Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She passed about forty-eight kilometres north of Krakatoa on the evening of the twenty-sixth , spent the night of the twenty-sixth to seventh anchored in Telok Betong , tried to sail again for Anjer in the morning , but was prevented from doing so by the violence of the eruption .
2 Women supported the idea of compulsory leave from work as long as it was paid leave and called for the adoption of the International Labour Organisation 's Washington Convention , which provided for six weeks maternity leave before and after childbirth .
3 Frequency of liquid stool incontinence ranged from three times day to once a week ( mean 0.92 episodes/day ) .
4 On every side images of love and violence erupted from glass-fronted posters advertising coming attractions .
5 Originally at Udimore , it moved to Great Sowdens Wood , Brede , between 1840 and 1845 , then to Aldershaw , Beckley , between 1892 and 1896 .
6 The Mirror grew in size but the physical space devoted to public affairs news between 1927 and 1937 decreased by very little !
7 In the case of The Times , there is a decrease in total space devoted to public affairs news and features — 1184 sq .
8 In fact , Pilsudski came to power in a bloody putsch and presided over gross human-rights violations , the brutal crushing of strikes and virtual civil war with the national minorities .
9 In order to broaden interests he also invited to these courses experts from other disciplines : musicians , historians , gallery owners and poets .
10 During the period 1955 to 1978 I moved across classificatory police boundaries on more than one occasion .
11 In performing so well , BRC beat by 16 seconds Dublin University who have won at Erne and Galweay Heads and were the second Irish crew at Laganside Head .
12 We camped about five kilometres north of Låddejåkkåstugan on the open moors by a stream that thundered towards the distant watershed from Virihaure .
13 The disclosure by the state and defence departments came as United Nations officials in Sarajevo announced that Serb militiamen had allowed a ten-truck UN relief convoy , halted for days at a checkpoint in eastern Bosnia , to continue towards the encircled town of Gorazde .
14 Indeed , Hateley is confident that the Scottish champions , buoyant after the way in which they disposed of English champions Leeds , can lick the continent 's cream .
15 She was only in a in a she said she was earlier than the other one and the other came in two days time .
16 Most of this growth came in Catalytic Systems Division , where autocatalyst sales increased rapidly in Europe to meet the new emission standards for all new cars sold in the European Community , and in Materials Technology Division which benefited from cost rationalisation and a strong performance from the electronic materials business .
17 Ferrari profited from these ground-effects catastrophes with a relatively conventional car , the 312T4 that gave Jody Scheckter the 1979 world championship .
18 The highest contribution to January 's inflow came from Index-linked Savings Certificates which brought in £74 million .
19 There is one other distinguishing feature of researching the RUC compared to other police studies .
20 On the basis of the answers they received to these questions Goldthorpe and his colleagues concluded that monotony is a definite source of job dissatisfaction .
21 During the next two days I advised on industrial relations problems in catering , computers and property services and sent back three more folders of work to my line manager .
22 I came to two pounds difference about something
23 On April 10 , 1990 , the Regional Council of Guadeloupe rejected on environmental grounds proposals from the Black Diamond petroleum company to build in Guadeloupe a refinery capable of processing 15,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) .
24 Accordingly on 5 June 1991 Buckley J. made against various defendants orders for disclosure and discovery including an order in paragraph 18 that Mr. Tully should make and serve on the plaintiffs ' solicitors an affidavit :
25 Cedras , confirmed as Armed Forces C.-in- C. by the National Assembly on Oct. 14 , characterized the coup as a " correction of the democratic process " , claiming that Aristide had adopted an autocratic style of government , had flouted the Constitution and was inciting mob violence .
26 19 What is Dean paid for 38 hours work at $2.80 an hour ?
27 It was in the kitchen and it consisted of three panels side by side .
28 There were two side aisles and the centrally arranged seating consisted of wooden benches aisles and the centrally arranged seating consisted of wooden benches with cast-iron frames .
29 When the bleep turned round Five Ways Corner on to the A1 to Hertfordshire they saw their target was now an open-topped Volkswagen Golf GTi whose driver wore a thick fur hat to cover his head and ears .
30 Erdogan Kizilkaya claims that when he arrived at Kayseri Police Headquarters he was stripped and taken to an interrogation room where electric shocks were applied to his penis , hands and feet .
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