Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1977 Porchester report published figures provided by MAFF to indicate the potential loss of agricultural production if 16,000 hectares of Exmoor stayed as rough sheep grazing and were not converted to grassland . |
| 2 | And when the sun appeared they all died and then the people who were to be the people of Amantani came from other islands , from peninsulas in the south … ’ |
| 3 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 4 | During the next 150 years most of Hungary lay under Turkish rule , but the Habsburgs held on to Slovenia and parts of Croatia and Slavonia , including the Zagreb region . |
| 5 | Clashes with the army escalated rapidly ; curfew orders were defied as stone throwers confronted army vehicles and pelted low flying helicopters with rocks ; parts of Gaza blackened by burning protest tyres , were out of control . |
| 6 | A liberal spraying of Waxoyl diluted by white spirit is then easily taken into the metal where it continues to preserve from within . |
| 7 | THE Bank of England came under strong criticism yesterday from a cross-party committee of MPs over its role in the collapse of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International . |
| 8 | January 1987 , unnamed spokesman of SMG quoted in Asian Times attacking Commissioner 's initiative on racial attacks , doubting motives and intentions . ’ |
| 9 | The hills were purple in the distance and the magic sky of Ireland smiled in sunny blue above them . |
| 10 | He also gave lands to them , and had those of Beverley protected by royal writs . |
| 11 | That was certainly the philosophy during the times of economic crisis in the early Eighties when the original run of Barnum played to packed houses , and when the National Theatre hit the jackpot with its first musical , Guys And Dolls . |
| 12 | Not unnaturally there is considerable sensitivity amongst flight crews regarding the use , and particularly the publication of transcriptions of CVRs recovered from crashed aircraft . |
| 13 | On April 10 , 1990 , the Regional Council of Guadeloupe rejected on environmental grounds proposals from the Black Diamond petroleum company to build in Guadeloupe a refinery capable of processing 15,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) . |
| 14 | A few weeks later Masters of Notts went into voluntary liquidation , paying twenty shillings in the pound as Father had said they would . |
| 15 | In the final simulation however , the continued presence of PSCs resulted in elevated levels of ClO ( Fig. 3 c ) and substantial ozone destruction . |
| 16 | ‘ Mr Fraser of Wiltshire complained of bad language in an edition of the Channel 4 programme , Tonight With Jonathan Ross … the offending word arose in reply to a question about whether or not Paula Yates was going to have any more children . |
| 17 | Buddleia ( Buddleia davidii ) , a native of China introduced into British gardens as recently as 1890 , dominates the city centre . |
| 18 | The third volume of Antologia devoted to Neo-classical studies ( n.s. nos. 39–42 , 1991–92 ) includes a highly important article by the editor , Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios , which recapitulates what has so far been published on the great Roman bronze founders Francesco and Luigi Righetti and then adds twice as much more and concludes with a fascinating technical account of the casting of Canova 's equestrian statue of Charles III Borbone in Naples taken from a family notebook . |
| 19 | Reports persisted from March 23 onwards of incursions from a border area of Liberia held by rebel forces loyal to the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) led by Charles Taylor . |
| 20 | The Spirit of God came upon Christian individuals in order to create in them a quality of life that would otherwise be beyond their powers . |
| 21 | Although the evidence for Desiderius 's activity as bishop is unequalled , it is possible to make some comparison with other Merovingian bishops ; Nicetius of Dax had been comes before he became bishop ; Sidonius of Mainz and Felix of Nantes embarked on significant building programmes . |
| 22 | They also received an airbrush illustration of the yacht , signed by each crew member , Sir Edward Heath and race organiser Chay Blyth , and skipper Paul Jeffes was presented with a half-hull model of InterSpray carved by Australian crewman John Davies from a piece of wood taken from the yacht . |
| 23 | All through the hours of dusk he crouched beneath an overhang of bushes under the broken edge of the plateau on which the church stood , and listened to the comings and goings above his head , where the garrison of Parfois boiled with agitated preparations for its lord 's home-coming . |
| 24 | And the year after the Vespers Carlo Borromeo 's nephew , the Neapolitan Carlo Gesualdo , Prince of Venosa ( c. 1562–1613 ) , published a set of Responsoria charged with chromatic emotionalism . |
| 25 | The air quality over much of Britain deteriorated during hot weather in May , with a build up of photochemical smog in some areas . |
| 26 | She hunted for memories : the rose and umber reefs of Mars lapped with Antarctic snowfields . |
| 27 | Through creative expression they aim to educate , inspire and entertain which is exactly why Daughters of Oshun chose For Coloured Girls … as it shows positively how far Black women have come . |
| 28 | Many even carry their host specificity to the generic or family level , with quite a few genera of Laboulbeniales restricted to specific genera or families of arthropods . |
| 29 | legendary king of Assyria represented by ancient writers as having been an effeminate voluptuary who reigned in the ninth century BC . |
| 30 | Charles Booth found that 31 per cent of London 's population in the 1880s lived in primary or secondary poverty and a decade later Seebohm Rowntree claimed that 28 per cent of the people of York lived in equal hardship . |