Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Center for Media and Values is best known for its quarterly magazine Media & Values , which has received support from WACC in past years . |
| 2 | The Sikorsky which had flown Hauser from Helsinki to the isolated rendezvous in the Finnish woods stood inside the clearing , its rotors motionless . |
| 3 | Situated west of Carlisle on the shores of the Solway Firth , Silloth boasts superb views of the Lake District on one side , Scotland on the other . |
| 4 | ‘ I was given sanctuary in England in return for information about the Luciferi . ’ |
| 5 | Question 12 Should the Council normally exercise its discretion not to make a grant from the compensation fund where the application has already received payment from SIF to the full extent of 1 million ? |
| 6 | Here , on a little promontory , is the village school , surely the most beautifully situated building in Britain for learning the three Rs . |
| 7 | What was witnessed by British troops , however , was the initial treatment by Tito 's partisans of the Croats surrendered around Bleiburg , including many civilians who were marched north-east through Austria towards the Yugoslav frontier near Lavamund . |
| 8 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 9 | Across the region hundreds of farmers are counting the cost of the downpours … harvesting is currently an impossibility , but there 's still plenty to keep them busy … like rescuing stranded livestock … marooned in newly formed lakes near Thame in Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | The Habitat store chain was yesterday fined £8,800 at Basingstoke for overcharging . |
| 11 | These included estates in Northamptonshire of Sir Christopher Hatton [ q.v. ] , and lands of City institutions such as St Bartholomew 's Hospital , Christ 's Hospital ( of which he was a governor from 1603/4 to his death ) , and the Brewers ' , Clothworkers ' , and Leathersellers ' Companies . |
| 12 | The question of a separate European defence identity had also dominated meetings in Paris on May 27 between Cheney and senior French officials . |
| 13 | Only a day earlier , another pro-Palestinian group calling itself the ‘ soldiers of justice ’ - believed to be from Abu Nidal 's organisation — had claimed responsibility in Beirut for the murder of the Belgian Jewish leader , Joseph Wybron . |
| 14 | RECALLED England paceman Neil Foster has been fined £250 by Essex for his ‘ Mr Angry ’ outburst against Lancashire . |
| 15 | We have mixed expectations in Britain about the responsibilities of family life and parenting . |
| 16 | Except , of course , she could never — ever — tell them what that folly had led to — even if , looking back , she could now honestly say that she had done nothing to provoke it , that she could have expected anger from Havvie at her changing her mind , but never that he would do as he did . |
| 17 | Morocco had severed relations with India in October 1985 , following the latter 's recognition of Western Sahara as the SADR ( see pp. 34203-04 ) . |
| 18 | The UK had severed relations with Syria in October 1986 , declaring that it had " conclusive evidence " of Syrian involvement in the attempted destruction of an Israeli airliner flying from the UK to Israel [ see p. 34722 ] . |
| 19 | Caesars Hotel Casino in Atlantic City was fined $250,000 on Wednesday for removing black women from a dice table for a high-stakes gambler who wanted to gamble only with white , male dealers . |
| 20 | Caesars Hotel Casino in Atlantic City was fined $250,000 on Wednesday for removing black women from a dice table for a high-stakes gambler who wanted to gamble only with white , male dealers . |
| 21 | The IMF had frozen co-operation with Poland during 1991 because the government had exceeded the agreed limits on inflation and the budget deficit [ see p . |
| 22 | Allan Lamb , the England vice-captain presently on duty in India , has been reappointed captain of Northamptonshire for 1990 . |
| 23 | On a brighter note for Hibs — this was the Easter Road side 's first point in three matches — 20-year-old Steven Tweed , playing only his second game for the club , produced a solid performance alongside the impressive Gordon Hunter in the centre of the defence , while another youngster , 22-year-old David Farrell , also earned praise from Miller for succeeding in keeping the evergreen Davie Cooper relatively quiet . |
| 24 | The pre-occupations which have dominated debates at Westminster for so long no longer make sense . |
| 25 | If Nicholson had strolled down Sunset Strip , he would have caught sight of Dean at Googies or one of the other coffee joints where Dean would meet with Natalie Wood and Dennis Hopper . |
| 26 | The administrative officer of ‘ A ’ Squadron , Lieut John Todd , in a letter written towards the end of July , told me that Leslie 's aircraft was one of several which had dropped men in France on 17 June , and that the other planes had accomplished their mission successfully and had returned safely to base . |
| 27 | It was reported , for instance , that of the nationally mixed marriages in Turkmenia from the 1920s to the 1970s , not a single one had been between a Turkmen girl and a Russian man . |
| 28 | General Winter may have repelled invaders from Napoleon to Hitler , but he is a domestic tyrant from whom successive regimes have sought to escape by pushing south to more friendly climes and warm-water ports . |
| 29 | Perhaps Philippa or the femininity of her chamber had reminded Cranston of Maude for the coroner suddenly became bellicose with the girl . |
| 30 | Despite appearing to be dumping on IBM Corp from a great height with its agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc — it points out users can move CICS off the mainframe and that mainframe upgrades can cost up to five times the price of an entire Sparccenter 2000 , Micro Focus Plc was yesterday also able to announce that it has won agreement with IBM for an expansion of their long-term relationship in MVS emulation products . |