Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unwilling admiration wrung from Jess a kind of exasperated protectiveness , as if she was the mistress and Miss Phoebe in her care . |
| 2 | While one takes into account the concern of Calvin and the reformers for the balance between the light of scripture and the inner light and direction given to individuals an experience vouchsafe for countless times in both the Old and New Testaments also remembering our lord 's own use of silence in prayer and I believe the increasing use of silence in modern worship and may I also say how very impressed I was by Dr 's prayer at the opening of this assembly in which he asked for the guidance of God and indeed your own equally eloquent prayer on Sunday evening Moderator open to the prompting and leading and guiding of God 's spirit . |
| 3 | Before the formal meetings , preparatory groups examined in detail the matters before the standing commissions . |
| 4 | Nothing had been done when , six weeks later , a general election placed in office a Conservative government with Margaret Thatcher as prime minister . |
| 5 | The two meetings examined in detail the practical workings of the Convention and were able to make suggestions to facilitate its operation , but no major difficulties were discovered . |
| 6 | So it 's with added comprehension that a reader of On the Look-Out can approach the taut ferocity of Sisson 's early poems and the sombreness of those more recent , the jarring plainness of his Divine Comedy and other such translations , the savagery of his two gaunt novels , and the war against fashion-induced mediocrity waged by Sisson the literary critic . |
| 7 | The hospice can recover income tax on the covenant donation ; currently for every £1 given by covenant the hospice actually gets £1.25 . |
| 8 | The essential involvement of an issuing authority gives the choice of the designs placed on coins a relevance to our understanding of the political aspirations or concerns of that authority , and this , together with the great wealth of illustration provided by such designs , will be discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 9 | To see how the total information reported is related to the previous risk ratings given to stimuli the films were divided according to the categories in Table 7.1 with two separate factors relating to risk , junction risk and exemplar risk . |
| 10 | The steps approached without haste the bottom of the staircase , and began to climb . |
| 11 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 12 | In the categorisations adopted by NACAB the greatest number of enquiries were concerned with social security ( 22.9 per cent. ) , consumer and debt ( 20.2 per cent. ) , housing ( 11.6 per cent. ) , employment ( 10.2 per cent. ) , family and personal ( 9.9 per cent. ) , and administration of justice ( 7.5 per cent . ) . |
| 13 | Quelch produced in Justice a lively and well-informed paper which remains invaluable for the history , especially the grass-roots history , of the modern Labour movement . |
| 14 | Readers attributed to Martyn a degree of responsibility for the content of the journal , and some sent their comments to him rather than to Oldenburg . |
| 15 | A gradual process of returning the country to civilian rule has been undertaken ; in November 1986 the electorate approved by referendum a Constitution establishing a one-party system , the Central African Democratic Assembly ( Rassemblement démocratique centrafricain — RDC ) holding its inaugural congress in February 1987 . |
| 16 | As it is , not only is the average specification of cars sold in Britain the highest in Europe , but cars destined for the British market also tend to be bigger , with ‘ upper-medium-sized ’ cars disproportionately popular compared with elsewhere in Europe . |
| 17 | The authoritative review of the theoretical and empirical literature from a number of countries conducted by Godfrey for the OECD concluded that all the various methods used to measure the incentive/disincentive effects ‘ indicate that taxation does not have a large and significant effect in the total supply of work effort and that , in particular , the net effect on the labour supply of male family heads is likely to be very small ’ . |
| 18 | There are other exceptions besides consent : lawful chastisement of a child , force used to effect an arrest , reasonable force in self-defence or to prevent crime . |
| 19 | The two armies waited while messengers conveyed to Mary the offer of her rebel nobles to support her once more if she would discard her husband 's murderer . |
| 20 | One cunning old horseman used to jade a horse simply by pretending to feel the horse 's fetlocks , but with the palm of his hand covered with the repellent substance . |
| 21 | BBC journalists took strike action in protest , and the programme was eventually screened with a few face-saving deletions , but the episode called into question the Board of Governor 's commitment to freedom of expression . |
| 22 | It began in the early fifties when American health products company Johnson & Johnson , best known for its baby powder , wanted to develop a new type of surgical suture based on collagen the same sort of stuff that ageing film stars injected to prevent wrinkles . |
| 23 | Alternances was built on fragments of Romanian folk songs but there was also a feel of this in the Scherzo too for its somewhat frenetic and flamboyant violin melodies brought to mind the gypsy fiddlers of Eastern Europe . |
| 24 | The craft passes down a wide channel between sheer cliffs lined with castles , ramparts and defences , before passing through the second portal , a gate of shining silver set with sapphires the size of a man 's head . |
| 25 | Between Jan. 29 and Feb. 3 Israeli and SLA artillery hit in retaliation the Rashidiya camp and a number of Palestinian targets in Iqlim al-Tuffah ( the region to the south-east of Sidon from which many of the rocket attacks had been launched ) . |
| 26 | By the 1930s gas was cheaper and gas ovens more common , which also saved the labour expended on black-leading the old kitchen ranges . |
| 27 | President Lee Teng-hui signed into law a new revised article , under which discussion of Taiwanese independence or advocation of communism would no longer be a criminal offence . |
| 28 | Looking first at the data obtained at 37°C a clear footprint can be seen around site 1 ( positions 32-38 ) in the sequence CGCA , which is still apparent 30 seconds after adding the unlabelled DNA . |
| 29 | It DOES get easier , but the longer you keep your mouth shut about Jesus the harder it becomes to speak out . |
| 30 | In India , the Congress Party , although it had a socialist wing , was to a large extent a middle-class independence movement ; and the partition of India after the ending of British rule created in Pakistan a state dominated by landowners and the military , and in India a liberal democratic regime in which there was a mixture of socialist and capitalist elements . |