Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 2 | Although at the time of his discovery Priestley could not have foreseen the use of oxygen in aeronautics as Vital Air for the aeronauts to breathe when the atmosphere became too thin , such use was suggested as early as 1784 . |
| 3 | The return to the gold standard , which implied maintaining the £/; $ parity , severely limited the range of options for dealing with unemployment because significant monetary expansion would have undermined the balance of payments and would therefore be inconsistent with the fixed parity . |
| 4 | However , both units limited the number of in-patients to two at any given time . |
| 5 | ( The pope may have been influenced by the fact that three years earlier the Spanish government had limited the right of asylum in Madrid , where it had also been quite unjustifiably extended , to the houses of foreign ambassadors . ) |
| 6 | This met with opposition from representatives from civil-law jurisdictions on the ground that it was incompatible with the possession vaut titre principle and had implications going beyond the field of leasing , and the Study Group eventually concluded that no progress could be made on this issue and limited the statement of priority to conflicts between the lessor and the lessee 's general creditors , subject to perfection of the lessor 's title in accordance with any public notice requirements of the applicable law . |
| 7 | Be that as it may , we have more than once witnessed the potential of legspin in limited-overs cricket . |
| 8 | The Conservative and Labour par ties have witnessed the creation of bodies within their own ranks favoring such reform . |
| 9 | That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists . |
| 10 | By this time the C C P had almost completed the destruction of feudalism in the countryside in the north of China . |
| 11 | Cambridge , Massachusetts-based Spinnaker Software Corp has now completed the acquisition of Power Up Software Inc for $18.5m in cash , plus the assumption of some debt : the acquisition was financed through the purchase of preferred stock by Harvard Management Co , which bought $23m of series B preferred stock redeemable at the company 's option and convertible into shares of common stock at a rate of $1.50 or $2.25 per share . |
| 12 | In 1106 , after the death of his brother Geoffrey , Fulk of Anjou was recorded by Orderic as having received the county of Anjou from King Philip I ; his homage therefore implied feudal subordination . |
| 13 | Financial problems aside , the company had already received the kiss of death in that , two years ago , the Department of Trade and Industry chose to feature it as a prime example of the Enterprise Initiative . |
| 14 | The move has been welcomed by pollution campaigners in Britain , who have criticized the Department of Environment for its alleged failure to issue sufficient pollution warnings . |
| 15 | All those who were familiar with the works of Kerschensteiner knew that the task of the schools was to educate their pupils to serve their fellow citizens ; they were to be taught the value of joy in work as service . |
| 16 | Purchasers should be aware that the recent House of Lords ' decision in Litster v Forth Dry Dock Engineering Company Ltd [ 1989 ] IRLR 161 has radically altered the position of purchasers for liability where persons are dismissed in connection with a business transfer . |
| 17 | Nevertheless it is possible to make a number of guarded conclusions on how the social changes that have been described in this chapter have altered the structure of relationships within the rural population . |
| 18 | Technological change since the war has undoubtedly altered the pace of work on the farm , but it has barely affected its rhythm . |
| 19 | In fifty years from then began the great wave of late Victorian building , which has so altered the appearance of places like Ambleside , especially if one compares old Church Street or the Market Place in Green 's time , to 1860 , and with what it has become today . |
| 20 | They have done so as technology has altered the source of profits in the total system of supply . |
| 21 | A fundamental challenge had been levelled at the settlement made at Troyes which had altered the line of succession to the crown of France . |
| 22 | Er , I do n't physically have to type out the labels , but I have physically have to be in the office , to initiate the computer sorts , because under something called personal job insurance scheme , I 've layered the sort of routine under a lot of security codes and I 'm only , the only person who knows where they are . |
| 23 | A superlative development of 2 , 3 and 4 bedroom houses by Higgs & Hill has redefined the meaning of life on the waterfront . |
| 24 | The liquidator of the sole company in liquidation indeed assigned the cause of action to him . |
| 25 | The only company in the case , Lionhope , was in liquidation , and the liquidator had assigned the cause of action to Mr Crawley . |
| 26 | The violence had placed severe strains on the ANC 's relationship with the government over the issue of perceived police partiality towards Inkatha supporters , and had delayed the holding of negotiations on a post-apartheid constitution . |
| 27 | APROPOSED US ban on the most widely used fungicides has plunged the Ministry of Agriculture into another safety review . |
| 28 | It provides a rather more formal learning structure , and given the price of beer over a session can probably be had at a similar cost . |
| 29 | Peter of Corbeil was recommended for a prebend in York , given the bishopric of Cambrai in 1199 and then translated to the archbishopric of Sens in 1200 . |
| 30 | Given the lack of expertise amongst members of the Senior Management Team in the teaching of Art , he regretted that it was not possible to involve the LEA Art Inspector in the review . |