Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , however , the politician 's ability , if well connected in London , to secure pardon for gentlemen implicated in Jacobite plotting , but who were not obvious leaders which proved a valuable management tool . |
| 2 | She said problems for parents came in all shapes and sizes , adding that perhaps too many of them emanated from ‘ that flickering box in the corner of the living room ’ . |
| 3 | It had often proven to be a disastrous , or at best weakening , influence upon the stability of the realm , as the inevitable feuds between factions arose from such divisions . |
| 4 | THOUSANDS of Namibians stood in long queues , stretching nearly a mile in some cases , as they waited to vote on the first day of Namibia 's five-day pre-independence election yesterday . |
| 5 | At the same time it should be noted that while 14% of authorities fell into this group , 26% of the total sample had establishments of less than 100 , so that not all small libraries found this an insurmountable problem . |
| 6 | About half of all firms of solicitors fell within this profile , while about one in six firms have five or more partners ( Benson Commission , 1979 , vol. 2 , Section 16 ) . |
| 7 | In particular the calculus of operations became in English preserve [ 96 ] . |
| 8 | The lists of possessions bequeathed in aristocratic wills — horses , hunting-dogs and hawks , swords and daggers , belts and baldrics , body-armour , spurs , cloaks and furs , bracelets and rings , drinking-cups and silver dishes — allow a glimpse of this world we have lost . |
| 9 | The zig-zag stripes of trench-systems lay on either side like the skin shed by a massive snake . |
| 10 | The relative lack of council housing has made this system more important : in 1948 34 per cent of farmworkers lived in tied housing , but by 1976 this figure had increased to 53 per cent . |
| 11 | Section 1 of the 1944 Act gave tremendous responsibilities to the Minister : ‘ It shall be the duty of the Minister of Education to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose , and to secure the effective execution by Local Authorities , under his control and direction , of national policy for providing a comprehensive educational service in every area . ’ |
| 12 | It shall be lawful for his Majesty to appoint a Minister whose duty it shall be to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose and to secure the effective execution by the local authorities , under his control and direction , of the national policy for providing a varied and comprehensive educational service in every area . |
| 13 | According to the 1944 Education Act the Secretary of State has a duty to ‘ promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose … ’ , although effective control was , at the time of the Tyndale dispute , devolved to the LEAs . |
| 14 | In the previous year only 53% of buyouts came from corporate restructuring . |
| 15 | He descended the nearest flight of steps to where bushes of peonies grew in untidy profusion , their blossoms well past their prime yet still magnificent . |
| 16 | A torrent of words came in ready reply . |
| 17 | The long-term problem of the railways and the failure of earlier strategies to stem the tide of losses led to political awareness of the need for permanent state support and to steps , earlier in Britain than in Spain , to formalize the financial relationship between railways and the state . |
| 18 | No evidence of huge deposits has come to light despite the Swiss authorities recent willingness to assist foreign governments in pursuit of funds embezzled by fallen dictators . |
| 19 | Centrally planned production targets required that 2 million hectares be set aside for cotton production each year , with no provision for crop rotation to allow natural pest control ; the resulting heavy use of pesticides led to severe problems with soil-borne disease . |
| 20 | The group of proteins encoded by these transcripts includes the three described glial growth factors ( ref. 22 , and A.D.J.G. et al. , manuscript submitted ) and several proteins ( heregulins and Neu differentiation factor ) that have various activities on cultured breast tumour cells . |
| 21 | Different sorts of supporters reacted in different ways . |
| 22 | Now go uptown to the heights of Lansdown where there 's another clutch of shops devoted to decorative antiques . |
| 23 | In 1846 he joined the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society , of which he was president for eighteen years , and immediately came to public attention as principal signer of a set of ‘ resolutions and a memorial [ to MPs ] adopted at a meeting of gentlemen deputed from various parts of the United Kingdom to represent the sentiments of the inhabitants in their respective districts , on the subject of colonial slavery ’ . |
| 24 | Thirty pairs of eyes stared with unwavering concentration as I dipped my hand into the all-too-familiar breakfast of slightly sour rice and salted fish . |
| 25 | The Bavarian Prime Minister 's recommendation appeared on the publicity pamphlet below excerpts from a similarly glowing review by the ultra-Right wing newspaper Deutsche Nationale Zeitung , which tries to boost its fringe circulation by challenging what it calls the ‘ Auschwitz lie ’ that millions of Jews died in Nazi extermination camps . |
| 26 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 27 | A splatter of sparks fell like miniature stars , the light flickered for a fraction of a second , hissed venomously and then splat again into darkness and silence . |
| 28 | Although there are differences between them , each addresses in its own way the range of concerns sketched in this Introduction . |
| 29 | This list of companies ranged from local miners to multinational giants . |
| 30 | His Superintendent asked for a priest to go to the island of Molokai where a colony of lepers lived in appalling conditions . |