Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Friday she had met many people who had every reason to be relieved , but Ayling had come closest to saying he was glad . |
| 2 | After all , Sarah was involved in a long-term relationship with Paddy McNally while Andrew still had a soft spot for Katherine ‘ Koo ’ Stark , an American actress who had excited considerable media interest because of her appearance in soft-porn films . |
| 3 | American fishkeepers who had maintained this fish had a somewhat different view . |
| 4 | Supercomputing — High-performance computers costing millions of pounds can not be sited at every university that needs their computational power ; Yet the vast amounts of data they produce require advanced data visualisation techniques for their human understanding . |
| 5 | The Americans with Disabilities Act , and comparable laws in Canada and Australia , also address discrimination in education , services , accommodation and transport , while mandating the demolition of architectural and structural barriers which have denied disabled people physical access to schools , colleges , public buildings and places of work . |
| 6 | But if you do get hooked — and if you are the kind of smart-suited city type who has driven ordinary folk off this island — well , that is your affair . |
| 7 | Especially if under clothing it 's got fifty quid , you can assume it 's the chap |
| 8 | The NSP said that as a result of the discovery it had arrested 62 people on charges of violating the National Security Law and the Military Secrets Protection Law . |
| 9 | THE Duke of Westminster has praised a new anti-crime initiative which aims to keep young people out of trouble . |
| 10 | In 1951 , he could still write to an author who wanted to publish some works in his collection : ‘ I have not given you my permission because I do not know what will be in the book you are writing . |
| 11 | It 's a shame we had to pay 14 quid to watch them . |
| 12 | Now at , at the moment we have to keep fifty percent of our investments in the narrow range and we may place fifty percent in the wider range . |
| 13 | During the last two years we have witnessed many people 's lives in West Belfast getting poorer , nastier , more brutal and arguably shorter due to the introduction of the Social Fund , high interest rates and cuts in the health service . |
| 14 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
| 15 | Apart from private label products we continue to develop branded sales , mainly Omega in foreign markets . |
| 16 | An important new factor which has upset many people 's sums over the past couple of years has been the state of the property market . |
| 17 | In further indications of increasing openness , Tirana radio on Nov. 23 , 1989 , reported the crash of two helicopters the previous day which had killed 23 people ; incidents of this kind had hitherto not been reported in the Albanian media . |
| 18 | They went to Zliten and spent the night in a guestroom ; in the morning the Zliten boy asked to borrow the vehicle for a few moments , drove it away , smashed it and abandoned both the vehicle and his Zuwayi friend who had to find other means to get back to Benghazi . |
| 19 | Such confusion has , on one hand , led many scientists and doctors to reject acupuncture as a foreign superstition , while on the other it has led many people , not trained in science , to react by rejecting modern biomedical science as being blinkered and dogmatic . |
| 20 | In short , the basic instinct which seemed to tell many people that they needed a good ‘ clean out ’ , and that nasty things could happen while waste matter lingered around in the body , seems to have been largely correct . |
| 21 | Planning authorities , it was claimed , showed an unsympathetic attitude to applications from young people for new homes or businesses despite the Government 's Local Needs Policy which aimed to retain young people in the countryside . |
| 22 | Not more of the same — a narrowing down of what it is to be British , and a belief that to promote good race relations you have to keep black people out . |
| 23 | It 's not many people you get fined three quid for drinking a cup of coffee |
| 24 | On Wednesday we had improved retail sales figures . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , within half-a-circuit I had reached 800 ft . |
| 26 | Perhaps today the general public take too much for granted , the , as a local Councillor I have to interview many people who come to me with housing problems , to be as patient as one can is essential as a politician , but after the complainant has gone , one is very conscious of the fact that their problem is so minute it is hardly worth mentioning . |
| 27 | He was some sort of a manservant , because above his dark trousers and over his white shirt he had the sort of striped waistcoat she had imagined such people would wear — normally only in films , though , especially as this particular waistcoat was striped in black and subdued gold . |
| 28 | Jack himself was stopped in the street by a man who wanted to change two $50 bills at black market rate . |
| 29 | The process is two-way ; some users who have used 1981 data want to continue their research with 1991 ; other users start with 1991 and decide they would like to see how the situation has changed in the last ten years . |
| 30 | In Western society we have marginalized elderly people to a considerable extent , maybe because we place more emphasis on economic than on personal worth . |