Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write and thank you for allowing the seat from Snowhill to be kept on your property after it had been removed from its base . |
| 2 | Does he agree that when Opposition parties advocate such bodies they do so with the entirely cynical objective of maintaining the over-representation of Scotland in this House in the aftermath of the dog 's breakfast called devolution ? |
| 3 | In this situation the circulation was altered so that a cold polar vortex remained until the end of the simulation , thereby maintaining the presence of PSCs for a much longer period . |
| 4 | THE Queen has spoken of her concern for the environment while praising the Sultan of Brunei for his work in protecting his country 's rainforests . |
| 5 | According to Martin Dolinchek , a former intelligence officer with the now defunct Bureau of State Security ( BOSS ) , South African intelligence played a key role in building the credibility of Inkatha from its launch in 1974 . |
| 6 | In September 1647 he had a vision of the impending downfall of monarchy in England , France , and Spain , heralding the reign of Christ on earth . |
| 7 | Does the Attorney-General agree that the defence of using the treaty of Rome in relation to breaches of the Shops Act 1950 is pretty flimsy and slender ? |
| 8 | Last month The Northern Echo uncovered a shady underworld of drug addicts who were using the streets of Darlington as a haven for their habit . |
| 9 | The capitalist class are concentrated and centred in the government of this country today to an extent they never were before ; they are using the House of Commons for the purpose of defeating the working class organisations of this country , and the cooperative movement realised when the government set out to challenge the N.U.R . |
| 10 | Above : JM Chairman , David Davies enjoying the tour of Kitsuregawa with VIP visitors . |
| 11 | ln Derbyshire Will Taylor , the county secretary , would do his sums at the end of the season before phoning the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth . |
| 12 | In December 1990 the Syrian government had been as active as ever , encouraging the gathering in Damascus of a ‘ joint action committee ’ of familiar names — Hojjatoleslam Hakim , the Kurdish leaders Barzani and Talabani , and also Brigadier-General Naqib , in Syria since the early 1980s . |
| 13 | In 161 there was a senatus consultum prohibiting the residence in Rome of philosophers and rhetoricians ( Sueton . |
| 14 | He was a member of commercial deputations to the council , one of the City élite who gave nominal assent to the accession of Lady Jane Grey [ q.v. ] by signing the letters patent of 1553 in her favour , and then one of those organizing the defence of London in 1554 on behalf of Queen Mary against rebels led by Sir Thomas Wyatt [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | Give generously , for your donations will go to aid our missionaries in China who are bringing the word of God to the poor heathen children there . ’ |
| 16 | At the height of the rush hour , when the streets were at their very busiest , two terrorist bombs exploded bringing the city of Manchester to a standstill and injuring 64 innocent people . |
| 17 | Ethiopians in all walks of life are demanding the return from Italy of the ancient Axum obelisk , looted in 1937 on the personal orders of Mussolini , and retained in Rome in violation of the Italian Peace Treaty of 1947 . |
| 18 | Mr Gorbachev then warned against ‘ voices … being raised in West Germany demanding the re-establishment of Germany under its 1937 borders ’ . |
| 19 | Is the leadership reflecting the character of Christ in their lives ? |
| 20 | While turnover overall has advanced from £46.09m to £55.37m , reflecting the inclusion of BMK for a 10 month period , comparable turnover year on year was down 11% . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , this was a continuation of a growth that had begun during the mid-1960s , reflecting the transmission to RENFE of pressures for wage increases elsewhere in the economy . |
| 22 | Four-year-old Laura , accompanied by nurse Christine Kenny and her parents will arrive at Heathrow airport today before catching the shuttle to Manchester for a family reunion . |
| 23 | Four other Anglos — Neil Edwards ( Harlequins ) , Chris Gray ( Nottingham ) , Peter Jones and Ian Smith ( both Gloucester ) — will be catching the plane from Edinburgh on May 22 for the eight-game tour , including two Tests . |
| 24 | The feelings of joy and despair in these two passages are almost equally balanced , and the Jewish cry of delight on seeing the shore-line of Palestine in the first and the image of Arab guns and hopelessness on leaving Palestine in the second are even more relevant now than they were then . |
| 25 | The only way the magnitude of this building may be grasped is by seeing the model of Prague in the Prague City Museum ( see p. 158 ) . |
| 26 | I should add that I shall not accede to Mr. Philipson 's invitation to qualify the variation by debarring the Bank of England from communicating the documents to the Federal Reserve Board , since in my view that would frustrate the purposes of section 84(6) , and would also impede the proper co-ordination of supervision between the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Board , in relation to the international activities of the defendants . |
| 27 | The Director General of the Department , Muayyad Said , stated that the stolen works comprised more than 500 items representing the civilization of Mesopotamia from prehistoric to late Islamic times ; more than 700 items representing the civilisation of northern Iraq ; 4,500 books from the Library of the Iraqi Museum ; and twenty-six crates of manuscripts from the Saddam Document Centre . |
| 28 | He did not believe that ‘ this piece of tinkering by the Government will stop Britain becoming the dump of Europe in the 1990s . ’ |
| 29 | HE was involved in the design of PFR at Winfrith , moving to Dounreay in 1970 and becoming the Head of PFR in 1985 . |
| 30 | The American Civil War broke out in 1860 , with Abraham Lincoln becoming the President of U.S.A. in 1861 , the abolishing of slavery being the main issue and it was formally abolished in the U.S.A. in 1863 although the Civil War raged on until 10th . |