Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The hon. Member for Garscadden said last week that he finds it incomprehensible that many properties may stay in the same band in perpetuity . |
2 | The German co-producers were shocked when they found that the contract for Melancholia gave this right to the BFI , since in Germany final cut is almost always given to the director . |
3 | A series of foreign visits and treaties during July furthered Romanian relations with the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union . |
4 | The MP for Billericay said richer nations could ‘ ill-afford ’ hand-outs to countries like Spain in the present economic climate . |
5 | Crown woods in the Forest of Dean acquired new importance as a profitable source of wood and timber , especially for sale to the ironworks . |
6 | Six months ago , pot-holders in the Forest of Dean complained underground caves were being polluted by old waste dumped in a mineshaft by Watkins Engineering at Sling . |
7 | And he got it , by return — a promise of a few hundred pounds'-worth of schoolbooks , for which the government of Tonga gave due thanks . |
8 | In that same year , the Duke of Wellington became Prime Minister until George IV died in June 1830 , when he was succeeded by William IV who was sympathetic to the Whig party and a supporter of the Reform Bill which had been introduced by Earl Grey , who became Prime Minister following the Duke of Wellington . |
9 | The Earl of March had substantial grievances of his own against the court , and if the complaints of the commons and the hostility of some of the nobility were to be effectively co-ordinated , de la Mare 's influence would be crucial . |
10 | The North of England Branch Award went to Nottingham Old Market Square , which also exceeded its annual target and at the end of March had 22 customers using Royline . |
11 | The Duke of Windsor died one hour later with Wallis by his side . |
12 | The Duke of Marlborough wielded enormous power in the county . |
13 | In these conditions , the inhibition of protein synthesis and cell-death was 91% and 24% respectively as judged by metabolic labelling with 35 S methionine and 3 H-uridine , followed by scintillation counting of TCA precipitated total cell lysates . |
14 | The London Borough of Greenwich sought judicial review of a Government leaflet distributed to every household in England which was explanatory of the community charge or poll tax . |
15 | THE University of Stirling broke all records yet again . |
16 | The satellite states of Moscow followed this lead — no Bulgarians , nor Romanians , nor Yugoslavs . |
17 | ‘ Mr Gajdusek lives in the part of Czechoslovakia called Western Bohemia , and I was going to make it a quick flight over , find this place called Mariánské Láznë where he has his home , and shoot back to England again , ’ Cara replied . |
18 | Henry II of Germany incurred ecclesiastical disapproval by entering into an alliance with heathen Slavs against Christian Poles , while his French contemporary Robert the Pious repudiated his first wife and took a second who was within the forbidden degrees of kinship . |
19 | The Belgian Government and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany proposed that question ( 4 ) should simply be answered in the negative . |
20 | The claim would be that Jesus of Nazareth represented observable evidence of the divine nature . |
21 | Stewart presents a revealing citation analysis of the plate tectonic paradigm , in which he shows that the peak of citations to Wegener 's paper occurred sixty years after its publication , and the peak of citations to du Toit 's later defence of Wegener came thirty-two years after its publication , in the same year as the Wegener peak . |
22 | But studies by teams from the University of East Anglia and the University of Illinois put this suggestion into perspective . |
23 | Mr Robert Schrager of Dixons said last night : ‘ We would treat the Kingfisher figures with some scepticism . |
24 | Mr Robert Schrager of Dixons said last night : ‘ We would treat the Kingfisher figures with some scepticism . |
25 | Ironically , a number of LEAs had advisory staff with managerial expertise , yet arts staff did not appear to have sought it . |
26 | At the end of supper the Earl of Gowrie auctioned six items which raised another £20,000 for the charity . |
27 | The People 's Republic of Angola achieved full independence from Portugal in November 1975 , the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola becoming the party of government ; this was restructured in 1977 as a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party , the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola — Workers ' Party ( Movimento Popular de Libertaçao de Angola-Partido do Trabalho — MPLA-PT ) . |
28 | The People 's Republic of Angola achieved full independence from Portugal in November 1975 . |
29 | Catherine sometimes lived off it alone , Christine had strange out-of-body experiences during Mass while Jacques de Vitry tells how Mary of Oignies had visionary experiences at the elevation of the Host and found rest and relief for her spirit in the presence of the sacrament . |
30 | Unfortunately the statement of Balassa made some years ago still remains true , " there exists no wholly satisfactory way of measuring the effect of a customs union or free trade area on trade flows . |