Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillor regrets that er we 're bringing council rents up by nine and half percent but what we 're doing is in fact precisely what his government is recommending us to do , so I 'm a little sup so would councillor kindly at some point explain why he regrets his own government 's policy . |
| 2 | Dr Davies and Mr Barratt will continue to attend Council meetings along with other senior executives of the Council . |
| 3 | A similar approach by visual example was taken to the opportunity to create town squares out of existing junctions . |
| 4 | The one in town 's got a big sign up in the window now saying as from the 1st April , we will only do methadone prescriptions in between two and five o'clock in the afternoon , right . |
| 5 | Reportedly the industry 's first high-performance 16-bit controller , it uses four independent wide fast SCSI-2 channels and achieves I/O rates up to 3200 IOPS per controller . |
| 6 | The same lover had made palm trees out of Edwardian ostrich feathers and tied them to all the newel posts of the four-storey staircase . |
| 7 | Nichetti once again casts himself as the noble little guy in a bewildering universe — more Buster Keaton than Woody Allen — this time dubbing sound effects on to animated features which gradually stray from their screens and absorb his entire body . |
| 8 | Subsequent measurements using the US Nimbus-7 satellite , aircraft and balloon-borne instruments confirmed ozone losses up to 50 per cent in some ( southern ) spring months in the lower Antarctic stratosphere . |
| 9 | Members may make court bookings up to seven days in advance ( 14 days for Squash Club members ) . |
| 10 | Members may make court bookings up to seven days in advance ( 14 days for Squash Club members ) . |
| 11 | The proposal to extend skiing facilities on to another part of the Caimgorms called Lurcher 's Gully could prove disastrous to wildlife , plants , locals and the mountain range itself . |
| 12 | The play had still been called Funeral Games up to this point . |
| 13 | Mr Heseltine also defended Nigel Lawson 's decision to put interest rates up to 15 per cent , and hoped the Chancellor would be given a courteous reception when he addressed conference on Thursday . |
| 14 | START has had outstanding experimental success this year , recording electron temperatures up to 5 million degrees C with excellent energy containment ; it is important for the future development of fusion power that , after 13,000 discharges , no major instabilities have been observed for this low aspect ratio tokamak . |
| 15 | In the past seven weeks the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , has brought interest rates down by 3 per cent in an attempt to revive the British economy . |
| 16 | The talks , repeatedly postponed since April 8 apparently because of failure to agree an agenda , soon got into difficulty , although it was reported on May 9 that the MNR had made a concession in allowing relief columns through to Mozambican refugees in Malawi . |
| 17 | Some others took machine guns out of stricken aircraft regardless of flames and fought back . |
| 18 | That brings us back to the domestic market and the attempts just 18 months ago by supermarket buyers to force lamb prices down to new depths and twist sheep farmers ' tails till their eyes popped . |
| 19 | The idea of Wendy 's tailoring enterprise in making a violently checked blanket-coat puts one in mind of escape-committees in German P.O.W. camps making enemy uniforms out of British battle-dress or bedding . |
| 20 | Thames Water say two winters of average rainfall will get river levels back to normal . |
| 21 | Hollywood had always been prepared to use social realism in the service of melodrama and especially in the service of making prestige films out of literary classics and this practice remained in evidence during these years and led to such notable films as An American Tragedy and All Quiet on the Western Front . |
| 22 | Like many stockbroking firms it offers deposit facilities along with complete financial planning . |
| 23 | To make bouquets , stick sugar flowers on to long cones of green fondant with royal icing . |
| 24 | Cut the fingers off an odd glove and stick pater shapes on for instant finger puppets . |
| 25 | Plentiful raw materials and assured markets had improved living standards along with popular forbearance . |
| 26 | The only Scottish parliament which will be guaranteed to be able to bring water services back into public ownership is an independent one . |
| 27 | Both sides refused to elaborate on the reasons for Bowman 's departure , but press reports attributed it to disagreements over the pace at which the authority sought to bring water standards up to European Community standards . |
| 28 | And yet at least £4 billion is needed to bring school buildings up to adequate standards . |
| 29 | In 1859 , when the Origin of Species had come out , the evidence from fossils was suggestive but very incomplete : geologists had sought to characterize strata by their fossils rather than to follow family trees through from early times to the present . |