Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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31 It was money that belonged to the Sunday School where Bertha is treasurer .
32 Six years ago , Chambers had been in a very small way of trade , on the outer fringe of the dozens of banks that belonged to the London Clearing House .
33 ‘ The semiconductor market also is being helped by the gradual global economic recovery that began in the US in the fourth quarter of 1992 ’ — remark that seems to ignore the fact that continental Europe is plunging into ever deeper recession while the jury is out on whether recession has bottomed in Japan.The North American market should reach $23,600m in shipments in 1993 for a growth rate of 28.1% .
34 Where there is such a difference , therefore , ‘ the judicial view ’ means that expressed by the Lord Chief Justice .
35 It is proposed that Atkins Q-analysis provides the basis for such an analysis ; the principal source of data will be that collected by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute .
36 Despite the great volume of material that existed on the Mughals , I had always found them difficult to visualize .
37 The next stage therefore was to consider how this large systemic information base could help in exploring and understanding what was happening in practice , and how to link the system activities with the functional groupings that existed in the EPH .
38 This effectively established a matrix on the database ( Fig 11.10 ) so that an annotation could be made to indicate whether each item of information , in relation to the activity described , was relevant to the functional groups that existed in the EPH , ie the Officers ( OICs ) , Clerical Assistant ( Clerk ) , Care Assistants ( CA ) , Domestic Assistants ( DA ) , the Cook , and the Gardener/handyman ( Gdnr ) .
39 There was a round table always set aside for the ‘ Carry On ’ team in the baronial hall that served as the Pinewood restaurant .
40 Starting with the first military railway in the Crimea up to our globe trotting bakery that served in the Falklands conflict .
41 This odd looking engine named Ant ended its days at Hutch Bank Quarry but may also well have been the Ant that worked on the Brooks Quarries lines about Cloughfield .
42 WABI was written by people that worked at the BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd and later at Integrated Technologies Inc .
43 1968 ) and to some extent in the Scarman report that focused on the Brixton disorders in April 1981 ( Scarman , 1981 ) .
44 In spite of these problems which suggest that the data should be interpreted with more caution than other information that originated in the WHO collaborative studies , the effect of maternal age on early and intermediate fetal mortality is unmistakable .
45 To Australia by Tri-Pacer in just thirteen months … finishing fourteenth out of 25 that started in the England to Australia rally , and the only all-woman team to make it !
46 Some dinosaurs that evolved during the Permian/Triassic reduced their body mass by around 35 per cent or more , and may have had their dimensions reduced by 50 per cent .
47 The former is that contained in the UK Data Protection Act .
48 The overemphasis on nuclear weapons and missiles at the expense of conventional forces was seen by many observers , both military and civilian , to have gone too far , too fast , and too soon ; but the political prize of ending National Service had been seized and that was all that mattered to the Macmillan Government in 1957 .
49 He was part of a delegation that went to the BBC to complain about proposed cuts to the Third Programme , the " cultural " channel of the broadcasting service ; he was working on the Commission for the Revised Psalter ; he was asked to give evidence to the Parliamentary Commission on Obscene Publications ( he had had very little experience of pornographic literature , he told the members of that commission , and his own work was " quite anodyne " ) .
50 The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time .
51 We raised quite a good sum for the first time and that went to the Barnardos home .
52 He ran like the wind down the narrow road that went to the Toops ' house .
53 Most of the money that went into the Serpell report ( £370 000 ) was paid to engineering consultants R. Travers Morgan .
54 FlyPast had the honour of visiting the very busy 35 Squadron at D F Malan Airport ( Cape Town 's main airport ) and to fly with the general transport element on a formation training sortie that took in the Cape Town coast and the all-dominating vista of Table Mountain .
55 The culprits in this instance were the amalgam of sevens gypsies that gathered under the Warblers banner — including New Zealand sevens internationals Eric Rush and Glen Osborne ( North Harbour ) and the star of the Melrose Sevens , Peter Woods ( Bay of Plenty ) — and the Froggies , a polyglot of French first division players from the Toulouse area .
56 The codification effort that culminated in the Hague conventions was an attempt to control the increased scale of warfare brought about by the transition from relatively small professional armies to large conscript ones , and the growth in the destructive power of weapons consequent on the growth of large-scale modern industry .
57 Instead , the US used the UN as a forum for launching a successful diplomatic attack that culminated in the UN Security Council Resolution 678 ( UNSCR 678 ) ( see SR Dec/Jan , 1990 ) which ordered Iraq to leave Kuwait by January 15 .
58 There were no fewer than four books in the Wimbledon Public Library that dealt with the Graham Young case .
59 I think one of the most valuable points that emerged from the Felixstowe experience , as far as I was concerned anyway was the fact that with all those people there when we heard their views , erm , it was quite apparent that it was n't the case of local people opposing what the County Council traffic people propose to do , many there were many different and varying interests there and , and we , we could , we can then basically come to a conclusion which satisfied , satisfied I hope most of them , but , we , we , at that meeting among the local people some supporters with some of our road safety and some were very much against them , others were neutral , but it was n't just a question of erm a , a united opposition of what we proposed to do er , and this was very valuable .
60 Among the 39 developing countries that participated in the WFS , there is a strong correlation between the median age at first marriage or union and the median age at first birth among women aged 25–29 years at the time of the survey .
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