Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to David Biehn , Eastman Kodak Vice president and General Manager of Professional Imaging , ‘ The film provides clean whites and highly saturated blues and greens ’ , features asked for by customers . |
| 2 | According to David Biehn , Eastman Kodak Vice president and General Manager of Professional Imaging , ‘ The film provides clean whites and highly saturated blues and greens ’ , features asked for by customers . |
| 3 | He was probably the ‘ Stephen ’ referred to in letters from Kent to Richard Boyle , third Earl of Burlington [ q.v. ] , in 1738–9 ; he received a legacy of £50 under Kent 's will , dated 1748 ; and the following year he was in possession of some of Kent 's drawings . |
| 4 | gaped at from double-deckers . |
| 5 | ‘ The Jew from Babylon ’ is an enthralling tale about a Jewish sorcerer , a believer in the faith , hated by demons and disapproved of by rabbis , who in old age endures a turmoil which ends his life . |
| 6 | Men basically feel really erm threatened and intimidated like by women loving each other or by men loving each other , you know . |
| 7 | If radical alterations are to be debated and believed in by heads , staffs , governors and parents and if the management of improvement is largely in these same people 's hands , the task is broader than the School Management Task Force 's concern with national curriculum — and broader than the SDPP 's recommendations about planning . |
| 8 | The God believed in by Jews , Hindus and Christians , is not like the pagan God , Atlas , who was supposed to be underneath the world propping it up on his shoulders . |
| 9 | The idea is not to attempt all these at once — rather they could be used as sections in a loose leaf file and added to at intervals . |
| 10 | Recognising the sheer impossibility of providing an adequate number of conversion courses of the 52 week full-time mode , the UKCC has outlined a more flexible approach to the problem by allowing for appropriate course content arrived at in ways outlined by PS & D/88/05 . |
| 11 | Well I only did it out of curiosity basically to see how much er , one spent in in calls with th , like Lyndsey in Hong Kong . |
| 12 | What we do n't know is whether March is a start of a new trend upwards above budget , that 's a different scenario cos then you can say okay , just like we talked about with claims and E W S. |
| 13 | Progressive rock was GLOBAL , selling hugely , gawped at in stadia ( the ‘ ant-like figures onstage ’ ) , disseminated so broadly as to be rootless and meaningless . |
| 14 | Simon has drafted and circulated a very clear guide of his proposals , Jenny has prepared and Elizabeth can circulate three redrafts of the proposals for discussion , and Rita and Stella are not quite sure where you got to in terms of redrafting your procedures . |
| 15 | And I do n't hear those words , ‘ Fight on , boy ; ’ or feel those long arms around me like I dreamed about for years and years . |
| 16 | These findings do not confirm fears of an overall increase in the number of old people looked after in institutions , and the proportion of 4.7% remains commendably low by international standards ( and lower than the national average of 5.1% in 1971 ) . |
| 17 | It seems that all the things that we met with in life and thought of as advantages in the beginning , are found to be grave disadvantages ; and all those things that in our youth we thought of as severe disadvantages , at last come to be seen as benefits . |
| 18 | First , there were what I thought of as variations at the ‘ horizontal ’ level . |
| 19 | Their devotion to African and Asian states was surprising in view of their dislike of humidity , and Nicolae 's aversion to mosquitoes , as well as their well-developed sense of superiority to those they still thought of as negroes . |
| 20 | They totally dissociated themselves from the Rowdies , who they thought of as kids , who , by mouthing off all the time , started trouble which was left to them to finish off . |
| 21 | The two sets of decisions can be understood more easily if thought of in terms of , firstly , assessing need and , secondly , setting priorities . |
| 22 | I mean , I knew what they looked like from pictures |
| 23 | They reminded her of the cardboard kaleidoscope she had as a child , packed with coloured fragments , which she looked into for hours , turning and watching , turning and watching . |
| 24 | The costs of the preferred British Rail route have risen from £1.7bn to between £3.5bn and £4bn partly because of extra tunnelling insisted upon by ministers after protests in south London and Kent . |
| 25 | Containerized shipment is inconsistent with the prohibition against transhipment , as commonly insisted upon by applicants , in commercial letters of credit . |
| 26 | They want to be consulted and their views listened to in meetings even if the decision does n't go their way . |
| 27 | And of course British capitalism was by this stage a very different capitalism from that of the inter-war years : a social formation in which the organised working class , as organised in the trade unions , was at least consulted and listened to by governments as a matter of course , and in which the major political forces took for granted the obligation to minimise unemployment and to preserve and expand the welfare state . |
| 28 | I pronounced the word proudly and looked at for instructions on what to do next . |
| 29 | Now another thing as I said that she looked at in terms of clusters was the centre line . |
| 30 | Philip Field dealt with with railways in the Severn Valley ( not the preserved SVR ) , showing some of the station buildings which have been converted to domestic use , e.g. Coalport . |