Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school . |
| 2 | Margaret had one of the first major heart operations carried out in the UK more than 27 years ago in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins , in particular lead . |
| 4 | The mushrooming of aid budgets in the 1970s turned aid into a fairly important source of business for some small and medium-sized companies in Europe and elsewhere , indicated by the formation of pressure groups in many European Community ( EC ) countries to ensure that an increased proportion of national aid budgets ended up in the hands of that country 's exporters . |
| 5 | The accounting practices set out in the [ draft ] FRS should be adopted as soon as possible and regarded as standard in respect of financial statements relating to accounting periods ending on or after [ date to be inserted after exposure . ] |
| 6 | The accounting practices set out in the standard should be adopted as soon as possible and regarded as standard in respect of financial statements relating to accounting periods ending on or after 22 June 1993 . |
| 7 | But it begins with a sizeable group of numbers from The Fairy Queen — two of them , incidentally , countertenor solos written out in the treble clef and a tone below their original key — so Purcell may indeed have started it in 1692 . |
| 8 | The battle orders ring out in the Swindon dressing room … this is the first match of the season … the first game as a premier league team … the first of the summer tour of Finland … |
| 9 | I can just imagine Women 's Institute ladies creeping out in the night to pinch jam jars from from graveyards . |
| 10 | The Commission maintained that the nationality requirements laid down in the Act of 1988 were contrary to the general prohibition of discrimination on grounds of nationality set out in article 7 of the E.E.C . |
| 11 | Above us , great masses of cumulus clouds stood out in the sky like old-fashioned sculptures . |
| 12 | When he goes abroad , he always buys a return ticket to the airport a ) because he thinks this will save three milliseconds in a fortnight 's time ; b ) because he knows he 's coming back ; and c ) in case fares go up in the interval . |
| 13 | As part of the five-hundredth anniversary celebrations of the consecration of the Frari church in Venice , the Sovrintendenza ( the state administration of ancient monuments and works of art ) has been taking stock of the restoration projects carried out in the Basilica over the last twenty years . |
| 14 | In South Africa , only mad dogs and security guards go out in the last white summer |
| 15 | However , despite these encouraging figures , marketing studies carried out in the USA show that most home-gym equipment goes unused and only around 10 per cent of American adults engage in brisk , regular exercise . |
| 16 | Great granite fortresses sprang up in the misty vales and from them Dragon Princes rode the thermals over sullen volcanoes . |
| 17 | No provision of Community law could justify the residence requirements laid down in the Act of 1988 . |
| 18 | Paddy Ashdown is definitely going to Hoy , to look at the Hoy Telecottage , one of the community facilities set up in the wake of the H&I Initiative to take advantage of the facilities it offers . |
| 19 | The question is which form will be compatible with the general curriculum aims set out in the last chapter . |
| 20 | Generating company managers had merely allowed water levels to run down in the hope that the drought would eventually end ; only in March 1992 did they admit to a disaster , announcing nationwide rationing which was currently believed to be costing the economy an estimated US$330,000 each week . |
| 21 | Use scraps of soap , liquid soap or soap flakes shaken up in the water to make bubbles . |
| 22 | A theorist might suggest that the conspirators are principally , but not exclusively , Jewish : for example , there might be some Gentile Freemasons caught up in the conspiratorial network . |
| 23 | The units are designed to support the staff development requirements set out in the SCOTVEC policy on the approval of centres for APL delivery . |
| 24 | The next day clashes broke out in the occupied territories and Arab workers were prevented from entering Jerusalem . |
| 25 | The information requirements are determined by the listing rules set out in the Yellow Book which are made by the London Stock Exchange as the competent authority under Part IV of the FSA . |
| 26 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 27 | For gone are the days when the used plastic cups ended up in the dustbin . |
| 28 | And its suggested ‘ activities ’ , like rearing silkworms , bore no resemblance to our gang meetings , where we planned raids on greenhouses , smoked cigarette ends picked up in the street or watched Brian Fish eat a live worm . |
| 29 | This Act abolished the negotiating procedures set up in the 1965 Remuneration of Teachers Act , replacing them until 1990 by authorising the Secretary of State to appoint an interim advisory committee and to impose teachers ' pay and conditions . |
| 30 | HAVE you any of those Esso petrol vouchers scrunched up in the bottom of your bag ? |