Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of a Second Reading Debate on the contentious Courts and Legal Services Bill in December 1989 , Lord Hailsham spoke scathingly about the fact that the bulk of the proposals arose from within the Government machine , so disregarding ‘ almost every principle of the methodology … which ought to be followed in law reform ’ . |
| 2 | Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time . |
| 3 | Barrington 's words erupted from behind the court like venom . |
| 4 | A series of whoops came from round the pit , followed by a shout and a gabble of voices . |
| 5 | The newly risen semi-literacy in England means that it is likely that those who read the book after seeing the film will not be able to find the works of Donne and other classic authors alluded to in the book in their local libraries . |
| 6 | Only the clock tower on the stables showed from behind the trees . |
| 7 | It said that the governors ‘ do not see the immediate necessity for applying to the Crown for a Royal Charter to be granted to this Institution ’ but that ‘ every facility ’ would be given to the veterinary surgeons ‘ for procuring an Act of Parliament to prevent certain grievances complained of by the Memorial , which could not be relieved by a Charter ’ . |
| 8 | Opposition groups were critical of the visit , the Workers ' Party describing it as " a condonation of recent government measures which deny the values believed in by the Commonwealth " . |
| 9 | After the task of unification had been accomplished , and the despotic methods of absolutism could no longer be justified , these elements came toward with the idea of a separation of power . |
| 10 | For the local authority to sue in libel in respect of the same matters complained of by the individual would create a duplication of proceedings and an added burden upon defendants to the action . |
| 11 | He said he and his son ‘ emphatically deny the allegations of fraud in relation to the matters complained of in the charges ’ . |
| 12 | Over 1,480 guests came from around the world to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Battle . |
| 13 | Guests came from around the world — Peter 's brother Jim flew from Zimbabwe to act as best man and his other brothers and sisters came from Australia . |
| 14 | Only with the repeal of these measures , the abolition of all laws based upon precepts of ‘ obscenity ’ and ‘ indecency ’ , and the opening up of the narrow , prescriptive sexual teachings insisted upon by the moralists , can we get on and live our lives , talk about our desires and argue about them without feeling ashamed or guilty . |
| 15 | He had not washed merely a handkerchief either his underclothes , too , had a grey look , and so did his shirt , whose grey cuffs peeped from beneath the dirty , tattered sleeves of his morning coat . |
| 16 | There were waters on the earth , but when the rain stopped , the waters went from off the earth , they went back to the seas , did n't they . |
| 17 | Indistinct sounds emerged from within the earth , deprived of sense by the complicated acoustics of the soil . |
| 18 | He walked to Newlyn , where the paintings and the pilchards came from in the old days , and returned along the sea-front with the street-lamps struggling against the great plain of darkness that was the sea . |
| 19 | Abroad , Boerhaave at Leyden , the merchants George Clifford at Amsterdam and Daniel Gould at Leghorn wanted copies and two names came from across the Atlantic : the Governor of South Carolina , H. E. James Johnson and a Mr John James of Boston . |
| 20 | In the Shropshire parish of Myddle between 1541 and 1701 nearly everyone found a husband or wife within a 10-mile radius of his or her dwelling and most partners came from within the neighbourhood that was centred upon the market towns of Shrewsbury , Ellesmere and Wem ; only the gentry sought wives or husbands from a slightly wider area . |
| 21 | While it is certainly necessary to chart shifts in women 's position in literature and society through history , it is crudely ahistorical to judge writers of the past exclusively through terms arrived at in the late twentieth century . |
| 22 | Their wages are held down as much by non-union agreements insisted upon by the Asian and American employers as by progressive devaluation . |
| 23 | ( v ) Most libels of any gravity directed at the conduct of a local authority would sufficiently identify the councillors or officers concerned in or responsible for that conduct so as to enable individual councillors or officers to sue for libel just as , in this case , Mr. Bookbinder has brought proceedings in respect of the libels complained of by the council . |
| 24 | Where the pupils referred to in the next section are concerned , their teachers seem to play a larger role in the arbitration of proper action . |
| 25 | For the later prehistoric period , rather more evidence is now available from Dartmoor and the major river valleys of what early landscapes looked like in the 2000 years or so before the Roman Conquest , and how such early arrangements conditioned the later , more easily recognised , post-Roman countryside . |
| 26 | There will be genealogists who will be fascinated to discover who their ancestors spoke with on the 15th of July 1993 or historical demographers who might wish to use these records to assess the role the telephone played in family communication ( Did the phone help to maintain family structure over extended distances ? ) |
| 27 | Two masked men burst into into the Midland Bank in Broadway , near Evesham , and threatened two female cashiers with what appeared to be a shotgun . |
| 28 | The rules would normally specify that the completion accounts are to be prepared in accordance with : ( a ) generally accepted accounting practices or the statements of standard accounting practice ( SSAPs ) in order to give a true and fair view ; ( b ) the same accounting practices as used consistently in previous accounts of the business , normally over a period of several years ; ( c ) specific accounting rules legislated for in the sale agreement . |
| 29 | Conclusions arrived at from the interim report following Semester 1 interviews pointed to an apparent need ( indeed , a desire ) on the part of students for them to be told of the Enterprise Content in each module in advance and for a level of understanding about transferable skills to be attained by students upon their arrival at Napier . |
| 30 | The conclusions arrived at in the brief analysis which follows have necessarily , therefore , to be seen as no more than tentative and hesitant deductions . |