Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this she did , holding on for support to the iron rail that rimmed the wooden edge of the cart and which helped to keep the rags in place . |
| 2 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 3 | and then they 'll just pick one out of that to go on as part of the calendar . |
| 4 | Work going on as part of the resource management initiative is designed to overcome this problem , and eventually it will produce the information that is lacking . |
| 5 | Summerill is staying on as chairman for the time being . |
| 6 | Detlev Rohwedder created the vacancy when he stayed on as head of the Treuhandanstalt , the state agency dealing with the privatisation of east German businesses . |
| 7 | The dispute marked the latest stage in the political turmoil which had begun on Oct. 9 with Mamaloni 's resignation on as leader of the People 's Alliance Party ( PAP ) , shortly before he was due to face a challenge to his leadership at the ruling party 's annual convention . |
| 8 | Dr Cunningham said : ‘ The important thing is for Neil to stay on as leader of the party and build on the gains we have made in this election . ’ |
| 9 | They finally put it on after pressure from the campaign . |
| 10 | ‘ I have to go out today , ’ Fernando told her when she came down for breakfast on the terrace the next morning . |
| 11 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 12 | Prehistoric and Roman tracks were duly appropriated by drovers from the Highlands , bringing their cattle down for sale in the Lowlands and , when the two nations were at peace , in England . |
| 13 | I felt totally drawn into the piece as I recognised struggled I 've had with my own mother and my feelings of shame , and fear , talking about sex — the terrible silence that develops which no one attempts to break down for fear of the pain ‘ that ‘ conversation would bring ’ . |
| 14 | The day began like any other , except that the bells of St James 's Church seemed to peal with more exhilaration than they ever did on a Sunday , and Sarah pictured the ringers jumping up and down for joy at the ends of their stout ropes . |
| 15 | There is nobody jumping up and down for joy at the news , and morale , which has been comatose , now has a sense of mortality hanging over it . |
| 16 | On Nov. 25 Maria Rauch-Kallat , 43 , was sworn in as Minister of the Environment , Youth and Family Affairs . |
| 17 | While the general principles of project management are much the same in the two cases , a number of important aspects that are implicit in the first case , in that they are built in as part of the company procedures , must be made explicit in the second . |
| 18 | Most off the shelf PCs these days come equipped with a graphics controller card which is either a card fitted into a vacant expansion slot or built in as part of the motherboard . |
| 19 | After two successful seasons under Tommy Kiernan , Willie-John McBride was brought in as coach at the beginning of the 1983–84 season . |
| 20 | I pay tribute to the work , energy and effort that David Houghton puts in as chairman of the TEC . |
| 21 | All these and other problems will come in as feedback from the marketing and other departments . |
| 22 | Ron Carey was sworn in as president of the Teamsters union ( International Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and Helpers of America ) on Feb. 1 , in a move which marked the culmination of a process of reform which appeared to have transformed one of the most notoriously corrupt of US trade unions . |
| 23 | Yeltsin was sworn in as President of the RFSFR on 10 July . |
| 24 | Gen. Fidel Ramos , the candidate of the Lakas ng Edsa-National Union of Christian Democrats ( Lakas-NUCD ) coalition and the preferred choice of outgoing President Corazon Aquino , was sworn in as President of the Philippines on June 30 . |
| 25 | José Cespedes Zarza was sworn in as Commander of the Air Force on Nov. 20 in succession to Gen. Dionisio Cabello , who was reported to be under arrest for refusing to hand over his post . |
| 26 | Duhalde had tendered his resignation with effect from Dec. 11 , when he was to be sworn in as Governor of the province of Buenos Aires , a post which he had won in the Sept. 8 elections [ see p. 38434 ] . |
| 27 | • For a baby , use two fingers to press down between ½–1in in the middle of the breastbone , and let it rise again . |
| 28 | The directive had subsequently been sharply criticized by the parliamentary ombudsman , and the government eventually rescinded it , but Ninn-Hansen had refused to step down as Speaker over the issue . |
| 29 | Mark Radcliffe , a former TI director who recently stepped down as head of the CBI 's national manufacturing council , adds : ‘ The balance of trade must be a measure of success and competitiveness . |
| 30 | On June 23 , the leaders of four of the newly legalized parties — the Front populaire ivoirien , the Union des sociaux démocrates , the Parti ivoirien des travailleurs and Parti socialiste ivoirien , formally called for the President to step down as head of the PDCI and for the resignation of the government and its replacement with a transitional administration . |