Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Representatives of the government of Papua New Guinea ( PNG ) and the secessionist Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) met for peace talks in Honiara , the capital of the Solomon Islands , on Jan. 22 . |
| 2 | However , he said they only asked about staffing contracts between Ling and the health authority , which were all above board . |
| 3 | He stood up , flexed his powerful shoulders and having pulled on a jerkin and breeches , went through to the kitchen , ate a hunk of fresh-baked bread and walked off down the steep narrow hill that led between stone cottages to Mother Russell 's alehouse , where the Pascoe girls earned their living . |
| 4 | Roh also asked for trade barriers on certain Korean imports to the European Communities ( EC ) to be removed , while agreeing that the current trade imbalance in Korea 's favour should be rectified . |
| 5 | It asked for interest rates to be lowered even further . |
| 6 | The convention laid down provisions for Third World states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and , most controversially , it provided for compensation payments to Third World states in return for extraction of genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 7 | ARGYLL group , which runs the Safeway supermarkets , yesterday headed off market fears of another big cash call by launching a £150 million fixed-rate Eurobond issue , replacing expensive short-term debt with a cheaper long term loan . |
| 8 | AN UNEASY truce was holding yesterday after fights erupted between cockle pickers on a West Wales beach . |
| 9 | What also requires explanation , however , are the marked variations in union role and purpose ( despite common impulses towards unionism ) found between trade unions within some western capitalist countries . |
| 10 | One of the boats sank after gas cylinders inside exploded.The other was completely burned out.Richard Barnet reports . |
| 11 | The capital cost of building plants in the Middle East is very high . |
| 12 | The insurance cost of household goods in transit or in storage , as appropriate , is also included in most policies . |
| 13 | The institutional investors that charged into junk bonds in the 1980s have now headed off at a gallop in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | The three had been arrested by the military on Aug. 17 charged with fly-posting photographs of Aristide . |
| 15 | Warted with quartz pebbles from the sea 's womb . |
| 16 | That same year , the total length of river dredged under capital schemes by water authorities in England and Wales amounted to an estimated 223 miles , as opposed to 1,165 miles of maintenance dredging . |
| 17 | The experiment involved secretly filming a group of children , ranged in age groups of ten to thirteen , watching a never-before-seen episode of a science fiction serial . |
| 18 | Ya'kub and Fenarizade Zeyneddin , for example , rose from kasabat kadiliks to the kadiliks of Aleppo , and Damascus and Aleppo , respectively not long after the Ottoman conquest of those two cities ; but whether this means that these scholars ' careers represent exceptions to the rule or , on the other hand , that Aleppo and Damascus were not yet regarded as mevleviyets is not entirely clear . |
| 19 | ‘ These ranged from lunch clubs to linking into existing networks , to setting up new ones , courses , a proposed conference , newsletter material and , most importantly , a database and exchange . ’ |
| 20 | Subjects ranged from site matters to overall company strategy . |
| 21 | Lost in the leaves , birds sang while yellow and white orchids sprouted from tree stumps against green screens of creeper , moss and fern . |
| 22 | TEF-1 binds specifically to the GT-IIc element ( 5'-GTGGAATGT-3' ) found in enhancer sequences of SV40 , human papillomavirus ( HPV ) -16 , and some polyomavirus mutants that replicate in undifferentiated mouse embryonal carcinoma cells ( 1–3 ) . |
| 23 | The Stealth combo which we recently reviewed in Guitarist smacks of your handiwork … |
| 24 | There has been a remarkable growth in the amount of space and time devoted to environment issues in the mass media . |
| 25 | Conversely , fractional albumin clearance fell with both treatments from 0 to 6 months ( although not significantly ) but then rose to pretreatment values after 12 months with hydrochlorothiazide , whereas it fell further with enalapril ( one way analysis of variance of the treatment-time interaction for enalapril group , p=0.022 ) . |
| 26 | A few months ago , thousands fled to refugee camps across the border in Kenya . |
| 27 | Polydoras had on Sept. 23 referred to government plans for " the sale of islands , on the open market or through land bonds " . |
| 28 | Such evidence indicates that a whole range of disorderly behaviour occurred at football grounds during this period — missile throwing , pitch invasions and other supposedly ‘ contemporary ’ phenomena . |
| 29 | We also read of crowd conversions through the preaching of the Christians in Jerusalem after pentecost ( Acts 2:37–41 ; 4:4 ) . |
| 30 | An eighth of them opted for friendship groups for at least part of the time , and a few grouped their pupils by age . |