Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1983–4 , penalties on overspending authorities amounted to over £200 million — almost all of which fell on urban Labour councils . |
| 2 | US recycling of aluminium drinks cans rose from 60.8 per cent in 1989 to 63.6 per cent in 1990 , with a value of approximately $900 million to used can collectors . |
| 3 | Bad distribution , transport and catching methods led to massive numbers of deaths even before the fish reached retailers ' tanks . |
| 4 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 5 | The club had fallen on hard times , and the arrival of a travelling circus of the long hairs , trainee freaks and happening performers seemed like a good idea . |
| 6 | In terms of the overall needs employers had of young people , it was clear that non-academic criteria , attitudes to work and personal characteristics , and basic skills , essentially those of reading , writing and arithmetic , were far more important to employers than academic qualifications . |
| 7 | The 624 IT Advanced Course students returning questionnaires consisted of 137 completing specialist courses and 487 conversion students . |
| 8 | Soon after 9 p.m. rally drivers came upon an unexpected road hazard as they steered into the narrow twisting lane — a barricade of wooden benches and almost a dozen seated householders ! |
| 9 | An extradition treaty was signed with Rwanda on Aug. 16 aimed at improving effectiveness in combating crime ; the treaty excluded individuals wanted for political offences , and both governments reserved the right to refuse to surrender their own citizens , in which cases they agreed to prosecute the individuals themselves . |
| 10 | Prices kept ahead of inflation , and exchange-rate changes were beneficial , but trading costs rose by 9 per cent . |
| 11 | Also strewn across the complicated ceiling with the prism ports , obscuring whole sections of the barrelled structure , fume ducts writhed like immense square-flanked metal snakes , their grilled , barred mouths sucking the kitchens ' vapours away to be vented high in some converted turret . |
| 12 | The idea of ‘ half-way ’ houses , where discharged patients lived for a year or eighteen months and then moved to ordinary independent living , became fashionable in the 1960s . |
| 13 | But trading profits grew by 10.9% , and boss Paul Nicholson says this year 's spending should be broadly covered by cash flow . |
| 14 | Footwear , where trading profits slipped by 23.5 per cent to £31.6m or 40 per cent of the total before ‘ one-off ’ property income , has been especially poor . |
| 15 | AonCRF patients tended to be older than those with ARF or CRF ( table I ) . |
| 16 | Hereford cross steer prices fell by 4p to 144.4p per kg lw while Limousin cross prices fell by 2.7p to average 155.7p per kg lw . |
| 17 | Store Cattle : Medium weight ( 300399kg ) Simmental cross store steer prices fell by 1.5p to 111.1p per kg lw during the week ended 24 october while Charolais cross store steer prices rose slightly by 0.4p to 115.9p per kg lw Hereford cross store steer prices increased by 2.4p to 111.1p per kg lw . |
| 18 | I suggested some simple exercises , to be done without knitting on the machine , that showed what effect the tuck and slip controls had on the needles and how we could set the carriages to slip or tuck in one direction and knit in the other . |
| 19 | At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 20 | Supply flights had to be made at night ; the aircraft had no radar or proper navigation equipment , could not get information even about the weather , and had to find drop zones in thick jungle by the light or smoke of bonfires . |
| 21 | By his own admission , football and fly moves had to be executed with equal style . |
| 22 | The survey found prices rose by more than 18pc between 1989 and 1992 only Scotland and the North saw bigger increases . |
| 23 | The survey found prices rose by more than 18pc between 1989 and 1992 only Scotland and the North saw bigger increases . |
| 24 | Misunderstanding had arisen over the " Pretoria Minute " , summarising agreements reached in talks in August 1990 [ see p. 37642 ] when the ANC agreed to suspend its 30-year policy of armed struggle " and related activities " . |
| 25 | Peacekeeping forces came under fire in isolated incidents . |
| 26 | Masters champion Couples coasted to a 66 while Love , the US No 2 , chipped in with a 68 for the Americans to set the first round pace with a combined 10 under par total of 134 . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , we can gain some insight into Minoan town life in the First Temple period from boreholes and test pits dug through the ruins of later buildings . |
| 28 | Yet the 1986 CSM Update on desensitising vaccines arose from concern about 26 deaths from anaphylaxis since 1957 , five in the previous 18 months . |
| 29 | Part Five explains the legal machinery for protecting children looked after outside the family but not by local authorities . |
| 30 | So her shops with their carefully designed clothes sat on top of great orders for dresses and suits that Belmodes made for a handful of big stores who marketed them under different trade names , sometimes their own , but never Belmodes . |