Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Representatives of the RIBA Visiting Board made visits to schools of architecture in Chile , Colombia and Russia , and other representatives went to China and Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | Next week parents are due to receive ballot papers to vote on whether they want to push for grant maintained status after years of waiting for the council to convert promises into action . |
| 3 | Certainly not everybody in the camp found pleasure in books or music or poetry or nature but many people who normally would never have had anything to do with such things were forced by their environment to look into them and found there greater wealth than they had ever known before . |
| 4 | The rise triggered warnings by environmentalists that Britain would fail to meet its target of freezing carbon dioxide emissions by 2005 unless the government acted quickly to introduce tight controls on the burning of coal , gas and oil . |
| 5 | Publication of a peer reviewed article by members of the Ciba-Geigy Department of Toxicology and Pathology ( Bombay ) serves to legitimise the methods of the ‘ study ’ , and thus the indiscriminate spraying of pesticides on children . |
| 6 | The Armenians for their part reported attacks on villages by Azeri forces , with that on Kazanchi resulting in 27 deaths on March 4-5 , and the shooting down of a helicopter evacuating civilians from Nagorny Karabakh to the Armenian capital , Yerevan , on March 3 , with 17 deaths . |
| 7 | The strike was called off on July 15 , when the opposition met Ratsiraka for talks , but their dissatisfaction with the results prompted a resumption of strike action and the announcement that a retired general , Jean Rakotoharison , had been appointed president of the opposition provisional government , with Albert Zafy as prime minister . |
| 8 | US attorney Andrew Maloney , in charge of the case , said the sanctions-busting conspiracy involved shipments of weapons from Eastern Europe via America to Iraq . |
| 9 | Mohawks on the nearby Kahnawake reservation , joined by members of the militant Warriors Society [ see p. 37448 ] , in solidarity with the Oka action erected barricades on approaches to the main Mercier road bridge spanning the St Lawrence river , forcing commuters to make lengthy detours into Montreal . |
| 10 | The result confirmed Huddersfield as favourites for the Cup . |
| 11 | Raising the bridge cost £70,000 , but on top of that the contractor claimed £350,000 for delays and disruption . |
| 12 | The contractor claimed £350,000 for delays and disruption and the related delay costs to road users amounted to around £450,000 , the NAO estimated . |
| 13 | On Oct. 21 Israeli F-16 jets attacked a Hezbollah base in Jibchit and artillery opened fire on villages just north of the " security zone " . |
| 14 | The force confirmed allegations against police officers were also being investigated after a newspaper claimed four officers were being quizzed . |
| 15 | Attempts were made to disperse the stone throwers with a water cannon , but its progress was halted by a barricade ; police trying to clear the obstruction returned fire with stones which had been thrown at them . |
| 16 | The pronouncement followed post-mortems on seals , eels and fish from the Liverpool Bay area of the Irish Sea . |
| 17 | J. D. Hooker collected plants on expeditions to the southern polar regions and to the Himalayas , and soon plants ( in Wardian cases ) were flooding in from all parts of the world . |
| 18 | The US research employed observation of children , questionnaires and long-term case studies . |
| 19 | Then he was inspired by two famous hard men , Ron Harris and Tommy Smith , who insisted that football needed ex-players as referees . |
| 20 | The study included pairs of twins both concordant and discordant with regard to ulcerative colitis or Crohn 's disease . |
| 21 | Evidence pointing to the expansion of the North Korean air force included construction of airfields in five different locations . |
| 22 | The incentives to industry included reductions in employers ' contributions to pensions and health insurance , the lifting of taxes on investment capital , and favourable export assistance . |
| 23 | The ceremony took place at Fountains Abbey , near Ripon , on the anniversary of the original being signed , 777 years ago . |
| 24 | Mr Patten 's defeat sent ice into hearts . |
| 25 | A violent confrontation took place between police and students at Tunis University on Feb. 27 , with 15 students reported injured , but by March 4 the majority of campuses across the country were reported to have resumed lectures [ ibid. for 1989 and January 1990 disturbances ] . |
| 26 | Moreover , his review took account of factors which were very different from those relevant to ‘ streamlining the planning machine ’ : the increasing pressure for public consultation and participation in the planning process , and the ‘ dissatisfaction on the part of applicants because they often do not understand why particular decisions have been made , or why it is necessary for what may seem small matters to be the concern of the planning machinery at all ’ . |
| 27 | While the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Medical Association counselled caution on closures , the impressive period architecture of asylums has attracted the interest of architects in the possibilities of preserving them intact with a resident population . |
| 28 | The study took samples from workers at the Dounreay , Hunterston , Chapelcross and Torness nuclear plants , and Ministry of Defence staff from Rosyth , Faslane , Coleport and Vulcan bases . |
| 29 | Students ‘ critical ’ after jilted lover put poison in sweets |
| 30 | The high subsidies offered by the UK government to Nissan and by other European governments to encourage Japanese investment gave rise to fears that the Europeans were engaging in ‘ beggar-my-neighbour ’ subsidy policies , which would benefit the Japanese and give them an unfair competitive advantage when compared to existing producers . |