Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've already given Calibra pride of place in their showrooms . |
| 2 | In primary care prescribers rightly expect a safe and accurate dispensing service , but they have lost the regular advisory service and are most often given drug information by drug company representatives . |
| 3 | In addition , since we introduced the city grant in May 1988 , 39 schemes in the northern region have received grant aid of £18.1 million to enable developers to undertake otherwise uneconomic housing , industrial and commercial developments . |
| 4 | In 1861 he was appointed manager of the Cowlairs works of the Edinburgh and Glasgow ( later North British ) Railway and in 1865 locomotive superintendent of the newly formed Highland Railway at Inverness , where he rebuilt existing locomotives to make them more suitable for use over its heavily graded lines . |
| 5 | He backed the movement for Welsh higher education and became a governor of the newly formed University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , founded in 1872 . |
| 6 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 7 | The Lu-Fan is a completely hidden extraction system for toilet pans . |
| 8 | Despite setbacks at the hastily improvised research centre at Los Alamos , New Mexico , the atomic bomb is successfully tested . |
| 9 | ‘ You may have joined Neighbourhood Watch at home ; bring the same vigilance to work and help make Park Royal more secure . |
| 10 | In this field as in others physical geographers are only one group of contributors to research but recent endeavours have included field measurement of soil water and relationship between condition of the environment including soil water status and plant growth , and it is suggested that the impact of atmospheric pollution on crop growth and yields in advanced industrial countries is an area of research where physical geographers could make a significant contribution . |
| 11 | It has a well organised base clinic in Santarem , a city of around 250000 at the junction of the two rivers . |
| 12 | In 1958 , the system of attachment of earnings was instituted m respect of maintenance orders . |
| 13 | Springboard 's other activities have included industry representation at careers fairs and conventions , visits to teachers and schools and invitations for schools to visit its offices . |
| 14 | JUMPING FOR JOY : It 's that winning feeling for Pat Nevin after his goal had earned Tranmere victory against Leicester on Saturday . |
| 15 | Groves , John & Westrup ( Underwriting ) Limited is a wholly owned specialist subsidiary of Sphere Drake Insurance Group plc , which has shareholders funds of just under £60 million . |
| 16 | On July 6 King Hussein denied any involvement in a recently reported coup attempt against Saddam Hussein [ see p. 39026 ] . |
| 17 | The defendants negligently discharged fuel oil into Sydney Harbour . |
| 18 | Our reserves include the largest privately owned nature reserve in Europe — Abernethy in Scotland , a glorious piece of mountain , moorland and native Scots pine forest with exciting and rare birds like the crested tit , capercaillie , Scottish crossbill ( the only species unique to Britain ) , golden eagle and ptarmigan . |
| 19 | A German tourist we met there , who had come tourist class from Cuzco , told us how she had given money and pens at each stop to the children who crowded the carriage windows . |
| 20 | This month Versace opens his first , wholly owned flagship store in London , holding menswear , womenswear and accessories on four floors . |
| 21 | Held in a privately owned Mews House off Porchester Terrace — just five minutes from Marylebone Register office — they can cater for up to 40 . |
| 22 | The widely reported price differential between US and European software packages , has come down some , Gates said , but will continue to exist , while diminishing further . |
| 23 | These doubts had previously compelled Gates to withdraw his name after being nominated CIA director by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 . |
| 24 | The study was based on structured interviews with some 370 former employees of a privately owned steel company in Sheffield who were made redundant in and shortly after the summer of 1979 . |
| 25 | ( Xu has willingly dropped monosodium glutamate after learning of its decreasing popularity here , admitting that it occasionally ‘ covered a multitude of sins ’ . ) |
| 26 | The McCapra String Quartet have just been reappointed Aldeburgh Quartet in Residence for the second year running . |
| 27 | The money is needed to hire legal and planning experts to present evidence that the consortium believes proves McAlpine 's claimed planning permission to quarry almost 500 acres of limestone habitat , is ‘ void for uncertainty ’ — ie. is not legally valid . |
| 28 | These included capital investment by US companies in the Soviet Union and co-operation on space projects ( including a joint flight to Mars ) , environmental problems and medical research . |
| 29 | Below : Introducing Optima 1 , a cleverly designed charcoal barbecue from Garden Life . |
| 30 | Youth and pop music now occupied centre stage in society — to a degree that is now inconceivable . |