Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Vogel , detained on Tuesday and held for 10 hours in a solitary cell , was arrested because the prosecutors believed he would reveal the whereabouts of Mr Schalck-Golodkowski . |
| 2 | Mr Vogel , detained on Tuesday and held for 10 hours in a solitary cell , was arrested because the prosecutors believed he would reveal the whereabouts of Mr Schalck-Golodkowski . |
| 3 | From such work and from studies on the biochemistry of tubercle bacilli , on substances which prevented their growth , and on potential therapeutic agents , extensive research , especially in the USA , led to the substance named isoniazid which was discovered almost simultaneously in the laboratories of E. R. Squibb and of Hoffmann-La Roche and publicized in 1952 . |
| 4 | The company 's sales operations in the United Kingdom were based in Berkshire and controlled by one of its directors . |
| 5 | They are allotted by tender each Friday and issued on each working day by the Bank of England . |
| 6 | It was designed by a pupil of Wren and completed in 1731 . |
| 7 | Built by Sir Christopher Wren and consecrated in 1697 the present edifice replaces an even larger one which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London 31 years earlier . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , England women also finished their team event with a splendid 3–0 win against Hungary and finished in fifth position , four places up on the last European Championships in Gothenburg . |
| 9 | I was there at UC and finished in 1978 . |
| 10 | ‘ Visions Revisited ’ , chaired by Kirsty Wark and sponsored by Historic Scotland , marked the beginning of a re-examination of Scotland 's Modern building revolution . |
| 11 | The translations by Alberto Fortis , an Italian traveller and scholar , of fragments of epic poems which he had collected in Dalmatia and published in 1771 , brought the rich oral tradition to the notice of men like Herder and the western European scholars of the Romantic movement . |
| 12 | These are replica corals reproduced from samples collected off Florida and sprayed with bright red , white or blue . |
| 13 | hero of a novel called The Hermit , written in imitation of Robinson Crusoe and published in 1727 ; attributed to Edward Dorrington . |
| 14 | Everybody in the region would have to pay a new tax towards a regional assembly based on Tyneside and dominated by Labour politicians . |
| 15 | This workshop , prepared by a group of staff at Robert Gordon 's Institute of Technology , led by , was held on 30 May and repeated on 6 June 1989 at Perth College of Further Education . |
| 16 | The demonstration coincided with the official inauguration of Eduardo Villaseñor of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) as state governor , in a ceremony attended by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and protected by 2,000 police and federal troops . |
| 17 | That was in August 1988 and Jones was fined two weeks ' wages by boss Bobby Gould and banned for three matches by the FA . |
| 18 | Counsel for the Crown argued that if the House of Lords so held this would mean that the foreign income of an accumulation trust administered in England and governed by English law to avoid taxation on overseas source income by the simple expedient of appointing one co-trustee resident abroad . |
| 19 | Hutton , later to become the first professional captain of England and knighted in 1956 , joined the ranks of those who had to embody the hopes and expectations of an England creaking under the weight of its industrial and imperial past , but whose sense of destiny was still quite strong . |
| 20 | The chamfered heel , the shock-absorbing device of the first K-SB3s and used on many other early boots , has now been rejected by many hillwalkers . |
| 21 | The Altos operation is now headed by Ronald Chwang and housed within one of Acer America Inc 's business units in San Jose , California — the Altos name retained for its profile in the Unix marketplace . |
| 22 | The original timber Warehouse was entirely destroyed by fire which started on 12th January and burned for three months . |
| 23 | The factual data concern a South African people called , the BaThonga , who had been meticulously studied by the Swiss missionary Junod and described in impressive detail in his classic monograph , published in 1913 , The Life of a South African Tribe . |
| 24 | Medieval Scottish castles were once the homes of kings , queens and local lairds , but a three year ecological survey , commissioned by the Government agency Historic Scotland and undertaken by Northern Ecological Services , is finding new castle inhabitants . |
| 25 | Some inhabitants of Attica perhaps did not bother much with either deme or polis politics : the country house below the cave of Pan at Vari ( the ancient deme of Anagyruus ) , whose remains were cleared and studied by the British School at Athens and published in 1973 , gives an impression of self-sufficiency — there is copious archaeological evidence for bee-keeping at the Vari villa — and peace , a long way from the speechmakers of the Pnyx . |
| 26 | The first major test of the APT was carried out by Roll and Ross and published in 1980 . |
| 27 | Train-loco for this working was ex-BR Class 03 shunter D2112 ( 03112 ) built at Doncaster and introduced in 1960 . |
| 28 | Presented by Richard Cork and narrated by Magenta de Vine , the programmes provide a lively , informative introduction to ‘ The Modern Movement ’ , intercutting live footage of events and scenes which inspired the artists . |
| 29 | The ‘ real local enthusiasm ’ has not been generated by this organisation : why was there no mention of the petition prepared by the STPS and signed by four of the five communities surrounding Laganas Bay , the Zakynthos hoteliers ' association , and the local association of communities ? |
| 30 | In July 1944 he had told the American government and in December 1944 the Soviet government that the left bank of the Rhine ought to be detached from the rest of Germany and placed under French authority , while the Ruhr 's industrial resources should be controlled by an international authority . |