Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responding to the resolution , the Prime Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met for preliminary talks in the Georgian capital , Tbilisi , on March 30 . |
| 2 | I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits . |
| 3 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 4 | René Théodore , designated as Prime minister under the Washington accord , called on Haitians to put pressure on the military government to force its resignation , and on April 13 the Congress rejected a proposal by the C.-in-C. of the Army , Gen. Raoul Cédras , for a " national conference " ostensibly intended to find ways to restore stability . |
| 5 | These usually arose through personal contact : |
| 6 | They were considered so remarkable that many people , biologists among them , were unable to believe that they arose through natural selection . |
| 7 | Episcopal elections were not always peaceful , especially if tension arose between influential families or groups . |
| 8 | Disputes often arose between various parishes and during the reign of Henry VIII there was a dispute between Henry Johnson , Vicar of Halling 1534–45 and John Wildbore Master of Strood hospital , concerning the proportion of tithes each should receive . |
| 9 | For England and Scotland , it was decided that the agency for purchasing development land should be local government ( thus avoiding the inter-agency conflict situation which arose between local authorities and the Land Commission ) . |
| 10 | In 1988 , disputes arose between British shipowners , who proposed to introduce changes to existing terms and conditions of work for their employees , and the National Union of Seamen . |
| 11 | The two met through mutual friends four years ago , but it was only in March when they decided to get married . |
| 12 | After all , most of the Gujerati women I spoke to I met through English classes they attended , through workmates and mutual friends , not through social workers and community workers . |
| 13 | Thus containment can effect rather than defeat change ( and this does not presuppose the desirability or otherwise of that change ; it might be reaction or progress or , as in this play , complex elements of both with each differently appropriated for different audience positions ) . |
| 14 | In the meantime she applied for other jobs too , but it was the one with G Vasey Ltd that she wanted . |
| 15 | In March 1886 Joseph Chamberlain , as President of the Local Government Board , responded by issuing a circular to local authorities urging them to schedule necessary public works for periods of depression , and to co-operate with the Poor Law by providing paid , non-pauperizing work for those who applied for poor relief due to temporary unemployment . |
| 16 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 17 | Tower Hamlets declined to make the repayment and Chetnik applied for judicial review of the adverse decision , unsuccessfully at first instance but successfully in the Court of Appeal and in your Lordships ' House . |
| 18 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 19 | By notice of motion dated 13 November 1990 Mr. Pegg applied for judicial review of those decisions but on 18 January the Divisional Court ( Mann L.J . |
| 20 | By notice of motion dated 23 March 1990 Mr. Pierson applied for judicial review of that decision but on 18 January 1991 the Divisional Court ( Mann L.J . |
| 21 | By notice of motion dated 1 March 1990 Mr. Smart applied for judicial review of that decision but on 18 January 1991 the Divisional Court ( Mann L.J . |
| 22 | When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not . |
| 23 | Mr. Page applied for judicial review of that decision . |
| 24 | During the divorce proceedings Mrs Flint applied for ancillary relief and in July 1990 an order was made under s 24 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , transferring the matrimonial home to her . |
| 25 | Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year . |
| 26 | In 1959 , three years after he applied for German papers under his own name at the German embassy , he fled to Paraguay as the Frankfurt authorities issued the first warrant for his arrest . |
| 27 | But when Norway and Austria ( the schilling is pegged to the D-mark ) applied for associate membership last year , they got a cool reception . |
| 28 | You cared about other people and tried to be kind to them , even though they were strangers you would probably never meet again . |
| 29 | An extremely bright young woman who cared about other people to the depths of her soul . |
| 30 | He cared about Christian unity , no one more . |