Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 2 | Last year it made a FFr10m ( $1.9m ) net profit on sales of FFr175m , and the number of visitors rose by almost a third , to 1.3m . |
| 3 | A gigantic undertaking like the invasion of Europe needed at least a few days of good weather to give it a chance , and we appeared to be settled into a period of wind , rain and low cloud . |
| 4 | In some cases the purchasers of land came from outside the village , as at Leighton Buzzard in Buckinghamshire , where recent arrivals in the manor were able to build up their holdings . |
| 5 | The paintwork was black , the walls covered in silver foil ; each of a line of doorways blazed with about a thousand watts of brilliance and there was a smell of greasepaint and cleansing cream that she had n't encountered since having a couple of bit parts in school plays . |
| 6 | In both cases the information which led to the discovery of wrongdoing came from outside the UK . |
| 7 | The 14-day course of epoetin resulted in only a 9 g/L rise in haemoglobin , illustrating how difficult it is to ‘ override ’ the endogeneous erythropoietin control of red cell production in a non-anaemic individual . |
| 8 | THE North American arm of BMW , the German motor manufacturer , announced yesterday that sales in March rose by nearly a fifth from the same month last year to 5,500 cars . |
| 9 | Sensitisation occurs in damaged tissue and the surrounding area and in areas subserved by either an injured peripheral nerve or an injured part of the central nervous system . |
| 10 | The timing of these changes and the details of the structures adopted varied between the countries comprising the United Kingdom , but ‘ as a service provider , local government in Scotland developed at broadly the same pace as local government in England and Wales ’ ( Page 1983:43 ; cf. foster et al. |
| 11 | They found that a 50% variation in dividends led to only a 0.3% change in the theoretical futures price of the FT-SE 100 index . |
| 12 | The High Court in Dublin adjourned until today an application by the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child for a permanent ban on Irish student union leaders distributing information on abortion facilities in Britain and a related contempt hearing . |
| 13 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 14 | The deal I concluded for Jean-Claude amounted to twice the sum that had been pencilled in . |
| 15 | Their progress through Kent resulted in both a gastronomic and botanic appreciation . |