Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that the Minister gives the assurances about timing asked for by the hon. Member for Chislehurst . |
| 2 | Family budgets are seen to be a private settlement of accounts between men and women , men 's unequal distribution of working-class incomes within their households is a right they fought for within the working-class movement and it is not yet susceptible to public political pressure within the movement . |
| 3 | Well that article you referred to at the very beginning of the programme in the Observer , the final part of that article went something like this erm ‘ this article is not intended to accuse individuals or colleges . |
| 4 | In the final analysis , collective security was founded on what Nizan referred to as the Soviet formula of " treaties accessible to everyone " , not on the Hitlerian formula of " treaties accessible to a few at the exclusion of everyone else " , Nizan ceaselessly denounced all attempts to reduce international diplomacy to what he disparagingly termed " private agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 5 | Marx predicted that this group , which he referred to as the petty ( or petit ) bourgeoisie , would be progressively squeezed into the proletariat . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , he viewed Coenwulf as a tyrant , who had compounded his deficiencies by putting away his wife and taking another ( as Eardwulf had done in Northumbria ) , and urged the Mercian patrician to advise the Mercian people to observe what he referred to as the good and chaste customs of Offa . |
| 7 | Is the environmental assessment to which my hon. Friend referred the same one as that referred to by the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) who I understood to mean the King 's Cross project , while my hon. Friend was referring to the high-speed link ? |
| 8 | Many of the towns on the Banbury map which Professor Hoskins referred to in the previous chapter fall into this category . |
| 9 | The Central Junta has a bad reputation ; a clumsy body of thirty-five presided over by the aged Floridablanca , President of the Junta of Murcia , its pretensions as a sovereign body with the title ‘ Majesty ’ were slightly ridiculous . |
| 10 | The goodwill and excellent relations that Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell have built up with the authorities in Gran Canaria seem to be in the process of being matched in St Lucia : more and better facilities were planned for Rodney Bay Marina , parties were organised and funded , and a special ARC committee to deal with such things as restoring extinguished navigation lights and easing participants through customs formalities was set up and presided over by the Prime Minister of St Lucia . |
| 11 | They should make a bit more profit than they used to with the old , oversized pans they made from bigger oil cans . |
| 12 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 13 | came as in the Christian community would say a wolf in sheep clothing . |
| 14 | Though the refusal of one of the parties to a dispute to make an oath was admissible as evidence in British courts , these other ways of trying cases were generally ignored or disapproved of by the colonial authorities . |
| 15 | What I was trying to say that the for the fire fighter decision about was very boo 'd upon to the professional advice of our Chief Fire Officers and they have a good for eighteen months of how we are doing this fire fighting in Hertfordshire . |
| 16 | A childish voice wafted from behind the thin curtain . |
| 17 | So her husband brought the case in the Guild room on the Tuesday night and erm I was sort of throw 'd in at the deep end because they were mostly older women and they all said , oh well you 're secretary erm yo I said yes , but I do n't know the Co-op dual structure . |
| 18 | I do n't know I do n't know who Mr is referring to er Chair , but I presume you wish me to reply to some comments that came from across the other side of the room . |
| 19 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 20 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Some of them even came from within the nuclear fold , concerned that the truth should be told from the inside out . |
| 23 | First , the external conditions were extremely unfavourable , given the record trade deficit generated by the ‘ Barber boom ’ and added to by the subsequent massive rise in oil prices . |
| 24 | They achieved a masterpiece in the Moorish style in the Plaza de Armas Station , Seville ( 1901 ) , an element of the Iberian past also alluded to in the Moorish elements on the grand Romantic façade of Lisbon 's Rossio Station . |
| 25 | The barely submerged class antagonism much alluded to in the local humour is both true and false . |
| 26 | This change of emphasis is reflected in the biographical sources and is undoubtedly largely responsible for the marked differences , alluded to in the previous chapter , between the biographies written by Taskopruzade and those by Ata'i . |
| 27 | What happened to with the all-night . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The conclusions arrived at in the brief analysis which follows have necessarily , therefore , to be seen as no more than tentative and hesitant deductions . |
| 30 | The answer is the one that we arrived at in the previous paragraph . |