Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students from all over the world have gathered for a unique championships . |
| 2 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 3 | Compact can be regarded as an equal opportunities initiative . |
| 4 | The professional officers , particularly when organised through a chief officers ' team , as advocated by the Bains Committee , and led by a chief executive officer can provide a formidable obstacle to councillors intent on policy innovation that goes against conventional assumptions . |
| 5 | The monitor is a standard 14-inch VGA , but the Elite 1000 was n't designed as a serious Windows machine . |
| 6 | This change was recommended in a recent Customs Foreign Business Review on future developments for international trade in the UK . |
| 7 | We are confirmed in this belief by a passage contained in a Judicial Studies Board paper issued to Circuit Judges and Recorders in June 1991 where the Honourable Mr Justice Wright stated : It is impossible to over-rate the contribution made by Kemp & Kemp : The Quantum of Damages to this branch of the law and every Judge who has to deal with personal injury litigation will undoubtedly have to have access to it . |
| 8 | On Sept. 25 three gendarmes were arrested after 10 detainees had suffocated in an airless police cell the previous week . |
| 9 | He was caught in a massive police hunt launched after the four fled through a hole in a fence around the jail playing field . |
| 10 | They are entitled to do that in a free European democracy , but we are entitled to hold our ground and to argue that we as a nation were never committed to a united states of Europe in 1973 , that we are not committed to it now and that we do not intend to pre-empt that decision . |
| 11 | That is why the Government are committed to an expanded roads programme and continuing major investment in our transport infrastructure . |
| 12 | Added to a National Rivers Authority grant of £100,000 , it 's enabled 3 weirs to be restored . |
| 13 | But as anyone who has sat on an equal opportunities working party will tell you , it is one thing to formulate policies and quite another to implement them . |
| 14 | With primers described by Jiang et al and synthesised on an Applied Biosystems DNA synthesiser a 157 bp fragment of the K-ras gene was amplified containing codon 12 . |
| 15 | More than 200 residents were evacuated to a nearby police station . |
| 16 | If the day had been wet , the kitchen range would be surrounded by a huge clothes horse hung with wet washing , and the room would smell of steam and drying clothes . |
| 17 | Pointon had been caught by a late Giggs tackle just before , and the referee decided that a strong word with the young Welshman , who had given United the lead with a goal worthy of crowning champions , was sufficient . |
| 18 | There is no excuse for being caught by a marked police vehicle — but there 's not much you can do about unmarked cars or cameras . |
| 19 | Biological breakdown of nitrate in freshwater and marine aquaria can also be harnessed by a special systems like the Nitrex Box |
| 20 | So the flexibility of the model makes it the easiest to apply , but the assumption that Nottingham has grown as a Multiple nuclei model may be incorrect . |
| 21 | Rhodesian-born Reynolds had operated as a financial services tied agent for Guardian Royal Exchange until February 1991 . |
| 22 | Plans are being prepared for a new communications network which would enable rapid and cost-effective exchanges of information between the police national computer and forces , and between police forces themselves . |
| 23 | Muradov said that the council should be seen as a traditional Turkmen institution . |
| 24 | Citation is here an act of revenge against what is seen as a liberal apologetics for black crime . |
| 25 | There is some suggestion of violence on the part of the mother 's current and very , so far , short-lived relationship with the man she is now with and , if that is so — and one has to accept , for the purposes of this application , the untested evidence of the father — it would not be in the interests of these children for the original order to be made after an inter partes hearing . |
| 26 | Indeed , societies have traditionally operated with a liquid assets ratio in the range of 15–20 per cent . |
| 27 | He said that some time ago the POWs fund was merged with a general purposes benefit fund for all old comrades of the regiment , but that POWs were given priority in any benefit payouts . |
| 28 | There were on each circuit panels of barristers prepared to advise and act on behalf of any barrister threatened with a wasted costs order . |
| 29 | A solicitor threatened with a wasted costs order must always be given an opportunity to make representations before an order is made . |
| 30 | If ever an industry suffered from an industrial relations voodoo , that was it . |