Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember now , ’ said Burden , lifting the plastic strip curtain the Carousel Cafe hung up in hot weather to keep out wasps . |
| 3 | The community care Support Force swung in on hard-pressed SSDs with as much subtlety as a ton of bricks . |
| 4 | So they were joining them , they came over The Texas sister came over for twelve months and they must have persuaded them to go back or something . |
| 5 | But within days ( i ) a bill arrives for £2.5m to pay off the former DLO employees ; ( ii ) the borough treasury suddenly lights upon a £6.5m deficit left over from 1987-88 ; and ( iii ) up pop £21m of debt repayments , mostly the result of deferred-payment agreements — glorified hire purchase — entered into when Whitehall started rate-capping in the mid-1980s . |
| 6 | At a meeting tomorrow a proposal will be put forward that the car park revert back to female use for the time being . |
| 7 | I have been told that the torque converter locks up in low low . |
| 8 | Between 1888 and 1900 Aglen served in a number of posts in Peking , Amoy , Canton , and Tientsin ; in 1897 he was appointed to the rank of commissioner ; and shortly after the Boxer rising broke out in 1900 he was posted to Shanghai as officiating inspector-general while Hart was a refugee in the British legation under siege in Peking . |
| 9 | The research follows a feasibility study carried out in 1986 at Teesside Magistrates Court , supported by the Joseph Rowntree Trust . |
| 10 | One of the most significant changes in the labour market in the twentieth century is the rising proportion of the labour force made up of married women returning to work after completing their families . |
| 11 | The branch and regional structure is overseen by a national Branches Committee made up of Regional Directors . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , this work was faulty , as the US National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council pointed out in 1977 ( Report of the Safe Drinking Water Committee , USNCC-NAS , p 373 , Washington DC ) . |
| 13 | The TSB 's new Family Bonus plan allows up to eight in a family to pool their nest eggs and so qualify for higher rates of interest . |
| 14 | The financial accounting question comes down to this : which year(s) bears the 10,000 ? |
| 15 | One industry expert said up to 10,000 tonnes could be dumped by the end of the year . |
| 16 | It is suggested that spending on support services , such as libraries and computing , has a bearing on the quality of research work carried out in individual universities . |
| 17 | That 's right your tape machine came out of one of those boxes . |
| 18 | North-East Club for pre-war Austins Mad March Hare run sets off from Scotch Corner , 11am . |
| 19 | He had n't reckoned on one of the Liaison team coming down from Central London just to shake his hand , talk baseball results , and drive him back . |
| 20 | A group of former employees made redundant as the Albert Hill site wound down in 1877 clubbed together and formed Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company . |
| 21 | The association reaction requires up to five exponential terms for its complete description , the longest of which has a half life of several minutes [ 1,10-12 ] . |
| 22 | Screen detected high blood pressure under 40 : a general practice population followed up for 21 years |
| 23 | Sponge cake left over from millions of nursery teas usurped the place of sponge fingers and the little bitter almond macaroons called ratafias . |
| 24 | The records are those of a unique social science research organisation set up in 1937 to record the anthropology of everyday life in a wide variety of places . |
| 25 | Well , I 'm honestly not going to spend the whole of Saturday morning putting up with this sort of thing . |
| 26 | To start with there are 102 effects which can be combined to make up an effect chain using up to 6 effects simultaneously . |
| 27 | The commission recommended an immediate 80 per cent cut in industrial energy taxes , with the revenue shortfall made up by across-the-board increases in taxes on heating oil and electricity use . |
| 28 | The analysis of the search space carried out in this chapter should help to focus attention on the discriminating requirement of top-down information in terms of the number and similarity of hypotheses competing over a stretch of the utterance , and of the distance between pruning points ( i.e. the grammar ‘ chunks ’ ) , the two factors which determine the potential combinatorial explosion of hypotheses . |
| 29 | The poll early next year would elect a coalition government made up of all the parties winning more than a minimum number of seats to lead the country to majority rule in the year 2000 . |
| 30 | A research project carried out in 1979 showed that even people who drink moderately experience impairment of memory and this becomes greater as they age and as their consumption of alcohol increases . |