Example sentences of "[vb past] an [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These changes essentially affected only the production strand of the course as editorial staff retained an element of scepticism about the evolution of SGML ( and ASPIC ) and its significance for copy-editors , preferring to inform students of its existence rather than include it within working practice . |
| 2 | During a visit to Bucharest on Jan. 6-7 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze promised an increase in deliveries of Soviet oil and gas to help the country through the winter . |
| 3 | She promised an injection of cash into the economy to kick-start the building industry . |
| 4 | She promised an injection of cash into the economy to kickstart the building industry . |
| 5 | It found an increase of symptoms of sewage pollution among the 455 children who had swum in the sea . |
| 6 | But , in one case , we found an increase in premiums of a staggering 78pc — that 's 55 times the rate of inflation . ’ |
| 7 | Leishman found an inch of space on the edge of the area and chipped his volley delightfully over the advancing ‘ keeper . |
| 8 | Despite the clinical impression that balanitis is common in young boys , the only detailed study of this condition reported an incidence of 4% in all boys aged up to 14 . |
| 9 | In a survey of more than 200 port operators ( which collectively account for over 70 per cent of all UK traffic movement ) 59 per cent of respondents reported an increase in competition since July 1989 ( 1 ) . |
| 10 | The rising created an atmosphere of disorder in which those with grievances felt free to take violent action against their enemies . |
| 11 | The use of a ‘ twinkle ’ facility created an impression of movement in some sequences . |
| 12 | More than this , the recent changes in the economy have brought into question the received notion of manufacturing as the ‘ motor ’ of economic growth and created an upsurge of interest around the role of services in the economy . |
| 13 | The age of organ-building goes back at least to Louis the Pious , for whom a Venetian priest called George built an organ at Aachen in 826 , and it is reflected in the lively illustrations of organs in the Utrecht Psalter , a Reims manuscript of about 830 . |
| 14 | It appears to have included means of determining the positions of the sun and moon in the zodiac , and it involved an assembly of wheels with fixed gear-ratios for the mechanization of the Metonic cycle , in which 19 solar years correspond to 235 lunar months ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
| 15 | Six days ago his Schools Minister , Eric Forth , had praised the record pass rate and triggered an orgy of self-congratulation about RISING standards . |
| 16 | We recently visited an inspector of taxes with a client . |
| 17 | To start with , nobody seems to have seen the original cylinder , which was supposed to have been recorded when Wilde visited an exhibition in Paris in the year 1900 . |
| 18 | This work of art provided an analogy for works of nature such as gold . |
| 19 | On 21 September 1982 Mr. Dennis committed an act of bankruptcy by failing to comply with the requirements of a bankruptcy notice . |
| 20 | Now , as the cries of the spectators rose to a crescendo , they were joined by the familiar stomach-turning howl of the charging sepoys , which added an undertow of dread to the Collector 's pleasure . |
| 21 | In 1988 , the Commission found that the Net Book Agreement infringed Art 85(1) , and rejected an application for exemption under Art 85(3) . |
| 22 | Bill Pedler won some impressive professional competitions in the South of England and Dorothy Campbell , the Ladies ' Champion of Great Britain , France and Canada played an Exhibition at Henley to the great delight of the members . |
| 23 | Yet on the other hand surviving evidence tends to vindicate Richard Padley 's accusation , in the Fabian survey of evacuation , that Whitehall used the decentralised local government system to shirk its responsibilities ; the Ministry of Health and Board of Education , he maintained , doled out ‘ platitudinous ’ advice via circulars and adopted an attitude of complacency over the possibility of medical problems among evacuee children , such as malnutrition , head lice , impetigo , etc . |
| 24 | While Wordsworth later adopted an attitude of hostility to tourists — he fought the coming of the railways in the 1840s tooth and nail — there is no doubt that he aided and abetted their holiday plans . |
| 25 | Early in this chapter it was pointed out that at the beginning of the century British governments adopted an approach of relief of unemployment that largely ruled out the creation of specific employment opportunities . |
| 26 | He encouraged movement , vigour , and a sense of character in her birds ; he instilled an idea of composition in which the subject related to its background , instead of perching in mid-air like a cardboard cut-out . |
| 27 | Then came an offer of land in the swampy jungle area 40 miles to the east of Calcutta , known as the Sandurbans . |
| 28 | Winter then suffered an attack of cramp in the jockeys ' changing room and had to be assisted in preparing for the ride on Mandarin . |
| 29 | In Target Home Loans v Clothier [ 1992 ] , The Times , 7 August , the Court of Appeal delayed an order for possession by the lenders for three months to allow the borrowers to sell the mortgaged property . |
| 30 | So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped … |