Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The banks utilized domestic and foreign financial resources , they were shareholders of and suppliers of credits to domestic and foreign industrial companies , they combined the short-term business of deposit banking with the long-term business of investment banking and also provided stockbroker services , managed their clients ' portfolios , acquired shares and voted their own and their customers ' stock at general meetings of joint-stock companies . |
| 2 | Closed circuit TV or videotape can present to a large class visual stimuli in close-up that would otherwise be impossible to show except to individuals , as well as include out-of-school experience from schools broadcasts and specially recorded field work . |
| 3 | Overall , it is a handy reference text and well constructed guide to this particular form of research . |
| 4 | Considering Rush had meningitis at the age of six , spent three weeks in an oxygen tent and alarmingly lost weight through illness , he 's not done badly . |
| 5 | Previously I ran my own school of machine knitting and also taught machine knitting for the local Education Authority at a nearby college . |
| 6 | Though he 's still injured , Mick Quinn 's horse trained by Mick Channon and prophetically called Pleasure Ahead — won the 1.30 at Lingfield at 5–1 . |
| 7 | Hat and collar together were insufficient to hide an exceptionally ugly face , among other unattractive features a spoonbill nose and inadequately repaired harelip . |
| 8 | Shore platforms and possibly raised beach elements are also found in Lewis . |
| 9 | The industry believes that research into why some people abuse alcohol and carefully targeted education programmes are more effective than blanket restrictions which apply to the whole population . |
| 10 | Impactive colour also radiates from the papier mache dishes by Sugs Shelton and similarly modelled pop sculpture of groups of ordinary domestic items by Jon Atkinson . |
| 11 | An attempt has been made to achieve a balance between the late Victorian building and the eighteenth-century style necessary for the exhibits ; specially woven blue Lyons silk is used in combination with faux marbre skirting boards and appropriately designed display cabinets . |
| 12 | Both had for a period apprenticed their ideas to those of Graham Sutherland and both paid homage to Picasso , Vaughan equating him with Auden and Bartók as an artist who had evolved ‘ a coherent vocabulary of form appropriate to our life ’ . |
| 13 | Libraries with very small branch establishments have always faced this problem , and it is perhaps not surprising that Scottish libraries who face the additional problem of very low population densities and widely spaced service points , do not score highly on ‘ amount ’ of formal training : |
| 14 | She had the face of an angel , high cheek bones and perfectly formed nose and mouth . |
| 15 | Boyd Stych , looking strangely civilized in a dark business suit and neatly clipped beard , was informed by his wife , when he came home , that the Advent was sending a photographer and a reporter to see him this evening and he was not to litter up the lounge — she 'd just tidied it . |
| 16 | John Greig , the club 's public relations executive , said : ‘ We are far from satisfied with the security arrangements and greatly reduced number of tickets now on offer . |
| 17 | John Greig , the club 's public relations executive , said : ‘ We are far from satisfied with the security arrangements and greatly reduced number of tickets now on offer . |
| 18 | There was no association , however , between gap junction frequency and endoscopically evaluated ulcer stage . |
| 19 | Mr Hermann Axen , the former politburo member responsible for foreign policy , is in Moscow for an eye operation and so avoided arrest . |
| 20 | Conversely , platelets incubated with ‘ cholesterol-poor ’ liposomes showed a reduced cholesterol content and significantly reduced sensitivity to ADP . |
| 21 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 22 | A number of prominent politicians failed to win election at constituency level but nevertheless entered parliament on their party 's national lists ( where " scrap votes " , i.e. those cast for unsuccessful constituency candidates or county lists , were added together to form a national total ) . |
| 23 | In Britain , the Beeching Report on ‘ Reshaping the Railways ’ ( BRB 1963 ) led to a programme of closures and cutbacks that by 1968 had halved the number of stations , closed 8,000 km of route , halved the number of goods wagons and sharply reduced passenger services ; by 1970 , railway employment was less than half what it had been in 1963 . |
| 24 | Similarly , prostacyclin inhibited platelet aggregation on rabbit subendothelium but only prevented platelet adhesion at higher doses ( Higgs et al , 1978 ) . |
| 25 | Secondly , the competition of economic theory is cast solely in terms of price competition and narrowly defined profit maximisation . |
| 26 | One of these , which specialised in regular nine-panel arrangements and residual lozenge arrangements , was based in Colchester- Another , which specialised in irregular saltire arrangements and fine figured work , operated on a semi-itinerant basis while the former was still working . |
| 27 | The water from this dam powered the Clanna Weir Paper Mill and also supplied water to power a dynamo at the home of the local mill owners , the Marlings , at the now-demolished Clanna House . |
| 28 | The saloons with three side windows with opening lights above , were of conventional design for the period , with lincrusta flat ceilings and long bent plywood benches for eleven passengers each side . |
| 29 | Upon marrying Lovebird Johnston , Juan moved to the outskirts of Kingstown , St Vincent and finally found work packing bananas for shipping around the world . |
| 30 | Increased synthesis of LTC 4 was associated with Helicobacter pylori colonisation but not NSAID use . |