Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wigan coach John Monie admitted : ‘ Everything I had heard about Workington proved to be true . |
| 2 | The long list of townships claimed for disafforestment had in fact remained in the Forest since the beginning of Henry III 's personal rule , and had been acknowledged and treated as such by judges and juries at successive Forest Eyres . |
| 3 | The newly created Department of Cell Biology is committed to the discovery of novel anti-tumour chemotherapeutic agents targeted against proteins encoded by oncogenes . |
| 4 | Or slapped her gently , until a scent that was perfumed with tea sang through the real air to her and she identified one of the sea of aches as thirst . |
| 5 | Pompeian decoration features in ceramics , glass and metal from the 19th century as the public craved objects decorated with designs discovered at the excavations of the ancient Italian city between 1860–1875 . |
| 6 | Slackening her step , she felt hope renewing itself as she strolled along the pavements past tubs of flowering plants interspersed with benches crowded with people resting their tired feet or simply sitting back and enjoying the sunshine while they watched the passers-by . |
| 7 | A few weeks ago , a lady interviewed on television complained about her wait for a hip replacement operation . |
| 8 | No weapon , no footprints , no fingerprints , all the bits of fibre caught on bushes came from the deceased 's clothes . ’ |
| 9 | A much more widespread resurgence has since followed , especially in South-East Asia , so that cases reported to WHO rose from 3–1 million in 1972 to 13–5 in 1980 ( although the latest figures include 3–3 million cases from China , from which no figures were available in 1972 ) . |
| 10 | 13 The lost Arch of Nero at Rome , depicted on coins minted at dome ( top ) and Lyon ( left ) ( the coins from Lyon can be distinguished by the small globe at the point of the emperor 's neck ) . |
| 11 | At that time she was still living in an Alpine town surrounded by mountain-tops silhouetted in the distance . |
| 12 | Tour guides organised by Lyles consisted of Ronnie Gallacher , Eddie Docherty , Ian Morris and Gordon Bowers . |
| 13 | An electrified railway line owned by BRB ran through property open to the public . |
| 14 | Observations reported by Davies quoted in Laws and Dennison ( 1990:275 ) showed that " on average 60% of all activities were less than nine minutes in duration , while only 7% lasted beyond an hour " . |
| 15 | Predictably , this last consequence never followed , so homage succeeded by consecration continued to be the rule , and the practical diminution of royal control over the episcopate was negligible . |
| 16 | Other proposals on political union made during February came from Italy ( envisaging the possibility of joint deployment of EC military forces ) , Belgium ( envisaging a treaty obligation to introduce a common EC industrial policy ) , and Germany ( envisaging a treaty commitment to privatization and radically increased powers for the European Parliament — EP ) . |
| 17 | The system was required under the UK Financial Services Act ( FSA ) to enable an audit trail to be made for trades transacted in London — and hence its use is compulsory for London based secondary market traders who are members of ISMA . |
| 18 | The numbers accepted for settlement fell from 81,000 in 1976 to 70,000 in 1980 and 55,000 in 1985 . |
| 19 | These are the affirmations that were being made as Jesus trotted in Jerusalem with this little donkey , his followers gathered all around him looking from the heights of the walls of Jerusalem , there must have been one or two curious , astonished , worried eyes , the Sanhedrin , the Chief Elders , |
| 20 | A friend he had not seen for ages came into the bar with his wife , and , in the end , the three of them went on somewhere for dinner . |
| 21 | Debussy takes over for the first two of five of the Eight Piano Pieces Op. 15 , of Dirk Schäfer ( 1873–1931 ) — surprisingly , in view of the derisory remarks Schäfer made about Debussy quoted in the notes . |
| 22 | The great thirteenth-century tithe barn , built of stone quarried near the site , was originally the property of Beaulieu Abbey , which was granted the manor of Faringdon by King John . |
| 23 | Comparison is made of DNA eluted from complex and free DNA bands , following cleavage of the DNA backbone by piperidine or NaOH and denaturing gel electrophoresis ( 1 , 2 , 5 ) . |
| 24 | Amongst the early tasks indicated for the Board by the Lord Chancellor was to consider whether the best use was being made of resources devoted to advice and assistance , whether better arrangements might be made by using advice agencies and other organisations , and whether any further exclusions from the green form scheme would be appropriate . |
| 25 | One of the gowns made of dimity appealed to her , the dark blue rib was decorated with small green leaves . |
| 26 | GLENRATH SETTLEMENT Manor Water road off the A72 between Peebles and Lyne leads to a Celtic settlement and field system of lynchets and dykes , with cairns made of stones dug from the earth during cultivation , and fragments of circular houses . |
| 27 | This is the story of how a woman made of iron emerged from the depths of a grocer 's shop in Grantham and , speaking with a strange tongue given to her by the God of Graven Images , Sir Gordon Reece , held a nation under her spell . |
| 28 | For a while their favourite game was wheeling along in a cart Endill had made until Wednesday crashed into a mound of rusty bicycles and hurt his arm . |
| 29 | Actor Bill Waddington , who plays the grumpy pensioner , discovered his new-found status when a letter written in Thai arrived at Granada 's studios in Manchester . |
| 30 | Much of the town is built from stones pillaged from its splendid castle , once the seat of Richard III . |