Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A previous Tory Home Secretary wrote in the White Paper : ’ Since the Prior committee 's report was published , the Government 's Public Order Bill has been put before Parliament Given the restructuring of public order offences in the Public Order Bill , the Government 's view is that there is no need for a further public offence of prison mutiny . ’ |
| 2 | His violent death was only a matter of course given the way he lived . |
| 3 | Why not follow such a course given the controversy about the issue of district services being autonomous from mental hospitals ? |
| 4 | After the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 Parliament prescribed an oath of allegiance which denied that the Pope had any authority to release Roman Catholics from their allegiance to the King . |
| 5 | In February 1974 the original lessee assigned the lease to the second defendant , a company , which duly entered into the required covenant directly with the landlord . |
| 6 | Landslides had claimed lives earlier ; chemicals used in leaching gold from earth threatened the health of the " garimpeiros " , while mercury contaminated the rivers . |
| 7 | Clinton 's reign as world champion has been blemished by controversy because of the debate over the validity of his win over the Mexican , Isidro Perez , to win his title and the verdict given the Scot after his first defence against Danny Porter , from London . |
| 8 | Richard Hoggart , for example , notes in 1951 that the adult tutor is necessarily forced to face challenges to the self evident value of literature given the types of student involved . |
| 9 | There was however some danger of developments of this kind given the resources of the powers that were active in the region . |
| 10 | The British critic Bryher regarded the film as ‘ the first authentic comment on the War ’ , praised particularly the depiction of enlistment , and poured scorn on those other British critics who had disliked the film 's suggestion that it had been America who had won the war . |
| 11 | Zurachina smoothed a finger down one cheek . |
| 12 | Is the Minister aware that now that clear decisions have been taken on trust status , anxiety in Sheffield relates to the likely impact of the Chancellor 's autumn statement on the health authority 's financial position next year and in the long term , and particularly the need for greater per capita funding given the number of elderly people and the levels of health inequality and social deprivation in Sheffield , particularly in Attercliffe ? |
| 13 | Another common composite building placed the cow-house , stable or cart-shed under part of the barn . |
| 14 | When it fell to his lot to cut her free from the coils of the hydra , had his poignant fixation received a body-blow — or a boost ? |
| 15 | This was shortly after Indonesia 's independence , when chaos racked the nation and Celebes was terrorized by the " Darul Islam " rebels , an Islamic fundamentalist group who succeeded in capturing the entire medical team and holding them hostage for eighteen months . |
| 16 | Our colleagues in Development Projects Division formulated the Business Venture Programme in partnership with Scottish Enterprise . |
| 17 | For each firm in the market , it is possible to define its profit maximizing action ( an output or price ) or best response given the actions of all other firms . |
| 18 | And , as we noted , the movement of which Jesus and his followers seem to have been a part regarded the Maccabean regime as a prototype for their own aspirations . |
| 19 | The absence of serial correlation in the residuals is an important finding given the requirements of the McCallum technique . |
| 20 | Those who had heard about major items of foreign news — such as the Amin coup in Uganda , the deaths of Nasser in Egypt and Nkrumah in Ghana , or the proposed resumption of British arms sales in South Africa — had for the most part received the news from the radio . |
| 21 | In the play , which was to tour Britain before running in London 's West End , Crawford was cast as Runnicles , a bank clerk given the task of disposing of piles of pornography that is delivered to the manager and his wife . |
| 22 | In this context the question of jobs being created by West Belfast people themselves inevitably arose , but there was a general lack of hope given the effect of political vetting on community economic initiatives . |
| 23 | Today , the rose , especially the H.T. and its offspring , the Floribunda , is very big business indeed , and played for huge winnings , with large multi-national companies paying fortunes to have a new rose variety given the company name . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State for Defence reopened a list as an exception to allow the Association to mark the fortieth anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty the Queen , our patron , to the throne . |
| 25 | It was alleged that the retailer committed an offence under section 1 by selling bars of chocolate bearing the misleading label ‘ Extra value ’ and that this was due to the act or default of the defendants , the manufacturers . |
| 26 | Philip 's Mum scattered the oven chips on the baking tray . |
| 27 | It follows that the magistrate in the present case committed no error in failing to ascertain the scope of the jurisdiction of the Swedish courts . |
| 28 | Cos her Mum won a lot of money . |
| 29 | A mousse-pink suite occupied the bathroom , while the bedrooms were lined with cheap DIY cupboards . |
| 30 | For example , last year alone , the University earned a total of four point nine million pounds from research grants and contracts , a figure which has risen despite the recession . |