Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 61 | There were so many mourners at the funeral that some had to stand at the back and listen to the service relayed by loudspeakers . |
| 62 | The steering committee which made the late changes to the report consisted of representatives from the European Commission , the lead additives companies Associated octel , Ethyl and SIAC , the International Lead and Zinc Research organisation , Agip Petrol and the United States ' Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 63 | Whether an obviously biased intervention by a board member and the introduction of new material by an objector , which had not been previously intimated to the applicant amounted to breaches of natural justice was considered in Tennent Caledonian Breweries Ltd. v. City of Aberdeen District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 2 . |
| 64 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 65 | and the juice on the blade pearled into droplets like |
| 66 | The air was pungent with spices ; the linoleum on the floor peeped through offcuts of burgundy carpet . |
| 67 | The fog-horn on the lighthouse moaned at intervals , a surpassingly dismal sound like a cow in labour . |
| 68 | The bank 's ethics code prevented it cashing in on the bonanza reaped by others from the pound 's departure from the European exchange rate mechanism last September . |
| 69 | The economies made on collective consumption and their effects on the family ranged from cutbacks on savings , which had little immediate impact but rocked their sense of security , to cutbacks on essentials like food , which signalled hard-hitting poverty . |
| 70 | What they found was that the river bottom invertebrates which spend their larval stages among the gravel and pebbles on the riverbed plummeted in numbers immediately after the inundation . |
| 71 | The DHSS/SSRC initiative , which at the outset looked for explanations of deprivation within families , ended by acknowledging the importance of structural factors . |
| 72 | Dioxins caused by the explosion clung to particles that settled over surrounding countryside . |