Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The family had tickets for a section of the plane engulfed in flames . |
| 32 | The line of the living began with prelates in grand clothes , the Pope leading . |
| 33 | However , hotels , restaurants and other places of entertainment where the substantial proportion of the business consisted of transactions other than the sale of intoxicating liquor came within the 1954 Act . |
| 34 | Some of the failures of the model occurred in cases where the input was actually consistent with two parses , either a longer spanning word rather than a single word ( as in party ) or a different parse into two words , as in part rust for par trust . |
| 35 | At the beginning of the century only about a third of the population lived in towns . |
| 36 | Over 80 per cent of the population consisted of peasants . |
| 37 | When the owner of the stall ran into difficulties , Decca Records , the main creditor , agreed to a takeover by Mr Ames , who guaranteed to pay the outstanding debts . |
| 38 | Millions of people throughout the country lived in buildings which were either due for demolition because they were unsafe , or had received only emergency repairs . |
| 39 | Nevertheless , North did testify that Poindexter had supervised the November 1985 shipment of US arms to Iran , an important statement given that four of the five felony charges against the defendant arose from statements to Congress that he had not learnt of the shipment until January 1986 . |
| 40 | Scornful now of church sermons , he thought of them as black in comparison with the light emitted by pictures , and evoked the name of his preferred ‘ father ’ , Millet . |
| 41 | Instead , I ran screaming like a banshee into the garden engulfed in coils of stiffened pipe and looking like some mythical figure being consumed by a serpent . |
| 42 | The wind had dropped and a cold whitish mist from the river lingered in patches . |
| 43 | A dozen girls from the school went to universities each year , very few of them to Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 44 | Anxiety about the state of the economy and the turmoil which followed Britain 's departure from the ERM led to families paying off more outstanding debt last month . |
| 45 | He also created a Consultative Assembly in Algiers , where representatives from the Resistance sat alongside members of the Third Republic 's final parliament . |
| 46 | Dad Mark managed to carry her to safety before the alarm burst into flames . |
| 47 | He had noted the recurrence of surnames among deaf people and deduced it was highly probable that a considerable proportion of deaf people in the country belonged to families which had more than one deaf member , and suspected that the reasons for this were hereditary . |
| 48 | A further factor in the scandal arose from remarks made by Clinton on the telephone tapes in which he described Mario Cuomo , the Governor of New York and senior figure within the Democratic Party , as " an aggressive , mean sonofabitch " who acted like a " mafioso " . |
| 49 | The ‘ ideals of middle class culture ’ which had informed British broadcasting in the past seemed at odds with a divided Britain . |
| 50 | Youngsters , who have in the past turned to parents for guidance and example , have their confidence seriously undermined by their seniors ' inability to offer any sort of explanation or hope . |
| 51 | ‘ Poetry places me in a very special position — as someone who in the end came to terms with society but not enough to be socially acceptable . ’ |
| 52 | the 1787 vintage chateau Margaux that was broken in the collision belonged to Whitwhams of Altrincham , Cheshire , world famous shippers of exotic and exceedingly rare wines . |
| 53 | Seven of the top 10 places in the table went to banks which had a role in the BAT bid . |
| 54 | On average , however , there seemed to be little difference in the time devoted to boys and girls on each occasion . |
| 55 | The 1986 BMA report on complementary medicine ( widely criticised for its lack-lustre approach ) only allowed that there was value in the time devoted to patients and called for more scientific evaluation . |
| 56 | The hole in the screen coincided with screams and the lights going up and the immediate disappearance of the images . |
| 57 | I only have one small comment in the point made by Consultants for the C P R E that one should place more emphasis on the environment . |
| 58 | British Gas North-Western workers are sticking the skull and crossbones symbol on appliances fitted by unqualified workmen in non-English speaking homes after three people in the area died in accidents caused by fumes last winter . |
| 59 | The combination of these two modifications to the system resulted in increases if fish yields from 2.6 tonnes ha -1 ; yr -1 ; to 12.26 tonnes ha -1 ; yr -1 ; , an increase of 370% . |
| 60 | If the partners to the Alliance disagreed on matters of policy how was it possible to present a single manifesto ? |