Example sentences of "[prep] [art] halt " in BNC.
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| 1 | A top British surgeon has accused the American Government of ’ scaremongering ’ after it called for the halt of silicone breast implants on health grounds . |
| 2 | There was nothing special about the halt : it had a signal cabin , about a dozen levers , and a pair of gates to allow carts to cross to the farms scattered across the moors . |
| 3 | Finally , mention should be made of the halt instruction . |
| 4 | It was a sort of cabaret to the main business of the halt , which was the consumption of quite a lot of a bear which had incautiously come within bowshot of Hrun . |
| 5 | The signalbox that controlled the junction is shown as a small building marked S B. Signals are shown by dots identified by the initials S P , and a milepost on the joint line is marked M P. The BCR 's single track curves away to the left from the junction points , and the small platform of the halt lies on the right of the line . |
| 6 | But despite the halt in production , the US will retain the largest worldwide stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium and enriched uranium , contained in its existing weapons . |
| 7 | But it made no mention of a halt to the mainland bombing campaign . |
| 8 | This is the time of year when the end of last season 's growth slides imperceptibly into the beginning of the next 's , with more or less of a halt depending on the weather . |
| 9 | If your technique is delivered after the referee called for a halt , then as well as not scoring you may also pick up a penalty . |
| 10 | For Labour , accommodation to the changing mood meant adopting the essentially green idea of assessing the environmental costs of growth and working them into the balance sheets ( which the Tories are also adopting ) , but it did not mean following the Greens in calling for a halt to growth . |
| 11 | He has appealed for a halt to the fighting , warning anybody who will listen that the Arab world is headed ‘ for a period of turbulence like never before ’ . |
| 12 | Spanning the tree-lined gorge of the stream below Capnut Cave is the picturesque stone arch of the narrow Thorns Gill Bridge , a lovely place for a halt and a gem for the camera and the canvas . |
| 13 | Conservationists were hoping for a halt in 1984 , when those powers expire . |
| 14 | It would be disingenuous , even for those of us who take another view , to pretend that we do not know what made an intelligent British traditionalist like Enoch Powell call for a halt to mass immigration some 20 years ago , and what made British governments of both parties follow his lead . |
| 15 | MALCOLM CROSBY yesterday called for a halt to the head-hunting season at Sunderland . |
| 16 | Last week NATO 's defence ministers called for a halt to cuts in defence spending , lest they undermine the cohesion of the alliance . |
| 17 | The propertied classes rallied to the government and called for a halt to all disturbances . |
| 18 | Businessmen , who had generally welcomed the initial actions of the administration , now called for a halt . |
| 19 | Some commentators have ascribed the rise in the number of homeless mentally ill people to the run down of psychiatric hospitals and have called for a halt to the policy of closure . |
| 20 | Strong and prescient words , yet Marsh was not calling for a halt to all human interference . |
| 21 | The honorary HDUR president , Bishop Laszlo Tokes , the pastor whose forced removal from his parish in Timisoara acted as the catalyst for the revolution [ see p. 37104 ] , called for a halt to the wave of emigration . |
| 22 | During this period it provided for the suspension of government subsidies to industry and industrial promotion benefits ( a form of tax relief to companies in the interior ) , and for a halt to subsidies to provincial administrations . |
| 23 | On Nov. 21 the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) led by the populist Jörg Haider approved a 12-point popular initiative , " Austria first " , for a halt to immigration . |
| 24 | Lowry was speaking at a conference of " nuclear-free " local authorities , which called for a halt to the import and processing of all foreign radioactive waste , pending a public investigation into the government 's strategy on nuclear waste . |
| 25 | The Commissioner 's request for a halt in work provoked angry reactions from the government . |
| 26 | Greenpeace is calling for an independent investigation into safety at Aldermaston , for health records to be made public , and for a halt to weapons production at the site . |
| 27 | At a conference of the Prison Officers ' Association , their leader , John Bartell has called for a halt on the Government 's privatisation of the prison service . |
| 28 | She said the campaign was calling for a halt to the trend towards privatisation , and more funding to prevent cuts in services . |
| 29 | Both groups are calling for a halt to the planning application until a full hydrological survey has been carried out to check the pond would be safe . |
| 30 | The British actors ' union Equity had called for a halt to Australian TV actors appearing in British pantomimes . |