Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formation of a National Maritime Board was announced on 23 November 1917 and standard wages for seamen announced six days later , recommending to the Shipping Controller £pound11 10s a month for able seamen and £pound12 for firemen , with proportionate increases for petty officers and seamen on weekly articles , backdated to 6 October . |
| 2 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |
| 3 | The criteria for deciding whether the banks would support an application for funds led many banks to the conclusion that , if a case warranted support , the government 's guarantee was superfluous , as a good business proposition was worth considering anyway — some have effectively withdrawn from the scheme . |
| 4 | In its first full year , entry levels for Euroqualifications exceeded all expectations with 72 per cent of candidates attaining passes , credits or distinctions . |
| 5 | A senior official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees surveyed chaotic scenes at an emergency processing centre in a sports hall in the northern town of Tuzla , where about 2,000 people are sleeping on blankets on the floor , and appealed for immediate international help . |
| 6 | The success of ‘ Darwinism ’ shows that the majority of biologists recognized this point , and the only significant area of debate remaining centred on the problem of heredity . |
| 7 | Successful missionizing activities and the extending of the boundaries and powers of states led secular authorities to an examination of the sources of power and to its exercise . |
| 8 | Nothing fancy here in the way of melons or artichokes , but damsons , gooseberries and apples were translated into wholesome and filling puddings , and a range of herbs provided simple medicines to use alongside those prescribed by the factory doctor . |
| 9 | The dazzling display of blooms took 18 months hard work to create and cost Newtownabbey man Edward Cooke £500 . |
| 10 | In Scotland 60% of authorities noted some courses offered by local authorities but it was comparatively limited in scope . |
| 11 | The former reflects the effects of contracts formed last period currently in their first period , and the latter reflects the effects of contracts formed two periods ago now in their second period . |
| 12 | On July 20 the Chamber of Deputies received further requests for the lifting of the immunity on four more deputies , including De Michelis . |
| 13 | Our team of expert Editors select the best and latest titles by scanning the lists of the many thousands of titles published each year . |
| 14 | A recent Department of Employment survey found that only 13% of part-timers did such jobs because they could not find full-time work . |
| 15 | A number of courts gave substantial latitude to the decision-maker . |
| 16 | Staff who had long been encouraged to develop treatment relationships towards prisoners had little time left for this important work after discharging tasks arising from the need to concentrate on security . |
| 17 | The first batch of railcoaches took fleet numbers 200–224 , and a second was delivered in 1935 numbered 264–283 . |
| 18 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 19 | Each year the painful birth of birds brought more seeds , more bones , more wolves into the forest . |
| 20 | A census of birds sighted each day throughout the year , and kept up for a considerable number of years , is an invaluable source of information to all concerned with the monitoring of bird numbers . |
| 21 | It is launching an experimental scheme to turn some of the 2,000 tonnes of notes disposed each year into garden compost in collaboration with the Botanic Centre in Middlesborough . |
| 22 | The Legal Aid Annual Report for 1976–7 shows that between 1973 and 1976 the number of cases granted legal aid increased by 54 per cent . |
| 23 | He claimed that the actual increase in numbers of cases granted legal aid was only 5 per cent this year — from 271,759 to 288,000 — and cited a Scottish Office report on spending plans which forecast a peak in claims in 1992-93 , followed by a decline . |
| 24 | Our finding of slow accumulation of cases confirmed earlier results , with regard to the interval to the start of recurrent symptoms . |
| 25 | In only 10 per cent of cases did social work or police ‘ discover ’ the problem on their own although they are the main carriers of the interrogative role . |
| 26 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 27 | In England , however , the low infection rate seems to have remained stable over the past decade as the number of cases reported each week to the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre has not varied greatly . |
| 28 | In Newham the heaviest case load month was February 1985 , just before recruitment ended ; the number of cases held that month was 22 ( see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 29 | What concerns me is that a group of clubs had clandestine meetings . |
| 30 | Thus , for both of them the theory of forms excluded all possibility of evolution . |