Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led on to contracts for shipping grain to Flanders . |
| 2 | In 1967 , a parliamentary commissioner was established to investigate complaints passed on by Members of Parliament about maladministration in government departments . |
| 3 | In general , enzyme defects are inherited — passed on from parents to children in the form of an abnormal gene . |
| 4 | It was also over 50 per cent more than that laid down in codes for the relief of famine as a basic subsistence diet ( Kynch 1989 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ The constitutional function performed by courts of justice as interpreters of the written law laid down in Acts of Parliament is often described as ascertaining ‘ the intention of Parliament ; ’ but what this metaphor , though convenient , omits to take into account is that the court , when acting in its interpretative role , as well as when it is engaged in reviewing the legality of administrative action , is doing so as mediator between the state in the exercise of its legislative power and the private citizen for whom the law made by Parliament constitutes a rule binding upon him and enforceable by the executive power of the state . |
| 6 | Ministers from time to time make statements seeming to indicate to judges generally what sentencing policy should be , within the range of punishments laid down by statutes for different crimes . |
| 7 | The real estate descended to the heir in accordance with rules laid down by statutes of 1833 and 1859 . |
| 8 | By the nineteenth century it was a highly respectable area lived in by bankers amongst others . |
| 9 | We sat with our backs against the trig point and gazed down like Gods on the coastal plain of Thassos . |
| 10 | ‘ I moved on to agencies for domestic help , including nannies . ’ |
| 11 | Gallup 's concern over the unusual sales pattern was heightened when several record shops in the area phoned in with details of the registration number of a car used in the alleged hyping . |
| 12 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 13 | Mrs Parkin described how children were coming to the school weighed down with tins of food . |
| 14 | As representatives of the ranks of the great unfashionable made their way to their seats weighed down by crates of lager , it was clear , at the band 's first British appearance for seven years , that paunches may come and full heads of hair may go , but times do n't change . |
| 15 | O'Sullivan , a former world junior champion , defeated Doug Mountjoy 5-0 and Hicks weighed in with breaks of 82 and 73 as his opponent , Darren Morgan , suffered a similar whitewash . |
| 16 | He and Warnie , for example , had decided that they would erect a memorial window to their parents in St Mark 's , but it was a decision they quickly came to regret when the Lewis , Hamilton and Ewart cousins all weighed in with suggestions of what should go into the window . |
| 17 | It 's the second mix on the B-side most spinners are plumping for , riding into tranceland on a deep repetitive bassline and helped along by fountains of floaty keyboards that wash you away into hypno-city . |
| 18 | smacked down by figures of authority . |
| 19 | Teesside magistrates heard how the two Middlesbrough men used an electronic tagging device to track a terrier as it bore down on badgers in a well known sett . |
| 20 | But quotas set to ensure the sustainability of the resource were widely ignored : Russian and East European factory ships moved in for months at a time , and Spain took the opportunity to develop a host of industries back home — from ship-building to canning — based on the hake resources of Namibia . |
| 21 | Sometimes it clouded over with rays of darkness . |
| 22 | They stopped off for drinks in the country and it was about one o'clock in the morning before they were home . |
| 23 | She was tired , and her conversation wandered off into comments on the animal life , the river and her nightmares . |
| 24 | The lighting was subtle : concealed behind pelmets , inset into the ceiling , bounced up from uplights on the floor , flickering from candles . |
| 25 | The lower levels of these vast ‘ graveyards ’ built up into beds of limestone and colossal shifts in the earth 's structure meant that much of this was raised above sea level . |
| 26 | Her most valuable contribution lay in the relationships she built up with delegates from all round the world . |
| 27 | Not really a march , not even a brisk tramp , but a shuffling movement forward towards the opened gate : Holly saw the high wooden fence of vertical overlapping boards and above it the rise of steep angled roofs and in the corners were watch-towers built up on stilts with the platform reached by open ladder . |
| 28 | They are phoney devices built up of strips of card or other material to give an appearance of genuine binding . |
| 29 | The clones were multiplied in the glasshouse and then transplanted back into patches of the field dominated by the four grass species . |
| 30 | Yeah , I mean , obviously erm , I think we originally moved back from Thursdays to Wednesdays because on Thursdays I think erm |