think the Doughtys spend hours every day keeping it all in trim .
24 The idea is to repay the bond with cash raised from asset sales .
25 Filling you garden with colour from plants raised from seeds you have sown yourself is definitely very satisfying and an experience I 'm sure you 'll soon enjoy .
26 Public ‘ patronage ’ , from revenues raised by taxation , has some continuities of function and attitude with earlier forms , but some quite new definitions of function , such as the deliberate maintenance and extension of the arts as a matter of general public policy .
27 So , for example , moves were made to turn revenue spending ( i.e. which had to be paid for out of current income — grants , fees , charges and rates ) into capital spending ( i.e. which could be paid for from loans raised from banks and other financial institutions ) .
28 No assessment was in fact raised on Woolwich in the present case , because the money alleged to be due by way of tax was paid , though under protest .
29 But now , thanks to money raised by Martin 's colleagues at Magnet in Darlington and Andrea 's workmates at North Tees Hospital , where she is a student nurse , the couple are preparing for their week 's break .
30 The federal government is trying to persuade the communes to give up their existing sales taxes and rely in future either on transfers from the budgets of the republics and provinces or on revenue raised by taxes on local incomes and property .
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