Example sentences of "[verb] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assistance given ranged from financial assistance for the procurement of legal advice to the issuing of court orders . |
| 2 | These set limits to the level of contributions with the aim to prevent candidates from becoming obligated to special interest groups . |
| 3 | Claimants allege that the two firms failed to warn doctors about the addiction patients say resulted from prolonged use of Ativan and Valium , prescribed to treat anxiety . |
| 4 | Knowledge available at the time of Copernicus did not permit a legitimate criticism of the observation that the apparent sizes of Mars and Venus remain roughly constant , so that Copernicus 's theory , taken literally , could be deemed falsified by that observation . |
| 5 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |
| 6 | Sr and Nd isotopic compositions are presented normalized to 86 Sr/ 88 Sr=0.1194 and 146 Nd/ 144 Nd=0.7219 , respectively , and were measured in multidynamic mode . |
| 7 | Such lighting as did exist consisted of feeble oil lamps suspended above the pavement , which not only gave poor light but frequently went out , making the streets both difficult to negotiate and dangerous to be abroad in . |
| 8 | But it also appears that the bishops who were consulted replied with considerable enthusiasm , proposing a much wider agenda than that originally intended . |
| 9 | Roy Jenkins , usually so percipient an interpreter of the public mood , became caricatured in popular legend as the libertarian Home Secretary who wanted to insulate policemen in Panda cars . |
| 10 | The tents were straw-coloured , ranked in orderly rows , and every so often they passed a larger pavilion which Rostov guessed belonged to some kind of nobleman or senior officer . |
| 11 | Due to some highly complex , and to a degree innovative , technical requirements , the job of directing went to Associate Producer Mervyn Pinfield for Episodes One to Three , and to rapidly up-and-coming PA Douglas Camfield , making his debut as a Doctor Who Director on Episode Four |
| 12 | A number of dimensions of child rearing emerged from this material , and of these two are worth special mention because they have been found by other investigators too . |
| 13 | When talking with children , it is very important not to convey by trying to be gentle , that the person who has died had in any sense a choice in the matter . |
| 14 | This was an important success , as deaf and dumb people have always encountered difficulties in finding employment , and there was a considerable risk that these difficulties could have become aggravated by discriminatory insurance . |
| 15 | That almost all , if not all religions have become sullied with this kind of behaviour is something that must be branded as totally unacceptable . |
| 16 | Then I remember that the greatest power of good that this world has ever known began with one man and his twelve followers . |
| 17 | And the fire went straight to a place deep inside her body that she had n't even known existed until this moment . |
| 18 | Even in the second set , where memories were specifically pressed , one third of the grandparents who were remembered had at some time lived in the same household . |
| 19 | However , early proposals [ see pp. 37931 ; 38022 ] that the two bodies should align ran into stiff opposition from neutral Ireland , from the UK and from the Netherlands , which maintained that the EC was unsuited for a role in European defence policy . |
| 20 | I mean went to this kind of thing , it was |
| 21 | Time you were away playing toy soldiers , who do you think looked after this house and the estate ? |
| 22 | Given the fact that less than 30 per cent of charges brought resulted in successful conviction ( when the rate for most other crimes was about 50 per cent ) , we may wonder how much substance there was in many of the accusations , or whether at times of political anxiety certain types of people were likely to be vulnerable to false accusations because they conformed to the popular stereotype of who a Jacobite was . |
| 23 | Neither of these assignments nor his cure in a new church in Oxford , St Aloysius , to which he returned with high hopes , was conspicuously successful , although the Oxford stay resulted in another burst of lyricism , including ‘ Duns Scotus 's Oxford ’ and ‘ Binsey Poplars ’ . |
| 24 | In the most organic , visceral way possible they now felt bonded with utter intimacy to their Chapter , digested by it . |
| 25 | I felt vivified by that kiss . |
| 26 | He had had 2,500 letters from members of the public expressing their grief , sympathy and admiration for a man who they felt had in some way belonged to ordinary people and understood them . |
| 27 | It is possible that the abbacy of Ely was vacant from before Æthelred 's death until 1019 , and clear that the abbot next appointed ran into some kind of trouble . |
| 28 | In the early 1980s when the policy of overfunding led to persistent money market shortages , the Bank 's bill mountain was criticised from the standpoint that it entailed the Bank acting essentially as a clearing bank , lending to the corporate sector ( albeit indirectly ) via its bill purchases . |
| 29 | Where the misconduct complained of consists of both words and conduct , it seems likely that both will be considered by the magistrates in deciding whether or not what the defendant did amounted to disorderly conduct . |
| 30 | Although some building work had taken place in the pre-Severan period , notably two groups of temples on the south side of the east-west street , the main impetus to rebuild came under that emperor . |