Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political differences were minimized and a wide variety of outside speakers invited to address the group at monthly intervals when Parliament was sitting , normally in a House of Commons Committee Room . |
| 2 | Indeed , in April 1988 civil service manpower targets were dropped and a new regime of running-costs control imposed upon departments . |
| 3 | We would advise that the policy has therefore been cancelled and a full refund of premiums for 1991 has been made to your mortgage account . ’ |
| 4 | On Oct. 3 the NVA was dissolved and a new grouping within the Bundeswehr , the Bundeswehr ( Ost ) , was established , commanded by Lt.-Gen. |
| 5 | A meeting of the Sajudis sejm was held on Dec. 12 , at which the sejm Council was dissolved and a fundamental reorganization of Sajudis structures was initiated . |
| 6 | The parliament building had burned , its roof had collapsed and a large heap of concrete lay around its doors . |
| 7 | Yet their support work with pupils is an intimate part of the ‘ caring ’ image the school has carefully fostered and a major encouragement to effective learning . |
| 8 | Photojournalism and the birth of photography are briefly touched on , Context and Ambiguity expanded on in some depth , ethics briefly considered and a fair selection of illustrations from the exhibition are included , including Robert Capa 's The Last Man to die , Leipzig , Germany and Chris Steele-Perkins Famine in Karamoja Province , Uganda , images that are almost commonplace today . |
| 9 | On the right , the advance was once more quickly halted before worthwhile gains could be made or a significant number of Germans captured . |
| 10 | If this is not done and a future purchaser of the business wishes to buy assets rather than Target 's shares , it will be necessary to distribute the proceeds of disposal of those assets to Newco with an onward distribution to management . |
| 11 | The post-war coalition thus had two distinct justifications , a positive sense of what could be done and a negative dread of the alternative . |
| 12 | He was searched and a small bag of the drug was found . |
| 13 | Historians of chemistry and social historians will find the book stimulating , persuasively written and a valuable source of reference material . |
| 14 | It was a relief to both of them to reach home and find Helen and Anne waiting for them in Magdalen Street , with a hot meal prepared and a warm welcome from them and Moira . |
| 15 | 2.3 The proposals for change embodied in the report were accepted and a new arrangement of 35 modules was agreed which may be found in Section 00 of Interdisciplinary Studies in the National Certificate Catalogue under the heading Physical Education and Recreation ( see Annex 2 ) . |
| 16 | The wagons will be the widest rail vehicles ever built and a complete train with a 25kv locomotive at each end will be some 750m long . |
| 17 | The purpose of learning , according to cognition theories , is to construct a number of organised detailed frames of reference held in a sufficiently flexible way to enable us to change from one to another when considering an event or problem so that the best judgment is made and a rational course of action is taken . |
| 18 | Tea had been made and a big cake like the one served in the library was cut up in thick slices on the table . |
| 19 | ‘ Without going into detail , for legal reasons , I can say that in respect of both republican and loyalist terror groups , a series of significant arrests have been made and a considerable number of murder and bombing missions intercepted and prevented . |
| 20 | This offer has been gratefully accepted but a suitable site for the van will eventually have to be found . |
| 21 | But in that case , why could they not have called in the authorities and have the other fellows cleared out ? — only this would have made but a tame end to the story . |
| 22 | Traffic was delayed and a short stretch of the A66 eastbound closed when a lorry tipped over in Cleveland yesterday . |
| 23 | The responses are completed and a small sub-committee of the policy-making group , including the INSET coordinator , begins to collate the points for consideration . |
| 24 | In our climate , at this latitude , the choice is relatively limited and a complex system of arable crops and domesticated animals has developed , needing different types of land — broadly classed as arable , pasture , meadow , waste and woodland . |
| 25 | Time is passed together , monuments visited , meals consumed and a common stock of memory accumulated . |
| 26 | In Holland , for example , an impressive manual for traffic provisions for the handicapped has been written to provide central government advice to municipalities , yet tests of facilities on the ground indicate that the manual may have to be revised and a new policy for provision worked out . |
| 27 | By the end of February all basic services had broken down or had been withdrawn and a mass evacuation of non-Bougainvilleans ( both foreigners and Papua New Guineans from other provinces ) was under way . |
| 28 | Should the suggestion be to drop the mother tongue , local patriotism is immediately aroused and a whole quantity of scientific and technical evidence brought to bear to prove the point that a child 's intellectual development is the fastest when instruction is provided in its own language . |
| 29 | There are two kinds of discount : a middle price for people who are low waged and a low price for people who are under 18 , unwaged , on disability and other state allowances , OAPs and students . |
| 30 | You said that it takes a long time for development between the first idea being mooted and a workable application of the particular physical principle , and you cited , what , fifty years for the development of a nuclear power station — is there always that time lag in technology ? |