Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dulles , too , seemed more impressed than Eisenhower by the British arguments , and did not always hide his anti-Nasser bias . |
| 2 | It should be stressed that newcomers to the hobby should stick to the guideline of 1″ of fish to 10 2 ″ of area . |
| 3 | It is expected that assignments to the headship will normally occur on a five-year cycle , with the existing head eligible to be redesignated . |
| 4 | By the end of the 1980s , it was confidently expected that people in the Soviet Union would enjoy a super-abundance of goods and the leisure time to appreciate them . |
| 5 | It was claimed that soldiers on a British training exercise had been caught by a fearsome ‘ flame weapon ’ which had burned dozens of them alive at the water 's edge . |
| 6 | But in yesterday 's papers it was widely claimed that friends of the Prince of Wales are behind a campaign of vilification . |
| 7 | Though the available data on the contribution record of workers from different socio-economic groups is inadequate in several ways , it can be justifiably claimed that members of the lower socio-economic groups are more likely than members of the higher socio-economic groups to be among the non-qualifiers and , in the years when they existed , to be receiving lower-earnings-related benefits . |
| 8 | Scientists on board Greenpeace 's Rainbow Pacific research ship have claimed that whales in the southern reaches of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman have become disorientated by sonar signals emitted from Allied ships during the war with Iraq . |
| 9 | It was claimed that trustees of the NUM ( the President , the Vice-President and the Secretary ) were in breach of their duties and the High Court ordered them to recover these assets and hand them over to the sequestrators . |
| 10 | On June 24 , however , it was reported that talks between the government , Solidarity and the National Trade Union Accord had resulted in agreement on a new minimum monthly wage of Zl632,000 ( US$55 ) with effect from July 1 . |
| 11 | On Sept. 15 , Egyptian radio had reported that members of the Kuwaiti resistance had assassinated an Iraqi Baa'th party official , Najib Khalaf , in Baghdad , the first such attack inside Iraqi territory . |
| 12 | Gross and his colleagues have reported that cells in the inferior temporal gyrus sometimes had very specific stimulus requirements before they would respond ( Gross 1973 ) . |
| 13 | Dead matter was only partially decomposed and vestiges of the woody parts ( such as spores , pollen bark and twigs ) remained forming a layer of peat . |
| 14 | The military parade was cancelled and members of the republic 's leadership fled from the raised viewing podium . |
| 15 | If you failed to work your beat and the sergeant went looking for you and could n't find you , you 'd be reported and land before the chief constable . |
| 16 | Some 70% of Hungarians quizzed and 60% of the Poles thought social democracy was ‘ a system with a future ’ . |
| 17 | ( b ) Insolvency The partnership share ( or , where the insolvent partner ceases to be a partner prior to any bankruptcy order , the right to have it ascertained and paid ) of an insolvent partner vests in his trustee in bankruptcy subject to any lien to which the continuing partners may be entitled under s39 of the Partnership Act and accordingly all partnership liabilities must be discharged and accounts between the partners settled before anything is paid over to the trustee . |
| 18 | A further one hundred questionnaires were sent out to develop and validate these vignettes , and an analysis of the questionnaires resulted in the development of eight distinct styles of information use , pupils matched to these eight styles by their teachers have been interviewed and differences in the way these pupils talked about tackling two assignments in different subjects are currently being analysed . |
| 19 | Mr Wolski had enjoyed the television news the night before which showed the Curator being interviewed and pictures of the eagle flying from tree to tree and a lot of journalists getting their shoes and trousers muddy . |
| 20 | His ‘ forest of the future ’ , bar a few outcrops , has been felled and logistics of the battle more comprehensible . |
| 21 | For although he was born on the Indian sub-continent , he was educated and lives in the UK . |
| 22 | The court was booked , teams picked , outfits were organised and training for the big game began in earnest . |
| 23 | The redundant chapel , in a graveyard , has had its windows and doors smashed and part of the roof is missing . |
| 24 | You can try our fabulous recipes , originated and double-tested in the GHI , and you can still use some of your own favourites , provided that the ingredients correlate to the diet . |
| 25 | The Europa Hotel is again devastated and offices over a wide area wrecked . |
| 26 | It was only a club game … sadly no league points to be won but victory over a side like Cardiff can only bring good to Gloucester … they went into the lead with two penalties from martin roberts … |
| 27 | Most people are keen for their children to be educated but despair at the kind of education they receive . |
| 28 | But an ST is not recommended because support for the machine among software writers is dying . |
| 29 | In examining , for example , the influence of X on Y , it has to be considered whether shifts to a given value of X from either direction have the same consequences for Y. Does it matter , that is , whether X has increased or decreased to reach its present level , or whether the relationship is asymmetrical in that different values of X do not have a uniform effect on Y ? |
| 30 | These will be installed after work on the path surface is complete . |