Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formation of a National Maritime Board was announced on 23 November 1917 and standard wages for seamen announced six days later , recommending to the Shipping Controller £pound11 10s a month for able seamen and £pound12 for firemen , with proportionate increases for petty officers and seamen on weekly articles , backdated to 6 October . |
| 2 | Adjustment of the relative risks for smoking made little difference . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Garscadden said last week that he finds it incomprehensible that many properties may stay in the same band in perpetuity . |
| 4 | He claims that it is an effective tool both for monitoring established social trends and for identifying new developments at an early stage . |
| 5 | The debates that accompanied the passage of this Bill through Parliament reflected two themes which constantly recur in discussions about local government reorganisation . |
| 6 | Scotland eventually benefited greatly from Union with England in 1707 , but in the heyday of nineteenth-century expansion large parts of the western and northern periphery of Britain remained bitterly poor : the clearance of people to make way for sheep caused large-scale migration from the highlands and islands of Scotland , and a large part of the population of Ireland was forced to emigrate through the scarcity of food . |
| 7 | A Cleveland ( Ohio ) longitudinal study of a group of families of all social classes ( Dingle et al , 1964 ) , for instance showed that frequency in infectious gastroenteritis more than doubled with a rise from family size three to eight ( from .97 to 2.11 per person per year ) . |
| 8 | Standardization comes about for functional reasons , and its effect is to make a language serviceable for communicating decontextualized information-bearing messages over long distances and periods of time . |
| 9 | One Protestant businessman in North Belfast who has rejected paramilitary demands for money said last week : ‘ Racketeering is n't anything to do with the cause of Ulster or loyalty . |
| 10 | Those sentenced for espionage included three people arrested in March 1989 and sentenced on Feb. 15 , 1990 , for computer hacking for the Soviet KGB . |
| 11 | What should be the content , the level and the limits , of preparation for teaching seemed significant questions , and not by any means only to those employed in training institutions . |
| 12 | The German co-producers were shocked when they found that the contract for Melancholia gave this right to the BFI , since in Germany final cut is almost always given to the director . |
| 13 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |
| 14 | All patients with sclerosing cholangitis and positive tests for anti-lactoferrin had ulcerative colitis . |
| 15 | The criteria for deciding whether the banks would support an application for funds led many banks to the conclusion that , if a case warranted support , the government 's guarantee was superfluous , as a good business proposition was worth considering anyway — some have effectively withdrawn from the scheme . |
| 16 | Since large serf-owners tended not to live on their estates or to know much about rural conditions , few of the people whom the tsar had charged with thinking about emancipation had any idea of the complexities of the task . |
| 17 | These were arranged to allow the morning feeding to be carried out and a one-and-a-half hour break for tea allowed many farmers to return for the second feed and to check the stock . |
| 18 | Use of the portagram alone for guidance eliminated these complications . |
| 19 | by no means had this state of affairs been brought about by presidents alone . |
| 20 | If there was not much coherent intellectual opposition to the left 's proposals , this by no means signified tacit support but rather a belief that the pressure of ‘ realities ’ in government would soon dispel the fancies of opposition . |
| 21 | And yet he by no means wanted this responsibility . |
| 22 | INDONESIA has blocked access to sex hotlines from Hong Kong after MPs said such telephone calls could damage morals in the mainly Muslim country , the state telecommunications company said today . |
| 23 | After MPs sat all night to defeat a private members ' bill to enable building of the Cardiff Barrage , the government announced that it would introduce its own bill to ensure that the measure passed into law . |
| 24 | Dr Benton found that in trials , university students who sat tests two hours after breakfast performed Medical Correspondent better than those who started the day on empty stomachs . |
| 25 | The gong for lunch sounded two floors down . |
| 26 | Anyone entitled to free legal aid who is then a party to an appeal against a care or supervision order will qualify for non-means tested legal aid in respect of the appeal subject to a merits test . |
| 27 | A series of foreign visits and treaties during July furthered Romanian relations with the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union . |
| 28 | In its first full year , entry levels for Euroqualifications exceeded all expectations with 72 per cent of candidates attaining passes , credits or distinctions . |
| 29 | Trial tests for geometry comprised typical items selected to test spatial concepts as referred to in the Cockcroft foundation list . |
| 30 | The MP for Billericay said richer nations could ‘ ill-afford ’ hand-outs to countries like Spain in the present economic climate . |