Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
| 2 | Phillipon told reporters that Quebec and Nova Scotia are not party to the framework since they had broken ranks with a 1991 provinical agreement to disdain unilateral compensation by earlier this year unveiling vastly discrepant compensation programmes . |
| 3 | On dry summer days the dust raised by galloping posses could be evoked by a vigorous soft shoe shuffle in the red Derbyshire clay , your sandals given spurs by a twig slid in by the outer ankle . |
| 4 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 5 | In response to these complexities , the original notion of the sociolinguistic variable with variants which were assigned values along a single phonetic dimension was considerably modified . |
| 6 | I have received requests from a number of parties to extend the guideline for indicative offers . |
| 7 | Some uses were not new : Charles 's father Louis the Pious had also minted coins on a large scale and very probably paid cash ( as well as bullion ) for allies and for imported luxuries . |
| 8 | The first of a new family of drugs based on the leech has been developed thanks to a key piece of understanding provided by Huber 's team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany . |
| 9 | Confusion surrounding chlorine and its derivative products is being eased thanks to a new public information service . |
| 10 | If this failed , words were assigned weights on an inverse term frequency basis ( uncommon words are worth more than common words ) , and the system would look for records containing just some of the words of the search . |
| 11 | Several First Division managers have broken relationships as a legacy of their work . |
| 12 | This allows just over a year to look out for possible candidates and suitable premises ; with regard to the latter , teachers are asked to look out for centrally situated schools with a good hall and piano , close to mainline travel facilities . |
| 13 | He had been a cheerful fellow in those days and life was as inconsequential as a laugh on the wind or the carelessly squandered words of a song . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , early treated subjects as a group exhibit various detectable abnormalities ( box 1 ) . |
| 15 | Having sketched Bas as a merry Restoration rake , she had a crack at Sukey . |
| 16 | But in an attempt to dilute a revolt , Taylor has cancelled plans for a fourth match against Canada . |
| 17 | ‘ We believe that our results show conclusively that neutrinos do not undergo oscillation and thus are not mixed states in a quantum-mechanical sense . ’ |
| 18 | DEVELOPERS have dropped plans for a giant business park after fierce protests from villagers . |
| 19 | Part of Booth 's schemes to improve the lot of the disadvantaged in society had included plans for an overseas colony . |
| 20 | The section prescribes the procedure under which premises operated under an hotel licence , a restricted hotel licence , a restaurant licence , a public house licence , or a refreshment licence ( where , as regards premises operated under the latter two types of licence , an application for Sunday opening has been granted in virtue of Sched. 4 ) may have permitted hours on a Sunday which commence at 5 p.m. ( subs . |
| 21 | And he said it was difficult for the jury to isolate the narrow questions that they were going to have to decide , which is whether these officers had er fabricated notes of an interview with one of the Birmingham Six , from all the information that they had . |
| 22 | Colonel Gordon Wilkinson confirmed that the Army had gone into contract catering in a ‘ substantial way ’ , having let contracts to a variety of both large and small companies , including Gardner Merchant , Compass and Sutcliffe . |
| 23 | I remembered two previous springs when , at Minsmere and at Titchwell Marsh , I had enjoyed glimpses of a bittern in flight , briefly , above the reeds:owl-like on rounded wings , legs trailing . |
| 24 | Dr. Howarth ; a tall fair man , almost as tall as Dalgliesh himself , with widely spaced eyes of a remarkably deep blue and the lashes so long that they might have looked effeminate on any face less arrogantly male . |
| 25 | Not in a great cathedral nor in a doll 's house , not in the tumult of a strange new city nor in the once sanctified words of a tough peasant stalking the sour hills of Judah . |
| 26 | Benetton 's past publicity stunts have included images of a dying Aids sufferer , a victim of a Mafia shooting and a new-born baby with blood and the umbilical cord . |
| 27 | The Baath was no overnight creation , but went back to the 1940s when it was conceived by the Syrian duo , Salahuddin Bitar and Michel Aflaq , who later fostered branches in a number of Arab states . |
| 28 | Belfast City Council cut short Safeall 's contract with them after its staff allegedly caught guards in a number compromising situations . |
| 29 | But he does n't acknowledge , and what , this is what I find concerning , the fact that we have in some areas of the county , amalgamated schools into a new school , West Grinstead and Alderbury for example , and taken surplus places out . |
| 30 | On April 8-9 the Congress , with qualifications , had sanctioned stringent government cuts , including the closure of 11 ministries , and plans to sell federally owned companies worth an estimated $18,000 million . |