Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a question of some of the wiring not being routed in the correct way and in some cases this has caused a chafing or a short circuit , ’ said a Vauxhall spokesman yesterday . |
| 2 | In search of a solution to this seemingly constant change some have advocated an approach which broadly demands the long-term maintenance of the hardware and software environments required to interpret the machine-readable files to be preserved ( Swade 1990 ; Swade 1992 ) . |
| 3 | Forced Sales of players like Paul Simpson and Lee Nogan for three quarters of a million pounds simply to keep the club alive have become a neccessity . |
| 4 | In effect this means doing a PhD rather than an MD , and the message from the conference was that an MD is a devalued degree . |
| 5 | In practice this appeared to mean a break with the French and , like many Americans engaged in day-to-day dealings in Vietnam , Blum 's frustration had reached the point where he would recommend withdrawing US assistance altogether rather than endlessly humouring the French . |
| 6 | BY HIS DECISION TO SEPARATE THE COURT from the machinery of government , Napoleon III had erected a barrier against all court influence on the making of policy . |
| 7 | Hillhouse International has launched a £135,000 project to protect water flowing into the River Wyre at Thornton . |
| 8 | A report in El País of Sept. 13 claimed that the ministries concerned had set a ceiling of 100,000 on the numbers of illegal immigrants whom they were prepared to legalize within the current amnesty programme ( which was to close on Dec. 10 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ And Spacemen 3 tried to make a career out of it . ’ |
| 10 | In future those wishing to organise a procession in protest are obliged to supply the police with written notice of their intentions at least six days before the event . |
| 11 | UK-based VisionWare Ltd has struck an OEM deal with Data General Corp Westborough , Massachusetts , for XVision — Visionware 's Microsoft Windows-based X server . |
| 12 | Instead , the administration first tried to get a $16 billion stimulus package through Congress . |
| 13 | Tandem Computers Inc has introduced a software tool kit that it claims extends transaction processing on its proprietary Guardian 90-based NonStop machines to desktop systems in client-server environments . |
| 14 | Cray Research Inc has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which lowered its subordinated debt rating to triple-B-minus from triple-B and it revised the ratings outlook to stable from negative , affecting about $106m of rated debt . |
| 15 | Under this third prohibition , therefore , a marriage between a stepson and his stepmother was void , but the Marriage ( prohibited Degrees of Relationship ) Act 1986 has provided an exception . |
| 16 | The Chamber of the People of the Federal Assembly had on May 30 failed to endorse a resolution ( which had already been passed by the Chamber of Nations ) requesting that the names of all former StB agents be published . |
| 17 | The account he had written of his experiences at Waimea on 18 January 1985 had won a prize . |
| 18 | The New Delhi High Court on Sept. 2 intervened to quash an application by the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) , which was seeking powers to pursue information on alleged pay-offs related to the 1986 Bofors armaments deal [ see pp. 35336 ; 35382 ] . |
| 19 | Macedonia , which had declared a state of emergency on Aug. 4 , on Aug. 7 decided to hold a referendum on independence on Sept. 8 . |
| 20 | The police were reported on July 17 to have arrested a total of 31 people in the capital Port-au-Prince and in the town of Gonaives and to have seized a warehouse full of " homemade " weapons following what the government described as a " conspiracy against the internal security of the state " by former members of the Tontons Macoutes . |
| 21 | Moi was reported on Sept. 18 to have ordered an inquiry following an announcement that Denmark was freezing aid because of alleged embezzlement of funds from development projects . |
| 22 | Colin James Rendell FCA of Queen Elizabeth Cottage , Broadtown , Swindon , Wilts having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) ( a ) in that he in Swindon between 19 December 1991 and 18 August 1992 failed to deal properly and promptly with enquiries made of him by solicitors in respect of the taxation affairs of a deceased client ( b ) and in that he in Swindon between 6 July 1992 and 22 July 1992 failed to honour an undertaking to contact solicitors and having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) ( c ) in that he in Swindon between 19 December 1991 and 5 May 1992 failed to comply with a direction of the Disciplinary Committee made under Bye-law 83(c) that he obtain advice from the Practice Referrals Service . |
| 23 | Brian Groom FCA of The Shrubbery , Burghfield Bridge , Reading , Berks having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iii ) in that he at Reading between 24 January 1992 and 30 July 1992 failed to satisfy a judgment of the County Court was reprimanded , fined £500 to be paid by 20 January 1993 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |
| 24 | The Siemens Stromberg-Carlson joint venture of Siemens AG and GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd has added a Customer Network Management system designed for users of Switched Multimegabit Data services on the company 's EWSM cell switching system , which is now in service with Bell Atlantic Corp , Ameritech Corp and MCI Communications Inc . |
| 25 | Woodhall Terrace , Woodhall Drive , Baberton Avenue etc , and the areas concerned have expressed an interest . |
| 26 | Woodhall Terrace , Woodhall Drive , Baberton Avenue etc , and the areas concerned have expressed an interest . |
| 27 | GEC Plessey Semiconductors Ltd has won a volume supply contract with Conner Peripherals Inc projected to be worth about $100m over the next 30 months . |
| 28 | Izetbegovic on Aug. 3 had addressed a letter to the UN Security Council in which he demanded that the government of Bosnia-Hercegovina be allowed to import arms in order to " achieve the right to individual and collective self-defence " guaranteed by Article 51 of the UN Charter . |
| 29 | The Cabinet on May 3 decided to implement a decision taken in February by the High Committee of State ( HCS ) to the effect that " associations of a political nature and mass organizations " ( i.e. especially those of the former ruling party , the National Liberation Front — FLN ) should surrender any state properties they held . |
| 30 | The Hungarian Democratic Forum ( HDF or MDF ) , whose leader Jozsef Antall was formally invited on May 3 to seek to form a government , agreed to support Göncz in the eventual presidential elections ; meanwhile the ( HDF ) First Deputy Speaker , György Szabad , would be acting Speaker while Göncz acted as interim President . |