Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gavin Pritchard-Gordon 's Peer Prince ( 3.10 ) has already won twice this season and could make that advantage tell over Josh Gifford 's Zamil . |
| 2 | The business is estimated to be doing about $200m a year , and a key attraction for the Cupertino company is that Texas sells almost exclusively through resellers , and Hewlett-Packard sees big potential in mobilising that army to take on board its own computer products as well . |
| 3 | That congregations be given ample opportunity to sing in services , even where they have to be unaccompanied ( 528–529 , 540 ) . |
| 4 | developed the local authority role from direct provider to effective enabler , encouraging many tenants to buy their own homes , allowing schools the freedom to manage their own affairs and improving the quality of local services by allowing private business to compete for contracts . |
| 5 | Bessmertnykh met with Baker and Bush in Washington for talks on the Gulf crisis , arms control and the forthcoming summit ; agreed that summit scheduled for February would be postponed because of Gulf conflict . |
| 6 | ‘ Put me down , you lecherous old goat ! ’ she said with a laugh , and , pushing him away , she straightend up in time to see That Man emerge from Jim 's old office with Ben Bradshaw , the senior registrar . |
| 7 | I was not prepared to see that record put in jeopardy . |
| 8 | To satisfy the US Senate article 5 was so phrased as to enable each state to respond to aggression only with " such action as it deems necessary , including the use of armed force " . |
| 9 | Verapamil , a slow calcium channel blocker minimises cellular injury resulting from calcium influx into cells during hypoxia or ischaemia . |
| 10 | Prison visitors seemed to acknowledge that drug taking among inmates is widespread . |
| 11 | Men as well as women in British public relations today owe her a debt of gratitude for her contribution in helping British industry come to terms with public relations as a formidable management and marketing tool . |
| 12 | With a limited budget it has been difficult to acquire top quality works by artists on the museum 's list , however they have been fortunate in being able to purchase Robert Loder 's ( Honorary Curator of Prints , Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge ) collection of 363 prints , while other works were acquired from Marlborough Fine Art . |
| 13 | As police and rangers made further spot checks at Wirral coastal slipways yesterday , there were signs that the clampdown has reduced the number of vehicles on the shore . |
| 14 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Reading , West ( Sir A. Durant ) said , backed up so eloquently by my right hon. Friend the Member for Southend , West ( Mr. Channon ) , we do not want this reform to result in lines being drawn on a map that will be imposed upon people . |
| 15 | I shall certainly be using this incident to press for priority to be given to a Skelton and Brotton bypass . ’ |
| 16 | erm Peter wants to tighten up on on on the business of erm carrying holidays over and I think he 's right , actually , erm and he also is using this opportunity to try to et us to plan our holidays as a group so that we 're not all off at the same time , or if it 's appropriate we should all be off a the same time then we 're off at the same time , but it 's erm common sense should prevail one way or another , but it would be a good idea if you could let me have erm a brief indication of any major times you plan to be away . |
| 17 | Using this form go from room to room noting down what it would cost you to replace as new every item in it . |
| 18 | Winter sea-watching at Selsey Bill has shown westerly movement to predominate during January and February in some years , suggesting some passage continues from October to February . |
| 19 | where a special area in one housing estate has been set aside for problem families , where they are given daily supervision combined with training and instruction designed to teach them the elements of home craft and mothercraft so that in due course , when they have proved they can manage their affairs , domestic , financial or otherwise , they can return to a better house in a more desirable neighbourhood . |
| 20 | Hugh Kenner , for instance , in a work of massive scholarship , The Pound Era ( 1971 ) , can write : ‘ By the mid-1920s a massive triviality , a failure of will on a truly forbidding scale , was allowing English culture to lapse into shapes characterized by childishness , self-indulgence , utter predictability ’ . |
| 21 | MICRO FOCUS OFFERS CONCURRENT USER PRICING ON UNIX |
| 22 | Stuart Hyslop , of DTC , said when a survey shows more people are using public transport to get into town it would be crazy to jeopardise that . |
| 23 | Fiona Richmond , who used to perform sexual test drives for men for one of Paul Raymond 's raunchy magazines , shared a bath with the Palace players . |
| 24 | Judge Paul Clark read social inquiry reports on Marron , before sentencing him to 2 life jail terms . |
| 25 | And he 's promised to look again at the case for allowing British Rail to bid for franchises . |
| 26 | There is indeed a duty on the part of doctors to give the patient appropriately full information as to the nature of the treatment proposed , the likely risks ( including any special risks attaching to the treatment being administered by particular persons ) , but a failure to perform this duty sounds in negligence and does not , as such , vitiate a consent or refusal . |
| 27 | Secondly , sterling 's former role as the major international currency enabled London 's financial community to accumulate vast expertise in handling foreign finance associated with trade and investment . |
| 28 | Recent studies using magnetic resonance imaging in patients with atlantoaxial subluxation have shown an inflammatory mass of granulation tissue around the odontoid arising from the synovial lining of the articulations . |
| 29 | Teenager made menacing telephone calls after row |
| 30 | Bad debts written off in previous years but recovered this year amounted to £1,740 . |