Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Martel had them out in 737 , but the island was laid waste and largely abandoned for three centuries , the Bishop and clergy fleeing and the Counts of Melgueil , of evil repute , appropriating the see and its revenues ; yet in 798 St Theodulph of Orléans reported that despite this , and pirates , there were still four chapters there . |
| 2 | Had this unflattering picture of Bella emerged because of Johnny , she wondered , or because of her own somewhat despicable jealousy ? |
| 3 | Bill Webster of Hilton said that at first it might be voluntary for guests to use their towels twice . |
| 4 | The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland said that among restrictive provisions to be addressed , carry-forward facilities should be provided and ACT on FIDs should not be paid at all , otherwise it was simply an interest-free loan to Government . |
| 5 | John of Reading reported that in September 1359 , after hearing mass in St Stephen 's Chapel , the king said that he would much rather be buried where the Confessor , Henri III and Edward I lay than at Cologne . |
| 6 | In Vine v. The National Dock Labour Board ( H. L. , 1957 ) Lord Somervell of Harrow said that in deciding whether there is such a power , two factors have to be considered : ( a ) the nature of the power ; ( b ) the character of the person . |
| 7 | In 1978 Lord Denning MR acceded to such a request when told that the Church of Scientology of California felt that in his court there was an unconscious influence operating adversely to the church . |
| 8 | The chronicler Roger of Wendover wrote that at the Council of Oxford in 1227 , ‘ the King caused to be cancelled and annulled all the charters of liberties of the forest , although they had already been in force in the whole realm for two years ’ : the earls who rebelled in July were said to have compelled the king to restore the charters by the threat of armed force . |
| 9 | A year later Frederick I of Prussia ordered that in future deserters should have their nose and one of their ears cut off and be sent to hard labour for life , while after the Seven Years War a chain of military posts was set up on France 's frontiers to prevent the escape abroad of soldiers fleeing from their units . |
| 10 | The Earl of Jersey noted that in Kent , towards the end of Anne 's reign , " Postboys , Examiners , etc. [ both Tory periodicals ] are the usual entertainments of the country gentry " . |
| 11 | The growing industrial towns and villages were particularly receptive to the new forms of Dissent ; in 1837 the vicar of Leeds observed that in his town ‘ The de facto established religion is Methodism ’ . |
| 12 | Similarly , the town council of Leicester ordered that at least one member of every household should attend sermons twice a week . |
| 13 | When Bosnia 's Serbs rejected the plan , Belgrade declared its border with Bosnia closed except for food and medicines . |
| 14 | An interview with Chay followed and during Easter 1989 , despite her lack of experience , she was given a place . |
| 15 | A Russian official in Moscow said that in their telephone conversation Yeltsin proposed a new agenda for relations with Clinton . |
| 16 | An inquest jury in Middlesbrough heard that at the time a module had been loaded onto a large barge ready to go out to sea . |
| 17 | Foreign press reports in March claimed that over the past year up to 400,000 people from shanty towns in the outskirts of Khartoum had been forcibly relocated to areas outside the city [ for December 1991 killings of shanty-town dwellers see p. 38666 ] . |
| 18 | Whilst he was laid up for six weeks in Middlesex Hospital , Minton visited him regularly and kept his family in Northumberland informed as to his progress . |
| 19 | On May 3 sources at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in Brussels claimed that on Feb. 25 , the day of major opposition demonstrations in Moscow and across the country [ see p. 37322-23 ] , a division of up to 6,000 heavily armed troops had been mobilized on the outskirts of Moscow . |
| 20 | A policewoman in Liverpool stated that in certain police stations , particularly in the city centre , brutality and drug planting took place regularly . |
| 21 | A MAFF study in Staffordshire showed that over the 1978–81 period , 246 larger farmers ( 500 smds or above ) spent an average of £4,419 on capital works ( grant-aided ) while 202 smaller farmers ( 150–250 smds ) spent an average of only £328 . |
| 22 | Police in Salvador noted that in their city , on average , there has been a mob lynching every three days for the last three years . |
| 23 | The IIIrd and IVth Republics in France collapsed because of their chronic instability : the average life of a cabinet in the IVth Republic was less than seven months , while under the IIIrd Republic it had been nine . |
| 24 | Diplomats based in Haiti estimated that since October as much as US$14,000,000 had been stolen from public funds . |
| 25 | An English observer much involved in these problems complained of Russian diplomats in 1673 that " it is their Custome , to think , whatsoever they get , too little , and whatever they give , too much " , while in 1698 an embassy sent by the Emperor Leopold I to Moscow argued that in future , to avoid such disagreements , the tsar and the Holy Roman Emperor should each be responsible for the maintenance of their own embassies in the way now generally accepted in Europe . |
| 26 | The result of the tests was to illustrate that the failure of the right stabiliser on G-BEBP occurred because of an inherent inability of what was believed to be a fail-safe structure to carry the flight loads subsequent to the fracture of the rear spar top chord ( a primary load bearing structure ) ; this was a feature of the basic design and construction rather than some factor specific to G-BEBP . |
| 27 | It appears that William on his deathbed confessed that he had indulged in a fraud in getting his marriage to Adelizia nullified and at the eleventh hour did all that he could for Mabel 's succession as his heir . |
| 28 | Scott was told of the effect of Ruskin 's intervention over Freeman 's letter in The Times by George Dasent , the assistant editor , which coupled with the tone of the letter to Dallas ensured that by late 1859 there was a complete breach between Scott and Ruskin . |
| 29 | The hon. Member for Wakefield said that under an incoming Labour Government local authorities would receive much more support . |
| 30 | The survey of students and graduates at Hull showed that over two-thirds of them agreed with the statement that " Exercise improves the quality of sleep " . |