Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci .
2 Slightly confusingly named Utsly-Gtsly , this model is one of many Nakamura creations made up from sketches given to him by flat-proud clients with 200,000 yen to spend
3 Nothing ever tasted better than those lovely juicy , spicy buns filled with lots of fruit .
4 The chamber will deal with environmental disputes between states referred to it by UN members .
5 Walkers would find themselves diving out of the way on paths , escaping from runaway mountain bikes careering towards them on a mission to deposit their riders in a ditch .
6 To make the formal application you will need to complete the forms given to you by your Environmental Health Officer .
7 As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking .
8 Biological factors assume importance in many stratification systems because of the meanings assigned to them by different cultures .
9 ( ca ) ‘ foreign lawyer ’ and ‘ registered foreign lawyer ’ shall have the meanings assigned to them by section 89 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 ;
10 ( b ) ‘ authorised insurers ’ , ‘ the Council ’ , ‘ practising certificate ’ , ‘ the roll ’ and ‘ the Society ’ shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ;
11 ‘ practising certificate ’ and ‘ the roll ’ have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ;
12 ‘ practising certificate ’ and ‘ the roll ’ have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ;
13 While this internal argument reached its height , his superiors argued about him without his knowledge .
14 The hope seems to be that nurses will be better prepared and better enthused to address the nursing needs of society without the shackles placed on them by an outmoded system of training .
15 Firstly , the researchers dispute amongst themselves over the value of experiments where animals need to be used .
16 Some churches also long possessed objects given to them by Cnut , which occasionally bore inscriptions to that effect , like the reliquary for the remains of St Vincent which he presented to the monastery of Abingdon .
17 Japanese company Dit Co Ltd was showing some preliminary versions of two products developed by itself in the network field — software yet unnamed that enables a Unix machine to be used as a Macintosh back-up device over a TCP-IP network , and an FTP protocol engine which is ready for use in Macintosh applications .
18 He saw the knot of people beyond the flames gazing at him in puzzled amazement , but they made no response .
19 On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals .
20 Again , paradoxically , objects are seen as increasingly exchangeable with one another , but also increasingly specific in terms of the particular values assigned to them in the form of prices .
21 But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process .
22 How do pupils , particularly the girls , respond to the new titles designed with them in mind ?
23 Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’
24 DHSS requires firms to notify any adverse reactions reported to them within a month of receipt .
25 There are also two attractive houses designed by him at 5/466 and 7/467 .
26 Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor .
27 They 've got all his tablets sorted for him for coming home .
28 ‘ Do my wishes count for nothing in this house ? ’
29 High in the saddle rode the knights , resplendent in coloured surcoats , their slit-eyed helmets swinging from saddle bows , bannered lances carried before them by squires .
30 However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth .
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