Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1773 a London eccentric , James Cox , a goldsmith with premises off Fleet Street , was given permission by an Act of Parliament to disperse a collection of curiosities which formed a small museum he ran . |
| 2 | The key point remains , however : research is seldom driven by curricular considerations , but is normally given direction by an interest structure based on academic careers and the public use of knowledge . |
| 3 | This humiliation has given rise to an array of bitter jokes , reversing the official slogans from the Maoist past . |
| 4 | Responsibility was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) , which had also claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 [ see pp. 37265-66 ] , and which in late October had been declared illegal in Israel and the occupied territories . |
| 5 | On April 3 the People 's Revolutionary Struggle ( ELA ) and the May 1 group jointly claimed responsibility for an explosion outside UN offices and for placing bombs under European diplomats ' cars . |
| 6 | Both groups had claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on Antonio Rios , former president of the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela ( CTV ) and a leading member of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , who had recently resigned from his post to face trial on charges of influence peddling . |
| 7 | And he said it was difficult for the jury to isolate the narrow questions that they were going to have to decide , which is whether these officers had er fabricated notes of an interview with one of the Birmingham Six , from all the information that they had . |
| 8 | Only five per cent of those who bought for cash said they had even considered credit as an alternative . |
| 9 | On Feb. 25 Soviet Vice-President Gennady Yanayev disclosed that after the start of the land war Gorbachev had telephoned Bush with an appeal to halt the offensive . |
| 10 | The new plan was formulated in consultation with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) which in September 1991 had frozen payments under an April 1991 loan agreement [ see p. 38162 ] . |
| 11 | Claimed possession of an IDO by McAlpines Quarry Products Ltd over 470 acres of this nationally important limestone ridge , was rejected by Dyfed County Council , so the company appealed to the Secretary of State . |
| 12 | Have you considered expansion in an enterprise zone ? |
| 13 | But in 1984 he suffered further humiliation when he was fined £100 for an act of gross indecency with a lorry driver in a public lavatory in Reading . |
| 14 | Never would he have expected encounters with an assault force of Chelonians and the galaxy 's most notorious criminal in the space of a day . |
| 15 | Eddie Heley , Maintenance Fitter , was given £10 for an idea that could reduced wear and save down time on Axminster looms by fitting hardened brushes to the sneck sleeve bracket . |
| 16 | Until 1861 a man could hang for engaging in homosexual relations , and as recently as the early 1970s many doctors still regarded homosexuality as an illness to be treated by electric shock therapy . |
| 17 | At first Tess regarded Angel as an intelligence rather than a man . |
| 18 | In November 1987 Texas Eastern agreed to clean up 89 chemically contaminated sites along an oil pipeline ; the total cost was estimated to exceed $400m . |
| 19 | On April 2 Anania Bartolomeu , a founder member of a study group for the renovation of the Orthodox Church , had reportedly visited Teoctist in an attempt to dissuade him from returning . |
| 20 | One of the earliest was that of Terrace ( 1959 ) who introduced geometric forms into a series of unilaterally presented words in an attempt to prevent the development in his subjects of an exclusively verbal " set " . |
| 21 | Fortunately , we in this Parliament have never seen Maastricht as an end . |
| 22 | A government spokesman refused to comment on the report , but Mr Patten denied that he had presented Beijing with an ultimatum . |
| 23 | And he added , in a voice that would have done credit to an elder of the Wee Frees , ‘ If he is yer brother , then ye 've been committin' incest . |
| 24 | She was granted bail pending an appeal against the sentence . |
| 25 | The war on the Western Front in 1917 — 18 had turned Chesterton into an alcoholic , a condition which he finally controlled in the later 1930s , thanks to the generosity of Mosley who financed his cure at a special clinic in Germany . |
| 26 | Armed with this definition , the director of the centre , Dr Spence Galbraith , and his colleague , Dr Marian McEvoy , have collected information in an attempt to assess accurately the extent to which AIDS has penetrated the population of Britain . |
| 27 | After 1496 Henry resorted to Parliament only once , in 1504 , when he was granted £30,000 as an aid for the knighting of his eldest son — by then dead — and the marriage of his elder daughter . |
| 28 | Tim Roberts , for Mason , said he had suffered mood swings after he had suffered injuries in an accident when a plate of glass fell on the side of his head last year . |
| 29 | The results of the judges ' deliberations will be made public at an awards dinner arranged by SITE on 16 March . |
| 30 | The domestic medicine of the eighteenth century had seen disease as an imbalance of humours , with the body a system of interrelated organs and parts . |