Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares of 14 of the airlines are traded on stock exchanges , but 12 of the participants are 50% or more owned by government . |
| 2 | There was still an hour or so left of debate . |
| 3 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 4 | Several fine enamelled objects were found scattered on the floor , either representing part of his stock or else intended for scrap . |
| 5 | The cake keeps well in a tin or tightly wrapped in foil and should be served sliced , buttered or with jam . |
| 6 | MAI Systems Corp , the Irvine , California maker of small business computers that just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ( CI No 2,147 ) , listed $26.1m in assets and $145.0m in liabilities ; Brooke Group Ltd , which is controlled by MAI chairman Bennett LeBow , owns 82.3% of MAI 's voting securities ; the largest unsecured creditor listed in the filing was Chemical Trust Co. of California , trustee for $40m of 11.75% senior subordinated debentures ; the obligations listed for most of the other creditors were mostly for $4m or less . |
| 7 | There was just feeling , wild and deep , intense pleasure that even bordered on pain , and Maggie 's head was on his shoulder , her eyes locked with his when he at last raised his head and looked down at her bewitched face . |
| 8 | The two sealing vessels that illegally hunted in Greenland waters in 1991 , the Polarfangst and the Polarstar ( see BBC WILDLIFE , October 1991 ) , have been forced to pay back a large part of their government subsidies — £50,000 and £30,000 respectively . |
| 9 | Many of these were deep-space vessels that never landed on worlds . |
| 10 | The film included a suggestive ten-minute episode , set in an eighteenth-century brothel , in which a male customer chose a female prostitute , helped her undress in a bedroom and finally got into bed with her , and a frankly explicit ten-minute episode of a newly wed bride and groom set in a hotel bedroom . |
| 11 | , John ( 1624–1701 ) , republican administrator and colonial governor , was the son of John Blackwell , a Puritan-inclined London businessman , who at one time supplied the royal household with groceries and latterly settled in Mortlake in Surrey , and his wife , who came from the Smithesby family , royal household servants . |
| 12 | Buid describe these feelings in terms of the soul rising up from the chest into the neck and issuing forth in bitter words or even violence if not held in check by the mind . |
| 13 | It was not until March 29 , five days after polling , that Peacock conceded defeat and immediately resigned as leader of the Liberal Party . |
| 14 | The notebooks show that Nietzsche was prepared to rethink the precise shape of the book well into 1871 , but almost all of the numerous plans there — including some which appear to be earlier than " Socrates and Instinct " — point to a book centrally concerned with tragedy and recognizably related to BT . |
| 15 | It is not uncommon for goods to be carried by road from a European destination through several countries to a port , where they were then loaded on board a ship , taken to another continent and again despatched by road to their final destination . |
| 16 | Three times last week cars were stolen by reckless drivers and then set on fire . |
| 17 | The passengers boarded another aircraft and finally landed at Faro airport yesterday afternoon , five hours behind schedule . |
| 18 | At Lefevre , there are new paintings by Sandra Fisher ( 13 May-4 June ) , wife of R.B. Kitaj and formerly represented by Odette Gilbert . |
| 19 | The cots were suspended from hooks attached to the roof and further secured in position by chains and springs , known as grips , which prevented them from swinging . |
| 20 | Last year they tracked down Weatherall in Rimini and consequently signed to Boy 's Own . |
| 21 | There are first of all mandatory exceptions , to be retained centrally by all LEAs and not delegated to schools . |
| 22 | They , together with the custody of the young earl , were given to the dowager countess and so remained under Herbert control . |
| 23 | They , together with the custody of the young earl , were given to the dowager countess and so remained under Herbert control . |
| 24 | They are produced from flowers and other plants , are brewed with boiling water in the same way as tea and usually drunk without milk . |
| 25 | Known as the champagne tea and highly regarded for afternoon drinking . |
| 26 | She felt insecure , unsure of the future and desperately worried about Steve and Maria Luisa . |
| 27 | Plenty of mysteries have lasted for centuries and finally yielded to explanation . |
| 28 | The Totteridges asserted that they had read till eleven on Friday and then gone to bed . |
| 29 | As is so often the case in Paisley 's career , the crucial step was taken by someone other than Paisley and then offered to Paisley as an opportunity the possibilities of which he could appreciate . |
| 30 | The task force was set up after detectives discovered that some of the money had been used to finance drugs and property dealing in the United States and even invested in London 's Docklands , realising millions of pounds in profits . |