Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the local authority associations ( including those with a Conservative majority ) opposed rate-capping in principle , the local government press , and the media generally were hostile , while the Bill 's passage through Parliament led to strenuous opposition from senior Conservative MPs and sizeable backbench revolts in some votes . |
| 2 | He suggests that this maladaptive strategy helps to explain the traumatic neuroses which sometimes follow events like bereavement , and which can be contrasted with successful adjustment in which the individual works through grief triggered by indirect reminders and gradually progresses to being able to respond to stronger reminders of the deceased . |
| 3 | But the decision for closure had in any case already been made by the predecessor AHA . |
| 4 | UNTIL READING THIS , I HAD NEVER REALIZED THAT MY UNQUESTIONED PICTURE OF NEANDERTHALS AS DARK AROSE FROM STANDARD RECONSTRUCTIONS … |
| 5 | Potter 's bid for martyrdom came at twenty-five-foot Waimea in the winter of '86‐7 when the early rounds of the Billabong Pro were held at the Bay . |
| 6 | There is a self-willed flight forward here , a certain careerist mentality , a belief in the objectives of the company , a sense of purpose and an appetite for work encoded in this trajectory which mirrors the relentless flight forward of the son a generation later . |
| 7 | The vote for independence came after two days of acrimonious debate between the Lithuanian majority and the Russian Polish minority , who were joined by a handful of old-guard Lithuanian Communists . |
| 8 | In this , the third issue of Update devoted to general SVQs , we also report back on the seminars held recently for external verifiers and for centre co-ordinators from new piloting centres . |
| 9 | Pledges of support came from other institutions of higher education and there were reports of demonstrations and boycotts elsewhere . |
| 10 | As social workers have always known , the ‘ product ’ is in fact a ‘ process ’ — an explanation and acceptance of change mediated through social relationships — not a standardized item of service . |
| 11 | While some of the clearest evidence for localization of function came from neurological studies on humans with damaged or disturbed brains , some of the best evidence against it came from experimental studies on animals . |
| 12 | The idea of inspection started with national inspectors ( Her Majesty 's Inspectorate ) , but increasingly local inspectors are being used at local education authority ( LEA ) level . |
| 13 | The severity of damage ranged from small islets in which the surface remained completely denuded ( Fig 5C ) to areas in which the continuity of the surface epithelium was nearly complete ( Fig 5D ) . |
| 14 | More training of young members should be provided as well as distribution of literature aimed at young people . |
| 15 | Confidence in the civilising effect of the study of literature waned during this period . |
| 16 | In the twelfth century , when the issue of coin had in many areas ceased to be a royal prerogative , this sort of charge was known as seigniorage — a valuable perquisite of controlling a mint . |
| 17 | The member of parliament saw in this ambition an opportunity to strengthen his own interest in the burgh by detaching the schoolmaster 's brother-in-law , the bailie , from the opposition party in the council , for the bailie was at that moment firmly attached to that faction by a promise from Dempster 's rival that he would procure a kirk for the bailie 's son . |
| 18 | A week of action began on 13 June with a mass picket , at which 84 people were arrested and there was large scale police violence . |
| 19 | Again , the relatively popular policy of the privatization of industry fell on stony ground when it was proposed for extension to the electricity supply industry and to water services . |
| 20 | Desperate villagers who searched the area around Cerska on Monday for 21 tonnes of aid parachuted from C-130 cargo planes were reported to have been killed by Serb snipers . |
| 21 | What I 'm trying to say is , when you 're in the state of consciousness triggered by sexual stimulation , you should be able to breach time and space . |
| 22 | Williamson 's got five million years of more or less continuous deposit , which he can date pretty accurately erm and he 's got twenty one species of mollusc fossilised in that material . |
| 23 | For us two the war meant , as for so many others , a break in physical contact : but if , as Simone Weil said , ‘ every separation is a link ’ , such a break is not a breaking off , but a period in which , at least in my case , that ties of friendship continued in another form . |
| 24 | The greatest rates of deforestation occurred in Latin America , followed by Africa and Asia . |
| 25 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |
| 26 | The ‘ winter of discontent ’ and the subsequent return of the Conservatives for what proved to be a very lengthy period of rule seemed to most observers to mark a profound watershed . |
| 27 | Later the practice of cremation led to tidier storage of ashy remains in cinerary urns , though still ritually accompanied by pottery beakers and food bowls , animals and birds , and even helpings of fish to succour the departed on their way . |
| 28 | A sweep of light remained between frayed brocade curtains , without a gleam on the parquet floor . |
| 29 | ‘ I picked up a bug in Germany at the weekend ’ explained McManus , who contested a European League game in Augsburg , where more than eight inches of snow fell in 48 hours . |
| 30 | Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago . |