Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [conj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The association 's president , Angus Meldrum , said that beer drinkers in this country already paid about 35p more in excise duty and value added tax than in France . |
| 2 | The association 's president , Angus Meldrum , said that beer drinkers in this country already paid about 35p more in excise duty and value added tax than in France . |
| 3 | In return for the abolition of export taxes , the CRA and the SRA , representing large- and medium-sized farms , would seek to persuade their members to stop evasion of value added tax and of property and incomes taxes , as well as to raise productivity . |
| 4 | Controversy initially surrounded Gates because of suspicions of his complicity , while he was CIA deputy director of intelligence ( 1984-86 ) and then deputy director ( 1986-89 ) , in the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages deal [ see p. 38327 ] . |
| 5 | The legend of the ‘ Royal Quaker ’ was lent credence because of James 's friendship with William Penn [ q.v. ] and his generosity to Quakers . |
| 6 | All titles are priced £59.95+VAT except for Dinosaurs which is cheaper at £39.95+VAT . |
| 7 | These include misspellings and mis-recognitions either due to badly written words or to idiosyncrasies of the pattern recogniser . |
| 8 | Spock 's father dies , Spock seems to have turned traitor but in fact he 's on a personal peace mission to unite Romulans and Vulcans ( basically the same race ) . |
| 9 | If cargo has suffered damages while in transit or in custody awaiting transit , Anglo-American law usually decides liability after determining the identity of the carrier . |
| 10 | Other authors have recently cultured sarcoid skin lesions and grown mycobacteria that on sequencing appear to be M avium spp . |
| 11 | It was an insignificant point in its way , for Harry knew from Marjorie Mallender that Clare had met Minter whilst at Oxford — he must simply have been at another college — yet somehow his faith in his own reasoning was undermined . |
| 12 | In North Yorkshire all the wives had already attended courses whilst in Wester Ross and Orkney the majority of wives had yet to attend a course . |
| 13 | Earlier , Kozyrev had visited Turkey and on Feb. 4 initialled a friendship and co-operation agreement with the Turkish Foreign Minister , Hikmet Cetin . |
| 14 | If an individual claims to have suffered injustice because of maladministration by a local authority , the Commissioner for Local Administration may investigate the complaint on his behalf . |
| 15 | An avenue open to persons aggrieved , who feel they have suffered injustice because of maladministration is to ask for their complaints to be looked into by either the Local Commissioner or the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration . |
| 16 | Well you know , flowers and vegetables are all very well for the grown ups but for children , not so good . |
| 17 | We ca n't get them done John cos of cable television . |
| 18 | Police injuries , 243 in August 1977 ( according to Merlyn Rees , Home Secretary ) , continually made headlines but in fact about three times as many pickets were injured . |
| 19 | Workers in several regions had threatened strikes because of non-payment of wages . |
| 20 | UTU also warned that the imminent merger of the Exams and Assessment and Curriculum councils must not be ‘ a cosmetic exercise ’ and teachers unions should be given places as of right on the new body . |
| 21 | At the two week obligatory endoscopy , 1887 ( 98.1% ) of the 1923 patients had taken their medication regularly , 29 ( 1.5% ) had taken their medication irregularly , one had stopped medication because of side effects , and information was lacking for the remaining six ( 0.3% ) patients . |
| 22 | There was a frequently reiterated belief that for Tanganyika to be understood properly in the international community it needed to have a strong English language press in which TANU policies would be stated clearly . |
| 23 | The figures that we 've produced show that on balance er it it 's about a neutral effect on Road er through the residential area because of this er reductions due to traffic going out to join the relief road rather than joining the A sixty one . |
| 24 | Most green manures can be sown broadcast or in rows . |
| 25 | In Rosyth , eight miles away , the game was called bebs and in Kirkcaldy , another 15 miles on , the game was poldie beds . |
| 26 | They belonged to Lavender , a small boy called Nigel and to Matilda . |
| 27 | Research on diagenetic fabrics supplements information from field/core based work and from studies of depositional fabrics . |
| 28 | More people claim to know more about a condition called gonaditis than about chlamydia — despite the fact that gonaditis does n't actually exist . |
| 29 | Yet the revenue maintains that it was under no legal obligation to repay the wrongly extracted tax and in consequence is not liable to pay interest on the sum held by it between the date it received the money and the date of the order of Nolan J. If the revenue is right , it will be enriched by the interest on money to which it had no right during that period . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , in America in 1945 an author called Lawrence Treat , who had half-a-dozen crime books already under his belt , produced one called V as in Victim , which did much what The Lonely Magdalen had done . |