Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun pl] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phillipon told reporters that Quebec and Nova Scotia are not party to the framework since they had broken ranks with a 1991 provinical agreement to disdain unilateral compensation by earlier this year unveiling vastly discrepant compensation programmes . |
| 2 | In response to these complexities , the original notion of the sociolinguistic variable with variants which were assigned values along a single phonetic dimension was considerably modified . |
| 3 | Some uses were not new : Charles 's father Louis the Pious had also minted coins on a large scale and very probably paid cash ( as well as bullion ) for allies and for imported luxuries . |
| 4 | The first of a new family of drugs based on the leech has been developed thanks to a key piece of understanding provided by Huber 's team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany . |
| 5 | Confusion surrounding chlorine and its derivative products is being eased thanks to a new public information service . |
| 6 | This allows just over a year to look out for possible candidates and suitable premises ; with regard to the latter , teachers are asked to look out for centrally situated schools with a good hall and piano , close to mainline travel facilities . |
| 7 | Having sketched Bas as a merry Restoration rake , she had a crack at Sukey . |
| 8 | But in an attempt to dilute a revolt , Taylor has cancelled plans for a fourth match against Canada . |
| 9 | ‘ We believe that our results show conclusively that neutrinos do not undergo oscillation and thus are not mixed states in a quantum-mechanical sense . ’ |
| 10 | DEVELOPERS have dropped plans for a giant business park after fierce protests from villagers . |
| 11 | Not in a great cathedral nor in a doll 's house , not in the tumult of a strange new city nor in the once sanctified words of a tough peasant stalking the sour hills of Judah . |
| 12 | Benetton 's past publicity stunts have included images of a dying Aids sufferer , a victim of a Mafia shooting and a new-born baby with blood and the umbilical cord . |
| 13 | But he does n't acknowledge , and what , this is what I find concerning , the fact that we have in some areas of the county , amalgamated schools into a new school , West Grinstead and Alderbury for example , and taken surplus places out . |
| 14 | Therefore , where the vendor and purchaser are both wholly owned subsidiaries of a third company and the vendor sells assets to the purchaser at an under value , it is suggested that to the extent the value conferred on the purchaser comes out of the vendor 's capital as opposed to distributable profits , then this is treated as an unlawful return of capital by the vendor to the third party holding company . |
| 15 | The cases come weeks after a 12-year-old boy , Gregory Kingsley , ‘ divorced ’ his parents in a court action in Florida . |
| 16 | TWO brothers at Chapelcross both won awards at a recent presentation by the Institution of Measurement & Control . |
| 17 | Since the entries are edited versions of a round-robin pro-forma some of the detail is distinctly idiosyncratic . |
| 18 | Hilton 's powers of analysis have attracted studies in a historical theological context and comparisons of his account of the stages of contemplative life with those formulated by other writers , especially St John of the Cross . |
| 19 | ‘ I would have considered changes for a normal type of League game . |
| 20 | On Feb. 8 the Croatian and Slovene governments disclosed details of a mutual defence pact between the two republics concluded on Jan. 20 . |
| 21 | In November 1642 Ford led a small force of hastily impressed locals on a rapid march to attack Lewes . |
| 22 | For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft . |
| 23 | Meanwhile the Shildon operation , which has 40 per cent of the UK non-aerospace defence market , has secured contracts for a new generation of military vehicles and logistic equipment . |
| 24 | Detailed studies of English science during the period of the puritan domination have also revealed plans for a national agency to supervise technological innovation — plans that had taken shape in the mind of Samuel Hartlib . |
| 25 | The first cohort experienced the formation of comprehensive schools in Scotland , the second their early development and the third had , by and large , attended schools in a settled comprehensive system . |
| 26 | One spokesman initially described the plants as ‘ surplus to requirements ’ , only to be contradicted by another — IBM Europe has made noises about a 12-month period in which the plants have to prove profitability , while others deny that there is any particular timescale . |
| 27 | There is some doubt about Droitwich , where recent excavations have uncovered buildings of a large establishment which is probably part of the salt-extraction industry . |
| 28 | AS the row over Labour 's election broadcast grew it was revealed grandparents of a four-year-old boy paid out £300 for a private ear operation to avoid a six-months wait on the health service . |
| 29 | Met searches for a new drawings curator |
| 30 | ‘ You are so sensible , you have always seen things in a clearer light . ’ |