Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ There is a huge volume of milk sold and consumed in the UK and that is not going to change . |
2 | Speech recognition , on the other hand , as featured in science fiction and typified by the HAL computer in 2001 — A Space Odyssey is unlikely to appear for many years yet , if ever . |
3 | As with so many of Stockman 's ambitions , this one did not come close to full realization ; nevertheless , in the early months of Reagan 's first term , the legislature was repeatedly upstaged and out-manoeuvred by the White House . |
4 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
5 | Any other convenient location may be selected by the Arbitrators and arranged by the HCIMA secretariat . |
6 | At the same time thousands of angry and grieving demonstrators defied the state of emergency and gathered outside the Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet building , where the Presidium President , Elmira Kafarova , issued a statement denouncing the military action and declared three days of national mourning . |
7 | Although Aldo Ciccolini is Neapolitan by birth , he has lived in France since 1949 and taught at the Paris Conservatoire , and has made fine recordings of French piano music including works by Saint-Saëns and Satie . |
8 | In Coronation Park is an original Newcomen ( q.v. ) atmospheric engine , which was brought here in 1963 and erected by the Newcomen Society to mark the tri-centenary of the birth of the ‘ Father of the Steam Engine ’ . |
9 | SICK and wounded victims of the Yugoslav civil war are to be airlifted to Britain and treated on the NHS . |
10 | This consists of primary assessment and simultaneous resuscitation , where all life-threatening conditions are identified and treated in the ABC sequence : Airway , Breathing , Circulation . |
11 | Within the Russian republic the Communists for Democracy movement , led by Rutskoi and formed at the March-April 1991 Russian Congress of People 's Deputies [ for which see pp. 38130-31 ] , announced on July 10 that it was to form a political party . |
12 | The two leaders expressed enthusiasm in developing closer ties between their countries during the 1990s and referred to the Malta summit in December 1989 [ see pp. 37110-12 ] as a turning point in their relations and in the disarmament talks . |
13 | Dr Butler was dropped by the BBC in 1983 , but is this time on Radio 4 and listed in the April 9 TV team . |
14 | We could not wait and joined with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to commission experiments in Canada . |
15 | Again in the same area , but from the canal bank and this time we have none other than Great Western 3440 ‘ City of Truro ’ making its way from York to Didcot and diverted onto the GC on a miserable day in April 1989 . |
16 | During June and July many artists living and working in East and South East London have been opening their studios to the public , coordinated and publicised by the Whitechapel Gallery . |
17 | St Johnstone , sponsored by a local whisky company ‘ The Famous Grouse ’ , and dismissed by the Dundee fans as ‘ grousebeaters ’ , looked on in delight as the big estate along the road fell on hard times . |
18 | I do n't remember maybe I 've got a poor memory but er I ca n't remember you mentioning that the erm area committee but er there was erm going to be another block there and that er , the er this er trust , er Environment Trust had let one of the Northbrooks er and consulted with the Northbrook 's people ? |
19 | After depositing its cargo of arms the plane was loaded up with 25,000 pounds of marijuana and flown to the US Air Force base at Homestead , South Florida . |
20 | But somehow the little orphan survived the ordeal , as she also later survived the farce of being crated up and flown to the Mara game reserve when still only six months old , to be shown to the Pope . |
21 | This was made and erected in March 1831 , and painted by the Shotts Iron Co for £133.10s.0d. ( £133.50 ) . |
22 | A few days later the victorious army entered Addis Ababa and paraded before the Empress Zauditu on Jan Meda , that great open space where Menelik had reviewed his troops . |
23 | In June 1961 the Sunday Dispatch , another middle-ground paper squeezed into unprofitability by competition for sales and advertising revenue , was sold by Lord Rothermere and amalgamated with the Sunday Express . |
24 | In 1989 , the giant Bidston steel mill , in Wirral , was dismantled piece-by-piece and rebuilt as the Zhang Jia Gang municipal steel mill in China 's Jiangsu Province . |
25 | The station at Butterley was demolished but the building today was moved stone by stone from Whitwell in North Derbyshire and rebuilt by the Midland Railway Centre . |
26 | I had sorrowed over the loss of the Hood , on which my father 's brother had been ‘ sparks , ’ and mourned for the Barham and the Ark Royal . |
27 | That battle had been fought and won over the Beveridge report . |
28 | Captain Nisbet , a retired soldier , was well known and respected in the Irvine Valley and beyond . |
29 | NO one can lose in this Summer Raffle to be held on 20 June and organised by the Ipswich Group . |
30 | The meeting , held in Leyburn Methodist church hall and organised by the Wensleydale Rail Association , Wensleydale Environmental Supporters Group and the Council for the Protection of Rural England , drew about 100 people from villages and towns from Hawes to Yarm . |