Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the decade before the war , Jewish settlement in the East End led to some involvement in the London underworld on the part of the Jewish population . |
| 2 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 3 | He has winged his way across the world in pursuit of his hobby , a mission that has included Venezuela , Thailand , Africa and Israel among others — with Costa Rica planned for this year . |
| 4 | But their efforts to collect the money from Germany met with little success ; and when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in 1923 in an attempt to force payment , the German economy collapsed amidst wild inflation ( CORE , pp. 6–7 ) . |
| 5 | In each year , less than 800 of these cases led to any form of criminal or disciplinary action , and the vast majority of even this small number involved nothing more severe than ‘ advice or admonishment ’ — 651 of the 766 cases in 1987 , for example . |
| 6 | One Soviet writer argued in this vein that the EEC proposal was not directed at the neutralisation of Afghanistan at all but at hiding the ‘ undeclared war against the Afghan people ’ . |
| 7 | So the struggle became to some extent a contest between the German bishops and the pope , and the position of the German bishops in extending the conflict can only be understood if we understand their relationships with the political parties and the rival claimants . |
| 8 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 9 | Hedges rose to either side and the Cadillac 's wing mirrors clipped against them . |
| 10 | In the second two pairs devoted to this relationship the same pattern emerges . |
| 11 | The 1988 budget occurred during that period and proposed legislation such as the Housing Bill , poll tax , Education Bill , Consumer Protection Act , Financial Services Act , Legal Aid Bill , Immigration Bill and Criminal Justice Bill had to be monitored . |
| 12 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 13 | Section 1 of the 1944 Act gave tremendous responsibilities to the Minister : ‘ It shall be the duty of the Minister of Education to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose , and to secure the effective execution by Local Authorities , under his control and direction , of national policy for providing a comprehensive educational service in every area . ’ |
| 14 | It shall be lawful for his Majesty to appoint a Minister whose duty it shall be to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose and to secure the effective execution by the local authorities , under his control and direction , of the national policy for providing a varied and comprehensive educational service in every area . |
| 15 | According to the 1944 Education Act the Secretary of State has a duty to ‘ promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose … ’ , although effective control was , at the time of the Tyndale dispute , devolved to the LEAs . |
| 16 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 17 | As for the reform of the National Health Service , it is already well established that every hour devoted to this subject plays into Labour 's hands . |
| 18 | Physiologists capitalized on this instrumentation to demonstrate that the electrical activity of the brain and its nerve cells was a function of what the individual was doing , or not doing , or how sensory receptors were stimulated . |
| 19 | No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies . |
| 20 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | Gorbachev expanded upon this vision of a ‘ qualitatively new state of society ’ in an address to senior party functionaries in July 1989 . |
| 22 | It did seem that the mother 's intrusion in quarrels led to more conflict over the longer term . |
| 23 | Kefalov bulged like some fossil brain adorned with innumerable ridges . |
| 24 | How the lighting industry got from this point in its technology to today 's sources is a tale of technical give and take . |
| 25 | A fair point , maybe , but one that smacks of the kind of social-comment spuriousness spouted by many fashion editors who ought to know better . |
| 26 | On-coming cars skidded to either side , slamming into basement dwellings , ploughing along sidewalks , overturning and bursting into flames . |
| 27 | In the statement Freud made about this activity , he sometimes avoided the errors of his own account of the scientific nature of psychoanalysis . |
| 28 | Her words tumbled over each other . |
| 29 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 30 | As we have seen above , discount houses and other members of the monetary sector have substantial short-term funds lent to each other . |