Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] and [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losses of £500m for 1988 and over £2 billion for 1989 have already depleted free assets , especially for the 5,000-odd names on excess-of-loss syndicates . |
| 2 | The rumoured deal between NeXT and either Compaq or Dell that first broke last January ( UX No 368 ) has so far failed to materialise : observers claim it 's because Steve Jobs is demanding a big down payment from both firms even though he intends to shrinkwrap NeXTstep-on-Intel . |
| 3 | This afternoon provides the chance for the side Geoff Cooke has assembled to put the record straight with one last hurrah before retirement claims Winterbottom , Underwood , Dooley and Halliday for certain and possibly Webb too . |
| 4 | And then John at teatime , the football from seven and then John from ten till midnight , on the county 's favourite radio station , it 's B B C Radio Nottingham at two o'clock . |
| 5 | The sting for the oil industry came in the Chancellor 's later acknowledgment that he expected the changes in the oil taxation system to yield £300 million in additional Government revenue in 1994-95 and about £400 million the following year . |
| 6 | He joined William Jenkins , appointed chief organizing agent in 1911 and previously district agent for the Midlands Liberal Unionists . |
| 7 | The prosecution finally dropped its charges when Robert McFarlane , National Security Adviser in 1983-85 and thus North 's superior , who was brought before Gesell on Sept. 11 as a test case to decide whether proceedings should continue , declared that North 's congressional testimony had a " very powerful impact " on him and " coloured " evidence that he gave at the original trial . |
| 8 | In exchange for that and about £35 worth of New Zealand dollars , I got my validation from Canterbury AC 's CFI , Murray Fowler . |
| 9 | With the experience of a long and close association with world class designers , notably German Frers , we have developed a superb range of graceful and seakindly ocean cruising yachts with an emphasis on style and effortless performance . |
| 10 | Though pineapples from Barbados were first brought to England in 1657 and more West Indian ones were given to the king in 1661 and 1668 , it is unlikely that the fruit was grown successfully in England until about 1690 at Hampton Court , then in the charge of George London [ q.v . ] , |
| 11 | I am thinking of Xtreegold for file management , wordprocessors that can split screen and pull text from one piece of work to another and finally Windows , the ultimate hop to and go to and transfer stuff to the clipboard and elsewhere too . |
| 12 | The Duke did his stately bow at that and then Donald was calling for another song . |
| 13 | They get practically no help at all and yet mum still manages to sort of save a bit |
| 14 | The other tribe , however , finds twins fearful , appalling , degrading , an aberration , because you see only animals have litters of young and therefore twins are considered to be inferior , a threat , so much so , in fact , that this latter tribe ritually murders them at birth . |
| 15 | She taught English , mainly in teacher training colleges , becoming vice-principal of one and then Principal of Charlotte Mason College , Ambleside until 1970 . |
| 16 | He joined the bank as an accountant in 1881 , and rose to become managing director in 1898 and also chairman from 1908 to 1919 . |
| 17 | The 14 Felixstowe club members averaged 14 oz per man over the two legs to the average of four and half oz for the six Clacton members to take the cup . |
| 18 | His son of the first marriage , Thomas Bowen Kitchin , apprenticed to his father in 1754 and also hydrographer to the king , had already inherited the stock-in-trade . |
| 19 | The Corn Is Green was to be done on the new medium of television in 1946 and somehow Philip wangled leave of absence from the RAF for Richard who yet again played Morgan Evans and yet again was pulled back from the gypsy snares of freewheeling pleasure to the source and the purpose of it all . |
| 20 | Canny Ulster investors showed their preference for saving rather than spending during the recession , putting £204m into the societies ' coffers last year , compared to £175m in 1991 and just £61m in 1990 . |
| 21 | In a record of a grant of land in Thanet in January 690 to Aebbe ( Eafe ) , daughter of Eormenred and now abbess of Minster-in-Thanet , Oswine refers to her as his kinswoman ( CS 35 : S 13 ) , and in another charter granting land to Aebbe which had once belonged to Eormenred he expresses gratitude at his restoration to the kingdom of his fathers ( CS 40 : S 14 ) . |
| 22 | He seems to like getting rid of the crowd pleasers , look at his history Cantona last year , Vinny a few years back , John Sheridan before that and now Batty . |
| 23 | His models attempt to describe in formal mathematical terms the replacement of a population of one species by another and also situations in which pairs of species persist together as stable , mixed populations . |
| 24 | A king would not be an hereditary monarch , but would be elected from a small cohort of princely and chiefly families , in the ancient Irish manner . |
| 25 | Underlying such accounts was an image of fraternal and cousinly solidarities and loyalties : if an outsider harmed your brother , you had to come to his support , even if you yourself were in dispute with him . |
| 26 | You then face it with another wardrobe , or if not a wardrobe you 'll face it with something like a chest of drawers and the and put a c er er a wrapper over that and then upside down on top of that th there would be a dressing table , and they would face in . |
| 27 | As it 's turned out , it 's not efficient because the the ray dome spent a tremendous amount of time moving from one country to the other , there 's no doubt about that and before production we would want to see that particular nonsense removed and the whole thing made a lot more efficient , but for one or two development batch ray domes then you know , they 'll just have to learn from that lesson . |
| 28 | In the second century AD the emperor Hadrian developed a new relationship between Rome and the Greek heartlands , which allowed the culture of Classical and later Greece to flourish until late antiquity . |
| 29 | Some Conservatives , astonishingly enough , had even visualized the return to the Treasury of Roy Jenkins , a Labour minister until 1976 and now President of the European Commission in Brussels . |
| 30 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |