Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete local network-based application development environment for client-server systems — IBM failed outright with AD/Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year . |
| 2 | ADP is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete LAN-based application development environment for client/server systems — IBM failed outright with AD/Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year ( UX No 353 ) . |
| 3 | Of the 47 cases decided , Mr Platt ruled wholly in favour of the complainant in 18 and partly in four . |
| 4 | With the residents , they applied successfully for finance through the Inner Area Programme to establish the Braunstone workshops on the estate . |
| 5 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 6 | But it was also because Britain , as a heavily industrialised nation , got little in return from Brussels under CAP payments . |
| 7 | On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court . |
| 8 | What to do , how to do it and when to do it are instructions passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next . |
| 9 | They had been observed by the disciples and passed on by word of mouth . |
| 10 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 11 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 12 | CUSTOM — A well-established , traditional mode of socially relevant behaviour passed on from generation to generation that prescribes the proper ways of behaving in given situations or under given conditions . |
| 13 | But it is always verbal and passed on in code from one member to another of various interlocking inner circles of the chattering classes . |
| 14 | Each story was separate and passed on in isolation with the possible exception of the story of the Passion . |
| 15 | Willie crept nervously on stage with the prompt book in his hand and was joined by the others . |
| 16 | John got down in front of Dad and looked up into his face and said , ‘ It 's our flight . ’ |
| 17 | The items in this inventory were modelled on the list of symptoms used by psychiatrists to diagnose the borderline condition of ‘ schizotypal personality disorder ’ referred to earlier , but toned down for use with non-clinical populations . |
| 18 | Inside the ark were the tablets of the law — the supreme verbal statement of God 's holiness ( 26:16 ) ; at one and the same time the reason why God dwelt alone ( for none can match his holiness ) , and why by means of blood a sinner might enter his presence ( for the blood speaks of life laid down in payment for sin ) . |
| 19 | There should be a definite , fixed penalty for every offence , laid down in advance by the legislature in a strict tariff . |
| 20 | In redrawing boundaries the commissions are guided by rules laid down by act of Parliament . |
| 21 | Typical of the uneasy compromises that resulted was the Ten Articles of Faith laid down by convocation in 1536 . |
| 22 | And she finally got in at quarter to and she 's , oh Kim said she was in a dreadful state . |
| 23 | Out of the school , how many of them got in at Sound of Music out of those hundred kids ? |
| 24 | Mr Parkinson hopped delightedly from foot to foot . |
| 25 | It recovered swiftly in wartime as the main staging post between America and Europe , and as temporary home for thousands of American airmen . |
| 26 | ON TUESDAY , the 27th October , Carlisle Walsingham Pilgrims ' Group met together for Mass in St Bede 's Church at the start of our 39th annual pilgrimage |
| 27 | The BSC will retrospectively censor the output of all mainland TV stations , but will have no jurisdiction over programmes beamed in by satellite from abroad . |
| 28 | Teaching by subject led naturally to organization by subjects , and to the almost baronial power of heads of department within the system . |
| 29 | His small , glistening secretary plunged along in front of him like a dolphin under the bowsprit . |
| 30 | Attempts to protect the American economy by raising tariff rates , as in the Hawley-Smoot tariff of 1930 , led only to retaliation by other countries against American goods . |