Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mother 's agony goes on 20 years after her son 's death |
| 2 | None the less , the consensus in the General Assembly will give Mr Perez de Cuellar scope to carry on behind-the-scenes negotiations with all sides in the conflict , to agree to a UN peace plan . |
| 3 | A HUGE bomb rocked the centre of the Indian city of Calcutta last night , bringing down two blocks of flats and killing at least 45 people , police said . |
| 4 | The glowing consumer reports about cycling the peaks and television commercials for aftershave showing hunky men rattling down sheer slopes of scree on bikes made me suspicious . |
| 5 | Saint-Léon laid down certain rules for the staging of character dance based on the traditional folk dance of a particular country . |
| 6 | The government laid down extensive amendments at both the Committee and Third Reading stages of the Bill , such that one MP considered that there had been a ‘ complete rewriting of the whole Bill ’ and another that it ‘ has become virtually a Government Bill ’ |
| 7 | The later programmes laid down clearer guidelines about the objectives and role of Urban Programme funding than was always apparent in the later 1970s . |
| 8 | This laid down specific objectives for each party in A Squadron in three phases , specifying that the squadron would come under the command of the Eighth Army on 16 October . |
| 9 | Back in 1952 the then Home Secretary , Sir David Maxwell Fyfe , laid down specific guidelines to the Director-General of MI5 as to how it should operate in the future . |
| 10 | The Factory Act of 1901 laid down enforceable standards of space , cleanliness and sanitation in workplaces , and of methods of payment . |
| 11 | As approved by the conference , the 27-page Declaration laid down broad principles of environmentally-sound development , but was generally viewed as a somewhat unsatisfactory compromise between the widely differing wishes of various states . |
| 12 | At a meeting with Communist leaders on I1 December 1934 , Fenner Brockway laid down three conditions for continued co-operation : ( a ) Neither Party was to interfere in the internal affairs of the other ( b ) The Communist Party should state clearly whether it would oppose Labour Party or ILP candidates at elections ( c ) There should be no attempt to unify the ILP and the Communist Party into a single organisation until the next Annual Conference had discussed the matter . |
| 13 | There Philip and Richard laid down three conditions upon which they were prepared to make peace . |
| 14 | This was challenged and , after various proposals were fought over , the 1983 Act laid down detailed principles about consent and procedures for their application . |
| 15 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 16 | The revised law laid down strict rules on the issuing of permits for demonstrations and forbade government and party officials from participating . |
| 17 | Octavia Hill laid down strict rules for her tenants including prompt payment of rent on pain of eviction . |
| 18 | Wessex Regional Health Authority laid down strict conditions for his return , but Dr Cox said yesterday he had received ‘ certain assurances ’ and was happy to accept them . |
| 19 | Several churches were structurally redesigned along Arminian lines during the 1630s ; the Arminian cleric and poet , George Herbert , supervised the restoration of the ruined church at Leighton Bromswold near Huntingdon , and Abbey Dore church in Herefordshire was restored by a local landowner , Viscount Scudamore , who commissioned a new oak roof and screen . |
| 20 | If you can paint along all sorts of possibilities open up . |
| 21 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 22 | Cold inhibits or prevents plant growth and slows down chemical processes in soils , prolonging the period of maturation . |
| 23 | Scott stood motionless for long moments , sucking in deep lungfuls of air . |
| 24 | Lay down all pads on the intersections of the 0.1″ matrix so that they match the pinouts of the various components used . |
| 25 | But much more important is to think of other trade magazines which might use your information and bring in some customers at the same time . |
| 26 | In any particular organization individuals bring in these anxieties from their inner , phantasy worlds . |
| 27 | In Great Britain there is no such force , and the gap has been filled in recent years by a militarization of the police force . |
| 28 | The shop now caters for the mainstream market , but it was built upon bringing in exclusive trainers from Germany in the early Eighties , trainers that had nothing to do with America , but a lot to do with the nomad Scousers , and Wade Smith often supplemented his stock by buying from Liverpool ‘ entrepreneurs ’ with time on their hands to travel to Deutschland and acquire , by various methods , the much sought after , exclusive Adidas Trim-Trab . |
| 29 | DARLINGTON manager Ray Hankin has resisted bringing in young players after the 4–2 home defeat by Reading . |
| 30 | The princely state of Travancore-Cochin , which was absorbed into Kerala in 1956 , promoted education , bringing in extra teachers from outside . |