Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 2 | He was pleased with the support received for the practice of joint confirmation and particularly , welcomed the first ever united service for Christian Unity week . |
| 3 | All the keywords can be left in the configuration file , as the parameter given for the keyword HCMAP dictates whether a volume set will be prepared for hard copy or omitted from the hard copy run . |
| 4 | He found it hard to believe that the 3 per cent of allegations of racial discrimination sustained by the authority could reflect the true picture , and he supported an independent investigatory agency to handle all aspects of complaints against the police . |
| 5 | THE Attorney General is to review the three year sentence given to a killer who strangled and dismembered a Co Donegal woman . |
| 6 | THE Attorney General is to review the three year sentence given to a killer who strangled and dismembered a Co Donegal woman . |
| 7 | THE family of the young Donegal woman dismembered by a 19-year-old man today slammed the three year prison sentence given to the killer . |
| 8 | Nearer our own time , in 1830 , when the extensive manor of Ingleton changed hands , the new owner had a tower intended as a hospice erected on the summit , made from stone pillaged from the wall and the foundations of the huts . |
| 9 | Outside stood a young man in oilskins , the hood blowing back from a soaking tangle of brown hair blackened by the rain , and one hand gripping a duffel bag . |
| 10 | Both words were used to push the Morrissey vision of men 's liberation ; not , as it may sound , a freedom given to the Penthouse reading hordes but a glimpse of Morrissey 's ideal world where gender barriers are entirely dispensed with . |
| 11 | The cynic may perhaps be forgiven for commenting that the freedom given by the Use Classes Order and the GDO is so hedged by restrictions , and frequently so difficult to comprehend ( though he may note with relief that painting is not subject to control , unless it is ‘ for purpose of advertisement , announcement or direction ’ ) that it would be safer to assume that any operation constitutes development and requires planning permission . |
| 12 | A special book has been illustrated by Sister Frances Therese at the Carmelite Convent to record every donation given to the hospice in memory of someone who has died . |
| 13 | However , Jardana stated that implementation of the budget depended on the availability of foreign grants , aid and easy-term loans . |
| 14 | THE Court of Appeal yesterday quashed a suspended sentence received by a man convicted of indecent assault and incest with his 15-year-old daughter , despite submissions by the Attorney-General , Sir Patrick Mayhew , QC , that the sentence was too lenient . |
| 15 | He was stripped to the waist and as he jogged along between the shafts a few coins — obviously his meagre earnings for the day — jingled pathetically in a leather pouch fastened to the back of his belt . |
| 16 | The age and sex distribution of children who had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia diagnosed in the study area conformed to expected patterns , with slightly more boys and a peak age at diagnosis of 3 years ; the excess of Down 's syndrome in young children with non-lymphocytic forms of leukaemia is as would be expected . |
| 17 | Since the profession 's livelihood depended on the public having confidence in its members ' integrity and professional ability , he warned , those who did break the rules would be dealt with swiftly , effectively and fairly . |
| 18 | ‘ Gee , ’ Charity Marlowe responded drily from where she sat in a decrepit upholstered chair , her head thrown back , her hair hidden under a towel , and her eyes clenched tightly shut . |
| 19 | Three methods were being tried : A benign substance called Hot Foot Gel painted on the top of transformers and similar equipment to produce a ‘ sinking ’ feeling for the Hoodies when they try to land ; Plastic strips with irregular plastic spikes fixed to the top of equipment to discourage the birds from landing in the first place ; Non-working poles incorporating ‘ alternative nesting pans ’ were erected at selected sites to encourage the crows to use them instead . |
| 20 | The Maggot 's Beechcraft clawed higher , its progress punctuated by the alarm sirens that the Maggot ignored and which the senator had learned not to worry about . |
| 21 | I knew Gail Benson slightly when she was a schoolgirl , and remember a pretty moon face , big eyes , a freckled complexion deepening to russet , dark hair parted down the middle — a nut-brown maid and modern miss who must have wanted to be away from the French Lycée in South Kensington , shy , uneasy , wound-up . |
| 22 | Her hair parted at the centre and scraped back in a pony tail , Mara was there as usual , fussing over her regulars , but still the very soul of discretion . |
| 23 | Dr Mackintosh was a red-faced Scot with mousy greying hair parted in the middle and tiny gold-rimmed glasses on the tip of his rather short nose . |
| 24 | She was a very efficient , neat woman with a reddish face , her hair parted in the middle and drawn back tightly against her head . |
| 25 | With hair parted in the middle , he retained the appearance of a youthful student almost to the end . |
| 26 | Alexandra , in her new afternoon dress , her hair parted in the middle and drawn up by Lyddy into a series of padded puffs and curves behind , waited in the drawing-room on the edge of the sofa . |
| 27 | ‘ Self ’ turned out to be a dark-complexioned , somewhat solemn- looking young woman , with large eyes and swept-back hair parted in the middle . |
| 28 | It were a bit charred by the lightning , but they plugged it in and music came out and the words to the music came up on the little television screen . ’ |
| 29 | In the case of land , statutory provisions may give priority to a later contract registered as a land charge even if entered into with knowledge of an earlier , unregistered transaction , but it seems that this affects only proprietary rights and does not bar an action in tort based on interference with the earlier contract . |
| 30 | It was quite usual to see her standing there baking , one knee on a cushion placed on a stool , to ease the pain . |