Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet were we taught about Crapper at school ? |
| 2 | And three quarters want to be taught about relationships as part of their sex education too . |
| 3 | Those who eschewed colour and decoration , like Spurgeon , and built what were really mammoth meeting-houses with a Greek front , were criticized for lack of taste and for concentrating too much on the preacher . |
| 4 | The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography . |
| 5 | In central and eastern Europe remedial measures must be taken to clear up environmental problems developed through years of neglect . |
| 6 | The card has been developed through co-operation between Bank of Scotland and the University 's Development Office . |
| 7 | The rain had not stopped for days on end . |
| 8 | There was a heap of sales catalogues from all over the world to be sifted through , magazines to be trawled for items of interest … |
| 9 | A bank of video monitors cunningly disguised as sacks of cargo show films of interviews with living Indians , maps of the regions covered and other backup material . |
| 10 | The coal torpedoes had a powder charge inside a hollow cast iron block that was disguised as coal with tar and coal dust . |
| 11 | There were no tanks , no Fifth Columnists disguised as Sisters of Charity . |
| 12 | ‘ It is not necessary to suggest that there will be conscious unfairness ; but it is , I submit , possible that such judges will , particularly in cases where the liberty of the subject is concerned , find themselves unconsciously biased through over-appreciation of executive difficulty … |
| 13 | The canteen ran in this form , with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960 , when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift . |
| 14 | There are three bedrooms for visitors all with private bathrooms and individual character — one has an iron-framed antique rose-painted four-poster bed with lace hangings and a Victorian screen , another has oak beams and a closet ( now a shower ) where priests are reputed to have hidden during times of persecution . |
| 15 | Reactive oxygen species have been implicated as mediators of inflammation in ulcerative colitis . |
| 16 | Its meaning has begun to leak away through indiscriminate extensions beyond its original significance , extensions to cases which would normally be distinguished as cases of non-violence . |
| 17 | These included Donald Kalpokas , the VP 's general secretary , who was sacked as Minister of Education and Foreign Affairs , together with Home Affairs Minister Iolu Abbil , Lands Minister William Mahit and Trade Minister Harold Qualao . |
| 18 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 19 | The sheet explains what an NMT is ; what arrangements apply when supplying an NMT to a person not registered for VAT for removal to another EC country ; what happens if a new vehicle is to be used on UK roads before it is removed to another EC country ; and what to do if obtaining an NMT in the UK for removal to another EC country . |
| 20 | A distinctive feature of the Downs are the coombes or dry valleys formed through erosion by water derived from the thawing of frozen land at the time of the last Ice Age . |
| 21 | ARRANGED for £96,000 of union cash to be paid into his pension pot to give him inflation-proofing and a two-thirds pension on his final £55,000 salary . |
| 22 | XXVIII PRESBYTERY OF ISLAY BOWMORE After the Disruption in 1843 , occasional services were arranged for Bowmore in connection with Killarrow . |
| 23 | The package itself should be carefully examined for change during storage , e.g. , stress-cracking of plastic tubes , blistering and/or detachment of internal lacquer on cans and tubes , blockage of spray valves , etc. , and label adhesion . |
| 24 | Such a model is central to the management of air quality in order that alternative regulations of emissions can be examined for compliance with air quality standards . |
| 25 | For connoisseurs of drawings , sheets are the things you find pressed between mats at art dealers ' shops . |
| 26 | Atiyah , op. cit. ( pp. 34–38 ) , referring to the bills of exchange position before the 1882 Act , to ‘ golden handshake ’ transactions and forbearance to sue , and the one-time ability to enforce a promise to pay a statute-barred debt ( abolished by the Limitation Acts ) and to enforce a promise to carry out a promise given for consideration during infancy ( abolished by the Infants Relief Act 1874 ) argues that ‘ … the rule about past consideration is too broadly stated . |
| 27 | Albert Tarr , who was unmarried and lived with his widowed mother at the tiny Devon village of East Anstey , was subsequently posthumously awarded the Carnegie Bronze Medal — at that time before the introduction of the George Medal , one of the highest possible civilian awards that could be given for acts of heroism and bravery . |
| 28 | Weighting is given for differences in age and , possibly , at sixth-form level , for different subjects . |
| 29 | No indemnity will be given for loss of cash , bank currency and so on listed in Clause 11(c) — a substantial limitation of liability . |
| 30 | For example , assistance might be given for diversification into tourism , to which Northumberland is ideally suited , as tourism is dispersed , small-scale , labour-intensive industry . |