Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb pp] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil war threatens to explode , ’ warn the leaders of the Church of Christ in Zaire , who are now obliged to communicate with their people through literature printed and distributed from neighbouring Kenya . |
| 2 | The best debate in Britain this year took place at the Conservative Party conference when speaker after speaker analysed and criticised what was happening to the economy . |
| 3 | In 1991 it received payment from a client for work done and billed ( but without a VAT charge ) prior to October 1986 . |
| 4 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 5 | Chapter 4 begins with a brief description of the modes of assessment used and contains the main body of the results of testing . |
| 6 | Members who undertake CPE , even though for them it is not compulsory , will still be expected to record their compliance with the CPE guidelines on an annual basis and , if necessary , be able to provide details of CPE undertaken and explain the relevance of that CPE to their professional development . |
| 7 | These styles and modes of building merged and developed one into another at different dates in different countries . |
| 8 | The patterns of interaction explored and illustrated in detail in our eleventh report and briefly summarized here raise important issues for teachers , heads and advisory staff : |
| 9 | Many other metals and alloys were of course discovered and used throughout the ancient world . |
| 10 | The attack on the norms of Classic realism was of course aided and abetted by the emerging school of structuralist critics , most notably Roland Barthes , who , in Le degré zéro de l'écriture ( 1953 ) and in Essais Critiques ( 1964 ) , espoused the efforts of the nouveau roman ( or , more exactly , of Robbe-Grillet ) in overturning the Balzacian bourgeois novel and its attendant retrograde ideology . |
| 11 | Whereas the meeting-point between reader and author in imaginative creative literature is the recognition of particular aspects of experience shaped and clarified , these authors are trying to share their understanding of the means by which all experience can be understood . |
| 12 | Acheson would not commit himself on the sums of money involved and indicated that estimates had to be finalised . |
| 13 | ‘ There is a huge volume of milk sold and consumed in the UK and that is not going to change . |
| 14 | The effects of this shift in expenditure were analysed in detail by the government 's own auditors in an influential report in 1986 ( Audit Commission , 1986 ) , which identified the perverse incentives that such a system of funding created and criticized the organizational fragmentation and failure to match resources to need in community care . |
| 15 | The cupboard doors had all been deeply hacked and scored with a knife , every crisp bag had been burst , every stick of rock shattered and splintered : it was a very thorough job . |
| 16 | Students studying part-time , and by definition receiving no grant , will graduate on completion of the programme of study planned and agreed between the student and his or her personal tutor . |
| 17 | Then , for a few seconds , nothing happened until the beam of light lifted and turned , shining across the face of the man with the lantern . |
| 18 | Sun , he said , looks at the level of maintenance required and sends the relevant person for the job — if a high level of expertise is needed to deal with a particular problem , then a highly qualified engineer will see to it . |
| 19 | A great deal of blood pumped and washed over the clean tiled floor . |
| 20 | Alternatively , you can have a sample of blood taken and sent away to a laboratory for a much fuller analysis . |
| 21 | The first-floor room has one of the finest ceilings in Portugal , made of wood carved and painted with shell volutes in the corners . |
| 22 | the date when the total quantity of petroleum won and saved from the original 8.62608 per cent interest in the Ninian field attributable to the Group reaches 120 million barrels ; or |
| 23 | the same piece of work handwritten and typed . |
| 24 | The smart or intelligent chargers tend to take over the user 's responsibility , detecting the amount of charge needed and eliminating any memory problems , but as stated previously , they are many time more expensive than the standard chargers . |
| 25 | The fact you have n't got the worry of transport taken and brought home |
| 26 | We were the big trading nation , and even today we are the second largest by way of the percentage of GDP exported and imported — we are second only to West Germany . |
| 27 | County were battered and bruised , but they still had a bit of bounce left and came back with a goal from Dean Thomas which sent Nicky Hammond the wrong way , only because it took a deflection . |
| 28 | The soundlessness of nature impressed and solaced her . |
| 29 | The information which receipts and payments accounts give relates to the amount of cash received and paid . |
| 30 | Table II compares the actual number of referrals before and after introducing the guidelines by type of examination requested and shows the absolute change in terms of workload and cost . |