Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the services of every kind asked by the voters , effective management would also involve the politician in substantial expenses , for any major political figure owed it to his position in society to give generously for any public concern . |
| 2 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 3 | But once the contents of these plans got around the rumours died down and people began to say that the family must be coming back . ’ |
| 4 | Committee meetings had taken place at fortnightly intervals ever since early in the nineteenth century , but now , in view of the fact that there was a war on , the local government board asked for the meetings to be held monthly , a suggestion that was accepted with alacrity . |
| 5 | Her fingers toyed with the ends of the fine saffron scarf she wore in her hair , a floppy bow peeping provocatively from her curls just below one ear . |
| 6 | Environmental pressure groups , such as the Sierra Club , have used this right on several occasions to press the EPA to take action : for example , environmental groups argued through the courts that Congress intended the EPA regularly to issue air quality standards for pollutants that were judged to be widespread and hazardous to public health . |
| 7 | That violent struggle led to the deaths of six members of the Doyle family whose house in the Ruchazie area of Glasgow was fire-bombed as they slept . |
| 8 | That violent struggle led to the deaths of six members of the Doyle family whose house in the Ruchazie area of Glasgow was fire-bombed as they slept . |
| 9 | Essex Rendering Ltd. in the above case complied with the Justices direction to apply to the local authority for consent in writing but such consent was refused , and their appeal dismissed . |
| 10 | Thus Louis controlled the frontier with the Saracens in the Pyrenees , Pepin curtailed the Duke of Benevento and defended north-eastern Italy against incursions by the Avars , and Charles the Younger fought against the Bretons of Armorica , who rebelled in 786 and 799 against Frankish rule . |
| 11 | He walked to the old-fashioned kitchen range , where red-hot coals glowed behind the bars of the grate . |
| 12 | ln the parks the eucalypti were alive with lorikeets , and flocks of parakeets chased each other around the streets ; while spotted diamond birds clung to the leaves of trees in every enclosure , and yellow-throated honey-eaters crept along branches in the ravines around the town . |
| 13 | However , he did concede that " there were indications that some activities and individuals might have been motivated to prevent success in constitutional goals " and that " some activities led to the deaths of people " . |
| 14 | Lamps glowed through the ports of boats , vehicles had driving lights on . |
| 15 | Pascoe rippled through the pages of his notebook , stopped , coughed and began to speak in an impersonal monotone as before . |
| 16 | On its own , this could prove a nice little facility for corporates to share their thoughts and ideas , but if Microsoft continues seriously to pursue the bottom-up , template approach , we can expect to see the bulletin board melded with the capabilities of electronic mail , Visual Basic and the company 's various database access tools . |
| 17 | First , it should be clear that the idea of higher education being developed here is not opposed to a curriculum oriented to the worlds of action , of work and of the professions . |
| 18 | On the back or across the front of these photographs were signatures duplicated from the letters ; John Addington Symonds , Baron Corvo , Robbie Ross , for Boy with kindest regards from Reggie Turner . |
| 19 | DARLINGTON 'S Mayor Rita Fishwick and Tory councillor Paul Geldart passed on the thanks of the Scottish Sports Association for the Disabled to the town 's Dolphin Centre yesterday . |
| 20 | Labourers and more poorly paid seamen lived on the banksides and in the ‘ low street ’ in single-room tenements in industrial and pre-industrial slums . |
| 21 | Without warning , 602 and the Edinburgh Squadron pounced on the Germans , screaming down out of the sun and spraying the marauders with concentrated machine gun fire . |
| 22 | The sheep gazed through the bars at the departing train with a look of woolly innocence . |
| 23 | Chico made with the nods . |
| 24 | Covering the sprawled guards constantly , Mortimer hopped over the bodies and continued downwards , his men jabbing the bodies with bayonets to make sure . |
| 25 | We passed splendid mare's-tail waterfalls where tiny becks tumbled over the cliffs , and watched oyster-catchers and cormorants wading and diving . |
| 26 | These projects arose from the recommendations in the report of the Cockcroft Committee on the teaching of mathematics published at the beginning of 1982 . |
| 27 | On instructions from authorities , Peking University , the focus of the student rebellion , sent a dance troupe , one of scores of similar groups dragooned into the celebrations . |
| 28 | Although most of the adjustments Valuev proposed to the statutes of emancipation appeared to favour the gentry at the expense of the peasantry , one of them , the abolition of the peasant commune , might have had the opposite effect , and none of them was designed to turn the clock back . |
| 29 | Has your view of Harlow changed over the years ? |
| 30 | Cardiff moved through the shadows to where Frye was crouched against the wall , next to the reception desk . |