Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of this , it examines trade-union policies and strategies formulated towards training and retraining programmes . |
| 2 | It is the provisional position of the female subject who is still dependent on discourses developed by men and saturated with their prejudices . |
| 3 | The rules developed in taxation and rating cases could not be applied more generally . |
| 4 | Physical exercise also has the capacity to be used to attempt to control emotional feelings , to work off the calories consumed in food and to control body size . |
| 5 | Above all , leaving the house up on its pier blocks which , a year before , Bob Shephard had supplemented with bell-shaped concrete piers filled with revar and crowned with metal ties holding the house down . |
| 6 | Pomeshchiks on small and medium-sized estates resented the privileges enjoyed by monasteries and looked hungrily at their lands , while the swelling needs of the Treasury drew the Tsar 's attention to the resources of the Church . |
| 7 | Branches cracked from trees and plunged into the turbulent waters behind Tallis , who clutched her cloak and cowl , holding them tightly against the tearing wind . |
| 8 | In addition , I have put the matter on the agenda for the Ministers of the Interior of our partners in Europe , because I want a European standard with tighter security applying to all cars made in Europe and sold in this country . |
| 9 | He was , however , unhappy with remedies prepared from bacteria and felt that there must be plant alternatives to these which would be purer and more generally acceptable . |
| 10 | The Commission also confirmed that there would be no repeat of the row , earlier this year , over the local content of Nissan cars built in Britain and exported to the rest of Europe . |
| 11 | For example , the Police National Computer ( PNC ) has a Suspect and Stolen Vehicles file which lists cars seen at demonstrations or owned by people who the police simply wish to keep an eye on , as well as vehicles suspected of being stolen or belonging to criminals ( Manwaring-White , 1983:58–9 ) . |
| 12 | De Sede states that Sauniere came across ciphers written on parchment and concealed in a hollow , Visigothic altar pillar , whilst renovating the church at Rennes-le-Chateaux . |
| 13 | Unemployment benefit would be reduced , and savings made on pensions and housing support . |
| 14 | It is obvious how close these are to the characteristics attributed to speech and to print , respectively . |
| 15 | Lesk [ 1988 ] described dictionary-based techniques for determining the senses of words used in text and choosing the most appropriate one according to the sentential context . |
| 16 | The fellow 's eyes shifted to right and left . |
| 17 | The clerk heard voices raised in French and knew that Lady Yolande was protesting loudly at having to meet him . |
| 18 | To demonstrate that learning and memory retention can be improved in animals injected with peptides and tested under highly contrived laboratory conditions is very different from showing that human memory can be helped by popping a pill . |
| 19 | John arrived first in Australia in 1791 , aged 18 , as a lowly and poorly paid Ensign in the New South Wales Corps , an ill-disciplined and motley band of renegades raised in Britain and sent out chiefly to police the penal colonies . |
| 20 | The shop was bare , the books packed in boxes or sent away . |
| 21 | Words spoken in parliament and reported in Hansard , the official record , are privileged — that is they are immune from legal action . |
| 22 | She kept her eyes fixed on Silvia and smiled a mock-stern smile . |
| 23 | No pin-ups , just pictures cut from magazines and stuck up on the wall in a kind of patchwork : pictures of lambs and cats and small puppies with ribbons round their necks , country cottages and the tropical beaches that went with advertisements for white rum , whose colours could n't possibly be real . |
| 24 | Consumers ' Association inspectors posed as customers and bought ham from 86 shops . |
| 25 | From the church came a dual impulse strengthening this morality : the prevailing teaching on sexual abstention outside of marriage under pain of mortal sin , and the rigorous life of a clergy pledged to chastity and preaching the need for an unmarried laity to practise the same degree and kind of circumspection in sexual matters which the clergy had been taught to impose upon themselves . |
| 26 | Candlesticks filed into pieces and collected in ladies ' stockings had served for canister for a while , but had been swiftly exhausted . |
| 27 | Biddy 's gimlet eyes screwed into Nutty and travelled reflectively to the scowling Nails , nervous little Hoomey and Jazz in his rain-soggy turban , all lined up against the wall . |
| 28 | He went over to an ornate walk-in fireplace surmounted by heraldic animal heads carved in stone and pulled a fraying red cord . |
| 29 | To begin with , a very large number of the objects recovered from archaeological sites had a ritual function , and many of the images carved on sealstones and painted on wall plaster and pottery show religious symbols , rituals , or mythic events . |
| 30 | For the wild at heart , an entire army of animals captured on film and adapted to become a pair of braces . |