Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She later fought for women 's rights and social reform in the Alberta legislature at Edmonton , and represented Canada at the League of Nations . |
| 2 | J. L. Pearson avoided this arrangement at St Peter 's by confining the two-storey teaching accommodation to the perimeter of the wedge-shaped site at the rear of his church , the central ‘ spine ’ of the plan linking the blocks on the east and west site boundaries to create two largely internal courtyards which operated as children 's playgrounds ( Fig 53 ) . |
| 3 | Guests will be lawful visitors to those parts of the hotel to which they have been invited , i.e. all public rooms ( lounge , reception , restaurant ) , their bedrooms , conveniences , etc. provided for guests ' use . |
| 4 | Since ITV had the TV monopoly of advertising and ‘ editorializing ’ was not allowed , few anxieties surfaced about advertisers ' influence on programmes . |
| 5 | It was still early when they went in to Gamages and headed for Ladies ' Gowns . |
| 6 | Even in cases where teachers clearly disagreed with advisers ' recommendations , they had at least been forced to reconsider their existing practices . |
| 7 | Trouble was with old miners , they tended to exaggerate — a gleam of mineral seen decades previously often became transmogrified in mens ' minds to a wonderful thickness , be it lead , copper , tin , gold , or whatever . |
| 8 | Often the furore stemmed from audiences ' unease at being plugged into a musical idiom shorn of familiar signposts . |
| 9 | Here again , questions of discourse and power surfaced in women 's attempts to develop a feminist sexual politics . |
| 10 | All colonic carinomas occurred in patients >65 years . |
| 11 | A few care managers have already gained posts in the SSD 's linked resource centres or moved to children 's services . |
| 12 | She stopped at Barbs 's house and pushed open the gate . |
| 13 | The rhetorical use they made of anthropologists ' ideas as a source for a criticism of the society of their time , especially as a criticism of the way institutions such as the family , marriage , and the status of women were seen as unchangeable and eternally fixed , is one which seems totally justified to present-day anthropologists . |
| 14 | Hankin appealed for fans ' patience and encouragement at a critical stage of the season . |
| 15 | But why did n't you tell me before that you believed in women 's lib ? |
| 16 | He played in working-men 's clubs in the North of England . |
| 17 | Everywhere , his testimony was a ‘ show ’ : one that played in dentists ' surgeries to relieve the pain of extraction , in bars to give a purpose to drinking , in aeroplanes criss-crossing the country , and in television stores to crowds of people pressing against the windows . |
| 18 | Favourable reviews came from Women 's Wear Daily , who considered it ‘ a funny , lovely , painfully gentle play that manages — without being fake-sensitive or psychedelically souped up — to understand just the thinking of today 's young people ’ . |
| 19 | The fault came to Rangers ' attention when they were forced to postpone a Premier Division game with Dundee United at Ibrox in December because of a fractured drainage pipe . |
| 20 | Money-lenders came to borrowers ' houses , not vice versa . |
| 21 | Later Friedman ( 1975 ) shifted position somewhat in that he allowed for employers ' mistakes concerning the behaviour of the real wage rate : the ex post real wage need never deviate from its market clearing value for fluctuations in the level of employment around its natural value to occur . |
| 22 | Marvellous similes flowed from journalists ' pens . |
| 23 | Abandoning caution , she got up and turned on Barbs 's tape machine . |
| 24 | The promoters of the Alexandra Palace show , Kennedy Street Enterprises , replied to fans ' accusations this week , claiming that they had done everything possible to provide tickets for genuine applicants . |
| 25 | In the early 1920s she campaigned for widows ' pensions . |
| 26 | She campaigned for prisoners ' rights as secretary of the Women 's Prisoners ' Defence League from 1922 ; edited Prison Bars in 1937–8 ; and was the Republican party of Ireland candidate in the local government elections of 1936 . |
| 27 | When he heard of Nails 's interest , and realised the possibilities of the new team , he was in favour . |
| 28 | The philanthropic General Oglethorpe intended it initially as a place where people released from debtors ' prison could make a fresh start in life . |
| 29 | When she returned to Swans ' Meadow , she found Ursula had embarked on a cold-blooded drinking bout and was reluctant to accompany her into the garden , the one venue where Charlotte felt she could safely disclose what had happened . |
| 30 | But this was not the only series that fed on viewers ' appetite for nostalgic programming . |