Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun prp] and [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area between the Tay and Forth experienced less than 10 per cent of normal rainfall . |
| 2 | As Chairman of the CNAA and strongly committed to its activities , Sir Michael Clapham was a consistent advocate of increasing the responsibilities of the institutions it validated . |
| 3 | And in 1961 Britain publicly changed its attitude towards the principle of the EEC and formally applied for membership . |
| 4 | However , the five committed themselves to remaining within the party , Charles , a former deputy leader of the JLP and widely acknowledged to be the leader of the dissident group , in effect mounting a leadership challenge . |
| 5 | Tory supporters also turned against the BMA and angrily disrupted a BMA fringe meeting shortly before the health debate . |
| 6 | Under Article 92 , with certain exceptions , state aids are decreed incompatible with the EC and thereby banned . |
| 7 | The Greek economy , despite a five-year transition period , could not compete equally with the EC and soon faced a massive trade deficit , and the Socialist government in Athens pursued a negative policy towards the EC for several years . |
| 8 | Syse 's own Conservative party ( Hoeyre ) and the other party in his coalition , the Christian People 's Party ( KFP ) , were strongly in favour of closer co-operation with the EC and broadly supported full membership in due course . |
| 9 | Information services were maintained and increased demand from the UK and overseas met in a difficult year . |
| 10 | One of the earliest patent applications for a stunt kite was that filed in December 1928 for H.De Haven in the USA and eventually sold as the ‘ Air-o-bian ’ fighting kite , with claims for ‘ loops dives and climbs . |
| 11 | Students continued to experience severe difficulties in finding practical training opportunities in the UK and increasingly looked abroad for openings . |
| 12 | The University of Bradford Management Centre is one of the largest MBA schools in the UK and highly rated for its research tradition and professional relevance . |
| 13 | The antenna that will pick up the signals is a 12-metre dish built in the US and specially erected at the Rutherford and Appleton Laboratory at Chilton . |
| 14 | The Kenya administration in particular included a number of vigorous reformers , most prominent among them R.W. Hemsted and C.E.V. Buxton — both completely wrapped up in the Masai and both determined to bring them , under British supervision , into the twentieth century . |
| 15 | Produced in the Auvergne and usually ripened for about two months , Gaperon is expensive . |
| 16 | A similar amendment had been introduced in the Commons and quickly voted down by the government . |
| 17 | The gunmen escaped in a red Astra car , hijacked in the Shankill and later found abandoned in Andersonstown . |
| 18 | De Gaulle engineered a majority for himself on the CFLN and promptly objected to Giraud 's claim to combine the functions of Commander-in-Chief with the co-presidency . |
| 19 | Recently he captained Harlequins on the Saturday , flew to South Africa , was voted Man-of-the-Match playing for the South African Barbarians on the Monday and then returned to England for Quins ' league match against Leicester . |
| 20 | The left-wing Colina opposition , dominated by the PRD and previously discredited for its past support of Noriega , gained ground , winning five of the nine vacant seats in the National Assembly [ see p. 37957 ] . |
| 21 | The BBC 's proposed solution was that everything should be handled by the BBC and then licensed back to the publishers . |
| 22 | In his absence , Bel Macrae was befriended by the McGuires and eventually taken into their humble home to live as one of the family . |
| 23 | But then he embarked on his main thesis , which was that the entire Western intelligence system in Britain , France , Germany and America had been deeply penetrated by the KGB and systematically manipulated with clever disinformation put out by Moscow . |