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

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1 The crested helmet of the warrior gleamed in dawn sun and he turned and rode down on Tallis .
2 In a computer oriented towards numerical calculation , the operations must include provision for addition and subtraction , and probably multiplication and division as well ; on a computer oriented towards character manipulation there would be various operations for moving and scanning character strings .
3 However , when Bernard applied for planning permission to build a factory on the site he was turned down by the local highways department .
4 On Dec. 16 MCC applied for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the United States code of bankruptcy law and on Dec. 20 the UK High Court placed MCC in administration .
5 ‘ The End Of Your Chain ’ mixes and matches Yardbirds beat with garage bluster , but with erudition and a peculiarly appealing humour — and the guitar charge at the end is great .
6 ‘ The End Of Your Chain ’ mixes and matches Yardbirds beat with garage bluster , but with erudition and a peculiarly appealing humour — and the guitar charge at the end is great .
7 Between 1960 and 1980 the total acreage devoted to food production in Africa increased from about 70 million hectares to about 100 million , or about 2.5 per cent per year , sufficient to sustain a population increase of about 2.7 per cent .
8 The conference was hosted by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Poland and brought together some 20 people from Switzerland , Sweden , Germany and Poland whose fields of expertise ranged from parish work to professional journalism .
9 As the line crawled gradually closer and closer excitement and enthusiasm rose to fever pitch .
10 Its somewhat irregular shape and measurements were presumably counteracted as the building rose above ground level .
11 As part of an increasingly cost-driven organisation , Lt Col Hatton faces some tough management tasks affecting the entire operation , from length of courses ( they are , generally , being tightened up and shortened ) to the time , effort and money devoted to training Salon Culinaire entrants , a traditional area of Army catering expertise for which resources are shrinking .
12 Most recently , in 1985 , Mr Justice Popplewell reported on crowd safety and control at sports grounds , following the Bradford fire ; in 1988 , Lord Justice Butler-Sloss on suspected child abuse cases in Cleveland ; in 1988 Mr Justice Barry Sheen on the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise ; in 1988 , Lord Cullen on the Piper Alpha oil rig explosion ; in 1989 , Lord Justice Taylor on the Hillsborough stadium disaster .
13 I mean there was a superb advert made by film director and he made a superb ad advertisement
14 The Head of Department asked about group size and who had provided the paints ( the parents had ) and whether the parents at this school would .
15 The majority of the islanders lived at subsistence level .
16 They wore nephrite ear-drops and chest ornaments carved into the form of heitiki , grotesque human figures with eyes encircled by shell inlay ( Plate F ) .
17 As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego .
18 It represented a medieval knight in full armour , the helmeted head surrounded by a thin coronet , the sides of the face and neck swathed in chain mail .
19 Other ‘ defences ’ such as resins may be actively collected as in the case of those gathered by euglossine bees in their ‘ pollen baskets ’ from Anacardiaceae , Burseraceae and Leguminosae used in nest construction , sometimes with added bark fragments .
20 Recombinant ICAM-IgG1 Fc genes were transiently expressed in COS-1 cells and secreted protein purified from tissue culture supernatants with protein A-coupled Sepharose .
21 CW reported on maintenance contract re-negotiation .
22 Other experiments were performed on animals pretreated with socium nitroprusside ( 2 mg/kg , Merck , Darmstadt , Germany ) , an exogenous non-enzymatic donor of NO , to assess the effects of NO on gall bladder responses to CKK-8 .
23 The population is believed to be similar to Darlington 's and there is a technical college devoted to metal work .
24 The commission for the piece came from Life magazine , but due to a change in publishers the images never ran , ‘ I 've tried to sell it overseas and in Europe and had very good success with it .
25 Jefferson came to Church youth work with very solid credentials .
26 Last year was abysmal , we conceeded so many goals because the defence could n't cope most notable occasion was Man City away where 2 of their 4 goals came from shite defending ie defenders unable to pass back to the goalie who would then pick it up .
27 Their car came under mortar fire and they had to cross five military checkpoints .
28 Action came at price rise time in January , when Ford upgraded all LX Escort/Orion equipment and introduced a new L model — in effect an LX at the old price .
29 Then a reminder of the tragedy came during World War I when a Polish soldier was walking over the bridge one starlit night when he saw the wraith of a man dancing on the parapet .
30 Coming ate for dinner lair ?
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